Get Out of Dodge (GOOD)
Get Out of Dodge (GOOD) is prepper shorthand for leaving your home area quickly when staying put is no longer safe. The phrase comes from Dodge City, Kansas, and the classic Westerns set there, where trouble in town meant it was time to ride out. Preppers use GOOD much the way they use bugging out, and a packed evacuation bag is often called a GOOD bag.
You meet the term when you plan for an evacuation order, such as a wildfire, a hurricane, a flood, or a chemical spill nearby. We treat GOOD as one branch of a family preparedness plan. Home is usually the best base, and GOOD is the move you make when the threat outweighs it.
A GOOD plan pairs a ready bag with a route and a destination your whole family knows ahead of time. With those three in place, leaving becomes a calm routine instead of a scramble.
