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the plan you make hoping you'll never need to use it.

means a rapid, pre-planned evacuation from a home or area when things go bad fast, along with the gear you grab to do it.

from military slang from the korean war, when troops ordered to withdraw fast would say they were bugging out; prepper culture adopted it wholesale by the 1990s for civilian disaster planning.

for instance

katrina evacuees2005, over a million people fled new orleans with what they could carry

fukushima exclusion zone2011, 154000 residents ordered to bug out within days

california wildfire kitscal fire now recommends pre-packed go-bags for every household

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