Okay...this is a little more involved than the usual question.
Here's the background: My part of Montana has four seasons: Snowpack-Melt; Fire; Harvest and Permafrost. "Fire" season runs from two weeks after the last of the spring rains, all the way to the first snowfall. Like with parts of Colorado, we're in an Alpine Desert climate, although there's plenty of ground cover.
Rain is not common in the summer. The groundwater moisture comes from the melting snowpack, which typically lasts into July. August, then, is the time of the worst forest fires.
This year, we had almost no snow. In town, we had two one-inch snowfalls. Normally there'd be about 18 inches of snow on frozen ground right now. Nope, the ground never froze and we've got trees budding.
So, we're gonna have HELLACIOUS fires. Whole towns have been burned out in this area in years past - although none in the last 40 years or so. But some came close, eleven years ago near Lolo Pass.
So. I'm prepared - bugout bag; camping gear; I can go live for some months in a motel in another part of the country, if I have to. If I have an apartment to come back to.
If there's anything left. This town has grown nearly 50 percent in the last 20 years - to 90k in the city limits. This was a CROSSROADS; a railroad and logging town. "A River Runs Through It" - the book the movie was based on was done by a local writer, of life that now was a century ago.
So if the town is hit, there's gonna be chaos.
So. What, take my stacks WITH me? Are you nuts? With the paramilitary policing done in Blue States, and even some purple states...where the car can be searched and assets seized as evidence of criminal activity?
Right now, I have them well set up. PROBABLY where I have them, will not be destroyed. I won't get into details - that would involve clues.
But if that part of the city WAS destroyed...well, we all know I either have them buried or hidden. Even burying isn't safe from the ravages of fire - fire-breaks are bulldozed; and land shifts with rains after fires; and police keep people out to prevent looters, and landmarks are lost.
Inside a structure...well, suppose I had the stacks in my apartment house. And suppose winds caught the roof on fire...and crews saved much of the building.
It will STILL be condemned and bulldozed immediately. Former residents are almost-never allowed back in to recover property - you'll hear the cops tell residents, "that's why you have insurance." Yeah, sure.
So, that leaves me with (suspect) banks' SD vaults. Even if my credit-union is as honest as Abe, they may be under a bank holiday by the time I make it back.
The only surviving family I have is in Colorado. Woke-Gay-Mafia Central. And if I go, carrying a box, even if locked, an ask those good folks to babysit it...they'll either suspect a bomb (we have had issues) or force it open.
And I KNOW they think goldbugs are nuts. Early on in my Stacking Life, I got an earful. Probably the whole thing would wind up being "lost."
Anyone got an idea how to handle a calamity bug-out, in terms of securing metals?
Here's the background: My part of Montana has four seasons: Snowpack-Melt; Fire; Harvest and Permafrost. "Fire" season runs from two weeks after the last of the spring rains, all the way to the first snowfall. Like with parts of Colorado, we're in an Alpine Desert climate, although there's plenty of ground cover.
Rain is not common in the summer. The groundwater moisture comes from the melting snowpack, which typically lasts into July. August, then, is the time of the worst forest fires.
This year, we had almost no snow. In town, we had two one-inch snowfalls. Normally there'd be about 18 inches of snow on frozen ground right now. Nope, the ground never froze and we've got trees budding.
So, we're gonna have HELLACIOUS fires. Whole towns have been burned out in this area in years past - although none in the last 40 years or so. But some came close, eleven years ago near Lolo Pass.
So. I'm prepared - bugout bag; camping gear; I can go live for some months in a motel in another part of the country, if I have to. If I have an apartment to come back to.
If there's anything left. This town has grown nearly 50 percent in the last 20 years - to 90k in the city limits. This was a CROSSROADS; a railroad and logging town. "A River Runs Through It" - the book the movie was based on was done by a local writer, of life that now was a century ago.
So if the town is hit, there's gonna be chaos.
So. What, take my stacks WITH me? Are you nuts? With the paramilitary policing done in Blue States, and even some purple states...where the car can be searched and assets seized as evidence of criminal activity?
Right now, I have them well set up. PROBABLY where I have them, will not be destroyed. I won't get into details - that would involve clues.
But if that part of the city WAS destroyed...well, we all know I either have them buried or hidden. Even burying isn't safe from the ravages of fire - fire-breaks are bulldozed; and land shifts with rains after fires; and police keep people out to prevent looters, and landmarks are lost.
Inside a structure...well, suppose I had the stacks in my apartment house. And suppose winds caught the roof on fire...and crews saved much of the building.
It will STILL be condemned and bulldozed immediately. Former residents are almost-never allowed back in to recover property - you'll hear the cops tell residents, "that's why you have insurance." Yeah, sure.
So, that leaves me with (suspect) banks' SD vaults. Even if my credit-union is as honest as Abe, they may be under a bank holiday by the time I make it back.
The only surviving family I have is in Colorado. Woke-Gay-Mafia Central. And if I go, carrying a box, even if locked, an ask those good folks to babysit it...they'll either suspect a bomb (we have had issues) or force it open.
And I KNOW they think goldbugs are nuts. Early on in my Stacking Life, I got an earful. Probably the whole thing would wind up being "lost."
Anyone got an idea how to handle a calamity bug-out, in terms of securing metals?