Yeah kinda sucks.
40 miles east = Atlantic Ocean
20 miles west = 5 different bridges into Philadelphia PA
30 miles south = 1 bridge into DE
North, fugetaboutit North Jersey/New York

Well, you could skirt the Delaware upriver a ways and that might afford you some degree of separation from the urban sprawl, but you are in a tough spot to be sure. I wouldn't wanna cross the river into PA much anyways. I hear the mayor has all but declared martial law in Philly?

Seriously, I'd get an inflatable raft. Worst case scenario - all bridges are destroyed or otherwise obstructed. Get to the river, inflate raft, cross river, leave raft, survive.

Or stay and die. Either way, it's up to you.

Instead of heading west, across the Delaware River, you could head east or north (and then either east or west). If you head north, once you leave NJ, you might be able to cross the Delaware wihout a bridge or a boat.

Hmm, I never really thought of an inflatable raft as a BOB item. In any case, I wouldn't want to try and cross the Delaware in a raft that would fit in a BOB anyways. Might as well just BOB one of the $1.99 air mattresses as you'd get just as wet and probably fare better.

If you can follow the river upstream, you will at least know fairly well where you are at any given time.

BOB = however long it takes to get there + safety margin

Before I relocated back to what would have been my BOL under normal circumstances, BOB had 5 days of food, the ditch kit one day. That assumes breakfast, some grazing during the day, and a meal at night before bed, but not any supplementation. There is a tote without about a month of food in it that would have gone in the car, but if I had to walk I wouldn't have shlepped it with me.

As for water, I've got five quarts in my gear, I'd like to add another three. And get two of them into my vest rather than just one.

When I first worried about TEOTWAWKI, ancient Anasazi God of mayhem and brother to Kokopelli and WTSHTF; I had a BOB, PSK, FAK for any SNAFU of FUBAR short only $100 of colourised Ronald Reagan .925 Silver commemerative coins and 5 bricks of .22 lr for barter. Now I have developed the STUFFIT system, or 'supplies to fix food if troubled.' I have yet to use those tiny tobbasco sauce bottles on my fruitcakes or heat a MRE over a fire that has been stabbed in the center by my survival spear. I'd wind up making some mini lantern out of the thing to go with the coke can stove and MRE packaging duct taped emergency quilt I made after talkng with an Amish. But I could given all the backup kit I have to replace kit I in all likelyhood won't use anyway.We have learned from Katrina that 72 hours may indeed not be enough.This is when my KISS acronym 'Keep individual survival simple' comes into play. You AREN'T GOING to have everything you want, so have enough of what you NEED. In spite of yesterday's tragic event in San Francisco, members in that earthquake prone city really don't need Holland and Holland side by side stopping rifles. More than 72 hours basic food would imply leaving the liferaft behind.

Well said Chris, well said.

"...Kokopelli..."

Ya gotta watch out for that guy, or you will have another mouth to lug food for...

It's not a BOB item. It's a trunk of the car, get the hell out of New Jersey item.

Emergency planning has to be tailored to fit the individual's specific circumstances. If my circumstance was being boxed in by water, you better believe I would own a raft. But as it happens, I am not boxed in by water, so in my individual circumstance a raft is not needed.