How will you maintain your destroyed shelter if blown away by bomb, washed away by storm surge or contaminated by sewage-riddled flood, how will you replace blocked food and water distribution, how will you avoid detection or munitions, how will you avoid breathing deadly air?
Did you need the bridge that was washed away?
A lot of it comes down to masks, sealing up openings, keeping a stash of food and water, and being able to hunt, trap, grow or farm and purify.
Can your supplies of first aid, antibiotics, fuel, sheets, cordage, tape, boards, nails, tools, food and water etc allow you to stay indoors even if your roof and windows have gone in a blast and you are injured or sick?
Do your homesteading skills extend to damage assessment and repair?
What happens when your insurers agree to repair but refuse to decontaminate after a terror attack – have you still got a council willing and able to do it?
Would you make it to a rest centre? Would there be enough hotel spaces?
Who will keep an eye on your land?
What happens about your family’s jobs, education, care and pets?
What are you insured for? Probably terrorism, but not decontamination – for that you’d have to wait for the council to get around to you.
Set your evacuation trigger in advance so it’s not another stress to think about. There may be different triggers for each scenario, eg river height. Typically you would balance danger against transport clogging: go too soon and you’ve abandoned your home unnecessarily, leave it too late and you’ll struggle to get through traffic. If you lack strength or information on the emerging risk then sheltering in place with whatever you have left is more likely to make sense.
Response
Evacuate immediately if unsafe, ideally don respirator if needed and take go bag of masks, waterproofs, water & first aid kit, plus clothes and toiletries if light enough. This will be to a rest centre hotel, friend’s place or second home, perhaps a stocked bugout location.
Administer first aid to any injuries
Don PPE against cuts, poison and weather
Salvage valuables & preps to any safer ground or level
Call for help if anyone might come
Erect shelter if possible and bugging is too uncertain or difficult
Photograph damage & notify insurer
Try repair & cleanup
If the home can’t be salvaged then reconsider evacuation as above
Limey Prepper - UK Preppers Handbook 
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