Bug Out Rock!!! Grab the Les Paul and your Glock 81!

Trent Rock

Trent Rock

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No moral, no message, no prophetic tract: Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise in logic, from the Twilight Zone.
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So...
I go to Vons because they have this cheap fried chicken meal I am hooked on
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WTF!!!!
I go home and on the news there is talk of a fire in the hills above Goleta
The last time we were in the national news was for the worst FEMALE mass murder in US history!! :eek:

The next night (taken from in front of my house)===>
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Holy s***!!!!!
It's getting close!
The power kept going off for hours at a time
I really started getting worried when I could SMELL the fire
and the smoke was getting really thick
Must have been an animalistic instinct thing
Like the deers smelling the fire first and fleeing
The evacuation WARNING got about 5 blocks from my house
I said F that
I'll go to my friends house for the night

My bug out bags for my SURVIVAL gear was fine
GPS, walkie talkies, knives, guns, ammo, binoculars,Nissen Top Ramen, scanner, etc
But
I realized I had no bug out bag with my VALUABLES
I had to decided with in about an hour WHAT I should take
Obviously my passport, birth certificate, Cayman Island bank account info, my PC, etc
What about my collectibles? I have been an EBAY junky for about 14 months now
Do I take the 64 Topps Mickey Mantle?
My Prince Albert knife deal tin?
My Marshall 1965B 4 x 10 cabinet?
My Camilus folding pilot's machete?
My Pastor Aleman? :eek:

I quickly gathered my dad's old knives and tomahawk
It took me 15 years to rediscover them
Wasn't about to let them get lost in a fire
I took a few pistols
I was gonna leave my rifles along with all my guitar stuff
I took my Les Paul and SM57 of course

Bottom line===>
Have a box or something with your valuables right next to your survival bug out gear
Trent was slippin' on this concept

My other observation was the my Bearcat 72XLT was a life saver :thumbup:
I got more info off my scanner than I did on the news or internet
I was listening to the tanker pilots talking to the ground crew
It was pretty cool
I have been listening to scanners since I got one from Santa at age 12
It takes a few years to be able to understand what they say like in english
Gotta learn some codes and lingo
The news was a waste of time
They wouldn't update for a day
Sitting there staring at the same one paragraph evacuation description/map
With my scanner I had a good feel about where the fire line REALLY was

I actually heard traffic on the CLEMARS channel for the first time in my life
That radio emergency "system" has been around for decades

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I'm pretty close to the yellow pin

Gas was another issue
When the power is out
There ain't no gas.
I was on fumes driving around for miles looking for a gas station with power to fill up
There was none
Was very stressful

I kept thinking of the Twilght Zone episode with the guy who has THE bomb shelter
The people THINK the shit has hit the fan and come begging him to let them in
It's a classic
How people chamge when survival is on the line
Evrry man for himself mentality rules
I went to my friends house around the corner
He was all packed up with his fiancee going to the Marriot Inn in Ventura
It seemed like he was in a hurry and didn't have time to talk to me :(
"Ok Trent!! Good luck...We're outta here!! Call me tomorrow..."

Enjoy!!====>
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I kept waiting for days for Arnold to come to Go Let UH
I had my Tivo all set for him to hold a press conference
If I could get The Govenator saying "go let uh"
My audio sample collection would be complete :thumbup:
I have dreamed of that day for years
I was even gonna try and go to the press conference myself
T Rock.. Ace internet photo journalist
But..They were all hush hush about the location

Alas
He didn't say Goleta :(
I guess I will have to wait some more....
 
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Trent, glad you're okay. Sounds very stressful and a very useful indicator of what would go down in a TEOTWAWKI scenario. What would you cahnge in your methods and materials? What would you keep?
 
scary stuff man... you folks take care...:thumbup:

cali. has been burning for a while now.... and we have had a few fires that were waaaay to close to home..
 
My situation is easy. Fire up the rv, it's always loaded. Drive out. Hate to leave everything else but the important stuff will be with me.
 
Last minute panic. The cure: an updated list (or booklet) of what you have in each bag and what you need to add, like valuables and perishables.
 
Damn dude, glad your OK.

I can see how that can get confusing on what to take. It would suck to loose anything in a fire. My valuables would be pretty much screwed as I don't have a big vehicle, and do have a wife, daughter, dog, and dumb parrot that only knows how to say one word. However if I left the parrot that word would be appropriate as the fire got close.
 
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... dumb parrot that only knows how to say one word. However if I left the parrot that word would be appropriate as the fire got close.
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Two brothers got together to decide on a nice gift for their mother's birthday. They decided she might like a pet to keep her company, but honestly, how much work would she be willing to do to care for and clean up after a dog or a cat.

They went to a pet store and asked the owner what he could recommend. He immediately suggested a parrot -- but not just any parrot. For their mother, he had a parrot that spoke flawless Yiddish!

They checked it out, and once they got its confidence, found it would speak Yiddish, so they arranged for the store owner to ship it to their mother.

After the package had been delivered, and she had a couple of days to get used to having a Yiddish-speaking companion animal, they called her and asked how she liked it.






"Dee-licious!" she said ...
 
Brian Jones said:
Trent, glad you're okay. Sounds very stressful and a very useful indicator of what would go down in a TEOTWAWKI scenario. What would you cahnge in your methods and materials? What would you keep?
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I would buy a small gas generator for electricity
For lights, and radio, and TV mostly

I would have a 5 gallon gas can ready to put in the bed of my truck

People keep telling me about pictures
Most of my old pictures are at my mom's house
All my recent pictures are on my hard drive and backup disks

As far as WHAT to take
Sentimental and ACTUALLY value were my factors
My dad's knives have high sentimental value
Most of my valuable stuff are guns and guitar equipment
I picked the ones with the most value
I didn't really want to drive around town with all my rifles in the back
All it would take was for some guy to run up at a stoplight and take it from the bed of my truck

Having 12 VOLT chargers for my cell phone and scanner helped keep them "charged" when the power was out
I had enough batteries luckily just in case

My other concern was traffic on the 101
I was envisioning a parking lot with panicked people trying to flee
Middle fingers being flashed about
5 cell Mag-Lites being brandished
The whole 9 yards
It was pretty clear sailing to my friend's house however
I did notice a lot of horse trailers on the road
I think horse owners flee at the first sign of fire...
 
A small popup camper would be good for this scenario. Can be pulled with a small vehicle. Hooks up fast, has propane, battery. .. used ones can be bought cheap. I use to own one and they can be towed practically anywhere.
 
sounds like scary stuff...i'm hoping i never have to deal with that sort of thing.

as far as valuables...i don't have too many. i guess my suggestion would be to have alot of insurance on everything so that high value-low sentimentality things can be replaced...keep very good records of everything including photos and reciepts if possible.

but i don't know what we would do if that sort of thing happened...i guess i would just grab a bag of food and water and we would try to get gone...
 
Scary stuff man. Im glad you guys are safe. Im getting so tired of hearing bout cali burning. It sucks. I hope that all you west coast boys get through this crap ok....
 
Hey Trent, glad to hear you are ok.

You bring up a lot of good points that many others, including myslef, probably have never thought of.
 
Great post Trent, and I'm glad you're safe and I hope the house stays that way as well...fire and floods are devistating to property.

I would include a few smoke masks. We use to fight fires in WA when I was in college and the NG; we just did support stuff not actually on the front lines. We did get a bad change of wind direction on one occasion and the smoke was pretty bad, stinging your eyes and throat...quite hard to maneuver in that stuff.

I need to update mine, but a few checklists might make getting critical gear and valuables together much easier. It's hard to think clearly in the panic of having to depart quickly.

Our camping gear is either in tuff boxes or other portable type of container; plus our packs are pretty much packed...a few clothes and we're good to go. Knives and guns will be the challenge for me!

ROCK6
 
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