What Is The Best Survival Preparedness Item?
February 4, 2012
One answer to the question, “What is the best prep item to have?” is… drum-roll please… BLEACH.
Your reaction may be one of surprise since I didn’t say a firearm, a hoard of rice and beans, gold or silver coins, or any other number of the nearly infinite preparedness supplies that one may choose to acquire first. The fact is however, when examining what it is that we need most to survive, the answer is WATER.
While our body gets much of its water from the foods that we eat, the fact is that we cannot survive without water for much longer than 72 hours. This is a cold hard fact that many or most people take for granted or perhaps don’t even know about.
When determining a priority for what to acquire first for general survival preparedness needs, the logical choice is a method of acquiring clean drinking water. Since in most areas of the country water is not terribly difficult to find (exempt drought areas and deserts), a key element to the water you procure is its cleanliness and disinfection of bacteria and pathogens.
Common non-scented household bleach contains chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) in a 5 – 6% concentration and has the ability to kill bacteria and germs in water during any questionable situation including a disaster scenario where the existing water may become contaminated.
The main ingredient in public water supplies that is used to keep the water safe, is chlorine. Following a major disaster, the public water supply may become contaminated. Having household bleach on hand will assure you of the ability to disinfect your water.
Bleach will of course NOT remove sediment or harmful chemicals from a water source, however it WILL kill off harmful pathogens in the water. If you do not have a means of boiling water, using a small amount of chlorine bleach will kill pathogens, germs, and bacteria.
How do I use chlorine bleach to disinfect water?
1. Remove suspended particles by filtering or letting particles settle to the bottom. Pour clear water into a clean container.
2. Add 8 drops of Regular-Bleach to one gallon of water (2 drops to 1 quart). For cloudy water, use 16 drops per gallon of water (4 drops to 1 quart).
3. Let treated water to stand for 30 minutes. Water should have a slight bleach odor. If not, repeat and wait another 15 minutes. The treated water can then be made palatable by pouring it between clean containers several times.
A perfect companion for Bleach as a preparedness item is a quality drinking water filter. Personally, I prefer the Big Berkey for homestead living, while there are also many additional smaller or portable quality filters available.
How long will Bleach hold its potency? About one year. After a year, the potency will be reduced, not eliminated. Rotate your bleach products as a precaution.
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Some Of The First Preps To Disappear
January 30, 2012
Following the onset of a regional (or wider) disaster, if and when it becomes known that the disaster is going to last for a week or more, many or most items will disappear from store shelves. It is a given that food of all varieties will be one of the first things to go. But apart from that, here are just a few of the many other items that may disappear sooner than others, given their importance or impact on daily living in today’s modern world.
In no particular order, excluding foods,
Water Filters/Purifiers
Propane Cook-stoves, Coleman stoves
Propane cylinders and Coleman fuel
Gasoline Containers
Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, Tissues
Flashlights, torches, lanterns, candles
Batteries
Generators
Portable propane heaters (if during winter), Firewood
Ammunition (Firearms will be difficult to purchase once TSHTF)
Aluminum Foil (lots of uses)
Matches and Lighters
Personal hygiene products (toothpaste, soap, shampoo, shaving, etc.)
Alcohol, cigarettes
While there are so many supplies and items that we all use over a period of time, these struck me as potentially some of those that will be in greater initial demand and may be hard to find once TSHTF.
It may be a good idea to procure some extras of these items now rather than later, assuming that you could use any of them following a major disaster.
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How To Divert The Unprepared From Your Preps
January 15, 2012
Guest post: by ‘Be informed’
Most people are probably going to be much better off after a society crushing event to be located away from highly densely populated centers. Unfortunately the majority of everyone lives in suburbia or in urban areas, and the problems of total or near breakdown of civilization are usually magnified there. Even in rural areas the anguish of collapse will be apparent and a problem. For those that failed to plan and put away what they need, their main issue is going to be food, clean water, and their everyday needs. For those that have prepared and sacrificed to be ready, “just in case”, their main problem is keeping what they have.
The prepper and survival driven person needs solutions to be able to better handle the fact that people are going to be coming for what they have in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Some people will turn their homes into forts, and battle to the end before anyone takes what they have saved up. For these people there are plenty of survival military manuals and training that go into great detail how to defend your home from booby trapping everything to every weapon you can imagine. For the person that has stored up and wants to survive as long as possible there are some less drastic measures (solutions). It should be remembered though, everyone should have some form of reliable self defense.
First and foremost what you have is your LIFELINE, it may be all that you have to work with for an indefinite amount of time. Sharing with those who are unprepared could cost you your chance of making it. You cannot feed everyone. There are precautions you can take beforehand to make your stocks safer. There are viable solutions that can be taken to try to avoid dangerous confrontations. There are things you can do to bypass hurt feelings with those you share a community with so as not to come back to haunt you if there is a recovery of the society.
Pre-planning and securing food and supplies.
- Find good hiding places for everything. A storm cellar is wonderful because it is buried, can be concealed, a place for personal safety, and it is cool and if properly insulted frost free for supplies. If moisture is a problem, keeping everything in plastic air tight boxes should solve this. Other hiding places include in the attic under insulation, inside walls, crawlspaces, anywhere you can hide your supplies, as you know your house best.
- Many people will stack food and other items in plain view of all to see, a simple window covering in a store room will not let people see in to what you have.
- If you can afford it, get enough plywood and screws for every window in the house. After a disaster your windows are vulnerabilities that can be shot out or broken for many reasons. Without windows you are at the mercy of the weather elements, harmful insects and animals, people having an easier time of getting in, and you become more visible.
- Don’t let anyone you don’t trust know what you are doing beforehand. Find reliable people you can count on and add them to your group. Safety in numbers.
Some suggestions for helping to keep people away after a cataclysm.
- On top of not being visible to others, keep your home as void of light during the nighttime as possible. Try to keep your home as blending in with the darkness as you can. People can see the dimmest light for miles.
- Be aware of the smell of food. Aromas of cooking food can be smelled for long distances, especially meats.
- Bury all your trash. This keeps disease down, and does not let desperate people know you have been eating food that there is probably more of.
- Make the outside of your place look more rundown and less appealing. Like during regular times the homes that look like they have nothing, are less likely to be ransacked. It doesn’t take much to quickly make a house look worse than it actually is.
- Avoid movements and noise. Where there are people there is food, and things that others need.
- A clever tactic that can work to keep others away is to spray paint in big red letters “QUARANTINED” across your home, even add “DANGER VERY SICK PEOPLE”. Most people don’t want to add to their misery being deathly sick or eating food contaminated by someone with a deadly disease.
When people come knocking at your door,
You can of course confront people with force, but doing this can send out a message you have something well worth fighting for and end up in a fierce battle being outgunned. It may be the only way, but there can be alternatives to this.
- Try never to allow people in your home, but if it happens, have clutter and unkempt surroundings to keep their focus on. Like the outside of your home, look like you have nothing.
- Physically look shabby and depressed like you have nothing.
- Admit to nothing you have stored, even like saying the mistake of saying you ONLY have 2 weeks of food. People will want you to share even this with them.
- Discussion about what you have, should include key words like; meager, little, very limited, bare, empty, sparse, etc.
- If you just have to give away some food, make it seem like it’s a huge sacrifice to do so. Less likely for someone to think you have much more.
- Give away food first to those with children as this makes you appear like you are doing what you can.
- Be ready for any excuse for someone to try to get into your home to see what you have.
- Never talk to a large crowd of people, mob mentality rules and you will find this out.
- Have only one person be the spokesperson for your group. One person is less likely to make a mistake than several that could let out what you have.
- Watch people’s eyes closely when talking to them, beware of the “sizing it up” wandering eyes. Never look away. Watch the body language.
- Remain calm and say what you mean and don’t change your mind, this doesn’t open up for all sorts of manipulation of people trying to get you to feed everyone till you have nothing.
- Don’t let others make you feel bad about sitting on your hoard while they suffer. Convince them that you wish you had food to feed everyone but you don’t. Even make it believable that you are worse off then those coming to your door. Sickness is again something to play on, people are ill inside.
- Get a person’s thought sidetracked what you “might” have, to what the person or people are going to do, ask them about their plans for the future.
- Without discriminating, the more overweight someone is the more desperate they are going to be to eat, the more likely that they are not going to take no for an answer. The more likely they are going to hound you or do something drastic to get any food that may be around.
- To try to predict how people will react, picture yourself in their situation and ask yourself what you would do.
This gives you a foundation to think about and plan for if and when people come to your door wanting what you might have.
- Have a collection of native plants, such as dandelions, that are eatable and discuss with your neighbors that this is what you have been living on and they can also find this around the city. This should curb their interest that you have much or any stored up food for them.
This is a set of ideas that can help you keep a hold of what you have to survive, those things that you have saved up for and sacrificed for to be prepared. It must be realized by most of us that we all have a degree of warmth and compassion for those hungry and desperate, it is called humanity. The problem with this is that you cannot support and keep everyone alive and thriving unless you are a multimillionaire and have all sorts of stored food and supplies and other means of manufacturing food and needs.
You can attempt to feed and supply everyone that you can, and end up with nothing, and in the same sinking boat as everyone else. You also can decide to keep what you have prepared for and try to survive for your family’s and group’s sake, and attempt to keep what you have by using these methods or other inventive and creative ways of avoiding “giving or having the shirt taken off your back”.
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2012, Be Ready Before End of Summer
January 13, 2012
Guest post: by ‘TripodXL’
How far back do you remember hearing about “2012″? I was a field service engineer for a company that mfg’ed CAT scanners and other high end, medical, imaging equipment and on one service call in 1997, the customer asked me what we (the company) were doing to prepare our equipment for Y2K. It was a deer-in-the-headlights moment.
My response was “Y2 what?” I can assure you that after appropriate research that within 6 months I had a two years supply of preps for Y2K.
It (Y2K) was not in common public knowledge until well into 1998, going into 1999 (less than a year away). The movie, “2012″ was released almost 2 years ago and was advertised for 6 months before that. I can find references for 2012 that go back to 2006, that’s a 6+ year lead time. What am I getting at? 2012 has reached the level of becoming a “self-fulfilling prophecy”.
Okay, what do you mean by that? Well, most people will tell you that they don’t believe in it, but deep inside, they wonder, “could it be true?” They don’t know if it is, but it nags at them, they just don’t want to seem stupid in front of their “peers”(?).
This is getting much more press than Y2K. There wasn’t, as far as I remember, a Y2K movie. There was really only a widely known run up to Y2K for the last 8-6 months before. There were long term preps that you could not find in the last 6 months. Well, 2012 has been on History/Discover/NGC/TLC/etc. for several years, 3-4 at least.
Here’s one scenario. It’s just past Halloween, October 31st, 2012. The weeks running up to Thanksgiving have been mostly uneventful, for the average do-nothing/know-nothing person. The summer before, Texas and the southern-central plains experienced the second “most severe drought on record” year in a row (this is, by the way, the 10th year in a probable, 20 year drought cycle).
It’s two weeks to Thanksgiving, a Thursday, and you are at the store and you notice that turkey is $5 a pound, wow that’s high (You’ve been watching the Kardashians, American Idol, Dancing with whomever, etc.) so you haven’t really noticed the food prices til now.
You begin to realize that many of the things that you use for the holiday aren’t there. “Well, I guess they’ll put them out this weekend.” Saturday, you go to the store, early, to get what you will need for turkey-day, and they’re out of many of the essentials. You can find string beans, for $1.89 a can, but nothing else and now the turkeys that are left, are $7.00 a pound.
The manager on duty explains the things that you haven’t been interested in for years, about the drought, the food shortages, grain prices, inflation and “these crazy-assed 2012 preppers” buying up everything. When he explains that even after the two trucks come in on Monday, it won’t be much better and the prices will probably be higher still, well, now, you’re pissed, and go around the store trying to find what you want, passing up things that would save your life, the more mundane items, like beans, rice, high calorie canned meats, pasta and sauce,peanut butter, crackers, cereal, dried milk, canned soups, cans or packages of complete meals, salt, Crisco etc.
You find all of the over-priced items for turkey-day “hors d’oeuvres” and a bunch of other high priced crap that won’t last long, plus one of those $8.00 a pound turkeys. You go home, mentally exhausted and frustrated. After a few hours on the internet and some deep breaths, you realize what has happened. While most people do not believe in catastrophe on December, 21st 2012, apparently most people are hedging their bets and have finally tried to stock up for it, just in case, and have created a retail grocery shortage.
After a few hours of contemplation you decide that you have the solution. You have a warehouse card, you just hate to go there with the “masses” just to save money, but that is where you will go, today. When you get there, the parking lot is jammed and after 15 minute of driving around you get a place and go in. You have to wait for a cart and then you have to wait to get in as there are too many in the store. I won’t continue the story, you get the picture. Just for happy endings let’s say she gets 50#s of beans and 50#s of rice, 5 12 packs of Mac&Cheese, and different kinds of canned meats etc. and some other things. For the sake of happiness, which is not reality, let’s just say she got what she needed, just in time.
Two weeks later the store was closed due to violence and lack of product to sell. It is the day after Thanksgiving and most grocery stores have little or nothing to sell except odd produce and other strange items.
It is now three and one half weeks to December 21/22, 2012. Will anything happen then? Personally, I doubt it as far as just the date itself. However, the problem is that you have a lame duck president that doesn’t want to leave office and HE is in charge of the military and through Executive Orders and other wonderful legislation, can declare martial law and suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He can declare a national emergency and keep the new president out of office, even arresting him for sedition and treason, if he so chooses.
2012 can become a self fulfilling prophecy. I suggest that you have ALL your preps done by the end of summer. I personally will try for the end of July, not that I have a lot left. Watch what unfolds, very carefully, you need to understand what is going on and how to persevere. Survive well. Enjoy.
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Be Prepared For Unprepared People
January 12, 2012
Guest post: by ‘Be informed’
In the aftermath of any unprecedented disastrous event, no matter how well prepared someone is with regards to a well accumulated stock of survival supplies, no one is truly ready or can anticipate how people will handle it. The emotional upheaval is difficult enough for yourself, throw in those around you within your circle of family and friends and you have some genuine stress. Nevertheless you are familiar and have certain bonds and mutual understandings with each other. Now, unless you are a totally isolated group, the actual issue is how those casual acquaintances, little known neighbors, people of your community, and strangers are going to act towards you and others when the normalcy and stable structure of society has broken down or collapsed.
It can be downright frightening to witness how a person you thought you knew becomes erratic and very volatile, a perfect word is “unhinged”. Try now to imagine that there is a calamity that goes into uncharted territory of overwhelming shock. You, your family, friends, maybe your whole neighborhood or even the better part of the city you live in might have stocked up and prepared to survive varying degrees of disasters. However, what do you do in regards to those that have NOT prepared?
This is mainly the issue that one is going to have to face with irrational people – the lack of their preparation and their need of food and other items. Aside from the obvious dangers of people that will try to come to your home or retreat and attempt to forcefully get what you have (which you should have defense plans for ahead of time), you might have to deal with individuals that are desperate, terrified, and disoriented. These people will come to your door in terrible distress, and whether you choose to answer the door will be a decision that you will have to make. You will have to decide whether to share what you have or not. I have personally reserved some food that I got with coupons for next to nothing for certain neighbors. Please beforehand, consider the following when thinking about handing out your supplies after a disaster.
Most people that have not stored away some food and supplies, other than those too poor to do so, have failed to “out of personal choice NOT to do so”. You and those in your group have gone without luxuries in order to prepare. Those that laughed at the idea of preparedness have spent their money on much useless junk, TOYS for amusement. Everything you give away will cut down on your family and group’s own time of survival. Survival food for 10 people for 3 months if shared with the average block of neighbors that is about 100 people that didn’t prepare will now only last 9 days. Think about the math and not being able to replace what you stored for your own survival before divvying it up. It may become quite difficult when very scared ill prepared people, nice and not so nice, come to your home and either plead or demand that you share.
An “in advance” solution that many people do not understand is to keep their mouths shut in regards to their preparations. Getting neighbors on board and getting them to store up is wonderful as this benefits all. Going around bragging about all the survival supplies you have and how you can make it through anything puts a great big fat bull’s eye on your home. You want to encourage and give valuable advice on how to stock up and store food and supplies to neighbors, not openly advertise that your house is a mini supermarket ripe for the pickens when the need presents itself. Too many make this mistake and become overly enthusiastic about prepping and forget the old adage that “loose lips sinks ships”.
On top of safeguarding what you have at all times, people MUST also watch over their dear pets. As repugnant as this sounds, some people are going to become ugly inside because of the desperateness of the dire situation and find and eat whatever animal is available. Someone MUST remain with their pets if they go outside or risk them disappearing. Your victory garden is also something that either has to be guarded at all times, or harvested early, to avoid the two legged varmints snatching every last vegetable and fruit you have growing. Disaster brings out some true weirdness in people, and people in your group should always go in at least pairs and children always have adults in their presence, if and when you must venture outside.
There are two extremes of unpredictable behavior to expect after a very intense and societal breakdown type of catastrophe. The first is not as likely at the offset, but becomes more probable as the time or lack of social order drags on. People begin to exhibit some raw animalistic behavior when doing whatever is necessary to get food and whatever they need and want. Ugliness that someone would expect in a prison in which just a handful of inmates have the remaining resources. Then there is the good nature of people that is supposed to separate the beast from man. This is where the community comes together and works for a common goal towards everyone’s survival. The standoffish neighbors are the ones out there with chainsaws clearing fallen trees and other debris. In other words, unpredictable stand and work togetherness. We can all hope!
Each community is different. But know this, whether it is intensely positive or horrifically negative, unprecedented and unbelievable disasters WILL bring about highly uncertain reactions in people around you. Any person planning survival and preparedness for future bad, ugly, and worst case events must understand and plan for; how to handle, adapt, and be ready for the many different “person to person equations” that will certainly continuously play out in everyone’s life.
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Ted’s Most Frequently Used Items While Living Off-Grid
January 8, 2012
From: ‘Ted K’
Having lived off grid for a while, I thought I would list the tools I used to build/fix wood picnic tables, log cabins and shelving within my district when I worked in a primitive recreation area. So here goes:
(1) Wood auger drill with the appropriate bits. The drill itself is a C shaped instrument which gives the user a tremendous amount of leverage to drill holes more efficiently with less effort.
(2) Single bit axe with a spare as standby. (When handles broke or became loose to unsafe degree, I would use the spare and replace the handle later at my leisure. Replacing wood handles is a good winter project. )
(3) Ratchet shaft screw drivers with replacement bits either self contained or in conjunction with a gunsmithing screwdriver set.
(4) Crosscut saw, hack saw with spare blades, folding type pruning saw to trim or remove branches about 2-3 ” in diameter.
(5) Ratchet wrenches with appropriate components.
(6) Vise grips in a variety of sizes and tips. (standard and needle-nose type)
(7) Work gloves and polycarbonate safety glasses.
(8) Either a chain saw or a misery whip to cut firewood into rounds to be split later. The only people I knew who used misery whips in the 1980s were exercise fanatics (misery whip is a two man cross-cut saw as seen in logging competitions. Their use is very aerobic and good for your body core). I was lazy and my dad taught me the care and feeding of internal combustion engines as a child so I was more comfortable using the chainsaw.
(9) Spitting maul and at least 4 wedges: 2 were splitting wedges to spit wood off a round. 2 more were long and thin to pound into the cut behind the chainsaw cut in order to prevent the blade from being pinched when dropping trees.
(10) Rope and string in large amounts.
(11) Shovel (s)
(12) Flat mill files to sharpen the axes, pulaskis and rat-tailed file to sharpen the chainsaw teeth.
(13) Cable pulley system known as a “come along”.
(14) Trailer hitch and ball for your car/truck.
Mind you that this was in addition to the full complement of fire-fighting hand tools of pulaskis, lady shovels, mcclouds.
Frequently, I was working alone so if my vehicle got stuck, it was up to me to get myself out of the mess.
This list was my effort to recall my MOST FREQUENTLY USED items when I was working and living off-grid. Too many years have passed and I am on my second glass of good red wine to remember everything i used. I believe I made my point though that to live off grid is a LOT of work with an inordinate amount of time trying to keep warm and dry.
I did my laundry in town and I went grocery shopping while my clothes spun in the machines.
Ken adds: I really enjoy reading the lists of others, which always vary somewhat depending on each person’s circumstances. In this case, I believe that Ted is a forest-fire-fighter. Lists always seem to bring on new insight or ideas. I also take special note of a key statement that Ted makes which reads, “…to live off grid is a LOT of work with an inordinate amount of time trying to keep warm and dry”.
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The Mega-Disaster Just Happened, What To Do?
January 5, 2012
Guest post: by ‘Be informed’
You wake up one morning early and turn on the TV and there is an emergency alert going off and on intermittently, in between these messages the news has been in bold red, “breaking news” and “alert”. A mega disaster the doomsayers have long been anticipating has just recently occurred. It can be any of what people consider a mega catastrophe. The mega cataclysm is going to be far more intense in scope than the smaller scale disasters such as the recent earthquakes and weather related calamities that were recoverable and more regional or local rather than worldwide. This one is going to hurt most or all of the world.
If you have not yet been directly affected then you have time, limited, to still ready yourself for the certain chaos to soon follow. The worst course of action for anyone at this point to do is to sit mesmerized at the TV or the internet screen like a deer staring at headlights approaching it. The time to do more is RIGHT NOW. The initial shock period is going to last for awhile for the majority of the population, perhaps several hours. You have to take advantage of the “shock and lull” before all out panic explodes everywhere.
For each person, family, and survival group, you are going to vastly need to have a per-organized plan geared towards your individual needs and your individual unique circumstances. This plan should be written or printed out and is necessary because almost everyone’s thoughts are going to be in spastic convulsions no matter how mentally prepared anyone “feels” they are for ANY disaster. A pre-drawn up plan to deal with a mega disaster, even lesser disasters, will help everyone follow some type of cool heads organization rather than running around in disarray and confusion.
Each person’s preparation for a mega disaster plan will be as unique as they are, but should have the following fundamentals:
1. FIRST AND FOREMOST IS NOT TO STALL.
Be physically and mentally ready to move quickly and orderly. Have at least a couple of places to evacuate to if you have to leave your primary home. The faster you can get to your safe location, the better – before road closures and everyone else figures out they need to get out and clog up the road. Plan your escape routes well. Have reliable transportation ready to go. If you stay put, begin immediate securing of your place from intrusions and from future possible damages to the structures of your home from the aftermaths of the mega disaster.
2. ASSUME THAT THE WATER FAUCETS WILL GO DRY.
Plan on being near to clean water sources such as ponds, lakes, rivers, etc. If your water is still on, begin filling up durable clean storage containers with water as quickly as you can. Fill up as much water as you can, even if you are evacuating, carry as much water as you practically can, you WILL NEED IT.
3. FOOD.
Everyone should already have emergency food stored, but if you can add to your stockpile before the “food runs” start, by all means do it. Get to the grocery store and buy what you can, and have on you “plan list” the extra food you will need to add during a mega crisis. Also have a list of where to find natural food sources in the locations you plan to be at.
4. FUEL.
Get all your transportation vehicles filled up before the gas stations close. A good plan is also to have empty fuel continers ready to be filled up in addition to what you have stored. You may have only one chance to get the fuel you will almost certainly need. Electric generators are also going to need fuel that is likely going to be in extreme short supply. Plan out where all the gas stations are within a few miles of you in case most of them are closed.
5. SELF DEFENSE.
While obtaining firearms during this short period of lull before the storm will likely be too time consuming, it still would be a good idea to add ammunition to what you have and maybe get some non-lethal means of self defense.
6. PLAN FOR REMAINING INFORMED.
You really need to know what is going on. This probably means a good shortwave radio protected from EMP and have plenty of fresh batteries to run it for weeks.
7. THE ELEMENTS.
The plan should absolutely take into account where you go that is LIVEABLE. There are many safe areas that have water and food, but are just too harsh for some people to survive in. Some people will die from the cold or too much heat, a real consideration to think about beforehand.
8. MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
Some family members and survival group members just cannot make it too well without oxygen tanks, medications, etc. The plan you make up has to take this in account and be ready to help those in need survive the best they can without these needed items.
9. STOCKPILE OF CASH MONEY.
Most places will still remain open even after hearing of the mega disaster, some places might not even have heard about it yet. Stores will have a strong likelihood soon after that they will have a rapid freeze of credit, or the electronic systems of credit just will go down. You will need cash money to get what you need. Have all denominations in your stash.
10. PLAN FOR SHEAR PANIC AND IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR.
Those around you will freak out, even stable levelheaded people, when they feel that the end of the world is upon them. Many people can have heart attacks or resort to suicide from overwhelming fright. Be ready to see people act like they have never acted before. Knowing what helps calm the people around you will help those better cope with the horror they are feeling. Also plan for strange unusual worldwide events to follow.
These are 10 suggestions, but there are many other additional considerations. Having your own INDIVIDUALIZED written or printed up plan will help you to “NOT” be caught off guard. The absolutely last thing you want to do after becoming aware of a mega disaster is to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off saying to yourself over and over again, “what do I do?” “what do I do?”
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