2006RUS

Learning to survive is more important today than ever before. Nothing is stable anymore, the economy is in ruins. Countries are collapsing faster than souffles baking on a freight train. Jobs are becoming scarce and food shortages may become realty. Now is the best time to learn how to become self sufficient or at least, at the very minimum, how to save your own skin in an emergency. To survive you need to have the right skills, you need good survival gear, you need to maintain a stable optimistic frame of mind, and having a little luck can’t hurt. Finally you need to have a plan to deal with emergencies.

Getting through a disaster alive requires simple but specialized skills and tactics. Survival skills are easy to learn but, they still must be acquired before a disaster happens. When there are riots, floods, severe storms and other emergencies that may cut off access to normal methods of getting food and protection, you need to know what to do to keep your self alive. You have to know a few ways to make a fire to keep yourself warm during cold weather as well as to cook food. You need to learn where to get food when commercially available food is not available or has run out. You need to learn medical skills that will allow you to treat your injuries should you get any. You need know how to build a shelter to protect yourself in case you are exposed in hospitable conditions.

To make your life easier and to increase your chances of staying alive during any disaster, a blizzard or a riot for example, you should gather together specialized equipment or gear that will help things like that happen. Your survival gear should be kept in a bag or pack, also called a bug out bag, in an easily accessible but secure place. This kit should include, at the minimum, implements for finding or hunting food, things for treating any injuries you may have sustained. It should also include temporary shelter and tools to make a more permanent shelter.

You will be overwhelmed if during a catastrophe you don’t maintain self control. You need to get a grip on your emotions and keep a positive mindset. If you let negative thoughts take control of you and lose hope you could succumb to death.

It is a bad idea to hope for random good luck during a disaster, but you can create your own luck. Learning to utilize items you may find around you in different ways then they were designed to be used will help you make your own good luck. Thinking about different uses for the objects you find will save your life when you need to survive, because often enough when you are put into a bad state you need to improvise.

Lastly you need to create emergency plan. Your plan should contain procedures you will utilize during a disaster. You need to know where to go, how you get to your predetermined location, how to signal for help, how you will get food and so forth.

It should include event specifics, i.e. blackout survival procedures vs. food shortage survival procedures. Before you draft your plan, write down what disasters you could encounter based upon where you live. Put them in order of most likely to happen to least likely to happen, and then modify your plan from there.

The world is getting to be an unforgiving place. With civil unrest, Job loss and soon food shortages becoming the norm, you need to get the knowledge and learn the skills that will save your life if these things come knocking on your door.

Joshua V Archer is an avid survivalist and contributing author at Survival Gear Plus.To learn more about emergency kits or how to create magnesium fire starters. Visit www.survivalgearplus.com

Approximately a year ago my closest friend urged me to read through World War Z by Max Brooks. In the beginning I was pretty averse. Zombie style stuff just simply wasn’t for me. Just after some pushing, I came around and purchased the book. A chapter into it and I was not able to put the book down; I was hooked. After that, I plowed through several related books and movies. What actually seduced me by Zombie Apocalypse fictional works was the similarity between real life scenarios and what various writers like Max Brooks have been creating. I came to understand the key reasons why a large number of people in and around survival communities frequently had an interest in Zombie Apocalypse Fiction and would say silly expressions including, “When the Zombie Apocalypse comes.” I now grasp that for them, and at present for me, Zombies became a metaphor.

If you simply swap Zombie Apocalypse with economic collapse, pandemic, or natural disaster you could still have effectively the very same story. This is the reason why Zombie Fiction makes such a riveting metaphor for modern-day survival, and especially Urban Survival. It does not matter if we are debating about undead hordes or rioting mobs, the nuts and bolts are all the same. It has grow to be a solution for several individuals to convey the same exact basic concept about two outwardly different topics of survival.

The euphemism of Zombies makes having a dialogue a little less difficult. It’s far easier to say, “When the Zombies Apocalypse comes” and sound like a nerd than it is to say, “When X happens” and sound like a tin foil hat-wearing crazy person. We can hypothesize about it, play with it, and it’s all in jest. Hypothesizing about real-world troubles that can present themselves is far more problematic. You remove the sentiment from the dialogue when you’re talking euphemistically.

Zombies are certainly not realistic. Perhaps in some kind of hosed-up, genetically altered virus gone Will Smith drastically wrong, presumably they could happen. Other than what could conceivably happen, it has not transpired yet, or at least there is no confirmation that Zombies exist. I just want to get this out of the way right now before anyone makes this out to be in in any manner, me believing in Zombies, and believes that I have lost my freakin mental faculties. Finally, Zombies realistic? NO.

Zombie Apocalypse Fiction gives modern Preppers the chance to get nearby to their worries without touching them outright. It’s one thing to examine a horrific tale about Zombies taking over the earth and mankind caught in a war for our very survival. It is quite another to read through a narrative about the failure of a nation and its residents wrapped in a fight for their existence. When you close the Zombie book, the fight is over or at least paused. It’s easy to state, “That could never happen” and write off the tale sufficient to rest with ease. This is much harder to do when the scenario is nearer to home. In the end, Zombie Fiction makes it possible for its readers to voyage through a hypothetical collection of scenarios without the fear of getting eaten by them.

Learn more about Urban Survival and possibly become an Urban Survivalist you should definitely checkout In The Rabbit Hole.

Emergency kits may mean the difference between life and death of you and your family in an emergency. There are many types of disasters and emergencies: fires, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes. The government action plan for a major disaster is three to seven days to start providing workers to the area. 72 hours is three days – it would be a good idea to put together a survival kit that you could live on for seven to ten days.

Instead of dismissing this kind of planning out of hand; remember the types of disasters that happened in the past 15 years. Imagine what one of these would be like if you had nothing with you but what you were wearing. Even worse, consider the elderly or children that are in your care and how they would cope. To ease your mind, start creating your survival bags immediately.

Before you start packing or purchasing anything, consider what the most probable situational scenario is based upon where you are. This will lead to what you plan to do in the event of an emergency. For example, if your home is close by the ocean and the most probable problem is a hurricane, then your plan should include packing your vehicle with what you need and driving to a safe place. If you live in a city then you probably will be walking to safety either because you have no car or the streets will be so gridlocked that walking is the only option. If you live in a relatively protected area inland, then you will probably hunker down in your home.

Even though you should get ready for the most likely scenario, you should also have a fallback plan. There may come a time in your life when you have to get away as fast as possible, and you will be unsure as to what help and support you will get while on the way. That is when you should have one of these kits ready to go.

Prepare 72 hour kits for every person in your family. Start by getting a rucksack that is a size and capacity that the person can carry all day. You do not have to buy the bag to start putting together the items of the kit, however. Set aside two complete sets of rugged clothes that you no longer wear, but would serve well in an emergency. Then plan on what you are going to need for food, water, and shelter, and get it. Pack light so you can take it all.

Start preparing immediately, and be ready for when disaster strikes.

Create your emergency preparedness checklist for you and your family. See how to do it at 72 hour survival kits.

Think back across the last 10 years and about disasters that caused disruption of the fragile food supply chain that brings everything to the supermarkets. What if you were in the Gulf Coast area when Hurricane Katrina hit? How about within a few hundred miles of Mount Saint Helens and the ash fall area? Now ask yourself if you are a place that could be affected by a natural disaster like an earthquake, hurricane, flooding or anything else that can disrupt the food supply chain.

Do you have loved ones in your family that depend on you to provide for them? How would you feel if you can not take care of your family and children? Visualize what it would be like day after day looking at your hungry and thirsty children and not being able to do anything about it. The time to stop something like that from taking place is now.

Here are three tips to help you get started on putting together a plan.

Make sure you have a safe place that everybody knows to come to. For many people this will be their house, but it also could be a cabin up in the woods, or a relative’s house. It is best to have a place that is accessible and won’t have hordes of people that will take your supplies.

Have a source of water, a way to keep it, and a way to get fresh water. A good way to do this is to have a well dug on your property. Another is to find a river or pond close by and ensure you have water filtration equipment on hand.

Have a reserve of food available. You can start by getting some cases of canned soup and hotdogs locally, but to do this well you should calculate the quantity of calories that you may require based on the quantity of people that are dependent on you and how long you think food will be needed. Also, make sure that food does not spoil by rotating it regularly or getting food created for long-term storage.

The time to prepare for a disaster so you can ensure your survival of your family is before the disaster happens. Make a plan and take action now.

Find out more about disaster preparedness supplies so you can properly prepare your family for an emergency at http://disasterpreparednesssupplies.org

According to some recent studies , ” surviving a martial law in America could very possibly be more of a reality than most of us are even dreaming of. Truth is, no one really knows what could happen or if anything ever will.

And for that very reason, it will never hurt to be prepared.

It is not for the faint-hearted or weak knee’ed!

It is not for the faint-hearted!

MOST Americans have their heads buried in the sand and are trusting the government will take care of them , regardless what happens.

But if that is where our brains are still at, we couldn’t be further from the truth.

Should there be a Martial Law in 2010, there could be a rude awakening for many of us.

EXCEPT FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE PREPARED!

So few Americans know anything about the information below…

About the secret that is more important than guns food or money …?

What group of conservative Americans could be the first to disappear under martial law in America…?

Or What are the 5 rules of martial law ?

How to be one of the few that will have access to cell phones, radios, etc. … while experiencing a global energy crisis.

What the most dangerous agency in the US is… you’d never know

The 15 essential supplies you GOTTA have to survive a martial law in 2010

Very few people will know the answers to these questions.

If YOU don’t know the answers to these questions… don’t worry. There are ways that you can GET those answers!

Verba Greiltz has written hundreds of survival and emergency articles and learning how to survive martial law. Make sure you grab the Survive Martial Law guide she recommends to help you get prepared for any such event.