DO YOU REALLY WISH TO BE
NUMBERED AMONG THE SURVIVORS?
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO
SURVIVE A MAJOR DISASTER? THEN GET REAL. GO BACK TO THE WAYS OF YOUR GREAT
GRANDPARENTS.
THEN HOME CANNING IS NOT A WASTE OF TIME.
MANY OF THE MODERN “BUSHCRAFT/SURVIVAL COURSES AND THE MACHO GAMES ARE.
FOR MOST OF US, SURVIVAL WILL BE VERY SERIOUS STUFF-A MATER OF LIFE OR DEATH. SURVIVAL WILL NOT, EVER, BE A MILITARY EXERCISE, OR VIDEO GAME OR REALITY ADVENTURE TV SOAP OPERA.
The methods and skills as used
by your grandfather, grandmother, and great grandparents, in helping to ensure
their everyday survival are still the very best bet, if you wish to survive a
major disaster in today's modern technically advanced but
none too health or survival savvy world.
Major disasters still happen and
will continue to happen, on an ever increasing scale, somewhere in the world.
Are you, if one hit your neighbourhood, next month, next week, tomorrow, in the
very next minute?
As is true of any disaster, when an earthquake flood, forest fire, hurricane, landslide/mudslide, tornado etch
strikes, many of the necessities of life are suddenly-instantly gone.
Electricity is almost always the first to go—natural gas the first to be turned
off for safety reasons, if the lines didn't already break. Water
lines break and those that don't may soon be filled with water that is not safe
to drink. Streets are suddenly not passable or at least not safe for vehicles.
Vehicles are trapped by garage doors that can’t open. If your vehicle is
assessable and you can or dare venture out, the streetlights and traffic
signals won't be working—there will be general panic-- leaving you in
great danger at every intersection. When, and if, you do reach a store, they
can only accept cash (modern cash registers run only on electricity). You dare
not start driving any distance, since you will not be able to get gas-the pumps
run on electricity. Your home will get colder and colder, because there isn't any heat and of course, there will be no light.
YOUR FROZEN AND/OR REFRIGERATED
FOODS WILL ALL BEGIN TO SPOIL; YOUR CANNED OR OTHERWISE PRESERVED PRODUCTS WILL
NOT. ALSO ALWAYS REMEMBER,THAT WHILE DRIED PACKAGED FOODS DO OFFER MANY
ADVANTAGES IN A SURVIVAL SITUATION; THEY ALSO PRESENT ONE SERIOUS PROBLEM IN
THAT THEY REQUIRE THE ADDITION OF LIQUID (WATER) EITHER WHEN COOKING OR WHEN
EATING--IF YOU ARE ALREADY LIVING ON SHORT WATER RATION, THEY WILL CAUSE
FURTHER DEHYDRATION.
None of this is easy to cope with,
especially if you are unprepared but you'll still want to SURVIVE and survive
with as few ill effects and as little inconvenience as possible. For the long
term effects, you need to prepare like you would if you were leaving home to
explore, or pioneer a new and remote area far from the conveniences, amenities
support systems, and supply lines you are used to relying on. For the
short-term effects, you need to think:
FIRST AID—WHAT IS NEEDED? WHAT IS NEEDED FIRST?
Hurricane Sandy
May Turn the Tide on Climate Change
“Our climate is changing,” writes Mayor
Bloomberg. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in
New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk
that it might be — given this week’s devastation — should compel all elected
leaders to take immediate action.”
Though New York and New Jersey bore the brunt of Sandy’s
destruction, at its peak, the storm reached 1,000 miles across, killed more
than 100 people in 10 states, knocked out power to 8.5 million homes and
businesses and cancelled nearly 20,000 flights. Damage has been estimated $50
billion, making Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history, behind
Hurricane Katrina.
Sandy killed 69 people in the Caribbean before turning north
and hammering the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Monday with 80 mile-per-hour
(130-kph) winds and a record surge of seawater that swallowed Oceanside
communities in New Jersey and New York, and flooded streets and subway tunnels
in New York City.
Hurricane Sandy housing crisis: Superstorm displaces 40,000
New Yorkers
“People
are in homes that are uninhabitable,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said
alongside Bloomberg at a news conference. “People don’t like to leave their
home, but the reality is going to be in the temperature
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