Because my group is here I am going to post this here, I think this is 25 things we as a group should know inside out.....
Better to have it and not need it; then to need it and not have it...
Pretty good stuff there
No matter how good or bad your life is, wake up each day thankful because someone somewhere else right now is fighting for theirs
Traveller,
Great article at Before It's News. A true must read in you plan to survive when the SHTF.
For those without the time to click over to the article here are the headlines:
1.Prepare for the worst.
2.Learn and train your mind to expect the totally unexpected.
3.Learn to live meager.
4.Find personal motivators to continue on.
5.Understand the world and potential disasters that await.
6.Make plans and stick to them.
7.Understand how you’ll react.
8.Understand the psychology of desperate people.
9.Be clever and inventive.
10. Learn and condition yourself into a survival mentality.
11. Know where you are going.
12. Learn how to maintain light at night.
13. Learn how to hide.
14. Maintain proper hygiene.
15. How to dispose of waste and proper sanitation.
16. Learn to control pest and other vermin.
17. Understand radiation and fallout and how to protect yourself.
18. Learn how to forecast the weather.
19. Learn first aid.
20. Learn about nutrition.
21. Learn to keep body temperature uniform.
22. How to start and maintain a fire.
23. Obtain water and purify it.
24. Learn how to grow food and or find it.
25. Learn how to defend yourself and be willing to do it.
For those who want more details - click on the link and read the article.
Looks like Hurricane Sandy is hammering the US Eastern Seaboard pretty bad. Soon to hit the our Maritime region. I sure hope you folks down East are stocked up and ready for this storm.
Cheers,
Mountainman.
This is written by the same guy that does the earthquake predictions (BI). Good list except for #9. Either you got it or you don't, everything else can be learned.
That list looks pretty good. The only thing I noticed missing was to be in good physical condition, unless I didn't read it well enough.
Being overweight or a smoker won't increase your chances of anything good happening to you (or so I hear) especially after a disaster of any kind.
If your home library contains more volumes about survival-related topics than your local public library, you might be a prepper.
I echo what everyone has said... Excellent list!
The thing about lists is that we have to make sure we don't just read them ONLY... We need to heed them, too. They remind us of what we may need to learn more about or to sharpen a skill, or practice, etc.
Thanks for the good link.
a good read and good sensible points were well engaged and just enough so as to not loose the casual reader with details that would loose many of the newer preppers.
Things I say are my opinion, which is like belly buttons everybody has one.
Anything I say is not meant to anger or offend just to encourage discussion between adults.