tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65576079467603000382024-03-20T19:23:16.828-07:00Emergency Survival SkillsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557607946760300038.post-6577160201232536702018-06-12T20:21:00.001-07:002018-06-12T20:26:22.078-07:00Outdoor Survival Skills Every Guy Should Master<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sure, you’re in <a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/must-have-climbing-gear/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db0021; text-decoration-line: none;">decent shape</a>, and your iPhone has GPS and an app for everything. But what happens when you’re injured or stranded and the batteries die? You need a <a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/gear/6-wilderness-survival-tools-that-could-save-your-life/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db0021; text-decoration-line: none;">few key skills</a> for the inevitable moment when you find—or lose—yourself without that digital crutch.</div>
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Survival expert Creek Stewart, author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Build The Perfect Bug-Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit</em>, has spent thousands of hours testing himself in real world survival scenarios and training others to be competent in the skills he’s learned. “It’s not <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">if </em>disaster will strike,” he likes to say. “But when.”</div>
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“You can read countless books on survival methods and watch YouTube instructional videos all day long,” Stewart says. “But until you get out into the field on your hands and knees and practice those skills yourself, all you’ll have is a false sense of security that you’d know what to do in a crisis.”</div>
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If you’ve haven’t mastered these <a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/12-outdoor-survival-skills-every-guy-should-master/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db0021; text-decoration-line: none;">12 core tenets of wilderness safety</a>, there’s no time like the here and now to practice. Bring your most backwoods-savvy friend along for guidance—and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">don’t</em> forget to let someone else (friends, family, park rangers) know exactly where you’re headed before you take off.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #1</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Locating a Suitable Campsite</span><br />
“You want to stay high and dry,” Stewart says. Avoid valleys and paths where water may flow toward you (flash floods get their name for a reason—they can deluge a low-lying area in minutes). Choose a campsite free from natural dangers like insect nests and widow-makers—dead branches that may crash down in the middle of the night—as well as falling rocks. Ideally, you want to be close to resources like running water, dry wood (from which you can assemble your shelter and build a fire) and rocky walls or formations that can shield you from the elements.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #2</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Building a Shelter</span><br />
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Not surprisingly, hypothermia is the number one outdoor killer in cold weather. That means a well-insulated shelter should be your top priority in a prolonged survival situation. To make a simple lean-to, find a downed tree resting at an angle, or set a large branch securely against a standing tree, and stack smaller branches close together on one side. Layer debris, like leaves and moss, across the angled wall. Lastly, insulate yourself from the cold ground–which will draw heat from your warm body–by layering four to six inches of debris to lie on.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #3</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Starting a Fire With a Battery</span><br />
Any battery will do, says Stewart. “It’s about short-circuiting the battery.” Connect the negative and positive terminals with a wire, foil (like a gum wrapper), or steel wool to create a spark to drive onto your tinder bundle. Have your firewood ready.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #4</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Building Your Fire</span><br />
Stewart views fire building in terms of four key ingredients: tinder bundle of dry, fibrous material (cotton balls covered in Vaseline or lip balm are an excellent choice, if you’ve got them) and wood in three sizes—toothpick, Q-tip, and pencil. Use a forearm-sized log as a base and windscreen for your tinder. When the tinder is lit, stack the smaller kindling against the larger log, like a lean-to, to allow oxygen to pass through and feed the flames. Add larger kindling as the flame grows, until the fire is hot enough for bigger logs.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #5</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Finding clean water</span><br />
“You’ll come across two kinds of water in the wild,” Stewart says. “Potable water that’s already purified, and water that can kill you.” When it comes to questionable water—essentially anything that’s been on the ground long-term, like puddles and streams—your best option is boiling water, which is 100 percent effective in killing pathogens. But sometimes boiling isnt an option.</div>
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Rain, snow, and dew are reliable sources of clean water you can collect with surprising ease, and they don’t need to be purified. With a couple of bandanas, Stewart has collected two gallons of water in an hour by soaking up dew and ringing out the bandanas. You can also squeeze water from vines, thistles, and certain cacti. Are there any maple trees around? Cut a hole in the bark and let the watery syrup flow—nature’s energy drink.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #6</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Collecting Water With a Transpiration Bag</span><br />
Like humans, plants “sweat” throughout the day—it’s a process called transpiration. To take advantage of this clean, pure source of water, put a clear plastic bag over a leafy branch and tie it tightly closed. When you return later in the day, water will have condensed on the inside of the bag, ready to drink.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #7</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Identifying Edible Plants</span><br />
There’s no need to go after big game in a survival situation, and chances are you’ll waste energy in a fruitless attempt to bring them down. “Make your living on the smalls,” Stewart says. That means eating edible plants (as well as small critters like fish, frogs, and lizards).</div>
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Separating the plants you can eat from those that will kill you is a matter of study and memorization. Buy a book to familiarize yourself with plants in different environments. And don’t take any chances if you’re uncertain (remember how Chris McCandles died in the end of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Into the Wild</em>). A few common edible plants include cattail, lambsquarter (also called wild spinach), and dandelions. Find these and eat up.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #8</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Using a Split-tip Gig to Catch Critters</span><br />
Gigging (hunting with a multi-pronged spear) is the simplest way to catch anything from snakes to fish. Cut down a sapling of about an inch in diameter, and then split the fat end with a knife (or sharp rock) into four equal sections ten inches down. Push a stick between the tines to spread them apart, then sharpen the points. You’ve got an easy-to-use four-pronged spear. Much easier for catching critters than a single sharp point.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #9</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Navigating By Day</span><br />
If you ever find yourself without a GPS tool (or a simple map and compass) you can still use the sky to find your way. The most obvious method to get a general bearing by day is to look at the sun, which rises approximately in the east and sets approximately in the west anywhere in the world. But you can also use an analog watch to find the north-south line. Just hold the watch horizontally and point the hour hand at the sun. Imagine a line running exactly midway between the hour hand and 12 o’clock. This is the north-south line. On daylight savings? Draw the line between the hour hand and one o’clock.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #10</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Navigating By Night</span><br />
Find Polaris, or the North Star, which is the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. If you can find the Big Dipper, draw a line between the two stars at the outer edge of the constellation’s dipper portion. Extend this line toward the Little Dipper, and it will line up with Polaris. Face Polaris, and you’re facing true north. If there is a crescent moon in the sky, connect the horns of the crescent with an imaginary line. Extend this line to the horizon to indicate a southerly bearing. Once you determine your direction, pick a landmark nearby or in the distance to follow by daylight.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #11</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tying a Bowline</span><br />
Knots come in handy for a slew of survival scenarios—tying snares, securing shelters, lowering equipment or yourself down a cliff face. Ideally, you should have an arsenal of knots, from hitches to bends to loops, in your repertoire. But if you learn only one, learn the <a href="http://www.apparent-wind.com/knots/bowline/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db0021; text-decoration-line: none;">bowline</a>.</div>
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“It’s your number one, go-to rescue knot,” Stewart, who uses a mnemonic for every knot, says. It’s foolproof for fastening rope to an object via a loop, particularly when the rope will be loaded with weight: the harder you pull, the tighter the knot gets. Stewart’s mnemonic for tying the bowline from any angle is “the rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree, and back in the hole.” Use this mnemonic, says Stewart, and “it doesn’t matter if you tie it spinning on your head. It’s going to come out right.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Survival Skill #12</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sending Up a Survival Signal</span><br />
At times—like when you have a debilitating injury—your only hope for getting saved is to maximize your visibility so rescuers can find you. Two methods, if used properly, will guarantee that, if someone’s looking, they’ll see you.</div>
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The first is a signal fire—and the first rule is to put it out in the open for visibility. That means hilltops or clearings in a forest where nothing, like a cliff face or trees, will disperse the smoke. Create a platform to raise the base of the fire off the ground so moisture doesn’t saturate the wood. Save your absolute best combustible material for your signal fire to guarantee a quick light. Once the fire is lit, pile on green branches, like pine boughs in winter, to produce thick smoke. “It’s not about warmth, it’s about 15 seconds of smoke,” Stewart notes. “That’s about all you’ve got when you hear a plane before it’s out of sight.”</div>
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The second is a mirror signal. A flash from signal mirror—even at night, by moonlight—can be seen for miles, much farther than any flashlight. You don’t need a store-bought signal mirror to be effective. Improvise with any reflective surface you’ve got, from rearview mirrors or headlights to a cell phone screen. Aiming the reflection is the key, and it’s simple. Hold out a peace sign and place your target–be it plane or boat–between your fingers. Then flash the reflection back and forth across your fingers.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "elizabethserif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">You’ll know a nuclear bomb went off near you if there’s a sudden flash of bright, white light, which may or may not </span><a href="https://survivalfacts.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; font-family: ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">give you flash blindness if you’re within 50 miles or so of ground zero</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "elizabethserif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">. If that bright, white blindness eventually clears up, and you don’t suddenly feel at peace, you’re alive. Other signs of a nuclear blast include near instant first-degree to third-degree burns if you’re within 10 miles or so, and of course, the trademark mushroom cloud looming over the skyline.</span><br />
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As soon as you realize what’s happening, researcher Michael Dillon, from the <a href="https://survivalfacts.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>, suggests you find shelter immediately in order to escape <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">nuclear fallout</a>. In <a href="https://survivalfacts.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">his report for the journal <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences</em></a>, Dillon recommends hiding within the most dense building material possible. The thicker the better.<br />
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For example, sturdy brick or concrete structures that lack windows, or heading underground to a cellar, basement, or sub-basement. Hiding in such a place will <a href="https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/P100C9X6.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=2006+Thru+2010&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C06thru10%5CTxt%5C00000030%5CP100C9X6.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">expose you to just 1/200 of the fallout radiation you’d be exposed to outside</a>. Obviously, an actual bomb shelter is ideal, but most people aren’t near those. <a href="https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/24879" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">This FEMA graphic</a>, recently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-explosion-fallout-radiation-survival-shelter-2017-3" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #709602; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">shared by Business Insider</a>, gives you an idea of good places to go:</div>
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Wooden structures, like most houses and smaller one story buildings, won’t do much good against fallout radiation, unfortunately. Is it better than nothing? Kind of, but Dillon recommends you move to a better location if possible. If you can dash to a more dense, protective shelter <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">in about five minutes</em> of exposure, go for it. If getting there would take longer, say <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">up to 15 minutes of exposure</em>, stay where you are for at least an hour, then make your move. A good portion of the intense fallout radiation will have subsided by then, reducing your exposure some.</div>
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<b>Households should have on hand three days worth of water and food; an emergency supply kit for both home and automobile; radios with extra batteries; and plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal windows and doors.</b></div>
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First on any to-do list: "Take the time now to get informed," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said. Ridge specifically urged Americans to arrange a way for family members to contact each other--such as through an out-of-town relative-- and designate a meeting place in case telephone service is knocked out by an attack</div>
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"I think it would make family members a lot more comfortable if they knew they were able to get in touch with one another in the event something happened," Ridge told reporters.</div>
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Those with more time to prepare might check out the government's guidelines on assembling a "disaster plan" taking other steps to protect people and property at nominal expense. Such a guide can be found at http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/</div>
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Identify two meeting places: One near home and the second away from the neighborhood in case home cannot be approached.</div>
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Find out the emergency response plans of employers, school, daycare and other officials. To where would they evacuate workers and students? Write down the answers and keep a copy in your wallet.</div>
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Keep life, property, health and other insurance policies current, and know their terms. Store copies of these and other important documents -- identification, deeds, wills, a small amount of cash -- in a watertight container.</div>
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Have a plan for pets, since shelters do not allow them.</div>
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Assemble a "disaster supply kit" and keep it in a designated place where it is ready to "grab and go." It should include bottled water, food and emergency supplies, perhaps kept in backpacks or duffel bags. Recommended Resource:</div>
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Terrorism: Preparing for the Unexpected</div>
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Devastating acts, such as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, have left many concerned about the possibility of future incidents in the United States and their potential impact. They have raised uncertainty about what might happen next, increasing stress levels. Nevertheless, there are things you can do to prepare for the unexpected and reduce the stress that you may feel now and later should another emergency arise. Taking preparatory action can reassure you and your children that you can exert a measure of control even in the face of such events.</div>
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What You Can Do to Prepare</div>
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Finding out what can happen is the first step. Once you have determined the events possible and their potential in your community, it is important that you discuss them with your family or household. Develop a disaster plan together.</div>
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Choose an out-of-town contact your family or household will call or e-mail to check on each other should a disaster occur. Your selected contact should live far enough away that they would be unlikely to be directly affected by the same event, and they should know they are the chosen contact Make sure every household member has that contact's, and each other's, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers (home, work, pager and cell). Leave these contact numbers at your children's schools, if you have children, and at your workplace. Your family should know that if telephones are not working, they need to be patient and try again later or try e-mail. Many people flood the telephone lines when emergencies happen but e-mail can sometimes get through when calls don't.<br />
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Having a predetermined meeting place away from your home will save time and minimize confusion should your home be affected or the area evacuated. You may even want to make arrangements to stay with a family member or friend in case of an emergency. Be sure to include any pets in these plans, since pets are not permitted in shelters and some hotels will not accept them.</div>
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If you need to evacuate your home or are asked to "shelter in place," having some essential supplies on hand will make you and your family more comfortable. Prepare a disaster supplies kit in an easy-to-carry container such as a duffel bag or small plastic trash can. Include "special needs" items for any member of your household (infant formula or items for people with disabilities or older people), first aid supplies (including prescription medications), a change of clothing for each household member, a sleeping bag or bedroll for each, a battery powered radio or television and extra batteries, food, bottled water and tools. It is also a good idea to include some cash and copies of important family documents (birth certificates, passports and licenses) in your kit.</div>
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Copies of essential documents-like powers of attorney, birth and marriage certificates, insurance policies, life insurance beneficiary designations and a copy of your will-should also be kept in a safe location outside your home. A safe deposit box or the home of a friend or family member who lives out of town is a good choice.</div>
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For more complete instructions, ask your local Red Cross chapter for the brochure titled Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit (stock number A4463).</div>
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4. Check on the school emergency plan of any school-age children you may have.</div>
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You need to know if they will they keep children at school until a parent or designated adult can pick them up or send them home on their own. Be sure that the school has updated information about how to reach parents and responsible caregivers to arrange for pickup. And, ask what type of authorization the school may require to release a child to someone you designate, if you are not able to pick up your child. During times of emergency the school telephones may be overwhelmed with calls.</div>
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For more information on putting together a disaster plan, request a copy of the brochure titled Your Family Disaster Plan (A4466) from your local American Red Cross chapter. You may also want to request a copy of Before Disaster Strikes . . . How to Make Sure You're Financially Prepared (A5075) for specific information on what you can do now to protect your assets.</div>
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Remain calm and be patient. Follow the advice of local emergency officials. Listen to your radio or television for news and instructions.</div>
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If the disaster occurs near you, check for injuries.</div>
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Give first aid and get help for seriously injured people.</div>
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If the disaster occurs near your home while you are there, check for damage using a flashlight.</div>
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Check for fires, fire hazards and other household hazards. Sniff for gas leaks, starting at the water heater.</div>
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If you smell gas or suspect a leak, turn off the main gas valve, open windows, and get everyone outside quickly.</div>
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Shut off any other damaged utilities.</div>
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Call your family contact—do not use the telephone again unless it is a life-threatening emergency.</div>
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Check on your neighbors, especially those who are elderly or disabled.</div>
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As we learned from the events of September 11, 2001, the following things can happen after a terrorist attack:</div>
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There can be significant numbers of casualties and/or damage to buildings and the infrastructure. So employers need up-to-date information about any medical needs you may have and on how to contact your designated beneficiaries.</div>
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Heavy law enforcement involvement at local, state and federal levels follows a terrorist attack due to the event's criminal nature.</div>
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Health and mental health resources in the affected communities can be strained to their limits, maybe even overwhelmed.</div>
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Extensive media coverage, strong public fear and international implications and consequences can continue for a prolonged period.</div>
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Workplaces and schools may be closed, and there may be restrictions on domestic and international travel.</div>
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You and your family or household may have to evacuate an area, avoiding roads blocked for your safety.</div>
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If local authorities ask you to leave your home, they have a good reason to make this request, and you should heed the advice immediately. Listen to your radio or television and follow the instructions of local emergency officials and keep these simple tips in mind:</div>
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Wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and sturdy shoes so you can be protected as much as possible.</div>
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Take your pets with you; do not leave them behind. Because pets are not permitted in public shelters, follow your plan to go to a relative's or friend's home, or find a "pet-friendly" hotel.</div>
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Use travel routes specified by local authorities—don't use shortcuts because certain areas may be impassable or dangerous.</div>
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Your local authorities will provide you with the most accurate information specific to an event in your area. Staying tuned to local radio and television, and following their instructions is your safest choice.</div>
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Call your family contact to tell them where you are going and when you expect to arrive.</div>
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Shut off water and electricity before leaving, if instructed to do so.</div>
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Leave natural gas service ON unless local officials advise you otherwise. You may need gas for heating and cooking, and only a professional can restore gas service in your home once it's been turned off. In a disaster situation it could take weeks for a professional to respond.</div>
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If you are advised by local officials to "shelter in place," what they mean is for you to remain inside your home or office and protect yourself there.</div>
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Close and lock all windows and exterior doors.</div>
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Turn off all fans, heating and air conditioning systems.</div>
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Using duct tape, seal all cracks around the door and any vents into the room.</div>
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Raw, unedited footage of terrorism events and people's reaction to those events can be very upsetting, especially to children. We do not recommend that children watch television news reports about such events, especially if the news reports show images over and over again about the same incident. Young children do not realize that it is repeated video footage, and think the event is happening again and again. Adults may also need to give themselves a break from watching disturbing footage. However, listening to local radio and television reports will provide you with the most accurate information from responsible governmental authorities on what's happening and what actions you will need to take. So you may want to make some arrangements to take turns listening to the news with other adult members of your household.</div>
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Another useful preparation includes learning some basic first aid. To enroll in a first aid and AED/CPR course, contact your local American Red Cross chapter. In an emergency situation, you need to tend to your own well-being first and then consider first aid for others immediately around you, including possibly assisting injured people to evacuate a building if necessary.</div>
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People who may have come into contact with a biological or chemical agent may need to go through a decontamination procedure and receive medical attention. Listen to the advice of local officials on the radio or television to determine what steps you will need to take to protect yourself and your family. As emergency services will likely be overwhelmed, only call 9-1-1 about life-threatening emergencies.</div>
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If you encounter someone who is injured, apply the emergency action steps:</div>
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Control Bleeding </div>
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Cover the wound with a dressing, and press firmly against the wound (direct pressure).</div>
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Elevate the injured area above the level of the heart if you do not suspect that the victim has a broken bone.</div>
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Cover the dressing with a roller bandage.</div>
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If the bleeding does not stop:</div>
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Apply additional dressings and bandages.</div>
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Use a pressure point to squeeze the artery against the bone.</div>
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Provide care for shock.</div>
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Care for Shock </div>
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Keep the victim from getting chilled or overheated. Elevate the legs about 12 inches (if broken bones are not suspected).</div>
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Do not give food or drink to the victim.</div>
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Tend Burns</div>
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Stop the burning by cooling the burn with large amounts of water.</div>
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Cover the burn with dry, clean dressings or cloth.</div>
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Care for Injuries to Muscles, Bones and Joints </div>
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Rest the injured part.</div>
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Apply ice or a cold pack to control swelling and reduce pain.</div>
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Avoid any movement or activity that causes pain.</div>
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If you must move the victim because the scene is becoming unsafe, try to immobilize the injured part to keep it from moving.</div>
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Be Aware of Biological/Radiological Exposure </div>
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Listen to local radio and television reports for the most accurate information from responsible governmental and medical authorities on what's happening and what actions you will need to take.</div>
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Reduce Any Care Risks</div>
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The risk of getting a disease while giving first aid is extremely rare. However, to reduce the risk even further:</div>
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Avoid direct contact with blood and other body fluids. Use protective equipment, such as disposable gloves and breathing barriers. Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water immediately after giving care.</div>
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It is important to be prepared for an emergency and to know how to give emergency care.</div>
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Home Hazard Hunt</div>
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In a disaster, ordinary items in the home can cause injury and damage. Anything that can move, fall, break, or cause a fire is a potential hazard.</div>
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Repair defective electrical wiring and leaky gas connections.</div>
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Fasten shelves securely.</div>
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Place large, heavy objects on lower shelves.</div>
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Hang pictures and mirrors away from beds.</div>
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Brace overhead light fixtures.</div>
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Secure water heater. Strap to wall studs.</div>
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Repair cracks in ceilings or foundations.</div>
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Store weed killers, pesticides, and flammable products away from heat sources.</div>
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Place oily polishing rags or waste in covered metal cans.</div>
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Clean and repair chimneys, flue pipes, vent connectors, and gas vents.</div>
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Family Disaster Planning</div>
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Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services--water, gas, electricity or telephones--were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away.</div>
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Four Steps to Safety</div>
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1. Find Out What Could Happen to You </div>
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Contact your local Red Cross chapter or emergency management office before a disaster occurs--be prepared to take notes.</div>
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Ask what types of disasters are most likely to happen. Request information on how to prepare for each. Learn about your community's warning signals: what they sound like and what you should do when you hear them. Ask about animal care after a disaster. Animals are not allowed inside emergency shelters because of health regulations.</div>
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Find out how to help elderly or disabled persons, if needed.</div>
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Find out about the disaster plans at your workplace, your children's school or day care center, and other places where your family spends time.</div>
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2. Create a Disaster Plan </div>
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Meet with your family and discuss why you need to prepare for disaster. Explain the dangers of fire, severe weather, and earthquakes to children. Plan to share responsibilities and work together as a team.</div>
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Discuss the types of disasters that are most likely to happen. Explain what to do in each case.</div>
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Pick two places to meet:</div>
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Right outside your home in case of a sudden emergency, like a fire.</div>
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Outside your neighborhood in case you can't return home. Everyone must know the address and phone number.</div>
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Ask an out-of-state friend to be your "family contact." After a disaster, it's often easier to call long distance. Other family members should call this person and tell them where they are. Everyone must know your contact's phone number.</div>
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Discuss what to do in an evacuation. Plan how to take care of your pets.</div>
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3. Complete This Checklist </div>
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Post emergency telephone numbers by phones (fire, police, ambulance, etc.).</div>
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Teach children how and when to call 9-1-1 or your local Emergency Medical Services number for emergency help.</div>
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Show each family member how and when to turn off the utilities (water, gas, and electricity) at the main switches.</div>
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Check if you have adequate insurance coverage.</div>
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Get training from the fire department for each family member on how to use the fire extinguisher (ABC type), and show them where it's kept.</div>
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Install smoke detectors on each level of your home, especially near bedrooms.</div>
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Conduct a home hazard hunt.</div>
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Stock emergency supplies and assemble a Disaster Supplies Kit.</div>
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Take a Red Cross first aid and CPR class.</div>
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Determine the best escape routes from your home. Find two ways out of each room.</div>
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Find the safe places in your home for each type of disaster.</div>
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4. Practice and Maintain Your Plan </div>
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Quiz your kids every six months or so.</div>
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Conduct fire and emergency evacuations.</div>
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Replace stored water and stored food every six months.</div>
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Test and recharge your fire extinguisher(s) according to manufacturer's instructions.</div>
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Test your smoke detectors monthly and change the batteries at least once a year.</div>
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors </div>
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Working with neighbors can save lives and property. Meet with your neighbors to plan how the neighborhood could work together after a disaster until help arrives. If you're a member of a neighborhood organization, such as a home association or crime watch group, introduce disaster preparedness as a new activity. Know your neighbors' special skills (e.g., medical, technical) and consider how you could help neighbors who have special needs, such as disabled and elderly persons. Make plans for child care in case parents can't get home. If Disaster Strikes</div>
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Remain calm and patient. Put your plan into action.</div>
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Check for Injuries</div>
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Give first aid and get help for seriously injured people.</div>
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Listen to Your Battery-Powered Radio for News and Instructions</div>
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Check for Damage in Your Home...</div>
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Use flashlights.</div>
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Do not light matches or turn on electrical switches, if you suspect damage.</div>
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Sniff for gas leaks, starting at the water heater. If you smell gas or suspect a leak, turn off the main gas valve, open windows, and get everyone outside quickly.</div>
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Shut off any other damaged utilities. (You will need a professional to turn gas back on.)</div>
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Clean up spilled medicines, bleaches, gasoline, and other flammable liquids immediately.</div>
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Remember to...</div>
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Confine or secure your pets.</div>
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Call your family contact--do not use the telephone again unless it is a life-threatening emergency.</div>
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Check on your neighbors, especially elderly or disabled persons.</div>
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Make sure you have an adequate water supply in case service is cut off.</div>
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Stay away from downed power lines.</div>
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Important basics</div>
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There are six basics you should stock for your home:</div>
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water,</div>
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food</div>
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first aid supplies</div>
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clothing</div>
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bedding,</div>
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tools and emergency supplies, and special items.</div>
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Keep the items that you would most likely need during an evacuation in an easy-to carry container such as:</div>
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large, covered trash container</div>
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a camping backpack</div>
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or a duffle bag.</div>
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Water</div>
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Store water in plastic containers such as soft drink bottles. Avoid using containers that will decompose or break, such as milk cartons or glass bottles. A normally active person needs to drink at least two quarts of water each day. Hot environments and intense physical activity can double that amount. Children, nursing mothers, and ill people will need more.</div>
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Store one gallon of water per person per day. Keep at least a three-day supply of water per person (two quarts for drinking, two quarts for each person in your household for food preparation/sanitation).</div>
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Food</div>
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Store at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food. Select foods that require no refrigeration, preparation or cooking, and little or no water. If you must heat food, pack a can of sterno. Select food items that are compact and lightweight. Include a selection of the following foods in your Disaster Supplies Kit:</div>
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Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits, and vegetables</div>
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Canned juices</div>
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Staples (salt, sugar, pepper, spices, etc.)</div>
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High energy foods</div>
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Vitamins</div>
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Food for infants</div>
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Comfort/stress foods</div>
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First Aid Kit</div>
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Assemble a first aid kit for your home and one for each car.</div>
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Sterile adhesive bandages in assorted sizes</div>
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Assorted sizes of safety pins</div>
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Cleansing agent/soap</div>
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Latex gloves (2 pairs)</div>
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Sunscreen</div>
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2-inch sterile gauze pads (4-6)</div>
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4-inch sterile gauze pads (4-6)</div>
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Triangular bandages (3)</div>
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Non-prescription drugs</div>
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2-inch sterile roller bandages (3 rolls)</div>
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3-inch sterile roller bandages (3 rolls)</div>
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Scissors</div>
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Tweezers</div>
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Needle</div>
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Moistened towelettes</div>
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Antiseptic</div>
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Thermometer</div>
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Tongue blades (2)</div>
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Tube of petroleum jelly or other lubricant</div>
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Non-Prescription Drugs</div>
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Aspirin or nonaspirin pain reliever</div>
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Anti-diarrhea medication</div>
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Antacid (for stomach upset)</div>
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Syrup of Ipecac (use to induce vomiting if advised by the Poison Control Center)</div>
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Laxative</div>
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Activated charcoal (use if advised by the Poison Control Center)</div>
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Tools and Supplies</div>
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Mess kits, or paper cups, plates, and plastic utensils</div>
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Emergency preparedness manual</div>
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Battery-operated radio and extra batteries</div>
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Flashlight and extra batteries</div>
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Cash or traveler's checks, change</div>
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Non-electric can opener, utility knife</div>
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Fire extinguisher: small canister ABC type</div>
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Tube tent</div>
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Pliers</div>
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Tape</div>
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Compass</div>
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Matches in a waterproof container</div>
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Aluminum foil</div>
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Plastic storage containers</div>
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Signal flare</div>
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Paper, pencil</div>
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Needles, thread</div>
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Medicine dropper</div>
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Shut-off wrench, to turn off household gas and water</div>
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Whistle</div>
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Plastic sheeting</div>
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Map of the area (for locating shelters)</div>
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Sanitation</div>
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Toilet paper, towelettes</div>
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Soap, liquid detergent</div>
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Feminine supplies</div>
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Personal hygiene items</div>
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Plastic garbage bags, ties (for personal sanitation uses)</div>
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Plastic bucket with tight lid</div>
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Disinfectant</div>
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Household chlorine bleach</div>
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Clothing and Bedding</div>
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*Include at least one complete change of clothing and footwear per person</div>
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Sturdy shoes or work boots</div>
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Rain gear</div>
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Blankets or sleeping bags</div>
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Hat and gloves</div>
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Thermal underwear</div>
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Sunglasses</div>
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Special Items</div>
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Remember family members with special requirements, such as infants and elderly or disabled persons</div>
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For Baby</div>
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Formula</div>
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Diapers</div>
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Bottles</div>
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Powdered milk</div>
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Medications</div>
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For Adults</div>
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Heart and high blood pressure medication</div>
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Insulin</div>
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Prescription drugs</div>
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Denture needs</div>
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Contact lenses and supplies</div>
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Extra eye glasses</div>
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Entertainment</div>
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Games and books</div>
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Important Family Documents</div>
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Keep these records in a waterproof, portable container: </div>
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Will, insurance policies, contracts deeds, stocks and bonds</div>
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Passports, social security cards, immunization records</div>
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Bank account numbers</div>
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Credit card account numbers and companies</div>
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Inventory of valuable household goods, important telephone numbers</div>
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Family records (birth, marriage, death certificates)</div>
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Store your kit in a convenient place known to all family members. Keep a smaller version of the supplies kit in the trunk of your car.</div>
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Keep items in airtight plastic bags.</div>
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Important Reminders</div>
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Change your stored water supply every six months so it stays fresh.</div>
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Replace your stored food every six months</div>
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Re-think your kit and family needs at least once a year.</div>
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Replace batteries, update clothes, etc.</div>
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Ask your physician or pharmacist about storing prescription medications.</div>
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Food Supplies in Case of Disaster</div>
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How long can food supplies be stored?</div>
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To judge how long you can store food supplies, look for an expiration date or best if used by date on the product. If you can not find a date on the product, then the general recommendation is to store food products for six months and then replace them.</div>
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Some households find it helpful to pull food products for their regular meals from their disaster supplies kit and replace them immediately on an ongoing basis, so the food supplies are always fresh.</div>
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What kinds of food supplies are recommended to store in case of a disaster?</div>
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Try to avoid foods that are high in fat and protein, and don't stock salty foods, since they will make you thirsty. Familiar foods can lift morale and give a feeling of security in time of stress. Also, canned foods won't require cooking, water or special preparation. Take into account your family's unique needs and tastes. Try to include foods that they will enjoy and that are also high in calories and nutrition.</div>
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Store supplies of non-perishable foods and water in a handy place. You need to have these items packed and ready in case there is no time to gather food from the kitchen when disaster strikes. Sufficient supplies to last several days to a week are recommended.</div>
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Select foods that require no refrigeration, preparation or cooking, and little or no water. Foods that are compact and lightweight are easy to store and carry.</div>
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Try to eat salt-free crackers, whole grain cereals and canned food with high liquid content. </div>
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Recommended foods include:</div>
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Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits and vegetables. (Be sure to include a manual can opener)</div>
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Canned juices, milk and soup (if powdered, store extra water).</div>
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High energy foods, such as peanut butter, jelly, crackers, granola bars and trail mix.</div>
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Comfort foods, such as hard candy, sweetened cereals, candy bars and cookies.</div>
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Instant coffee, tea bags.</div>
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Foods for infants, elderly persons or persons on special diets, if necessary.</div>
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Compressed food bars. They store well, are lightweight, taste good and are nutritious.</div>
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Trail mix. It is available as a prepackaged product or you can assemble it on your own.</div>
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Dried foods. They can be nutritious and satisfying, but have some have a lot of salt content, which promotes thirst. Read the label.</div>
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Freeze-dried foods. They are tasty and lightweight, but will need water for reconstitution.</div>
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Instant Meals. Cups of noodles or cups of soup are a good addition, although they need water for reconstitution.</div>
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Snack-sized canned goods. Good because they generally have pull-top lids or twist-open keys.</div>
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Prepackaged beverages. Those in foil packets and foil-lined boxes are suitable because they are tightly sealed and will keep for a long time.</div>
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Food Options to Avoid:</div>
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Commercially dehydrated foods. They can require a great deal of water for reconstitution and extra effort in preparation.</div>
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Bottled foods. They are generally too heavy and bulky, and break easily.</div>
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Meal-sized canned foods. They are usually bulky and heavy.</div>
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Whole grains, beans, pasta. Preparation could be complicated under the circumstances of a disaster.</div>
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Water Storage</div>
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Use directions provided by your local or state public health agency. In the case where your local or state public health agency does not have information, follow the recommendations below.</div>
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What kinds of containers are recommended to store water in? </div>
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Make sure the water storage container you plan to use is of food grade quality, such as 2-liter soda bottles, with tight-fitting screw-cap lids. Milk containers are not recommended because they do not seal well.</div>
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Should water be treated before storing it? </div>
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If your local water is treated commercially by a water treatment utility, you do not have to treat the water before storing it. Treating commercially-treated water with bleach is superfluous and not necessary. Doing so does not increase storage life. It is important to change and replace stored water every six months or more frequently.</div>
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If your local water is not treated commercially by a water treatment facility, that is, if your water comes from a public well or other public, non-treated system, follow instructions about water storage provided by your public health agency or water provider. They may recommend treating it with a small amount of liquid household bleach. Still, it is important to change and replace stored water every six months or more frequently.</div>
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If your local water comes from a private well or other private source, consult with your local public health agency about recommendations regarding storage of water. Some water sources have contaminants (minerals or parasites) that can not be neutralized by treatment with liquid household chlorine bleach. Only your local public health agency should make recommendations about whether your local water can be safely stored, for how long, and how to treat it.</div>
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If you plan to use commercially prepared "spring" or "drinking" water, keep the water in its original sealed container. Change and replace the water at least once a year. Once opened, use it and do not store it further.</div>
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In addition to having a bad odor and taste, contaminated water can contain microorganisms that cause diseases such as dysentery, typhoid and hepatitis. You should treat all water of uncertain purity before using it for drinking, food preparation or hygiene.</div>
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Two easy treatment methods are outlined below. These measures will kill most microbes but will not remove other contaminants such as heavy metals, salts and most other chemicals. Before treating, let any suspended particles settle to the bottom, or strain them through layers of paper towel or clean cloth.</div>
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Boiling: Boiling is the safest method of treating water. Bring water to a rolling boil for 3-5 minutes, keeping in mind that some water will evaporate. Let the water cool before drinking.</div>
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Boiled water will taste better if you put oxygen back into it by pouring the water back and forth between two clean containers. This will also improve the taste of stored water.</div>
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Disinfection: You can use household liquid bleach to kill microorganisms. Use only regular household liquid bleach that contains 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite. Do not use scented bleaches, colorsafe bleaches or bleaches with added cleaners.</div>
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Add 16 drops of bleach per gallon of water, stir and let stand for 30 minutes. If the water does not have a slight bleach odor, repeat the dosage and let stand another 15 minutes.</div>
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The only agent used to treat water should be household liquid bleach. Other chemicals, such as iodine or water treatment products sold in camping or surplus stores that do not contain 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite as the only active ingredient, are not recommended and should not be used.</div>
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While the two methods described above will kill most microbes in water, distillation will remove microbes that resist these methods, and heavy metals, salts and most other chemicals.</div>
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Distillation: Distillation involves boiling water and then collecting the vapor that condenses back to water. The condensed vapor will not include salt and other impurities. To distill, fill a pot halfway with water. Tie a cup to the handle on the pot's lid so that the cup will hang right-side-up when the lid is upside-down (make sure the cup is not dangling into the water) and boil the water for 20 minutes. The water that drips from the lid into the cup is distilled.</div>
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If activity is reduced, healthy people can survive on half their usual food intake for an extended period and without any food for many days. Food, unlike water, may be rationed safely, except for children and pregnant women.</div>
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If your water supply is limited, try to avoid foods that are high in fat and protein, and don't stock salty foods, since they will make you thirsty. Try to eat salt-free crackers, whole grain cereals and canned foods with high liquid content.</div>
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You don't need to go out and buy unfamiliar foods to prepare an emergency food supply. You can use the canned foods, dry mixes and other staples on your cupboard shelves. In fact, familiar foods are important. They can lift morale and give a feeling of security in time of stress. Also, canned foods won't require cooking, water or special preparation. Following are recommended short-term food storage plans.</div>
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Special Considerations</div>
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As you stock food, take into account your family's unique needs and tastes. Try to include foods that they will enjoy and that are also high in calories and nutrition. Foods that require no refrigeration, preparation or cooking are best.</div>
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Individuals with special diets and allergies will need particular attention, as will babies, toddlers and elderly people. Nursing mothers may need liquid formula, in case they are unable to nurse. Canned dietetic foods, juices and soups may be helpful for ill or elderly people.</div>
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For emergency cooking you can use a fireplace, or a charcoal grill or camp stove can be used outdoors. You can also heat food with candle warmers, chafing dishes and fondue pots. Canned food can be eaten right out of the can. If you heat it in the can, be sure to open the can and remove the label first.</div>
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Short-Term Food Supplies</div>
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Even though it is unlikely that an emergency would cut off your food supply for two weeks, you should prepare a supply that will last that long.</div>
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The easiest way to develop a two-week stockpile is to increase the amount of basic foods you normally keep on your shelves.</div>
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Keep food in a dry, cool spot - a dark area if possible.</div>
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Keep food covered at all times.</div>
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Open food boxes or cans care-fully so that you can close them tightly after each use.</div>
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Wrap cookies and crackers in plastic bags, and keep them in tight containers.</div>
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Empty opened packages of sugar, dried fruits and nuts into screw-top jars or air-tight cans to protect them from pests.</div>
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Inspect all food for signs of spoilage before use.</div>
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Use foods before they go bad, and replace them with fresh supplies, dated with ink or marker. Place new items at the back of the storage area and older ones in front.</div>
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Eat at least one well-balanced meal each day.</div>
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Drink enough liquid to enable your body to function properly (two quarts a day).</div>
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Take in enough calories to enable you to do any necessary work.</div>
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Include vitamin, mineral and protein supplements in your stockpile to assure adequate nutrition.</div>
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Shelf-life of Foods for Storage</div>
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Here are some general guidelines for rotating common emergency foods.</div>
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Dried fruit (in metal container)</div>
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Dry, crisp crackers (in metal container)</div>
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Canned condensed meat and vegetable soups</div>
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Canned fruits, fruit juices and vegetables</div>
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Ready-to-eat cereals and uncooked instant cereals (in metal containers)</div>
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Jelly</div>
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White rice</div>
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Dry pasta</div>
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Disaster Supplies</div>
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Flash Flood</div>
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It's 2:00 a.m. and a flash flood forces you to evacuate your home-fast. There's no time to gather food from the kitchen, fill bottles with water, grab a first-aid kit from the closet and snatch a flashlight and a portable radio from the bedroom. You need to have these items packed and ready in one place before disaster strikes.</div>
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Medical supplies and first aid manual</div>
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Hygiene supplies</div>
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Portable radio, flashlights and extra batteries</div>
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Shovel and other useful tools</div>
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Household liquid bleach to treat drinking water § Money and matches in a waterproof container</div>
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Fire extinguisher</div>
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Blanket and extra clothing</div>
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Infant and small children's needs (if appropriate)</div>
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THEN, use the foods from the freezer. To minimize the number of times you open the freezer door, post a list of freezer contents on it. In a well-filled, well-insulated freezer, foods will usually still have ice crystals in their centers (meaning foods are safe to eat) for at least three days.</div>
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FINALLY, begin to use non-perishable foods and staples.</div>
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http://www.ready.gov/ US GOV Terrorism Preparedness Planning</div>
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Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association Reference Library and Archives</div>
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US Dept of State Crisis Awareness and Preparedness</div>
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1. Assume that a disaster can happen. Don't assume that it won't. Survival is 90 percent psychology, so being mentally and emotionally unprepared lowers your survival odds.<br />
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2. Try not to panic. You will be scared during a survival scenario, but the act of preparing before an emergency will help you deal more effectively. Spread facts, not fear. Share survival training based upon sound human psychology and physiology from reputable sources.<br />
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3. Know your limits. Unless your family is a group of Special Forces soldiers, they will have specific needs during a disaster. Lack of physical fitness, forgotten medications, mobility challenges, and a host of other variables demand that you custom-create a survival plan for your family.<br />
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4. Know how to do more with less. The simple act of tent camping in the outdoors with a family will teach you more in a weekend about what is required to live simply and be happy than reading survival books in the comfort of your living room.<br />
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5. Keep it simple. Fancy preparedness plans and survival gear fail under the pressures of a real-life scenario. The less moving parts the better.<br />
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6. Prepare for whatever disaster is likely to affect your area. Not every place on the planet has the same needs.<br />
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7. Along with your home-based supplies, create a "bug-out" kit(s) for your family, containing mobile emergency supplies should you be forced to evacuate.<br />
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8. Act: Physically prepare and act upon your preparedness plan. Talk is cheap. Practice, practice, and practice your preparedness plan; and don't be afraid to modify it as your needs change.<br />
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9. Do the neighborhood thing. Once your family is prepared, get your neighbors on the same page, similar to a neighborhood block watch.<br />
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10. When your preparation work is done, rotate certain survival-kit items such as food and medications as they expire, but live your life. Preparedness training that breeds fear and paranoia is counterproductive and the enemy of true, long-term self-reliance.</div>
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Needless to say, sucking chest wounds are usually fatal unless they’re treated immediately—and when you’re thousands of miles from the nearest hospital, you’d think that would be bad news.</div>
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But here’s what you can do: find a piece of plastic (saran wrap is perfect) with which you can seal the hole, so that the chest cavity around the lung doesn’t get more air pressure than the lung itself. If this happens, the lung will collapse. When you seal the hole, leave a flap at the bottom that will allow air to leave through the wound without entering it. This may seem useless now, but you never know—you might have to save someone’s life someday.</div>
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Enter the solar still, an easy-to-make contraption that uses a tarp or a piece <br />
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When the sun hits the tarp, the air trapped inside the hole heats up, which in turn evaporates the moisture in the dirt. As that moisture rises,<br />
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An ice lens captures the sun’s light and focuses it onto one point, just like a magnifying glass. If that focal point gets hot enough, and if it’s focused on something dry and flammable, you get a flame. It’s such a simple concept, but put to work in a genius way. To form an ice lens, basically you take a chunk of ice and <a href="http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/ice/rb/rbfirefromice4a.html" style="color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">twist it around on the edge of a pipe</a>. The circular pipe edge carves away the chunks and irregularities, and eventually you end up with a perfect ice sphere, which is essentially a rustic kind of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens" style="color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">Fresnel lens</a>.</div>
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An ice lens captures the sun’s light and focuses it onto one point, just like a magnifying glass. If that focal point gets hot enough, and if it’s focused on something dry and flammable, you get a flame. It’s such a simple concept, but put to work in a genius way. To form an ice lens, basically you take a chunk of ice and <a href="http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/ice/rb/rbfirefromice4a.html" style="color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">twist it around on the edge of a pipe</a>. The circular pipe edge carves away the chunks and irregularities, and eventually you end up with a perfect ice sphere, which is essentially a rustic kind of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens" style="color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">Fresnel lens</a>.</div>
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Condoms also burn. A latex condom will light up instantly, making it perfect tinder for getting a fire going. And since they’re watertight by nature, they can also be used to safely carry dry tinder. In a pinch, you can use condoms as rope to tie up a tarpaulin for shelter or—seriously—even <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_RWRKU93o" style="color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">turn them into a slingshot</a> to hunt small game. Yes, you can hunt wild animals with condoms.</div>
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Shelter creates functional space for your playa activities: food preparation and storage, dining, socializing, sleeping, clothes changing, and showering.</div>
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It’s easy to ‘get carried away’ with ideas for building shelter. Remember that you *do* have some constraints about how large and how complex a shelter you can build.</div>
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To some extent, the size of your shelter is limited by your ability to transport the pieces to the playa. A fairly large shelter can be made with lightweight, easy-to-transport parts, but be careful not to overload your vehicle.</div>
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<strong>Keep your shelter simple. </strong>Don’t overestimate your level of interest in ‘shelter building’. The playa has many distractions: you may not want to spend days erecting a large, complex structure. You want to have time to play, eh? Plan your shelter so that it does not exceed the time, effort, and skills of the humans who will build it.</div>
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You’ve heard the warnings about the weather. They are *not* exaggerated. Anchor your shelter well. Here is ‘the word’ from the official Burning Man site:<br />
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Playa shelters come in a myriad of sizes and shapes. From ‘ready-to-go’ commercial shade structures and canopies to homemade domes, yurts, fabric tension structures, and endless tarp-and-poles arrangements, the playa has it all.</div>
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Whether you buy a commercially made shelter or build your own ‘from scratch’, <span style="color: #d34100;"><strong>set it up once at home!</strong></span> A trial run is essential. If there are parts missing or problems with your structure, it will be difficult to fix it on the playa.</div>
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There are many, many web sites about how to build playa shelters.https:<script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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On a funny note, if you do a Google search on ‘desert shelter’, you will turn up two main types of links:</div>
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Apparently most people don’t camp in the desert ‘on purpose’! What can we learn from this? Most people are missing the experience of a lifetime!</div>
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<<< Gunnar built this nice bucky ball dome. The southern side is covered with reflective fabric. Believe it or not, his vehicle is parked *inside* the dome!</div>
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Outdoor activities can be really exciting and fun. Hunting, camping and hiking are great sports that are both challenging and rewarding. Recently, I got really hooked up by water sports (which really seems to be trending right now).</div>
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While these activities may be fun, they are extremely dangerous even for the experts, what more if you are a complete beginner?</div>
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Therefore, it’s always best to equip yourselves with relevant survival skills that will really make a difference – live or die. Even, if you are not a fan of outdoor activities, it’s good to know some of the basic skills because you wouldn’t know when you will need them.</div>
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Today, I would like to share with you <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">21 basic wilderness survival skills</strong> that might <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">SAVE YOUR LIFE</strong> one day.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Note:</strong> I just summarized the 21 important survival skills in the nice little infographic below. Hopefully you will enjoy the infographic. For complete details, you could go through the entire post<img alt="😀" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f600.png" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><br />
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This is definitely the most important survival skill everyone should have. It’s no-brainer for those who are going for an adventurous outing to pack along every single thing that you might need in the wilderness. Yet, most of the beginners underestimate this crucial step.</div>
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Note: A good pair of boots and socks will help a lot in hard times. Check out our <a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/best-waterproof-hunting-boots-reviews/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">best boots recommendation for men</a> and <a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/best-women-hunting-boots-review/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">women</a>. Also, we did a review on <a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/best-warmest-socks-for-hunting-review/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">the top 5 warmest socks here.</a></div>
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One of the biggest mistakes ever is to underestimate the danger you are going to face during your trip, whether it is camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. Don’t take for granted that you are going to be fine just because you think you are going to be fine.</div>
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However, this tip is only applicable if you are well prepared for a wilderness trip. At times, you are stranded in the woods for certain reasons, and you probably wouldn’t be well equipped with all the necessary items you need. This is why it is important to master the other basic survival tips in this list, so read on <img alt="😀" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f600.png" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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One of the most important skills that will keep you alive in the woods in times of need is the ability to remain calm and think rationally. It’s extremely important to prioritize what are you going to do next based on the current situation.</div>
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Don’t ever be panic (although the fact is everyone will be). You might be wondering, how can I not panic? This is so true and even the most experienced wilderness survival trainers in the world will be panic if they are stranded in the woods. The only exception is they know more than you.</div>
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To overcome this problem, one of the best way is to take the S.T.O.P approach. In simplicity, it means you should stop everything you are doing right now (unless you are running for your life) and come up with a plan moving forward. Let’s dive in a little deeper though.</div>
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<a href="http://www.adventuresportsonline.com/survival.htm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;">S.T.O.P</a> means Sit, Think, Observe and Plan. Sit back and start thinking how could you survive. Next, you have to start observing the surroundings (which will be discussed in detail next) and come up with a sound plan.</div>
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Although, this tip by no means guarantee that you will survive, it makes things much easier for you. At least you know what you are doing.</div>
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As you probably realized, the situation that you are going to face if you are stranded in the woods is going to be unique. Sure, you will be able to apply the basic knowledge and survival skills that you know. However, most probably what you are experiencing at that point of time wouldn’t exactly like what you read (if you read) before.</div>
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This is why the technique of observing the surroundings is so important for survival. You have to be sensitive towards any happenings around you and take whatever steps you feel most appropriate at that point of time.</div>
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For instance, if you feel that you are surrounded by harmful animals after hearing some howling sounds, one of the best ways is to quickly arm yourself with suitable weapons. Even a long stick lighted with fire will make a whole lot difference.</div>
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#4 FORECASTING WEATHER</h2>
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You will find this skill extremely handy in the wilderness. If you are staying at home, you probably wouldn’t care much about the weather, unless it’s something really devastating such as a flood or hurricane.</div>
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In the woods, even the slightest change in weather can really harm you badly. Heavy rains and strong winds (sometimes snow) will increase the level of difficulty of locating a suitable campsite as well as building a campfire (both are essential for your survival). Being able to predict weathers keeps you prepared and wouldn’t catch you unaware.</div>
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So, how do you go about forecasting weather? It’s impossible to cover everything in detail in this post, but I will be showing you some of the basic forecasting skills. Most of these rely on natural phenomena such as</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">a) Clouds – It’s the easiest way to predict rain and strong wind. In general, shady and low hanging cloud indicates heavy rain with storms.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">b) Air Pressure – Normally, clouds will move from high pressure area to low pressure area. While you certainly couldn’t measure air pressure with bare hands, it’s wise to determine the direction in which the air is flowing to.</li>
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#5 LOCATING SUITABLE CAMPSITE</h2>
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Choosing the right campsite will mean a lot of things. They are</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Better protection against natural disasters</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Located near important resources (such as food and water)</li>
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There are a few things that you will have to consider before choosing for a suitable campsite. As a general rule of thumb, look for campsites that are located besides stream. This is important as it provides you with one of the most important resource – water. Furthermore, fish is a great source of food (which will be discussed in detail below).</div>
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Always look for campsites that are located on a high altitude. Reason being is, at a higher altitude, the chances of encountering with wild animals such as bear are lower (bears often hunt for fish in nearby streams) Besides, the flow of the stream is much faster on a higher altitude, which is great because water creatures such as water snakes and crocodiles lives in rivers where the flow of water is slow.</div>
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#6 BUILDING A SHELTER</h2>
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I guess there is no need for me to elaborate much on the importance of a shelter. Without it, it’s impossible to live for more than 1-2 days in the wild due to the extreme weathers and harmful animals around you.</div>
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If you carry a tent with you, then it’s pretty simple to set up a shelter. If you don’t, you have to go through the hard way of building a shelter from scratch using natural resources around you. Pretty interesting, huh?</div>
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There are many ways to go around it. I will share with you the one that I am most familiar with, which is known as the leaf hut. First of all, think of this shelter like a bird’s nest. You need to come out with a foundation (like pillars in modern house).</div>
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To do this, you will need to find at least 3 hard, sturdy sticks. Poke 2 sticks deeply into the ground and make sure that they form an ‘X’ shape. One end of the last stick will be put onto the mouth of the ‘X’ while the other end will be penetrated deep into the soil.</div>
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Note: It’s recommended to bring along a machete or a knife with you all the time. Check out our<a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/best-survival-machete/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">best survival machetes</a> recommendation here.</div>
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To improve the stability of the shelter, get more sticks and twigs to be laid around the sides of the foundation. To improve insulation, pile small debris such as leaves, grass, and moss over the frame and you are done.</div>
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For further reference, check out this article on <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Shelter-in-the-Wilderness" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;">WikiHow.</a></div>
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#7 BUILDING A CAMPFIRE</h2>
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Whether you are stranded in the wild, or you are on a camping trip, you have to know how to build a campfire, as there isn’t any modern substitutes for it. Building a campfire is a crucial survival technique because it</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Is a source of heat for cooking,</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Prevents harmful animals and insects from luring around</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Used as a signalling tool</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Act as a source of light.</li>
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Building a campfire can be extremely easy, while it can turn out to be the other way round. It all depends on the condition of the weather and what resources you have around you that can be used to start a fire. Imagining starting a fire when it’s snowing and the wind is blowing strongly, pretty tough right?</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Locate an ideal place to start building your campfire. It should be a flat land with no elements that catches fire easily nearby. Some example would be grasses and roots.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dig a few inches deep into the ground to contain the fire.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Form a ring of rocks in the hole that you dug. This step is crucial as it acts like a barrier preventing the fire from spreading.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Before starting the fire, prepare some mud or water to put off the fire in case it goes out of control</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">You will need to collect three types of items, namely tinder, kindling and wood logs. Tinder consists of materials that catches fire easily such as dry grasses, mosses and shredded bark. Kindlings consists of materials that will form a foundation to grow the fire such as twigs, dry leaves and branches. When the fire is stable, you will need wood logs which are essentially used as fuel to keep the fire burning.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Put the tinders in the ring. Then try to start a fire. If you have matches with you then it’s pretty easy. If not, search for flints which is shown in the video below. Scrub the flints to create sparkles to set the tinders on fire.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once you see that the tinders catch fire, quickly add kindlings into the ring. Remember to leave some spaces for circulation of air. Or else the fire might die off due to the absence of oxygen.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Put the wood logs around the fire and they will act as fuel to keep the fire burning. Refill the ring with wood logs once you notice that fuel is running out.</li>
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This is really just the basics. To survive in <a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;">epic wilderness</a> condition, you need to know more than what is written above, which I will probably cover in more depth in an upcoming post.</div>
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#8 COLLECT CLEAN WATER</h2>
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You can live no more than 3 days without water, so you would really want to learn the basic skills of collecting clean water for consumption in the wilderness.</div>
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Searching for clean water is going to be your first step. Normally, water from streams, especially those located near the mountain (on a higher altitude) will be cleaner and free from dirts and suspended substance. As an alternative, you can collect rain water too.</div>
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Just in case you couldn’t locate clean water (those free from suspended materials). You can actually use muddy waters as an alternative. However, you will need to remove suspended water first by creating a filter. Search for large leaves and shape them like filter funnels. Fill the funnel with stones and sands. Let the muddy water flow through it. You should be able to collect the filtered water using this method.</div>
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However, this does not mean that they are free from harmful microorganisms. The only way to ensure that the water is safe for consumption is to boil it. Now the question is, how can you boil water without a pot?!?!</div>
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Essentially, the best way I often recommend is to contain water in bamboo and then boiling them over a campfire. It’s a little hard to illustrate the whole process of boiling water with bamboo, I included a short video below to walk you through the whole process.</div>
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#9 IDENTIFYING EDIBLE PLANTS</h2>
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I have one great tip for you. Don’t just eat anything you see in the woods, even if you are extremely hungry. More often than not, things that you perceive as edible are poisonous. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover <img alt="😀" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/72x72/1f600.png" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Having that said, it’s an advantage to be able to identify some of the common edible plants that you can find in the wilderness. This is because it’s not easy to cook your own food and it’s pretty time consuming. You will have to hunt for food, start a fire and cook them.</div>
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Therefore, it’s wise to consume edible plants to provide you with the energy to continue your survival journey. It’s a great source of food, at least when you are left with no other choice.</div>
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Some of most common edible plants that can be found in most wilderness include Burdock, Asparagus, Cattail and more.</div>
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If you are really interested to know more about edible plants, check out this <a href="http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/10/06/surviving-in-the-wild-19-common-edible-plants/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;">article.</a></div>
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#10 CRAFTING HUNTING/DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENTS</h2>
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While most of the other web sources wouldn’t include this as a requirement, to me, knowing how to craft some of the basic equipments like sharp spears are great for defensive and hunting purposes.</div>
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If you are stranded in a forest, there is a high chance you will encounter various harmful animals. Being armless, it’s almost impossible for you to defend yourselves in these circumstances. That’s why it’s recommended that you get a sharp stick (sharpen a bamboo shoot) or something equivalent with you all the time. Refine your equipment when you have the required resources.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Note:</strong> Check out <a href="http://www.epicwilderness.com/how-to-wear-a-boot-knife/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">how to wear a boot knife </a>(video guide).</div>
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Besides, you can’t probably rely on edible plants for days. You will need solid food to keep you energized at all time to withstand various challenges in the wilderness. You will need a weapon to hunt for better foods.</div>
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You might be wondering, what type of equipments you will need. As beginners, I would say, learn to create spears and traps will do the trick. Of course, if you are keen to learn further, creating better weapons such as bow and arrow will be much better, as it will allow you to go for bigger preys.</div>
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#11 HUNTING SKILLS</h2>
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Knowing the ins and outs of crafting hunting equipments will be useless if you are not equipped with some basic hunting skills. While the fundamental of hunting skills remain the same, most of the skills that you will need to acquire will depend on the type of prey you are going for.</div>
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As a beginner, ideally, you should be targeting weaker preys such as fish, rabbits, rat, etc. These are the easy ones to go for. You do not need much experience to hunt down these preys as opposed to deer, tiger and other larger animals.</div>
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Fish is one of the best food to go for. It’s pretty easy to hunt for them in streams. It’s not dangerous too. However, don’t take things for granted. You should always be cautious if there are other harmful creatures living in the stream. One of these will be crocodiles, they are extremely dangerous.</div>
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Okay, back to the topic, so how do we go about catching fish? To really hunt for fish, you need trainings and you have to be used to it. Although they are small, it might be hard for beginners to take them down without prior experience.</div>
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An alternative to this will be setting traps near the river. Within an hour or two, you should be able to catch some fish for your meal. If you want to learn more about setting fish trap, check <a href="http://willowhavenoutdoor.com/featured-wilderness-survival-blog-entries/how-to-make-a-primitive-funnel-fish-trap-that-keep-on-giving/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d27109; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear;">out this page</a>.</div>
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#12 COOKING FOOD</h2>
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In order to consume any kinds of food (except edible plants), you will have to cook them for safe consumption. Basically, cooking in the wilderness isn’t that difficult as you may think. Just take the BBQ approach and you should be doing great.</div>
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In order to get any food cooked, you will have to prepare a campfire. Find a suitable stick and penetrate it through the food and leave it over the top of the fire until it’s fully cooked. Since you are a beginner, it’s best to overcook the food rather than the other way round to ensure safe consumption.</div>
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As an additional tip, if you are cooking big size food, remember to chop them into pieces before cooking. Or else, you will probably need to spend a day cooking it.</div>
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There are certainly other ways to cook in the wild (and can be really delicious). However, knowing this basic cooking technique will be sufficient for you to survive in the woods.</div>
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#13 FINDING YOUR WAY OUT</h2>
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Since you are stranded in the woods, one of your main goal is to find your way out right? You probably wouldn’t believe me when I tell you that most beginners do not know how to find their way out.</div>
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If you happen to have a map with you, this is great because you can move according to the direction based on the map and hopefully find your way out. You should know which direction is pointing to the north to be able to use the map efficiently.</div>
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In order to do so, you can use a compass or look at the sky for navigation signals. We will cover both of these skills below.</div>
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Now, what if you do not have a map with you? Your best bet is to move along the riverbank moving down the stream. This is because most streams originated from the mountain and will they will flow to the sea. Moving along the bank will lead you to open land and hopefully you can get some help there.</div>
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#14 CREATING <del style="box-sizing: inherit;"></del>A COMPASS</h2>
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Although some may say, it’s easier to follow the direction as indicated by the sky, it’s always better to create a compass because it shows the direction of the north pole accurately. Now let’s dive into creating a compass naturally.</div>
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The compass that we will be creating is called the simple bush compass. First of all, you will need to find a needle (which in most cases, you wouldn’t have one). If that’s the case, you have to look for something that have metallic properties such as wire debris.</div>
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If you have a magnet with you, just touch the north pole of the magnet on one tip of the needle. If you don’t, use your cloth to rub the needle quickly for about 100 times and the needle should be magnetized.</div>
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Put the magnetized needle on a floating leaf and let it float on calm water. The line of the needle will show you a perfect north-south line. By determining the direction of the sun, you can deduce which tip of the needle points to the north.</div>
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#15 NAVIGATING BASED ON SKY SIGNALS</h2>
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While compass are definitely more accurate in my opinion, most cases you wouldn’t be able to build one. As an alternative, I suggest you to equip yourself with the knowledge of astronomy. With this knowledge, you will be able to determine directions rather accurately.</div>
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Navigation based on the sun. The Sun will show us East and West which is rather useful if you are pursuing that direction. The only setback is that you couldn’t determine the North and South pole.</div>
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Navigation based on the moon. The moon when in crescent form, will be able to show you the position of the North and South pole. Draw an imaginary line combining the tips of the crescent moon and they will form a North-South line. If you are in the Northern hemisphere, the bottom tip of the moon represents the South pole. IF you are in the Southern hemisphere, the top tip of the moon represents the North pole.</div>
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Navigation based on stars. There are many forms of constellations which indicates certain direction. Personally, I don’t like relying on them because it’s hard to determine the position of the stars. Besides, they are only available on certain months of the year. As a rule of thumb, it’s better to rely on the Sun and Moon for directions.</div>
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#16 SIGNALING FOR HELP</h2>
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More often than not, there will be people searching for you when you are lost in the woods (unless you are going on a solo trip). To help them locate you, you have to give them some signals or else it would be almost impossible for them to locate you.</div>
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First of all, you have to locate a wide, empty land located on high grounds. It should be high enough so that any signals that you are sending out will be easily seen by your rescuers.</div>
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If you brought along a torch light or flare guns with you, it’s pretty obvious that you want to point them to the sky or in a way that you believe your rescuers will be able to sense it.</div>
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If you do not have anything with you, it’s okay. Create a campfire but this time you want to make the fire really big so that it will produce enough smoke so that it would be obvious to your rescuers. Follow the guide as taught in this post. The only twist is that you have to add in more fuel and flammable elements to increase the smoke produced.</div>
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#17 HIKING SKILLS</h2>
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Hiking skills are crucial, really. When you are stranded in the woods, don’t expect it to be like a flat field. Most of the times, you will be either walking against or down hills. If you don’t have the basic hiking skills, it would be extremely difficult to move around.</div>
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Having low mobility in times of need can really pose a threat to your life. Therefore, it’s important to master some of the most basic hiking skills.</div>
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When you are hiking upwards, bend your body towards the front to maintain the gravitational force acting on you. Likewise, when hiking downwards, lean your body towards the back. Only by doing this, you will realize how much easier it will be hiking upwards and downwards.</div>
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Besides, always test if the path you are about to use is sturdy by stepping on it with a leg. If you are to hold on to something for assistance, make sure that the stem/trunk/whatever is strong and does not have thorn on the surface.</div>
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Most of the times, beginners overlooked these basic skills which are really important especially in the wild.</div>
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#18 TIE ESSENTIAL KNOTS</h2>
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When I first learned about tying knots, I can’t really imagine when I will actually this skill in my life. However, trust me, it’s extremely important to know how to tie some of the essential knots as it will help you with pretty much everything you do.</div>
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For example, you will need knots when you are building out your shelter, creating traps and equipments and hooking ropes to trees. Some essential knots you need to know:</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Bowline</strong> – This knot is very much a versatile knot. Although not being extremely strong, it’s relatively easy to untie even after a heavy weight is put on it. In addition, this knot can be used in an emergency to hoist a person to safety, since the loop can slipped over a victim’s torso, under the armpits, and it will not tighten around the victim’s chest and prevent breathing.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Taut Line</strong> – Taut Line is a great way of tying a knot which is adjustable yet pretty strong that can withstand great tension. It’s typically used during hiking and camping for various purposes.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Boa</strong> – Now, you might not need flexibility in some cases. Therefore, it’s great to learn to tie this Boa knot which sacrifices mobility for strength. Also known as a binding knot, it’s extremely good at hinging to a specific location tightly.</div>
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#19 BASIC FIRST AID SKILLS</h2>
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I had once read a blog post (it’s been a while) explaining about the concept ‘magnification’ when you are in the wilderness. The theory behind this concept is pretty straight forward, it means that, for every little thing that is happening to you, the results are being magnified in the woods. One good example is, if you happen to hurt your leg at home, all you need to do is to treat it with antiseptic and you will be fine – no bacteria infection or other kinds of problem.</div>
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However, in the wilderness, hurting your leg might mean a big issue and will threaten your chance of survival. Bacterial infection might occur and it has the chance to kill you. Furthermore, you need your legs for a tons of things – building shelter, campfire, hunting for food, etc.</div>
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As you can imagine, basic first aid skills is an extremely important survival skill to master because it plays a big role in the wilderness. Imagining that you don’t have a first aid kit with you, what are you going to do?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Important note: </strong>1) This post is meant to share tips that you can apply without the need of modern technologies. Having that said, it’s important for you to realize that it’s vital to carry a complete set of first aid kit with you before venturing into the wilds. 2) The methods shared below are by no means the best method, it’s just an alternative to help you in extreme (epic) cases.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Breathing.</strong> It’s important to make sure that you (or your member) are breathing. If you find breathing hard, rub your chest and take deep breath to open up your lungs. This skill comes in handy for those with breathing difficulties. Don’t take it for granted because once your lungs fail to expand, and there isn’t anyone around, you are deep trouble.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Treating Wounds.</strong> When you have nothing with you, you have to rely on natural resources. Try to get salty water or something acidic. Use them to clean the wound, they should be good enough to destroy the bacteria. Tear a portion of your clothes and wrap it. Normally, you can remove the dressing after a day and you will see the wound drying up. If you didn’t manage to gather salts, urine will be an alternative as they are concentrated with mineral salts by nature.</div>
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#20 SWIMMING</h2>
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Wilderness are never completely land. Ever wonder if you are stranded in the sea instead? While this example might be exaggerated, you really need to master basic swimming technique, at least learn to float.</div>
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If you can’t swim, you are being handicapped. You can only move around on land terrains. Imagine being chase by a tiger and your only hope is jump into the river, if you can at least float, you still have chances for survival.</div>
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Putting aside the need of swimming skills for survival, swimming is an extremely nice sport that is both fun and great for health. If you haven’t swim before in your life, consider giving it a try. I assure you will find it fun.</div>
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#21 LEARNING BASIC SIGN LANGUAGE</h2>
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We came to the last tip of this post. Do you know that there might be natives living in the woods/forest/lakes. If there is, it greatly increase your chance of survival because there will be people offering to help you (unless they are cannibals :D).</div>
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The problem is, 99% of the time they wouldn’t understand English. Therefore, learning the basic sign language can help you communicate better with them. If you want people to help you, at least make sure they know what to help you.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tip:</strong> If you plan to learn sign languages, don’t learn those that are meant for communication with people with hearing or talking problems. Those are professional sign languages that natives wouldn’t understand. Instead, learn from a wilderness survival. Being experienced, they can guide you better.</div>
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CONCLUSION</h2>
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Although this guide is by no means the most comprehensive one out there, I hope you will be able to pick up some of the basic survival skills. If you are keen to learn more about a certain tip, be sure to check out the extra reference I cited in this post.</div>
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Alternatively, you can browse around Epic Wilderness and I believe you will be able to find information you are looking for. If you couldn’t find, feel free to contact our team and tell us what is missing on our webpage.</div>
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In reality, most of the times, you wouldn’t be facing such an epic situation whereby you are left with nothing and are forced to do everything the natural way. Also, if you are planning for any outdoor trips, try to make it a group activity. Having more people together will be an advantage if any undesirable conditions occur.</div>
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Now, I have a question for you. <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Which of the 21 survival tips above you find most important?</strong>Also, <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">is there other survival tips I am missing out?</strong></div>
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What would happen <a href="http://www.survivopedia.com/5-steps-in-disaster-aftermath/" style="color: #d05353;" target="_blank">if a disaster, natural or otherwise, were to happen </a>while your child was away from home? Would he be able to find you and get home safely? Could he tell a police officer or a teacher how to find you?<br />
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There’s no way that you can plan for all possibilities so the best way to keep your child safe, and get him safely back to you, is to educate him and teach him what to do well in advance. PREPARE him (or her)!<span id="more-9756"></span></div>
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Today we’re going to talk about how to <a href="http://www.survivopedia.com/top-mistakes-when-prepping-with-kids/" style="color: #d05353;" target="_blank">teach your kids to survive a disaster</a>.</div>
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<strong>Teach Them Their Vital Info</strong><br />
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This is crucial. Make sure that your kid knows his or her full name, address, phone number, illnesses and your name, phone number and place of employment. It’s also a good idea to include an out-of-town relative that could be called in an emergency.</div>
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Put this information on a list in your child’s backpack and teach them where to find it if they need it. Teach them that it’s critical that they leave that list in there!</div>
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<strong>Teach Them How to Get Home</strong></div>
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Knowing a physical address isn’t always going to be enough; your child should know how to find his or her way home from common places that you go.</div>
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Since they don’t drive, they likely can’t tell you how to get from point A to point B because they’re too busy playing with their toys, chattering or sleeping. After all, they don’t have any reason to know where to take a left to get to your street.</div>
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This need to change. Your child should be able to give you directions to and from common places such as school, the grocery store and grandma’s house. To teach them this, have them give you directions as you drive. They’ll get it wrong a few times but even a kindergartener can learn how to route you home with practice.</div>
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Make a game out of it so that it’s fun. Be sure to use landmarks that aren’t likely to change; take a left at the post office, take a right on Lucy Lane. Trees can get blown over and landscape can change quickly so consider that as you’re teaching.</div>
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<strong>Teach Them how to Use the GPS Function on the Phone</strong></div>
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GPS systems may not always work and all kids don’t have cell phones, but if they do, teach them how to use the GPS system to get home.</div>
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Mark home on the system to make it simple for them because they may not be thinking too clearly when they’re trying to do it in a real situation. We all know how easily kids pick up technology, so this shouldn’t be a challenge for most school-aged kids.</div>
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While you’re at it, teach them how to check the weather app too.</div>
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<strong>Teach Your Kids the Bulletin Board Procedure</strong></div>
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This is exactly what it sounds like; should your family become separated during a disaster, you can find each other by leaving messages on local cork boards. Post offices, convenience stores, grocery stores and many restaurants have a public bulletin board so that their customers can post ads.</div>
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Teach your kids where these are at and develop a plan using certain ones as a means of communication.</div>
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<strong>Teach Them How to Use the CB</strong></div>
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Most commercial trucks have them, as do emergency vehicles though you’ll want to teach your kids never to get into a private vehicle just to use the CB. Even if something should happen and you’re out of commission in the car, your child should know how to operate the CB to call for help.</div>
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<strong>Meet Siblings First</strong></div>
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If your kids go to the same school, they need to plan where to meet in case anything ever happens. Many schools won’t permit this in a terrorist situation but if a natural disaster occurs and your children are left to their own devices, they need to find each other before leaving the school.</div>
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Have them establish two meeting places; preferably one inside and one outside, to meet with each other before heading home.</div>
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This may sound mean but it really isn’t. A huge portion of American children are obese and so out of shape that there’s no way that they could walk 3 or 4 miles if they needed to, not even to survive.</div>
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We always stress the importance of keeping yourself in decent shape in order to give yourself the best chance of survival so now we’re putting it out there for your kids, too.</div>
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<strong>Equip Your Children with Cell Phones or Walkie Talkies.</strong></div>
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If your kids are old enough to use one, they should have a cell phone if they’re in school. Even if it’s just a prepaid with a few minutes or texts on it, get them something so that they can contact you to reunite.</div>
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Walkie talkies are great too as long as you’re in range of them and the batteries are good. Don’t forget to pull them out of your kid’s bag and check the batteries every couple of months.</div>
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<strong>Don’t Forget to Plan!</strong></div>
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Survival skills for kids part 1
So many times, we hear people say, “Oh, he knows to just come home.” That may be true, but how is he going to get there? What if your house was destroyed and you have no way to get ahold of your child to arrange a different meeting place?</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cuSjoVDXMX0" width="560"></iframe>Plan for any eventualities that you can think of, then practice them. This may sound like a ton of work, but if it helps you and your kids reunite right after the storm, you should consider it a labor of love.</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RW5QMVqZHQI" width="560"></iframe>The best thing that you can do to help reunite with your child after SHTF is to plan with your whole family. Teach your kids where to meet up with you and then practice-practice-practice. This is how kids, especially young kids, will learn what they should do.</div>
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Make sure that your kids have everything that they need to get home. Maybe a bottle of water in the backpack would be a good idea, along with a couple of energy bars and a compass. That’s the short list that a kid should have but it’s a start!</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D2RZ9hroVCo" width="560"></iframe>The bottom line is that you’re not going to be able to calm down as long as you know that your child is missing.</div>
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Don’t be passive; take an active interest in where your kids are and what they’ll be doing while they’re gone so that you can find them if you need to. Communication and practice are the best ways to teach your kids how to survive a disaster, so start now!</div>
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Do you have any cool ideas about what kids should know immediately if SHTF? If so, please tell us about them in the comments section below!</div>
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10-year-old Sean Plumer just earned his bobcat badge with Boy Scout troop 645 in Huntington, and now he's taking on a new challenge.</div>
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"I've never been to a Klondike before. This is the first I've ever heard of it. In a meeting I went to with the Boy Scouts, I heard about the Klondike, and my dad said it would probably be fun to go to, so I'm like 'Okay, let's go,'" said Plumer.</div>
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On Saturday, Plumer participated in his first ever Klondike Derby, an event Boy Scouts across the country hold each year<br />
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"It's a traditional Boy Scout event that's held in the winter time, and the boys build dog sleds and pull them around with all their gear and demonstrate their scout skills and have a lot of fun,” said Mike Flock, with Troop 645.</div>
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Troops from across Chittenden County were out for the derby at the Mills Riverside Park in Jericho. The kids packed their dog sleds and wagons with gear and traveled around to various activities to learn different survival skills, like building a fire.</div>
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"Magnesium, flint, and you light that over a cotton ball. We had Vaseline on the cotton ball so they would light easily. Then we put small twigs and leaves over the cotton ball, so it would light our fire. So we had that going for us," said Plumer.</div>
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Troops also practiced building a shelter, using a compass and slingshot, and taking care of an injured friend. Plumer says he had to pretend to be hurt and have his friends build a stretcher to carry him.</div>
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"Well you had to build a stretcher, then the person with the broken leg, which was me for a few minutes and then it was Theo, and you had to...everybody was blind except for the person with the broken leg, and you had to lead them around our little tree set ups here," said Plumer.</div>
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Troop leaders say the activities aren't just about wilderness training or survival.</div>
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"The goal of Boy Scouts is really to teach leadership to the boys, and they start small, young in the patrol, and they learn how to be patrol leaders and soon they're Eagle Scouts and leaders in the community," said Flock.</div>
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At the end of the day, boys like Sean Plumer say they're just excited to use their new skills the next time they're out camping with family or friends.</div>
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Preface: <strong>What is an emergency? </strong></h5>
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In order to distance ourselves from the details, which are too stochastic and specific, <b>we can generally state that an emergency is a shortage of resources</b>.</div>
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It’s important to examine the relationship between these emergencies, as they directly relate to how we categorize emergencies. For example, air, while in the greatest supply of the above, gives rise to the most pressing emergency when in short supply. This continues as we descend the list.</div>
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This lack of resources can be adapted to define everything from a local snowstorm, to Hurricane Katrina, or the well-orchestrated, disastrous attack launched in Mumbai, India. In each of these events, there was a breakdown of modern civil structure: EMS, police, food and water, energy and transportation were compromised, and emergencies ensued. In other words, an emergency can be said to occur when there is a shortage of anything required to sustain life.</div>
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So the question <i>still </i>lingers, “How do we categorize emergencies?”</div>
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Duration and Intensity</h5>
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Over the years, my understanding of emergencies has evolved to reflect not the specifics, but the protraction of the emergency and the urgency the lack of resources presents. In any case of shortage, be it breathable air or the ability to defend yourself, four key elements are always present and can be expressed as a balance between each pair of concepts:</div>
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Even a very survivable situation can be deadly when coupled with a protracted duration, because with duration, we see the emergence of secondary and tertiary emergencies as a result of lack of resources.</div>
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What are these? Things like dehydration, infections, starvation, blood loss, thermal injury, and so forth.</div>
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These things in and of themselves are negative and become more severe the longer they go untreated.</div>
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So to put it in “direct” terms: The longer you take fire, the lower your odds of survival.</div>
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Because of this, our immediate emphasis is always on preventing secondary and tertiary emergencies - and the way we can do this is by managing the primary situation to shorten its duration as quickly as possible.</div>
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Part 1: Emergency Assessment</h2>
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Intensity can be a very difficult thing to define. Each and every individual has their own set of skills, experiences, strengths, and weaknesses that define how they react to emergencies - but in general, we can still define the following as events that would be commonly regarded as emergencies.</div>
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<u><i>Type 1. High Intensity - Short Duration</i></u><br />
<b><img alt="" src="http://www.peakprosperity.com/sites/default/files/resize/files/u14865/Aaron_Moyer_-_gunman-275x174.png" height="174" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 174px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; width: 275px;" width="275" />A high-intensity situation would be a situation in which you and/or others have minimal time to escape imminent harm. </b>However, as a rule, high-intensity situations are limited by environmental factors and are accompanied by very brief durations. Because of this, things like eating, communication with loved ones, and other similar concerns need not be considered - they can wait. These emergencies represent situations where “<i>immediate action</i>” is required (whether it’s fight or flight) and <b>typically last between one second and twenty four hours.</b><br />
The equipment necessary to solve these problems is your EDC ("Every Day Carry," discussed later) - first line. For that reason, keep these things on your person whenever you’re dressed - discussed later.</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Incidences of “high intensity” are:</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A house fire</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Being stranded in the wilderness</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Violent attacks, such as a robbery</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Violent attacks such as an “active shooter” scenario in which you’re amongst the targeted</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Violent contact with gangs or gang members</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Abrupt natural disasters, such as earthquakes or tornados</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sudden traumatic Injuries, such as auto accidents, equipment accidents, or events that could result in a more protracted emergency, such as a plane crash</span></li>
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<u><i>Type 2. Moderate Intensity - Short/Moderate Duration</i></u></div>
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<img alt="" src="http://www.peakprosperity.com/sites/default/files/resize/files/u14865/Aaron_Moyer_-_snowbound-300x242.png" height="242" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 242px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; width: 300px;" width="300" />Moderate-intensity situations include scenarios that carry a very real threat of violence or injury, but injury to you either is unintended or would be incidental. I<b>n other words, you’re not the target, but you could become one by happenstance. </b>As a corollary, you may have to consider providing services for yourself, to include medical, security, food, water and sanitation. While you’re not actively being targeted, you may be pressed into defending or providing for yourself. In contrast with the ‘Short Duration’ emergency figure (1 second - 24 hours), moderate-intensity events generally affect their victims for “moderate” durations -<b>these could last between two days and one week.</b>It’s important to note that while these situations may “seem” very intense, they differ from immediate, high-intensity emergencies in that you’re not being actively targeted or <i>directly</i> affected by the emergency. In other words, food may become scarce, but it’s not because someone is taking it from you.</div>
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The equipment to negotiate these problem sets is a combination of your 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> Line Equipment, discussed later.</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Incidences of “moderate intensity - short/medium duration” are:</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blackouts</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Large-scale infrastructural damage, such as those that accompany hurricanes/earthquakes</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Temporary weather emergencies, such as significant winter weather events or flooding</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Invasion by a military (first week)</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The ‘event’ of an economic collapse (first week)</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Breakdown of law/gang violence</span></li>
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<u><i>Type 3. Low Intensity - Protracted Duration</i></u></div>
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<b><i>Perhaps most important when considering Low Intensity - Protracted Duration events is that within these events, the probability of Type One and Two events increases drastically. </i></b>That is to say, in an economic collapse, for instance, you’re far more likely to face a situation in which you’re facing a resource shortage or are being targeted directly. </div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Examples of “low-moderate intensity - protracted duration” incidents are:</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Depression</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Economic collapse</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pandemic outbreak of a deadly disease</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nuclear war</span></li>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Being shipwrecked</span></li>
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Probability/Proximity</h5>
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With the above grim prospects to consider, we would be awash in fears, it would be almost impossible to nail down any way to provide a sound “solution” to the problems, and perhaps most importantly, we would be wondering how to take the first step.</div>
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Enter <b>Probability </b>and <b>Proximity</b>. While no one can foresee the future, most can clearly see that the position we find our global community in is laden with economic, socio-political, and military encumbrances that cannot be reconciled. Each of us individually must scrutinize for ourselves what we believe to be the most likely situations and how our local area will be impacted. The needs of someone in Detroit, Michigan will be significantly different than someone living in the countryside of Belgium. Again, we apply the idea of “consistency across categories” - a concept from martial artist Marc Denny - which means that we take steps to prepare for any emergency by using a combination of skillset, mindset, and tactics that are “generic” rather than specific.</div>
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<b>The general approach is to work from the outside in </b>- that is, from the longest, most unlikely situations first. The reasoning behind that is this: Most of the situations that are of shorter duration and intensity are precursory to the larger event, and therefore, you can eliminate the least likely emergencies and focus on the plausible ones.</div>
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It’s important to re-evaluate these considerations every so often, especially when you move to a new location or have a change in life such as a marriage, birth of a child, death in the family, etc.</div>
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For example, I believe nuclear war to be a very remote possibility at this time, but an economic collapse is very likely within the next few years; from this, we can say that the more immediate concerns would be things like riots, delays in shipments/deliveries, loss of purchasing power, and (even more ‘close to home’) increased petty crime, such as theft, assault, robbery, home invasions, and perhaps more violent crimes as well.</div>
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This allows us to “funnel” the possibilities into a simple package that we can then begin to assess.</div>
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Part II. Where to Start - Practical Preparation, Identification of Solutions</h2>
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As we begin the process of identifying the “most likely” scenarios, it is of critical importance to prioritize and make a <b><i>workable</i></b> plan. Don’t simply buy thousands of pounds of bulk foods, stockpile ammunition, or build a bunker. These are irrational approaches that do nothing to “solve” the problem.</div>
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A common theme amongst preppers is having reserves of necessities. This is a sub-component of our just-in-time delivery system, and the need to go out and buy goods for later consumption is soon to be outdated. What we attempt to mitigate when we behave this way is <b><i>another concept of shortage</i></b>, in short, a microscale emergency in which we “project” that we will not have enough.</div>
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The only remedy for lack of this skillset is preparation, and <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/" style="color: #206282; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.PeakProsperity.com</a> has an excellent intellectual workshop here: <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/category/blog/what-should-i-do" style="color: #206282; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.peakprosperity.com/category/blog/what-should-i-do</a>.</div>
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As you identify your needs - food, security, shelter and community - make your first step by asking the following: <strong>“What do I need to know in order to address this problem?”</strong></div>
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The conundrum of this exercise is this: Sometimes the answer is that you can’t possibly know enough because it’s outside your area of expertise or you don‘t know where to start.</div>
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The question then becomes: “<b><i>Who</i></b> do I need to know in order to address this problem?” or “<b><i>Where</i></b> can I learn the skills necessary to work this out?”</div>
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Once you switch gears from acquisition of material to acquisition of skills, you can begin orienting yourself to mitigating emergencies.</div>
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OODA Introduction</h5>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Air Force Colonel John Byrd devised a method of analyzing how we act and react under stress. His model, known as “OODA” was a continually repeating process of Observation, Orientation, Decision, and Action. While this process in and of itself doesn’t “train” us in a measurable way, you will notice that this is <i>precisely </i>how the mind thinks under stress. With that in mind, in any crisis, it’s important to recognize Col. Byrd’s contribution as an extremely valuable tool for any emergency - regardless of its intensity and duration.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With this in mind, each situation is going to require that you either use the OODA loop to assess the situation make good decisions and act upon them, or follow someone else’s lead. For this reason, training, martial arts, rehearsals, and other exercises to ‘flex’ your decision-making ability can greatly reduce the time it takes to make difficult decisions under pressure.</span></div>
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PACE Introduction</h5>
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The military loves acronyms, and there are dozens of them available that can be easily committed to memory and used to plan in harsh situations. Like OODA, PACE is an acronym that we can use before, during, and after an emergency, and which must be occasionally reassessed.</div>
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<b>PACE </b>Stands for:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Alternative -</i> An alternative plan, if some obstruction to your standard plan exists.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Contingency - </i>A backup plan in case the standard and alternative plan become untenable.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Emergency - </i>A plan to be used in the event that an emergency occurs during the execution of your plan.</li>
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Keeping this in mind as you plan. It will be easier to communicate and execute your plan to those in your family, circle, or community. <b>A firm standard can help us cycle more quickly through our OODA in any type of crises. Thus, we can look at OODA like an “Operating System” on our computer and PACE as software used to accomplish our goals.</b></div>
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PACE is one of my favorites because it can be used for almost anything: communications plans for frequencies, routes of travel, avoiding potential trouble areas, and escaping if necessary. The “if/than” mentality that it teaches will help you remain flexible but still have a cogent set of criteria with which you can communicate with other people in a secure fashion.</div>
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In addition, it’s self explanatory - each letter corresponds with a plan that will be defined by the user. The modularity, simplicity, and utility of this acronym can be a great asset when planning.</div>
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GOTWA Introduction</h5>
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The third and final acronym for this series is GOTWA. Primarily employed by military combat units, it is an outline for travel away from a known safe area - whether it’s a bivouac, firebase, LP/OP (listening/observation post), or a campsite. It can be modified for your needs to help alleviate the dangerous of traveling without high-tech communications by framing what each party can expect.</div>
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It’s important at this point to revisit <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/practical-survival-skills-101-obtaining-shelter/50456" style="color: #206282; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Survival 101 - “Shelter.”</a> From there, we can recall some vital information for the setup of such a camp (if you’re unfortunate enough to have to hold up while traveling), as well as procedural words, duress words, and challenge words. While I do not intend to make this a “tactical” primer, it should be understood that things like light, litter, and noise discipline will increase your odds of remaining undetected. Like proper defenses, these increase the odds of your survival, which <i>is</i> what this series is all about. Use this information, but be flexible! It doesn’t have to be a primitive wilderness camp - you can use these concepts at a friends home, your own home, or a spot you stop to regroup at while traveling to your destination.</div>
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GOTWA will help you address things that may be tough to consider in normal times, such as what to do if you encounter others who are starving or scavenging, hostile groups of bandits, other survivors, or procedures on how to safely rendezvous with your own group in case of splitting up. Keep in mind, for this latter situation, a well-defined PACE plan will go a long way towards securing your trip.</div>
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GOTWA stands for:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>O</b> - <b>Others </b>with me</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>T</b> - <b>Time </b>I will be gone</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>W</b> - <b>What </b>we’re doing</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>A</b> - <b>Actions </b>upon:<ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 2px 10px 2px 35px; padding: 0px;">
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Base team</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Base team</span></li>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While this seems boorish to even consider in the First World, it is a subject best thought about before it is needed. In almost all incidences, breaking contact - meaning disengaging communication or hostilities - is a priority. If you’re trying to return safely, getting caught up in transient affairs is a poor ingredient in the recipe for success.</span></div>
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Preparation</h5>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>While proper <em>equipment </em>is important, it’s secondary to your <em>ability </em>in every respect. </b>If we view this as analogous to a house, having the equipment is like having the building materials. Without the skill to assemble them into a structure, you’ll find they do you little or no good. For this reason, it’s absolutely paramount that your equipment selection matches your level of skill, and as you learn and develop an increased capacity, you will want to revisit your equipment.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Over the years, I’ve had scores of people ask me, “What should I get?” and then proceed to buy something I’d found to be ineffective, practically useless or of faulty design because it was cheap, or promised a quick fix. There are absolutely no magic bullets in this world. You must invest the time in yourself - only then will your equipment provide you with the comfort you seek. Many of the tasks we could find ourselves in are as dependant on chance or fortune as they are on our abilities or equipment. For this reason, we must make every attempt to use our OODA loop to assess situations as we enter them.</span></div>
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Traveling<b></b></h5>
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One of the most underappreciated luxuries of our time is our ability to travel great distances with little or no inconvenience, cost, or risk. While I’m certain others will disagree, traveling in a “post-collapse” society will carry with it some extreme risks that in my opinion will present the most dangerous situations imaginable. In history and more modern failed states, road agents, highwaymen, gangs and hostile members of other societies or communities have used “safe passage” as a method of extracting wealth. From taxes to attacks, traveling presents a number of problems that must be examined.</div>
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Before I go further, I want to make a note that this is my <i>belief</i>, and a situation I think many of us think about. That said, it will be heavily opinion based and largely theoretical. Further, study of our current occupations in the Middle East will provide an enormous wealth of information on how travel-based incursions happen, how they are combated, and some of the reasons they’ll be an attractive option for those on the sides of both order and chaos.</div>
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Like our other topics, travel can be broken down systematically into subsets that have “common” elements - for example, there will be drastic differences between travel by foot, by animal, or by mechanical means. Similarly, traveling alone provides you with unique advantages and disadvantages when compared to traveling in a group. For this reason, when we plan to meet an emergency, it should be thoroughly considered.</div>
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While these situations are important, there is no specific way to predict how they’ll play out. We can loosely define our travel as either <strong>on foot</strong> or <strong>in a car</strong>, and <strong>alone</strong> or <strong>with a group</strong>.</div>
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While there is no “certain” way to judge how any of these situations could go, putting these as row and column headers in a 2x2 matrix (or Punnett Square) to plan can be a useful tool. In each box, use PACE/GOTWA to sketch an idea of what you expect and how you’ll deal with it.</div>
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Once you’ve identified the threats, problems, and solutions, you can start thinking about what you’ll need to address these concerns. As always, assess your deficiencies now!</div>
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Part III. Gear and Lines and Concepts</h2>
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Most of the time, this discussion is what you hear when you hear “survivalists” consider their options. It’s the equipment - <em>What rifle for deer? What (this) to accomplish (that)?</em> It’s intentionally placed halfway through this article, because before we decide on any sort of equipment, it’s imperative that we shape our demands, and our demands are not equipment - our demands are skills. A set of lockpicks aren’t going to do you any good if you’re trying to escape a dead city and you can't tell a rake from a torsion wrench.</div>
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In short, our priorities are:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A detailed plan on what you have, lack, and need, in terms of skill set, mindset, and know-how</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The skills to perform the given task</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The tools to perform the given task</li>
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With skill comes mindset; with mindset comes tactical thinking. Therefore, when we are skilled, we can “think on our feet.” Any “tool” will do when you understand the objective. This is especially true of firearms, though it applies equally to many other things.</div>
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<b>In the spirit of “<i>consistency across categories</i>,</b><b>”</b><b> I arrange my equipment to correspond with the levels of crisis discussed above in the “<i>Intensity/Duration</i>” section, which is to say, each of the three “lines” of equipment meet the demands of their respective emergencies.</b></div>
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Furthermore, integration of each line should be additive - your line two should commensurate your first and third line. If you’re left with only your first line, you should have the mindset, skillset and tactical knowledge to “procure” any of the other items you may need.</div>
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Consider a few other points: </div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Try not to look conspicuous. </strong>Dress appropriately for what you’re doing. Carry clothes that are inconspicuous for your area - make sure you’re comfortable (not just physically).</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Don’t overload yourself.</strong> Try and stick to the target weights, or define your own as needed.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Make sure your equipment is secured and doesn’t rattle</strong>. Tie it down with Paracord and make sure your pouches are secure. Zippers and velcro make noise. Buttons make less.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Buy quality; cry just once.</strong> Don’t buy equipment off the bargain rack to fill a perceived insufficiency -<i>use the skill axiom first!</i> If you can’t over come the deficiency with just skill (such as in an emergency like a house fire), buy reliable, quality tools to augment your knowledge.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Try to find objects that are “multi-purpose,”</strong> but be aware that some things will always be “special purpose.”</li>
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<b>Often enough, people ask, “What do I need?” This, of course, depends greatly on what skills you possess, your perceived dangers, and <i>what you’ll actually carry</i>. </b>That said, I will do my best to make my recommendations.</div>
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First Line</h5>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><img alt="" src="http://www.peakprosperity.com/files/u14865/Aaron_Moyer_-_disassembled_gun.png" height="187" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 187px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; width: 231px;" width="231" />Method of Carry</b>: EDC “Every Day Carry" on person</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Target weight</b>: 1-5 lbs.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Purpose</b>: Mitigation of Immediate emergencies and violent encounters; supplementing second and third line in more protracted emergencies.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pocket knife (I prefer the CRKT M16-12Z)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lighter/matches</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thumb drive (on key ring)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">P-38 can opener (on key ring)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Multi-tool (I prefer Gerber - Leatherman pictured)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A notepad with pens</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A rubber band or two</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Safety pins</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sidearm (I prefer a Glock in 9mm)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A reload for your sidearm</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A fixed blade knife (I prefer a Shivworks Clinch Pick)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Paracord bracelet - deconstructed, these can provide you an amazing amount of material to use as rope, fishing line, snare wires, or thread - the limits are only in your mind.</span></li>
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Second Line - Kit</h5>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><img align="right" alt="" src="http://www.peakprosperity.com/sites/default/files/resize/files/u14865/Aaron_Moyer_-_kit-230x182.png" height="182" style="border: 0px;" width="230" />Method of Carry</b>: Lightweight satchel or low signature chest rig</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Note: </b>NOT a backpack - a backpack is your third line.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Target Weight</b>: 5-10 lbs.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Purpose</b>: Putting emergency plans into effect; geared towards Moderate Intensity, Medium Duration situations.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Water container</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Zip Ties</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Siphon hose</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spare magazines</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Head lamp</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Flashlight (I prefer the Surefire C2)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pocket chainsaw - this is an endorsement - it rocks.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Snare wire and fish hooks (tied on their leaders)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Notepad and pens</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Magnesium firestarting block</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Medical kit</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GPS/compass</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A few pieces of silver</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More Paracord</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyalume flares</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Water bottle</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Idiosyncratic items (Kestrels, GPS, maps, reading material; whatever makes you comfortable)</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rifle (legal and ethical)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spare magazines (pistol/rifle)</span></li>
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Third Line - Backpack</h5>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Target Weight</b>: 25-40 lbs.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Purpose</b>: Providing more advanced gear that supplements first and second line, and affords the ability to exist in transit for <u>></u>1 week, depending on level of skill and need.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Food (I prefer MRE entrees with the cardboard [for fire starting])</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sleeping bag or insulated blanket</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mylar sleeping bag and/or space blanket</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fixed-blade knife</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rope</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hydration system (3 Litre)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plastic bags</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Medical kit</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Capilene underwear, shirts, and socks (2 pairs each)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stainless steel or aluminum cook-set (with utensil)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fishing line/hooks/power-bait</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Water purification (tablets, Pur Hiker/Katadyne etc)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Canteen with cup</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Extra items: lighters, pens, <b>trading items </b>(cigarettes, silver, etc)</span></li>
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Costs and Practicality</h5>
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This list may seem long and costly - and it is.</div>
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The skillsets presented in this series are meant to be the foundation that, if practiced properly, will see that your basic needs are met. It is incumbent upon <em>you </em>to develop those skills. </div>
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Turning these words into practical, useful skills will require an investment in time, energy, and patience. It will cost money, pride, and comfort. But as you invest in yourself and build confidence in the things you can accomplish, you’ll see the investment return all of what it’s taken back to you.</div>
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The journey of self-development is very long, lonely, and at times will have you questioning your motives, intent, and possible outcomes. It should be harsh, painful, rewarding, and humbling.</div>
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The training you complete is an investment in your most integral asset - yourself. Budget for it as you would any other expense, and continually view it as a way to weather yourself against the unexpected challenges.</div>
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Some of the most simple things you can do are:</div>
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<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Take good care of yourself physically.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Find two courses per year that you’ve never taken before - budget for and attend them.</li>
<li style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Consider equipment only after you’ve identified <b>need</b>. Continually re-assess yourself based on <i>your</i>observations.<br /> </li>
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Skillset, Mindset and Tactics</h5>
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This is a point I return to over and over again because I want to clearly emphasize - especially after talking gear - that owning equipment but never training speaks to a misallocation of time, money, and priorities.</div>
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Many people do not like to train because it compromises their self-image. To be hurt physically by someone who trained harder than you, to be challenged mentally by being forced into an austere situation, such as urban escape and evasion or a woodland survival class, is not comfortable.</div>
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It is also important to recognize that some skills are based on knowledge and experience, and others are more physically intensive, demanding more repetition. At this point, you should have a good understanding of what possible emergencies exist.</div>
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We have presented situations not to fear them, but to understand them. The clarion call of this particular addition to the Survival 101 series is this: You’ve been exposed to some fundamental skills, you’ve been exposed to some of the calculus behind preparation, and we’ve loosely defined sets of emergencies that <i>could</i>impact us - so it is now time to take action.</div>
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While it is important to assess yourself for strengths, weaknesses, and abilities, it is of far more value to <b><i>test</i></b>yourself and to know how to handle emergencies.</div>
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With these things in mind, it’s critical that we set realistic priorities that focus on what is practical, realistic, and uncomfortable. Don’t fall into the routine of taking classes over and over again - <b><i>if you find yourself comfortable with the material</i></b><i>, <b>you’re not being challenged</b>.</i></div>
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Think of how ridiculous it would be to take 'Writing 101' over and over again. You could turn in the same work, modify it to the teachers’ expectations, and correct yourself <i>ad infinitum</i>. But will it improve your ability to write?</div>
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In this same way, martialism, physical fitness, primitive survival skills, and experience in dealing with adversity must be continually nurtured and pressed <i>beyond</i> what you know.</div>
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Many people nowadays are quite aware that the world they live in is going to the toilet. Aside from the geophysical part that “seems” to be going haywire and could be nothing other than the planet’s cycles, there are plenty of manmade catastrophes that loom on the horizon. Never has the planet had as many people as now and the more people there are the more competition there is for resources. More countries seek nuclear devices than ever before and with advancements in technology this is a much easier process than anytime before. Biological and chemical weapons are also much easier to manufacture because of leaps of technology in regards to computers.<br />
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Oil markets are much tighter because of the countries of China and India and their increasing need of energy to fuel their booming economies, and new finds of oil fields cannot keep up with the demand. The debacle of the world economies needs no introduction. In short, bad times, really bad times could and probably be coming to a neighborhood near you. Unless you and your family take quite seriously this possibility, if and when something extremely horrible happens, you could very well end up one of the large number of statistics.</div>
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Many survival sites have informative and excellent advice on survival that can help you make it through a limited amount of time when everyday life is totally disrupted. However, what exactly does a person do IF the society that almost all of us have become way too dependent on, fails to recover for an extended period of time, if ever again? What IF civilization implodes and only begins to recuperate after centuries have gone by? If you watch some of the ideas people have on survival being interviewed on television, you have to wonder what exactly these people are thinking. The people that have prepared for problems with the world are woefully ready for any disaster lasting for more than a few days at best. One lady thought having a flashlight was being prepared. Even those that have invested in years worth of food and supplies, there are some basic survival skills that need to be learned and understood to better increase one’s chance of making it through a possible long-term survival situation.</div>
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The following are 25 suggestions on those survival skills that will likely be needed after a nightmare has hit human civilization with a vengeance. Each of these 25 skills can fill an entire article on learning and teaching of it. So only a brief overlay of each of these will be discussed to avoid pages long descriptions. Further information can be obtained through many survival books and the many articles on each subject. Situations and personal handling of SHTF situations will differ widely, but the foundation will likely be there for almost everyone. The main objective is to get people into learning and practicing these survival skills so when something cataclysmic does happen, they can better deal with and make it through intense human tragedy.</div>
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1. <strong>Prepare for the worst.</strong> Individuals can still hope for the best, but something lacking with many preppers is that they still cannot even think about something really awful happening. Too many of those that do ready themselves for disasters cannot find within themselves to even discuss with their families and friends a calamity that is horrid and what to do if it should manifest itself. This denial leads to a failure of preparing enough beyond usually a couple of weeks or so. To them, there is still that government or other safety net waiting for them when their preparation runs out.</div>
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2. <strong>Learn and train your mind to expect the totally unexpected.</strong> The bizarre oftens happens, and there are events that are going to freak out even some the better prepared survivalists. A lot of people will prepare and practice all sorts of drills for various horrors, which is wonderful training. There still lurks the possibility of something so strange and weird that it shocks practically everyone. By addressing this possiblity in your thoughts before it actually happens, you have conditioned your mind to at least accept this. Training for something strange can be done through other individuals within your circle of allies coming up with sudden scenarioes that only their imaginations can fathom.</div>
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3. <strong>Learn to live meager.</strong> This is practicing for when times become lean for everyone. If a person wants to avoid the shock of living well to living under a rationed way of life, now is the time to get used to it. We all take so much for granted – the modern conveniences – it becomes an automated habit to turn on a light switch, flip on the internet, TV, cell phone, without even considering this could be wiped out within an instant. We open the refrigerator and there is food, or put food already pre-cooked into the microwave to warm it. We go to the supermarket and get what we need. We have entertainment at our fingertips. If this is all gone, how will people handle it? Horribly if they have not gotten used to going without it for at least part of their lives. A “time out” each day from what we so rely on that could disappear is quite helpful to being ready for if it does go away suddenly.</div>
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4. <strong>Find personal motivators to continue on.</strong> When it looks hopeless after a mega SHTF episode, having some concrete reason to fight and continue on is an absolute necessity to avoid giving up. Many people will feel, “what’s the point?”, and just stop trying to survive. Someone’s child sitting next to them, a parent, a sibling, a spouse, a friend, someone that means something to you can be that inspiration to continue on. It can be just someone’s desire for life that helps them over the hump. Finding that personal reason to survive and fight on is so important.</div>
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5. <strong>Understand the world and potential disasters that await.</strong> When you can better expect what could happen, you are less likely to be caught off guard. Timing is everything. An individual that can bug out before something hits is going to be way ahead of the pack. While predicting the future is probably going to be unlikely, seeing a situation developing and acting on it before it occurs can be a life saver. By monitoring the news of the world with vigilance you can see something others don’t. By becoming more informed about earth science if you live in an area prone to geophysical disaster prone areas can help much. The old adage about knowledge is power is very true, but knowledge is also part of survival and the more you have the more likely it is that you will survive.</div>
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6. <strong>Make plans and stick to them.</strong> After a disaster your mind is going to be racing around like a car on a race track. Pre-planning and having a written down set of measures to take will make someone’s life go much smoother when SHTF. Your own personal plan is ONLY what best fits what you are going to do during and after a disaster. People should also have back-up plans, PLAN B and C and D at least because nothing ever seems to go as planned. Haphazard approaches to the aftermaths of catastrophes are kind of like a chicken running around without a head.</div>
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7. <strong>Understand how you’ll react.</strong> Some people just cannot handle stress, they freeze up and panic overwhelms them. Everyone reacts to stress and fear in different ways, and even the most calm in control person can become ballasitic or paralyzed with fright. Addressing this issue before something happens and attempting to come to grips with it is essential. People have remarkable levels of tolerance for bad times and most can dig down and come up mentally with what is necessary to survive. Any phobia or fear is usually better dealt with before being put to the test. A first step is to admit to oneself that these disasters can and do happen and then thinking over, even writing down how one will handle it. Talking this over with another is invaluable.</div>
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8. <strong>Understand the psychology of desperate people.</strong> This is a difficult one. After a SHTF event people are going to, simply put, go crazy. That neighbor that was in control during many minor emergencies may be the one pounding on your door with whacked out eyes demanding what you have because they did not prepare for anything. Someone in your own survival group may just blank out in a zombie-like stare. Unexpected times brings out the worst in people and people should prepare for this possiblility. You yourself could lose it. Again, preparing for this will help should it occur. You always hope that disasters will bring out the best in your fellow person, but often this is not the case.</div>
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9. <strong>Be clever and inventive.</strong> When the world falls apart around someone, there is likely not going to be anyone there to repair what you have or somewhere to replace it. You will either have to go without, repair it yourself, or jerry rig up some contraption that will function for you. Much can be learned by practicing going without your power tools and fixing things using only hand tools and what you can find in spare parts laying around. Using junk to come up with unique devices that work for you will become a necessary skill you will need to master should society fail to come back.</div>
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10. <strong>Learn and condition yourself into a survival mentality.</strong> Homeless people become experts at seeing what others consider pure trash as survival tools. The fine art of scrounging around will become a chore that people will have to do to find what they need. That bottle on the ground after a disaster can be used for many purposes including collecting something you can use. People must first try to see in their minds what certain items can have use for them. Homeless people have become quite good at this during stable times, everyone will have to learn this skill after times become nightmare-like.</div>
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11. <strong>Know where you are going.</strong> Whether someone is going to bug in or bug out to somewhere safer, they need to know where they plan to take a stand and stay. Transportation is a very important issue to consider and how much of what they have can be moved to where they are planning to go. Fuel will be a huge consideration as the lack of it prohibits how far someone can go. Something else everyone should understand is how to read maps. You will likely not have any GPS system to guide you and the good old fashioned paper map may be the only way to show you where you are going. Understanding topographic maps is also key here.</div>
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12. <strong>Learn how to maintain light at night.</strong> One of the most depressing situations is to spend night in near to total darkness. Besides this, not being able to see at night is dangerous. Learning how to make candles and wicks should be a skill to consider learning. Fats and other oils will burn and can be obtained throughout nature and the outdoors. Long term solar battery rechargers for flashlights and LED battery powered lanterns are another option.</div>
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13. <strong>Learn how to hide.</strong> There will almost certainly come a time after a bad disaster that you will want to avoid being noticed at all. Learning how to camouflage yourself is a good start. Avoiding detection is concealing yourself from sight, sound, and smell from others. Any activity that a person engages in can be magnified many times when the normal sounds of a busy city or town are now quiet. Much careful consideration must go into taking this into account if a person wants to remain unbeknownst to others that mean them harm. Remaining inconspicuous can be difficult in some cases, but it can be done.</div>
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14. <strong>Maintain proper hygiene.</strong> This is one of the top priorities within the armed forces because disease and sickness can and do take down the toughest of soldiers. People must realize that after a terrible disaster it is not like someone that goes camping, comes back dirty, and takes a nice long shower or a hot bath. After SHTF the water to the faucets, as well the hot water heater, may not work. Bathing on at least a semi-regular basis is necessary to avoid all sorts of bacteria from building up on the skin and causing a variety of health concerning ailments that will then have to be treated. People should plan on just how they will keep themselves clean, even thinking about sponge baths as an option.</div>
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15. <strong>How to dispose of waste and proper sanitation.</strong> In third world countries and the pre-flush toilet era one of the leading causes of illness and death was and is waste not properly discarded. If the toilets won’t flush because there is no water to make them work, human waste is going to be a huge whopping problem for people trying to survive. Even improperly burying human excrement can lead to disease. Portable toilets, toilet paper and disinfection (bleach for one) should be one of the top items in any survival kit, lots of it. Also disposal of other trash is an issue that can bring hungry dangerous animals around drawn to the stench. Burning of trash can be choice of some, while plastic trash bags and the means to find some place to dump them is another alternative.</div>
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16. <strong>Learn to control pest and other vermin</strong>. This is a problem that led to about half of Europe dying several hundred years ago with the black death. Fleas and ticks carry some terrible diseases. Even people that stay inside their own homes will have to deal with this problem. People outside will have to contend with the fleas, ticks, flies, mosquitoes, mice, rats, etc., etc., etc. There are many repellents in nature that can help a lot such as citronella, even the smell of garlic that most vermin do not like much at all. Stocking up on insect and other commercial repellents is always an excellent idea. It only takes one bite to make a person deathly sick.</div>
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17. <strong>Understand radiation and fallout and how to protect yourself.</strong> This is one of the least understood of the survival precautions taken. There are hundreds of nuclear power plants that could fail after the world goes to the toilet. There are still tens of thousands of nuclear weapons available for war should countries decide to use them. Fallout is something that you might not even see and until you are sick might not even know you have been contaminated. Purchase of a radiation detector that is protected against EMP is a wise idea. Even building what is called a Kearny radiation detector is something someone can do that doesn’t have much money to work with. Understanding about radiation accumulation dosage RAD’s and how to shield oneself against it is paramount.</div>
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18. <strong>Learn how to forecast the weather.</strong> Without knowledge of what to look at before a storm system comes in, someone could be trapped and die when they are are buried under snow or a wall of water from a flashflood. Even one of those pocket weather forecasters that can be purchased at most sporting goods stores is a good start. Other weather forecasting books are available to help someone get a better idea on what the future weather holds for an area that they are at. Weather is still one of the deadliest killers in the modern age. It will become magnitudes worst when people cannot get weather warnings over a radio or other source. People will have to forecast it themselves.</div>
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19. <strong>Learn first aid.</strong> Treating yourself and or others will probably be the only thing someone can do as medical professionals are going to be few and far between. Many places offer free classes on first aid because they want people in the community to be prepared. A good first aid book along with a first aid kit is something every household should have before, during, and after a disaster. </div>
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Primitive conditions should be expected when anyone is helping someone after a catastrophe. A stockpile of antibiotics are always a good idea. Even acquring the skill of making your own antibiotics can save lives as infection is something that will become an epidemic, especially with minor cuts and abrasives that are sure to be plenty.</div>
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20. <strong>Learn about nutrition.</strong> Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are nothing to fool around with. Just look what scurvy, the lack of Vitamin C, can do to someone. Many survivalists and preppers make the critical mistake of only being concerned about calories to keep them going. Vitamins; A, B1 through B12, C. D, E, K, Minerals; Calcium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Selenium, Zinc, and trace minerals are necessary to keep a body going.</div>
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Many survival foods have some of what your body needs, but sadly lack in others. Each person needs different amounts and any survival food supply should take this need as important as the food itself. Vitamin and mineral supplements should be stocked with food if someone is unsure about what they are getting. Trace mineral drops are a liquid that offers much and are a good addition to any emergency supply someone has.</div>
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21. <strong>Learn to keep body temperature uniform.</strong> The Goldilocks analogy here, not too hot, nor too cold, but just right. Your physical body should remain as near to what your body has been use to as possible. It is not only uncomfortable being freezing cold or roasting to death, it puts a lot of stress on the body making someone more susceptible to becoming sick. Trying to stay cool uses up a lot of water, and trying to stay warm uses up more calories. Plan ahead with good warm clothes and blankets for the cold. Find places that are cooler during hot weather. Keeping out the elements where you are is essential and should be given much thought. If living outside, having a good shelter is beyond important. Insulation is something everyone should become more familiar with.</div>
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22.<strong> How to start and maintain a fire.</strong> This is for everyone. Having a fire and keeping it going when you need to has been the essence to the very first people on the planet surviving. Fire cooks, heats water, keeps you warm, sterilizes items, and gives light. Having a lighter, matches, any starter is one thing, but actually keeping the fire going is another. Making sure the fire does not cause damage to your home or shelter is something not everyone thinks about. Burning of toxic wood or other material is something to remember never to do. Keeping a fire not too noticable to others is something everyone should remember because normally a fire means FOOD to a hungry person. While most everyone thinks that using a fire is rudimentry, there is much more to it.</div>
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23. <strong>Obtain water and purify it.</strong> This is one of the most rehashed subjects of survival but probably the most important one. Most people just assume the taps will continue to flow and water will be there. Preppers that take water as extremely urgent often forget just how heavy water is and the hauling of water back and forth from a source such as a stream can be difficult as well as hazardous if it is wiser to stay inside for whatever reason. People need to know that unless water is from a spring it will likely need to be purified and this means some reliable filters or boiling it which requires heat from a fire, along with pots to boil it in.</div>
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Aside from drinking, water is also needed to rehydrate food, make milk from powder, and of course cleaning yourself with. We all have to have a certain amount of liquid a day, and juice and other sources will suffice, but water is something that everyone still needs in order to keep their bodies healthy and functioning, as well as to remove toxins in the body. Water need and how much water will be used is something that is often vastly underestimated by many.</div>
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24. <strong>Learn how to grow food and or find it.</strong> People’s supplies will only last so long, and eventually self sufficiency with acquiring food will become necessary. Many people are into seed storing, and in many cases growing your own food will feed the family. However growing food has many drawbacks that people need to look at. Water is an issue in dry areas as irrigation is very manpower or animal power dependent. Growing season is a huge consideration as most of the U.S.</div>
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is under 300 days of rain a year. Pest problems are enormous as pest control, pesticides both natural herbicides and chemical, are not going to be readily available. One of the gravest things to contemplate about is actually guarding your yield, as two legged problems could be a bigger issue to your crops than some beetle infestation. Hungry people will see food growing and take it, 24 hours a day. No one can grow enough food to feed all those seeking food. From a practical sense, it might be a better idea for some to go the hunter and gathering approach.</div>
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25. <strong>Learn how to defend yourself and be willing to do it.</strong> This almost certainly means owning a firearm and knowing how to use it and be willing to use it to protect yourself or others. Many TV survival documentaries shows have people that feel they can defend themselves with knives, clubs, whatever, but in reality against someone else with a firearm they are going to lose 95%+ of the time. A firearm is an extension of a weapon that has speed and force behind it. Even the humble .22 caliber can stop any person. Many people think that they cannot use a firearm against another person, but this feeling changes abruptly when they see one of their family members at risk. Some people still cannot use a firearm, and in this case should consider some form of self defense such as the non-lethal devices including stun batons, pepper sprays, TASERS, even ball bats. </div>
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NO ONE should ever consider themselves to be safe after a SHTF event, NEVER. People can feel that everyone will come together and rebuild society, many good people will, but there are plenty of bad people in this world. It may come down to you or them. Everyone needs to practice and practice with any self defense armament they have, so there is no hestiation when it comes to saving one’s life from someone that is willing to take yours.</div>
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These are 25 suggestions that people need to address now, before trying to survive the aftermath of a horrible event that sends the normalcy that everyone has become accustomed to down the drain for extended periods of time. People that prepare have to realize that when civilization stops functioning so does everything that most of us depend on. There may never be that safety net there for us to fall into WHEN our stocked up survival supplies run dry. Much of survival is having supplies, as well as backups for when food, water, and other necessities cannot be found. </div>
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The other part is being ready for everything our new life could throw in our way. For this we all need to learn survival skills. At least think about it and then hopefully act upon it. When someone thinks about their personal needs, an individual can probably add many more survival skills to these 25. They should become quite proficient with the skills they presonally need and can use NOW before SHTF so they have a better chance of surviving some nightmare series of events that “seem” like an inevitability in the not too near distant future.</div>
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Our modern society is highly dependent upon we’ll call the “system.” Not only do we rely upon utility services to bring us electricity, water and natural gas, but also on an incredibly complex supply chain which provides us with everything from food to computers. Without that supply chain, most of us wouldn’t know what to do.</div>
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This situation is actually becoming worse, rather than better. When I compare my generation (I’m in my 50s) to that of my children, I see some striking differences. In my generation it was normal for a boy to grow up learning how to do a wide variety of trade skills from his father, and seemingly everyone knew how to do basic carpentry and mechanic work. But that’s no longer normal.</div>
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If we extrapolate it back, we can see that my father’s generation knew even more – and my grandparent’s <br />
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But if we were to have a breakdown in society, those skills which we never bothered to learn would become essential. Those who don’t know these skills would either have to learn or die trying.</div>
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Here are 10 skills our grandparents knew that most of us have long forgotten:</div>
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During World War II, there was a campaign for people to plant “Victory Gardens” at their homes. These vegetable gardens were needed to alleviate food shortages, because so much of the nation’s produce was being sent overseas to keep our troops and those of our allies fighting. With fewer men available to work the farms, there was less produce available.</div>
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This custom of having a vegetable garden in one’s backyard survived for many years after the war was over, but it gradually died out. Today, when many people think of gardening, they are thinking of a flower garden. While those are nice to look at, they don’t give you much to eat.</div>
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Starting and growing a vegetable garden can be harder than most people think. When I started gardening, it took me three years to get more than just herbs and a smattering of produce out of it. I’m glad I didn’t wait until I needed that garden for survival.</div>
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Although the industrial revolution took place more than 100 years ago, many people continued to raise at least a small amount of their own livestock at home. This led to cities enacting ordinances limiting what animals people could keep within city limits.</div>
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Raising dogs and cats is much different than raising chickens, rabbits and goats for the table. A large part of being able to raise these animals is recognizing their needs and being able to diagnose their sicknesses. Farmers don’t depend upon the vet for most illnesses; they take care of it themselves.</div>
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It’s rare to find people who preserve their own foods, but in our grandparent’s generation, it was common. Canning food, smoking meats and even making one’s own sausage were all common home tasks, which ensured that people had enough food to get through the winter. Today, it’s rare to find people who know these methods of food preservation, let alone having the equipment needed.</div>
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If we go back very far in American live, pretty much every middle class home had a smokehouse for preserving meats. I’ve seen some homes where the smokehouse was actually in the kitchen chimney. Instead of building a normal chimney, they had a very wide one, with enough room to hang sides of beef in it for smoking.</div>
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You might think that blacksmithing goes all the way back to the Old West, but in actuality it is a skill that stayed around much longer than that. My dad was a blacksmith in his later years, although most of the work he did was ornamental.</div>
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I remember traveling in Mexico about 20 years ago and having a spring on my car’s suspension break. A local blacksmith fashioned me a new spring, tempered and shaped exactly right for my vehicle. Blacksmiths can make or repair just about anything out of metal. Yet few today know this valuable skill.</div>
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Maybe we don’t need blacksmiths today, but if an EMP hit the country and we were without electrical power, the skills of a blacksmith would allow people to have their tools repaired — and new ones fashioned. Since the manufacturing plants presumably would be shut down, that ability would be essential for rebuilding America.</div>
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Everyone should know how to make basic repairs to their home. Without the ability to repair damage from a natural disaster, it might not be possible to use the home as a survival shelter. Woodworking skills also allow one to make furniture and other items to help survive.</div>
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Depending upon the type of disaster that hits, the family car may just end up being a large paperweight. But there are many survival scenarios where it would be useful to be able to fix your car, keeping it running for general use. As long as there is gasoline, that car would be useful.</div>
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The ability to diagnose and repair an engine is useful not only for keeping a car on the road, but also for fixing lawn mowers, chain saws and other power tools.</div>
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The roots of medicine were herbal medicine. While doctors have existed for millennia, it hasn’t been until recent times that those doctors had such a wide range of pharmaceuticals to work with. Before that, doctors made their own medicines.</div>
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Many women also learned to use what nature provided for medicine. It was not uncommon a few generations back for mom to take care of her family’s medical needs, using recipes that she had learned from her mother. Today, that sort of medicine is called “old wives’ tales” but it works just as well as it always did.</div>
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This may not seem like much of a survival skill, but in the Old West, stealing a man’s horse was a hanging offense. That’s because being stranded without a horse was generally a death sentence. While horseback riding today is only done for sport, if the automobile becomes no longer usable, people will be looking for horses once again.</div>
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Riding a horse is actually more complicated than the movies make it appear. Breaking a horse is a skill that few know. Likewise, there are few today, outside of the drivers for the Budweiser Clydesdales, who know how to hitch and drive a team of horses. But in America’s past, our ancestors drove teams with as many as 40 horse or mules in them.</div>
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Now, I know there are a lot of hunters out there, maybe even some who are reading this. But I have to say that a lot of what we call hunting today and what I learned as a kid are nothing alike. I have a hard time calling it hunting when corn is put out as bait and the hunter hides in a blind, waiting for their choice deer to come to eat.</div>
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Real hunting, at least what they did in the past, involved knowing the animal’s habits and staking out a place where the animals were likely to come. It required patience, understanding of the animals being hunted — and a pretty good shot with the rifle.</div>
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Raising an animal is one thing, butchering it is another. Few hunters even know how to properly butcher an animal, as most take them to a butcher for cutting up and packaging. Yet, an animal which is not properly cleaned and butchered can cause disease. You can also waste a lot of good meat by not doing it correctly.</div>
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