1) Bugging in.

To explain my bugging in plan I will first have to explain what I do for a living. I work at a natural gas storage field. What we do there is store natural gas underground (1500 ft.) in a porous rock formation. We have a compressor station that moves gas into the field and a dehydrator station that dries that gas when it is released back into the pipeline.

The reason that needed to be specified is because my station is where I would evacuate my family and our survival gear immediately after such an emergency would arise. Also because said station is equipped with a natural gas generator as well as the same kind of well pump I have at home. Our office is set up for overnight stays and has all the luxuries most homes have. Refrigerator, gas stove, sink, toilet, shower and a couch that folds into a bed. Its set up this way for emergencies that call for me and my co-worker to be there 24 hrs a day if need be.

My house is within two miles of our station and a short 10 min. drive will get me there. This allows me to return home in my pickup to basically move everything from our home to work.

Our station is surrounded by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire. The buildings on site are all steel. No wood is allowed as far as building material inside a storage facility.

So in conclusion my bugging in plan molds together with my bugging out plan. I will not stay home because in such an emergency my place would be at work and my family as well as my co-workers family would be evacuated to our station even though its not supposed to be allowed. I'll worry about the repercussions after my families safety has been secured. I did this exact thing last year during an ice storm when our home power was out for five days. My boss looked the other way.

2) Bugging out.

Since my bug out location is not far away in a very rural, very low population area my first trip there would contain the bare knuckle basics. Future trips home would be to retrieve necessities first then luxuries second. On the last trip I'd walk home and return with both my horses. Riding one leading the other. I would bury as many extra supplies as I could in out of the way places in case my bug out location was overrun and I had to return home. I would board up my home and spray paint a note on the walls that said I would be returning soon and trespassers would be punished.

The thought of leaving my home behind unguarded would break my heart after all the painstaking hours I spent re-modeling it. However my work place is the most secure location of the two. Once I've settled into my bug out location my home place would become one of hopefully many places I could hole up while out scouting the area or hunting and trapping for food.

3) Digging in.

Digging in at my workplace would require a working knowledge of storage fields and I have six years experience to fall back on there along with a co-worker who understands me and my strengths and weaknesses. We work good together now I have no fear that we would continue to work well as a team post-Z. He is ten years my senior and since we work at a place that calls for lots of improvisation as well as much MacGyvering his help and guidance would be much appreciated. We've worked together long enough to know one an others thoughts on things.

What we have to work with borders on the "you got to be sh*ting me Timber" line of questioning but all I have to back it up is my word. I will not be posting pictures or providing maps because in the end pictures don't really prove anything on the Internet except that you can use a camera. If that explanation isn't good enough then just consider me a teen with a vivid imagination and move on to the next plan.

What I have to work with is two acres of fenced in buildings (five in all) while three of these small buildings would be unsuitable for habitation because they are full of pipework and monitoring devices. The machine shed is 2800 sq. ft. with electric and although uninsulated could be cleaned out and used for shelter. Our office and work shop is 2400 sq. ft. and has insulation as well as a NG generator, plumbing and electric. We have a 250 gal. tank of unleaded gasoline and a 250 gal. tank of diesel. They could both be full or a day away from being refilled so I won't count on either completely. Our biggest tank is a 2500 gal. methanol tank and we never allow it to drop below 1000 gal.

We have a 50 hp. tractor as well as a arc welder and acetylene torch. We have a large assortment of tools at our disposal including a gas powered air compressor and a portable generator. Our tractor has a front end loader, bush hog and a grater blade. We also have a 5 hp gas powered water pump. We have lots of tools geared towards the cutting, threading and fitting of pipes. My company also uses our station as a mini warehouse and storage area for pipeing and maintenance materials that is handy for service techs to gain access to so they don't have to return to the city to retrieve parts.

What am I getting at here? I have the tools and the knowledge to lay pipeing around our station and create a wall of flames around our facility that would last for many years, would not be extinguishable by conventional firefighting methods and have enough pressure to not only burn zombies but lift them off the ground and unbalance them. Add to this my ideas on traps, the "eastern cottontail rabbit method" of dealing with zeds and my recent ideas on "Parthian Tactics" and you'll have a pretty good idea of how I'll be surviving.

4) Living.

How will I live after? The way my father and his father before him did. I will do the best I can with what life throws my way. I will work the ground like the generations that came before me. I will harvest nature's bounties like my forefathers did. I will defend what is rightfully mine from those who seek to take it from me. I will do what my clan has always done, I will survive. That is the "Way of the Rattlesnake".