...and go where? Los Angeles is not the place to be driving when hordes of angry rioters are roaming the streets. I do agree and must stress- if you're gonna bug out, bug out before anything gets started. Once something does start, it spreads quick and the last place you wanna be during a riot is out on the street- whether on foot or in your car. Those guys have flipping cars down pat.
I lived near El Segundo & Normandy the Rodney King riots broke out. Things went from zero to violent in minutes. I thought about packing up my family and heading for Simi Valley where my folks lived at the time, but that would have been a bad idea, even as familiar as I was with all the routes I could take to get there. It would have taken only a small crowd to block my vehicle, smash the windows and flip it over.
I took our old full sized Chevy station wagon to evacuate a family my now ex-wife was friends with to stay with us. They were on welfare and lived in a worse neighborhood than we did at the time. The distance wasn't far, but I saw some frightening sights during that trip. It was foolish and risky and only by the grace of God did nothing happen to me.
Staying in our home was the safest choice. Our neighbors kept the rioters out of our neighborhood and away from my family. I found out later several looters wanted to run us out (we were the only white family) but we'd made friends with some good people who stopped them.
If we had tried to bug out, we would have had to drive several miles to get out of the area with no idea how to avoid the violence. We could have bugged out early, but when I left for work that morning, there was no indication things were going to turn violent. I had no idea what was going on until I stopped at my favorite gunshop in Hawaiian Gardens and the owner asked me why I was at his shop instead of home protecting my family. The 91 freeway was its usual Traffic Hell and I don't know how I didn't get into a wreck driving on the right shoulder at 100 mph to get to my family.
Let's say you do bug out early. Where is there to go that's safe? During the Rodney King Riots, the violence rolled as far north as Hollywood but stopped short of the rich, heavily patrolled neighborhoods nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains. This time, it's different. I've seen posts that there's been talk among the looters that they should go pillage Simi Valley because it's a white community and responsible for not convicting the cops that beat Rodney King.
It's safer to stay home, network with your neighbors and do what you can to make your neighborhood not worth coming to.
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