Wer kennt diesen Bericht? (Familie flüchtet zum Schwiegervater)

Wer kennt diesen Bericht ? (Survival nach Tornado, Flut, Hurrikan oder ähnliches)

Ich habe mal im Internet einen Bericht (ähnlich Tagebuch) in englisch gelesen.
Der Author (männlich) schreibt in der Ich-Form und berichtet über die Reise zu seinem Schwiegervater in einer Krisensituation (Tatsachenbericht). Es könnte sich dabei um die Überflutungen nach Hurrikan Katharina handeln (muss aber nicht)

Es handelt sich dabei um einen sehr langen Reisebericht (engl), der wirklich informativ ist...aber ich finde ihn einfach nicht mehr...

Geschichte:
Eine kleine Familie in der USA erleben eine Naturkatastrophe und beschließen zum Schwiegervater (Richtung Texas?) zu fahren. Der Man hielt seinen Schwiegervater immer für einen Spinner, weil dieser einen Hof survivalmäßig umgebaut hat und dort Lebensmittel, Essen und Waffen hortet. Da die Tochter nicht anders ist, hat sie über die Jahre auch einige Ausrüstungsgegenstände angeschafft und bestimmte Vorkehrungen getroffen (Auto vollgetankt, extra Reserve-Benzin usw.).
Nachdem also in der Heimatstadt das Chaos losbricht, rufen sie schnell bei den Schwiegereltern an und kündigen ihren Besuch an.
Der Geländewagen ist bereits vollgepackt und ab gehts auf die große Reise zum "Opa" (normale Reisedauer 2,5h).
Die ersten Autobahnen sind blockiert, da ALLE irgenwie aus diesem Gebiet fliehen wollen. Natürlich hält sich unsere S-Familie abseits großer Straßen und fahren somit auf maroden Landstraßen immer weiter. Nach einer Weile wird natürlich auch der größte Tank leer und sie müssen somit nachtanken. An alle Tankstellen (wo sie vorbeigefahren sind), bilden sich natürlich lange Schlangen und an den Tankstellen steht meist schon: "Out of Fuel".

Daher beschließen sie etwas abseits zu parken, um mit den Kanistern nachzutanken.
Auffällig ist das Fahrzeug jedoch, da auf dem Dach einige Kisten gelagert werden (mit Plane verdeckt.
Nachdem niemand in Sicht ist, holt der Vater den Kanister runter und beginnt zu tanken.
Es hat zwar eine Waffe im Handschuhfach, aber er traut sich nicht diese zu verwenden.

Sie fahren also weiter auf der Landstraße bei 40°C und um Benzin zu sparen, wird die Klimaanlage ausgeschaltet. Zum Glück haben sie unmengen Wasser bei, da die Kinder kurz vor dem Verdampfen sind...

Sie kommen an immer mehr geschlossenen Tankstellen vorbei, wo die Leute alles mögliche stehlen, weil sie wütend sind.

Beim nächsten Tankstop wird es für die Familie ungemütlich, da es nirgendwo eine freies (Park)plätzchen gibt, wo sie ungestört nachtanken könnten.
Auf einem abgelegenen Rastplatz halten sie dann letztendlich an und beginnen schnell nachzutanken. Die Kinder essen etwas und die Mutter reckt & streckt sich und schon ist es zu spät.
Eine Truppe junger Menschen (ziemlich wütend) entdecken den Wagen und fangen an, diesen zu plündern. Als dann einer dieser Chaoten hinten die Tür aufreist, wird es dem vorher handzahmen Familienvater zu bunt. Er holt die Waffe und gibt den Plünderen (unbewaffnet) 3 Sekunden, sich aus dem Staub zu machen.
Da er ziemlich aufgebracht ist, fliehen die Typen schnell und die Familie braust davon.
Der Vater ist ziemlich aufgeregt (leichter Adrenalin-Kick) und seine Frau ziemlich stolz...

Nach einigen weiteren Stunden zeigt die Tanknadel wiedermal einen Zwangsstop an und aufgrund fehlender Parkplätze (aber neuem Mut) müssen sie wieder auf einer Campingwiese anhalten. Dort steht nur ein Auto und die zugehörige Familie macht gerade ein Picknick. Nun möchte auch unsere S-Familie sich etwas die Beine vertreten und die Frau bemerkt, dass die Picknick-Familie traurig auf einen anscheinend minimalen Restvorrat schauen.
Unsere S-Familie entscheidet, einige Lebensmittel zu verschenken (aber so dass es niemand sieht).

Insgesamt dauert der normale Kurztrip zum Schwiegervater dann statt 3h insgesamt 10h, da die Straßen vollgestopft mit stehengelassenen Fahrzeugen sind...

Interessant ist auf jeden Fall, dass in der Region überall im Radio gesendet wird, man soll zu Hause bleiben und sich verbarikadieren... An der letzten Tankstelle (Wo sie vorbeifahren) wird im Radio nichts mehr gemeldet und die Tankstellenbesitzer wundern sich natürlich bei dem Ansturm. Auch beim Schwiegervater gibt es keine Meldungen (Weder Radio noch TV), obwohl dieser ja nicht mal 2h entfernt wohnt!

Die Geschichte geht natürlich noch weiter (ich weiß das Ende aber nicht mehr).

Wer kennt diesen Tatsachenbericht und kann den Link/Datei posten?

Nein, das ist nicht die Geschichte. Die Originalgeschichte ist als Tagebuch geschrieben (Ich-Version).

Die Familie muss deswegen so oft tanken, weil sie auch auf der Landstraße nur langsam vorankommen.
Die eigentliche Tour zum Schwiegervater dauert ja nur 2,5h, aber aufgrund des Verkehrschaos fahren sie fast 10h (incl. Umwege).

Welches Auto die genau haben, keine Ahnung....aber der hohe Verbrauch ist eigentlich logisch wenn man nur Schritttempo fährt....

Hier ist die Geschichte (Original) - endlich gefunden -

Real Evacuation Stories From People Who Made It !!
This real account shows what it's like for even a prepared person to bug out. Sounds like a young man got an eye-opening lesson, as well.

"The craziest thing about the whole Katrina fiasco was that my father in law (technically he's just my girlfriend's dad, but we've been together long enough that this is what we call him.) I always make fun of him because he keeps his garage stocked with something like 100 gallons of water, a bunch of big jugs full of treated gasoline, food, etc. He also owns quite a few guns. So I picked on him a lot for being borderline nuts even though he's fairly normal. So when Katrina rolled around I ended up evacuating with them since the woman wanted to be with her parents.

It took us 35 hours of nonstop driving to drive to Dallas. It's usually a four hour drive or so. About twelve hours or so in you had to drive around a car that had run out of fuel every fifty feet or less. They were everywhere. It was hot, too, and we saw hundreds of families standing on the side of the road sweating. A lot had infants and little kids. Even if you somehow did find a gas station that wasn't sold out of gasoline (probably 9 out of 10 were sold out) the line was literally miles long.

About 20 hours in, or a little over halfway to Dallas, we noticed the convenience stores were being looted. The people busted out the windows (we didn't see who, but they were busted out) and we saw people coming out with any drink they could find. It was pretty much chaos. There was one cop on the scene and he wouldn't get out of his car. He just sat across his street with his lights swirling and people ignored him.

By this time there were so many cars broken down that we spent a lot of our time driving off road. We had a big tarp on the back of the truck with all the gasoline but we were forced to fuel up in front of people. We had enough fuel to fill up our two vehicles three times which turned out to be just enough to get us to Dallas. As we were fueling up crowds of not-so-nice looking folks with empty gas tanks were staring us down. We gave one guy five gallons of fuel because he had two little kids. We were approached the second time we fueled up on the side of the road by a pissed-off bunch of people asking for gas. We told them we needed it. They didn't care obviously. One younger guy went towards the back of the truck and said something like "I'm taking one, call the f**king police if you want." and my father in law had to use his pistol to convince the guy otherwise.

We were then standing there, funnel in the truck, me trying to pour gas in, him with a pistol in his hand, my girlfriend and her mom crying, and all of the gas-thief's buddies looking real tough. He just stood there like some sort of tough-guy a**hole. I got the cap back on the jug and we got out of there with our nerves really frazzled. I kept my pistol loaded after that. We went through a LOT of water. It was really pretty hot out there. I slept in little two or three minute bursts when traffic was stopped which it almost always was. Sit for a few minutes, move ten feet. Repeated a thousand times. My leg actually cramped up from break/accelerate/breaking so many times and I had to pull over.

This happened to pretty much all of us. It sounds melodramatic but driving actually hurt at that point. To save on fuel I didn't run my air conditioner so I was also sweating the whole time but we thankfully had a lot of water. At close to 30 hours people got fed up with the traffic and we started seeing cars zipping past us on the southbound side of the freeway, heading north the wrong way. There were still quite a few emergency vehicles heading south so this was a dangerous idea. It didn't take long until hundreds of people switched to the other lane and headed northbound on it. A half mile or so up we saw the first head on collision. A family headed north had struck a police cruiser heading south at the crest of a hill. They'd never seen each other until the last second, I guess. We saw a lot of these accidents.

The swarm beat the police ,though, and we were out in nowhere, Texas anyway so there probably weren't that many police to respond. Eventually the entire southbound lane was just as clogged as the northbound. More so, really, because there were the head-on accidents.

The police couldn't go south or north now so it was a kind of weird feeling of being on your own. So many people were broken down now that you had to swerve not to just hit the people who were out lingering. They had nowhere to go. Our big tarp-covered pickup drew a lot of eyes, too. We again had to fill up in front of hundreds of people. He again had to use his pistol as a friendly reminder that we didn't wish to be robbed. He never actually pointed it at anybody, he just took it out and held it as a reminder. People just stared at us with hate. I can't blame them, I guess. But he was watching out for his wife and daughter and I was watching out for her as well. Most people would do the same."

"We evacuated from Houston for Hurricane Rita. We live south of Houston and have a place in the country 120 miles north and west of the city which is where we headed. We are prepared at both homes and took only our pets, daughter and other valuables like guns and photos. I have read three suggestions (magazine and online) that people have alternate routes planned. Usually from people that have not lived through such an event. Let me tell you from personal experience - when over a million people are evacuating, there IS NO alternate route. Every road, from freeway to dirt road was packed. Many people didn't even know where they were or where they were headed.

It was hot, hot, hot. We had plenty of water, many people did not. We were pouring water over our heads and the animals heads. Also, gave water away. Drove with no A/C to conserve fuel. It took 22 hours to make a 2.5 hour drive. About half way there, we took out our bug out bags and ate a quick and tasty meal. As we drove through the areas off the major freeways, many neighborhoods and roads were blocked by people who lived there with their vehicles. No weapons were in sight but I'm sure they were there. We drove with our hand guns in our laps or on the seat next to us. When we had to refuel one of us would watch out holding a weapon (out of sight) while the other one refueled.

At one in the morning, as we made the curve in the dirt road and I saw our 'country home' setting there in the very dark that is the country, I just burst into tears. Never have I been so glad to see that place at the end of a dirt road.

My husband said that the whole trip really messed with his mind. Actually, he used a different word. His truck was running on fumes when we got there. Thank God for the containers of gasoline that we keep in the storage building. With those gallons we were able to make it to get more gas after a couple of days.
Our country home will become our only home when we retire in 33 months (not that I'm counting).

The next afternoon, we sat down and had a debriefing. How did it go and what could we do better? We made a list and have been working it all winter. We will be even more prepared when next hurricane season rolls around. "

Quelle: http://tpass.org/forums_holdin…845b92c489f246df74bd9af03

auf jeden Fall gibt es hier weitere interessante Berichte nach Hurrikans, Flut, Erdbeeben, Tsunami usw.
http://www.urbansurvivalstories.com/category.php?catID=2