Transportation is the category that turns a local emergency into a personal one. Roads close, fuel runs short, and the route you take every day without thinking becomes the route you can’t. The families who fare best have thought about movement before they needed it.
The work is practical and testable: keeping vehicles ready rather than running on empty, building fuel discipline into normal life, and having a get-home plan with routes you’ve actually driven — not just traced on a map. The best route is the one you’ve already tried on a quiet Sunday.
Deep DiveThe blue dot works until the day it doesn't — and the events that make you need to navigate are the same ones that take it down. Paper and terrain are the plan; GPS is the convenience on top.
Deep DiveThe plan to 'fill up on the way out' dies at a dark gas station. Range you didn't store is range you don't have — so the real fuel prep is the reserve in your shed and the discipline to keep it fresh.
Deep DiveA route is only as good as its worst pinch point. One blocked bridge can strand a plan that looked fine on the map, so the work is mapping the weak links before the crowd finds them for you.
Chapter 5 covers Transportation Infrastructure, and Chapter 6 works out Driving and Walking Distances — the numbers behind whether you can actually get home.
