6 Life Saving Uses for this Common Christmas Gift
Are you one of the millions of people who got yet ANOTHER pair of socks for Christmas? While socks might not be as glamorous as a new big screen TV, don’t be so quick to roll your eyes and toss them into the sock pile black hole. Add them to your emergency kit! When TSHTF, you have to be creative, and having items in your kit, like socks, that can serve multiple purposes can be the key to survival. Check out [...]
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The Ultimate SHTF Urban Evacuation Plan
If you live in a big city and you’ve been reading about survival, you know by now that it will be harder to get out of the city center in an emergency than it would be if you lived in the suburbs or a small town. All you have to do is look at recent events in Europe to see this is true and that you need an evacuation plan. The capital city of Belgium, Brussels, was under lockdown for [...]
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Top Basic Survival Skills for SHTF
Perhaps you’ve heard that lovely little bit of poetry which says that “food, clothing, and shelter are the basic necessities for survival.” If you have, I hope you haven’t paid too much attention to it. While I’ll have to agree that all three of those are necessary for survival, if you base any survival strategy on that short list, you’ll die. Whoever came up with that actually left the two biggest needs off the list of basic survival skills, [...]
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Ebola Prevention: 6 Tips on Staying Ebola Free
With the Ebola scare spreading as two nurses contact the disease while treating a patient in Dallas, we’ve been getting many questions on best practices for Ebola prevention. Although Ebola has been commonly known to spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of inflicted individuals, research shows that it may also spread through suspended droplets in the air when someone sneezes or coughs. As a former EMT, co-founder of RTGS, and a guy who hangs around with people [...]
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Urban Survival Preparedness—The 4 Main Challenges
Are you one of the 83.7% of Americans that live in an urban environment? If so, it is important to look at the unique challenges of city living when making your urban survival preparedness plan. In this article we are going to look at a few of the most important urban-specific challenges. We will show you how you can plan around them to ensure you thrive when the next disaster strikes. Challenge 1: Packing an Urban-Specific Survival Kit The Ultimate Urban [...]
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