Planning For Disaster
February 21, 2012, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
Planning for disaster WILL make a difference. It will alleviate undo suffering and hardship for you and whoever you have included in your disaster plan. Most people do not plan for the unexpected, and seldom consider the disaster insurance benefits of planning for disaster.
Benefits of Planning For Disaster
Planning forces you to consider the disaster scenarios themselves.
You will think through the contingency plans of various disaster scenarios which will enable discovery of new ‘know-how’, disaster warning signs, backup plans, needed supplies, and other requirements and contingencies.
It will elevate your overall confidence, will bring calm, and a feeling of self-reliance, strength and independence.
Your life, living through a disaster will suffer less, perhaps far less than others who have not planned.
Planning for disaster may even save your life.
How to Plan For Disaster
Discover the risks that you face. Think about ‘what if’. Write them down.
Evaluate the odds of each risk/disaster actually occurring and set your planning priorities based on the odds.
Begin the planning process based first on the basics, and one’s needs for survival, given your current location and situation. (water, food, shelter, defense, communications, …)
Establish plans of action for each item or category that needs attention. Write it down.
Execute each plan. Actually ‘do it’.
It all sounds pretty simple, but the unfortunate reality is that most people are not planning for disaster, not even a little bit, and that will ultimately create huge problems once TSHTF.
Get it done. Be Prepared.
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This was what I was thinking about last night in different terms. After something does happen that is severe enough to disrupt everyday there are certain short term food and other items that just cannot be stored for a long time. These are items such as salads, fruit such as avocadoes that cannot really be dehydrated and cannot be stored for much time even when refrigerated. There is so much that we eat and need each day that the supermarket provides that just cannot be stored because it is perishable. We can of course adapt, but there is still much that we run to the store that are still open after a disaster that everyone needs. Last minute grocery store run before it closes, maybe forever.
It would be nice to be able to store everything you need and use each day, but certain things you just don’t seem to be able to. In winter, unless you have a greenhouse, you need to get some greens from the market. While perishable items will only last you for a few days, at least you will have them for the first few days of a disaster. Besides this, after a disaster you will have a little bit of time during the initial shock to add to your survival supply by making a supermarket run before everyone else gets the idea.
Having a list like Ken says pre-made out will help you so much, because the shock of a disaster is going to hit all of us. Seldom do too many people have the ability to stay completely cool and collective to do what needs to be done without a written out list of “things to do”.
This whole plan is what I have said over and over again about the possibility of global nuclear war, people should read up about it beforehand so they are not caught off guard if and when it becomes a reality. Even if someone does not actually physically prepare for the after effects of nuclear war, if they have read up on what needs to be done to survive it is far easier to adapt and survive it. Those whom had not read anything about radiation and fallout after it happens will have to learn on the fly and likely will just not have the time to learn enough about it to make it. Nuclear war and radiation and fallout is a whole new ballgame and is complex and takes much study to prepare for.
While nuclear war survival is long regarded as hard core survival, and in many ways it is. Fallout though can happen through a series of accidents and natural disasters. An EMP as someone brought up the other can fry the nuclear power plants around the world and that can result in fallout all over the place. What does someone do if they have no communications to tell them hopw much radiation is around them? Do they just go out like the characters in the Testament movie and expose themselves and end up with radiation sickness? Dying from radiation sickenss is like dying from Ebola, there are far better ways to go.
Modern Survival I think needs to address all aspects of reasonable expected survival situations, even the extremely unpleasant and far more difficult to survive events such as nuclear war and fallout. Fukushima and Chernobyl proved that fallout can occur in something other than nuclear war or a terrorist nuclear attack. World War 1 and 2 have proven that mankind is more than capable of fighting a global war. The two nukes dropped on Japan prove that mankind is more than capable of dropping nuclear bombs on targets. The pursuit of nuclear weapons by so many countries proves the need to acquire them. The fact that the 5 countries with veto power in the UN security counsel are the first countries that had nuclear weapons shows how important nuclear weapons are to nations. Every weapon has been used in warfare during human history, that is other than the hydrogen bomb, YET.
This of course is just a suggestion, but knowledge about fallout is more than half the battle in regards to nuclear war, if it is only perceived as preparation for a nuclear accident. People I feel should know as much as they can about fallout and decay rates. So many nuclear power plants around the world, near potential dangerous natural calamities makes this extremely wise.