Surviving – The Basic Needs
February 17, 2010 by okievapor
Filed under Urban, Wilderness
Wilderness or natural disaster scenarios can range from easy to extremely challenging to survive. There is no rule book on what resources you will have on-hand or what can be found. You must be adaptive with your skills so that you, your family, or others in your party can survive the situation at hand.
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Using Pool Water For Survival Situations
In a disaster situation, water becomes a very high priority because you can’t go more than a few days without water. One backup option that you might have to consider is your pool water because it’s difficult to store days of water as it takes up so much space.
The first consideration is if it’s an [...]
Urban Disaster Survival
Andrew, Northridge, Katrina, and now Haiti. All of these now spell natural disasters of monumental proportions. Even now desperately poor people languish in a county without good infrastructure during the best of times. Relief and foreign governmental agencies are currently rushing to get to the affected areas in hopes of saving lives and preventing an [...]
Planning For Survival – Emergency Essentials
Millions of Americans are taking steps to protect their families and are stocking up on emergency supplies and food. In unprecedented numbers, people are purchasing long term food supplies to ward off what many are scared will be case of survival. Many news agencies have reported on record number of gun and ammo sales, but [...]
Survival Water Storage – Tips For Having an Emergency Water Supply
During a disaster having clean, pure drinking water might be hard to come by. Water services tend to hold out longer than gas, transportation, or electricity but water supplies can become compromised by breaking or flooding problems. Since you need about a gallon of water each day and can’t go more than a few without [...]
A Quick Primer on Planning For Emergency and Disaster Survival
Over the last few years, citizens from all over the world have experienced various forms of disaster – hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, strong storms, tsunami’s, etc. – proving that disaster can hit just about anywhere, anytime. Even where I live in the mid-Atlantic of the United States, we have had flooding, strong thunderstorms that knocked out [...]
Useful Survival and Disaster Preparedness Products to Have on Hand
Whenever you are preparing for disaster preparedness, the amount of products you could purchase to be ready is almost endless. Some tools and products and just a bit more useful than others for surviving a disaster.
Self Powered Radio
One of the better disaster products are self powered radios. These have become fairly advanced over the years. [...]
Disaster Preparedness – 5 Top Tips For Earthquake Survival
The recent earthquakes in Haiti remind us that we must be prepared. This impoverished country had little to no preparedness in place. We must take steps to become more self reliant and capable of taking care of our own families in an emergency.
I have been involved professionally in emergency response since 1982. In that time [...]
What is the Best Survival Food to Store and Depend on During Emergencies?
Disasters can happen where you have to rely on your food supplies at home. Getting together some survival food isn’t as complex as it might seem. Having the best emergency survival foods, those that won’t spoil but still offer good nutrition, are the ones to keep stored for those unpredictable situations.
Urban Survival – Disaster Preparedness
Urban survival is the scariest kind, because you are not just facing the quiet isolation of the mountains the desert or forest-you are facing desperate masses of humanity who are convinced they are in dire need. Urban survival is a skill, and like any skill it must be learned. Stay alert, stay mobile, be ready to run, but better yet, be prepared with knowledge to survive and possibly thrive in an urban disaster in your own home and neighborhood.