On another forum there was a series of threads about walking 30+ miles to get home and what gear it would take.

I pretty much wrote the idea off as nonsense for any reasonably foreseeable event, but some people thought it was a great idea.

I don't recall for sure, but I do not recall a single person who mentioned having appropriate footwear. One guy suggested duct tape to tape your feet up. I guess it is an army thing.

One guy said he worked in an unsafe area so his plan was to leave his place of employment and walk home by himself. I have to wonder how safe that is compared to barricading one's self inside a relatively secure industrial or commercial facility and waiting things out.

Several people suggested it was because of their families that they would just have to walk home in a blizzard or hurricane. I don't believe I ever got an answer to my question about how it would be helpful to their families for their corpse to be be found when the snow melts, or how they plan to walk anywhere in 100 mph winds with torrential rainfall.