[Outpost75]

Solid waste transfer stations, waste to energy incinerators and wastewater treatment tend to operate 24/7 and have CTV and security on site. Likewise for fire stations, parks and schools.

Churches are safe places to crash for a night or two.
Introduce yourself, explain your situation and many will let you use the kitchen and shower if you clean up after yourself. I always leave a donation.

When deployed under EMAC motels were often full, so my home church pastor called ahead for me so that I was expected and welcome. I usually stayed for a few days to a week maximum, with sleeping bag in a church meeting room, cooked my own meals, showered and used the laundry room. I would help with preps for Sunday services and leave a donation when I departed, generally $50/day, but way less than a motel room and quieter.

 

[Outpost75]

Box culverts under roadways

Good way to drown in flash flood area.

 

[Outpost75]

I STOLE an airplane once, it was very-very easy. Many don't even require an ignition key. Just turn on the mags. and the fuel, hand prop for starting, and you're on your way.

Do you pull out and trash the transponder and ELT when you do that? Asking for a friend....

 

[Outpost75]

The "one" time, I did it was at the request of the plane's rightful owner. It was IMC conditions, and he was a better pilot then me, but not IFR.

Go forth and sin no more.

 

[Outpost75]

In the unlikely event that I have to Bug Out, I would not contact or communicate with anyone. I wouldn’t trust anyone. If you go a church it may already taken over by bad guys or government agents. Trust no one ot nothing.

OK I understand your paranoia and feel for you.

The GUMMINT and Fed agents don' t crash in churches! They commandeer the Motel 6.

I've stayed in churches MANY times. Just act cordial and normal. Don't be an a-hole. Introduce yourself. Honestly explain your situation. I show my ID as a courtesy so the pastor knows that I am not an insane wierdo, though few pastors ever ask for it. But when you lay out your cards honestly this is always appreciated, regardless of the church denomination.

Offer to help with their normal shelter routine. Especially if you have specialized training as shelter manager, EMT, LE .

After tornadoes, hurricanes or wildfires you are probably not the only one being sheltered. Offer advice and assistance based upon your training and experience. Help with intake, in the kitchen, triage of sick or injured, serve meals, wash dishes, sweep and mop floors. Hold hands and pray with them to comfort and console the hurting, if that's all you are OK with.

I always keep my weapon concealed and discreet so as not to "scare the natives." There have been a few times when I had to intervene to help de-escalate an EDP situation. Very common under disaster stress. Command presence works. The great majority of the time de-escalation can be done verbally and accomplished without going hands on. Only once did I need to cuff anyone. Once the cuffs came out I had multiple helpers jump in to help restrain the woman and prevent injury. It was just a panic attack and nothing threatening. Could have easily gone bad had anyone over-reacted.

 

[Outpost75]

Game,

Visualize yourself as a volunteer emergency responder.

Your assignment is to go w/ a couple of others, led by someone on payroll , to map out homeless people's camps at and around offramps.

Your reports, in conjunction with others, will send paramilitary / LE aux org to empty the homeless camps.

Underpasses and offramps, less thr minor exceptions, are part of critical infrastructure.

Critical infrastructure gets priority pre-during and recovery phases of a SHTF event.

We performed this task in conjunction with bridge inspections done every 2 years. 4-man team consisting of sheriff's deputy, DOT engineer, fire Marshall, and public works right of way agent.

Each location was geo-coded in ArcView GIS, photographed, and a condition assessment made as to debris, damage, number of homeless, any information observed or volunteered as to their health, mental status, etc.

Often the homeless would leave or hide when they saw the team approaching. Those who stayed were given an info sheet explaining the timeline for bridge repairs and site cleanup and given meal vouchers which could be redeemed at local convenience stores.

When time arrived for work to be done most of the homeless had already moved on. Those remaining were offered transportation to a public shelter or bus depot and offered a ticket out of state, usually to DC.