Here are 30 tips to help you and your family become better prepared for an emergency.
[From DHS.gov]
Take a moment to imagine that there is an emergency, like a fire in your home, and you need to leave quickly. What are the best escape routes from your home? Find at least two ways out of each room. Now, write it down — you’ve got the beginning of a plan.
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Cleaning 1585 US gallons ( 6000 liters ) of water in it’s lifetime, the water purification bottles from Life Saver go above and beyond the rest. The Lifesaver bottle allows you to easily drink from even the dirtiest streams, ponds or pools or water. And the best part is, there are no parts or chemicals to deal with; just simple and easy water purification that anyone can do.
Deep in the mountains, Ben Stubbs sleeps in a log, eats spinifex and learns how to start a fire without matches.
One of the most important survival tools in the Australian bush is a condom. The bigger the better.
I have pages of survival notes from my instructor, Lee, yet if I were in a real emergency, the usefulness of a condom would be the first thing I’d remember.
I am with four other “survivor” students on High n Wild’s weekend survival course in the Blue Mountains. The Greater Blue Mountains region is larger than the Netherlands, so it makes sense to have a few survival techniques up my sleeve in case I wander down the wrong side of a mountain one day.
From Katoomba, we head west through the scooped green gorges that fall away to the forest floor hundreds of metres below. We drive further into the bush, past dirt bikes and weekend four-wheel-drivers. Our destination is Deep Pass, a flat area below the canyons on the edge of the Wollemi wilderness region. It is an unusual scenario: we are deliberately getting lost, to learn what to do if we get lost by accident.
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by Robert Wayne Atkins
Whenever a significant number of people are devastated by hard times then the basic rules that govern that society always change. If you are not aware of these changing rules then you may quickly become a victim instead of a survivor. The purpose of this short article is to briefly discuss how a person can survive in a rapidly changing hard times environment.
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