Originally Posted by
linberl
I just realized my OneMotor battery with the usb port will charge my iphone multiple times in a power outage/earthquake/disaster scenario. That got me thinking about how e-bikes can be used it natural disasters. My bug-out kit includes my bikepacking gear, some food/water/first aid stuff, on my Burley Travoy. Since my bike can be easily ridden without the motor, even if i can't recharge it later on, it's still an option. But now I am thinking about a solar charger -- something to have for emergencies.
Anyone use their e-bikes in these kind of situations or think about it and plan? I saw folks in the floods back East getting around by bike (maybe not so good using a battery in water). Just wondering if anyone else has figured stuff out.
A disaster nasty enough to require a bugout kit likely took out cell service.
If it's not that bad, then you don't need a bugout kit.
If you're serious about this, you want to do real planning. A little shack that's hard to get to, stocked with supplies.
The problem is, there is a fairly narrow distance between ordinary disasters, and the types that will cripple civilisation for a while. Odds are you won't survive a nuclear winter from a meteor strike. A massive tsunami could cripple food production and transportation on the West coast. Anywhere within a thousand miles of Jellystone National park is toast if the Yellowstone caldera blows. I'm in Maine, but that would cripple food coming from the West and South of the border. Eventually there should be shipping, but that could take months, and there is the question of getting oil to move it around once the food gets here. There is a small possibility that a big hunk of Antarctica could slide into the ocean. That would create mile high waves, and I doubt I could get far enough away to be safe.
Just as a public service, and because I have a morbid turn, a Space rock hitting the Yellowstone caldera, the wrong place in Anarctica, and a couple other places could easily make our species extinct.