Part 1: Bugging In
I live in a house that is two stories and in a subub. It has lots of windows most would be really difficult and pointless to barricade. So my plan for bugging in is to barricade only what is worth barricading.
The way my house is setup is that to get into my garage you have to go through a very small laundry room. We have A very large washer and dryer each weighing about 300 lbs. My idea was to close the first door, move the washer and dryer in front of the door, then close the second door. The First door opens towards the Washer and dryer so there would be no way to get in. In the garage I have a fully operational shop. We have two generators, different types of welders, and drill presses. Not to mention the thousands of dollars worth of woodworking equipment. The garage also connects to our attic.
The next step if I have time is to go back into the house and destroy the staires. I will then tear down the wall and make a door into the attic. I would then make an emergency barricade for the entrance into the attic incase intruders got on the roof. My food and water supplies along with bedding would be kept in the attic because if we are overrun it is the most easily defensible place in the plan.
To barricade the Garage doors I would park my suburban sideways outside the doors. I would also reinforce them with sheet metal.
I must stress that I will only most likely have time to do the first part of this plan. Including only the garage. The Upstairs part will only happen if I have sufficient time to do so.


Part 2: Bugging Out

This part for me is rather simple. I do not own a BOL so my plan would be to take off into the forest. I am an experienced hiker and I know how to survive off the land. I have a BOB and here are its contents
Bag- Molle 2 assault pack hydration compatible woodland camo.
Defense- WW1 trench shovel, Cold Steel Kukri.
Clothing- Carhart coat with hood, 2 pairs of denim jeans, 3 pairs of socks, 2 spare shirts, 3 pairs of underwear, leather gloves.
Boots- Mid sized waterproof hiking boots.
Camp gear- Lightweight fleece sleeping bag with emergency blanket for added warmth, 8ft by 10ft waterproof tarp.
Survival- M-tech survival knife with flint and steel, 2 ferro rods, hand sanitizer, 24 Weber fire starters, 4 sure2burn fire starters, IMCO lighter with 8oz of lighter fluid, zippo, peanut lighter, Bag of lint, 1 wet fire cube, sparkie, Vaseline soaked cotton balls, 2 razor blades, 3liter hydration pack for assault pack, mayadust, Swiss army knife champion, Duct tape, 2 spare knives, SAS survival guide, 6 tea candles 5 hour, 1 ten hour candle, 50 ft of parachute cord, 50 ft of nylon rope, one surefire flashlight.
Food- three days worth of Mountain house and ramen noodles, 2 person mess kit, Esbit pocket stove, homemade alcohol stove.
First aide kit 80 piece.
Weight- 25lbs without water added.
I have a lot of ways to make fire because I live in a climate that without fire and a tarp you will die. Not because of the air temperature but because of the rain. My pack is extremely lightweight. I am an avid runner and in peak physical condition so I want a bag that I can run at least 2 miles in. You may say that 2 miles is really far but I run at least 6 miles daily. I still need to get a waterproof map of the different parts of Oregon. I have a none waterproof map but I don't plan on taking it with me if I bug out because it is not durable enough.



Part 3: Digging In

I Don't have a BOL but I do have a couple favorable places in the wilderness that provide an advantagous position over surrounding or alternate areas. I will not give these locations for fear of them being stolen. But rest assured they all have a high ground advantage and they are well hidden from prying eyes. As for precautions around my camp I would set up an early warning system with tin cans and rocks. I thought bells would be better only to discover that bells ring easily in the wind. This would attract unwanted attention to my camp along with causing false alarms. If I was really dug in I might set up a treehouse type base of operations so I'm sleeping off the ground. Then along with the alarms I would set traps like pitfalls for food and intruders.

Part 4: Living

I would live off the land as long as I could. When animals and plants become scarce i would move to a different area. It would be a nomadic life mirroring early humans. If we found more survivors we may start a group and maybe try to settle a piece of land even though I have no idea how I would do this. The first step would probably be to build a wall. It would have to be Taller than 8 feet. If we had enough man power we could make it out of logs using pikes as a deterent. If we didn't have enough people we might have to settle for a wall made of small trees. Life after that would be improving our defenses and building the interior of our colony. I should probably buy a seed bank for agriulture. We would alternate watch duty and searh parties because ditatorships start through having a speacialized fighting force who only listens to one person. Descisions would come from the people most qualified to make them. These qualification would come from pre-zpoc.

My Current Party:

Currently My brother has a BOB set up to the same qualifitaions as mine. Exept he has an Alice pack which is much heavier than mine. He is not as active as me I am trying to make him more fit. We have been talking about specializing our equipment if we do so I will post the differences. I will also update my BOB if I make any changes. Unfortunetly my pictures on my profile will not be updated for a while because my camera broke and it is difficult to take pictures of so much equipment with my web camera.

Other Info:

Remember I live in Oregon and Oregon is a very difficult place to survive. You can't just watch Bear Grylls episode about Oregon because that is just one of the many climates in Oregon. Not to even mention the microclimates. Bear Grylls could make a whole season just on Oregon. People die every year just because they drove down the wrong rode in the wrong climate during the wrong time of year. Often there bodies are found only miles from safety.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-12-07/news/17327058_1_icy-creek-big-windy-creek-boulders


http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Bear-Grylls-act-comes-to-Hells-canyon

I talked to some people who met with bear after his adventure in Hells Canyon and he said he almost died he never mentions this on TV.