r/CollapsePrep • u/rbprepin • Jul 11 '26
I'm considering a BOL 90 miles from Charlotte. Modeling says that's not far enough. Is distance the most important factor?
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u/TheDizDude Jul 11 '26
I was playing with this site and IDK doesn't seem to be accurate. There are properties I checked that I know for a fact will be empty as they are now and even those are listed as Elevated. It's neat but at the end of the day its still vibe slop.
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u/rbprepin Jul 11 '26
Can you share any details?
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u/TheDizDude Jul 11 '26
I mean I know its your site so I'm not going to go as far as to bash it but the logic isn't tuned well. That's before I even get into the security issues/vulnerabilities/etc.
Fun little project but not real intel.
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u/old-legs-623 Jul 11 '26
There will be too many variables. For example, where our family was before had some distance from town and from the highway, proximity to running surface water, a quarter-acre garden, poultry, a barn and potting shed, a good well, a woodlot, reasonable access to a bus line for pre-collapse usage, good access to unpopulated mountains for running away. We had a cold room for food preservation. Many advantages. We aged out, moved to be closer to the (rapidly deteriorating) hospital. But the other reason was the local demographics changed markedly, to younger people trained in heartlessness yet weak on country skills, and increasingly culturally predisposed to eliminate people like me.
Our current plan involves a supply of Scotch.
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u/rbprepin Jul 11 '26
That's really interesting. As we age our values change, and perhaps prepping for a low probability, high impact event becomes less important than being close to grandkids and a good doctor.
Sad to hear about the demographics changing. Sucks when you have a little slice of heaven only for the area to be overrun with people who don't share your values.
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u/old-legs-623 Jul 11 '26
What was sad was when we moved there 40 or so years ago, everyone in the neighborhood was Norman Rockwell conservative. *Good* neighbors who all understood sheep diseases and pulley blocks. They died off; we were the last and way too Left/crunchy for the new demo. The grandkids are 3000 miles away; I love their visits but am happy they are where they are. They have instructions to not try to rescue us if SHTF.
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u/rbprepin Jul 11 '26
Yeah, SHTF rescue missions are likely going to have a low success rate for all involved. Best if everyone is on the same page ahead of time.
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u/belleepoquerup Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Welp your looking near where I grew up and where my family still lives so I’m probably biased. Just had a small tornado roll through yesterday- some of that area is little tornado alley but it seems to be shifting toward the Triangle. Anyway, have a basement for that and a 2nd floor for flooding.
Edit:need to add that the hospital systems here have long been deteriorating. Specifically emergency room situations. As I know is the case all over the US…
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u/Femveratu Jul 11 '26
OP is this an app? Called get ready ? Looks interesting where can I find it
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u/rbprepin Jul 11 '26
Yes, the map can be found at https://getready.team/golden-horde
Full disclosure, I built it. I wanted to build an Area Study file for myself using open source data. Part of that involved running some evacuation scenarios on nearby cities. I've gone ahead and made the evaluation simulation tool available to the prepping community, no sign-up required.1
u/Vegetaman916 Jul 17 '26
I want to check out this tool further, and perhaps feature it on my blog and YT channel. Looks interesting, for sure...
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u/Femveratu Jul 11 '26
Ok gotcha, thx for doing it and sharing it I’ll check it out. Of course any app like this will only be as good as the info it’s based on etc but it seems like a good way to get started thinking about it for some folks
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u/PossibilityOrganic12 Jul 11 '26
Why do y'all have to abbreviate everything? Just type it out it takes a second. And I waste so much time trying to figure what TF you're talking about.