I think a lot of people like to think they'd know what to do if the world went to hell tomorrow. But, be honest with yourself- do you really know what it would take to live, at least slightly comfortably, without the convenient comforts that we take for granted today? Think about it- what would you do without a grocery store, fast food, or pizza delivery for that matter? If you had no one preparing your food for you, how would you do it, and do you know how to find the food you need? We rely so much on a food supply that is quite easy to disrupt, and then we would probably starve.
Thus, even when earthquakes strike, you should still know how to gather emergency food supplies from the land, forage, and have supplies to evacuate if necessary. Here are some tips to help you begin training, and it could be as simple as merely planting the correct things in your garden. We touch on foraging and techniques for collecting water, such as collecting rainwater and dew off of the land.
Earthquake scenario.Assume that there is an emergency in your state, such as earthquakes and mudslides and no help can get in. There is no rescue helicopter in sight because this was "the big one" and the earthquake devastated a 5 state area. Help may not come for weeks and depending on where you are and what condition your shelter is in, you will need to act fast. Gather your family, devise a plan, and set rules for safety. Count your food supplies and budget it to last for at least two weeks. All humans need food, shelter, water, and safety, no matter where you are. In an earthquake, animals sense something is wrong and flee with all their might, but humans are left behind. However, even though we cannot sense earthquakes coming, we can better prepare for the aftermath. This includes having an emergency food supply list, supplies stashed away in an accessible area, and previous disaster planning to help facilitate the quick evacuation or restoration to normalcy. Ensuring safety is one of the major steps you need to take for an earthquake scenario. You will need to avoid broken things, glass, debris, or even ruptured gas lines. Even if you have emergency supplies buried under the debris of your house, do not enter to retrieve it unless you know the area is secure and no gas leaks are apparent.
You can try to learn some self-defense skills if you ever have to do close quarters fighting. Thus, you can protect yourself against burglars, and muggings, which are bound to increase as police and social order go away. Some people would like to stock guns or learn self-defense to keep themselves safe from rioters. Sadly, most self-defense will only work for defending against 1-10 people at most, not entire mobs. If you have ever seen police clashing with protesters, you know that a couple guns against hundreds and thousands in a mob are no match. That is why the best strategy is to literally hide and make yourself nondescript. You may make it seem like your shelter is uninhabited or better yet; you camouflage your shelter so people don't even know where you live. As impractical as this may sound at first, this is where cellars and backyard bomb shelters may come in handy. If you live in a nondescript apartment building, perhaps it may be safe to stay there, as long as looters don't target your building complex. The most important catch is that looters don't steal your emergency survival food supply. If you have young children, don't let them play outside, because that will signal that vulnerable people live in the vicinity and hungry rioters may begin looting. At night, you may want to keep the lights off, so no one can tell that you are still living there. Don't go out at night- pretend like you're in a dangerous neighborhood of LA, and the last thing you need is the attention of local criminals. You will want to make your shelter like a small, but hidden fortress. In Damian Campbell's materials, he actually tells you to get out of the city as a preferred option. However, when you cannot, he also includes other tips on city survival as well. Below are some tips about food and water rations.
How to Forage.You should also learn to forage. For example, did you know that dandelions are an edible flower? Dandelions have grown in popularity because of their excellent edible qualities, and their hardiness. Not only are the young green leaves delicious raw or cooked, but they're easily cultivated and found everywhere. Harvest dandelion greens before they flower, or after first flower, but dandelion greens will become more bitter as they grow. For people who've been so conditioned to not appreciate bitterness, they can be a real shock to the palette. However, to know what to forage for, you should learn tips for foraging in the right areas. Suburban lawns are treated with lots of chemicals, so you may need to think twice before plucking them up there. Don't forage near highways or other polluted areas, since the plants will not be safe to eat.
Meat may also be prepared for long-term storage by drying it, or dehydrating it into jerky. People used to butcher their catches or animals, salt them heavily, and hang them out to dry in the hot sun. Salting the meat preserved it and kept bacteria and other microorganisms from breaking it down, and the hot sun pulled out the water, effectively petrifying the meat so that it could be stored for later consumption. You can do this with just about any kind of meat, including fish.You can also smoke meat to preserve it. Smoking is done in a small hut or smoker. The meat is hung or set in the smoker and a small amount of coals and or wood is placed in the bottom of the smoker. The meat is then immersed in smoke for days on end, drying it out and infusing the flesh with the smoke, making the meat last a long time after it's removed. Smoking can also enhance the flavor of the meat if done right.
What to do now.Even though you don't have a survivalist teaching you side by side, you have information sources like in this article and you can read more from experts like Damian Campbell. You should practice some of these time-honored techniques for preserving food, game, and drying your foraged foods.For now, you can create an emergency food supply list and stock up one non-perishable emergency survival food to get you through temporarily in the event of an emergency. Gallons of water, canned foods, dried and freeze-dried foods all make a good start. Stockpile sugar, flour, salt, Lyme, matches, and a book or two on how to identify wild edibles, make traps, and how to build shelters. Familiarize yourself with basic sewing skills. All of these things will add up to a more prepared you, in the unfortunate event of an emergency.
Damien Campbell approaches your emergency food supply list from the perspective of storing. He teaches you what to have on hand to endure through shorter term and longer term emergencies. As a bonus to survivalists, he does have a series of tutorials on generating water, and other special tutorials on electrical energy collection. Once you have an idea, you can start stocking up on what to have on hand and serve better your family, neighbors and friends.
Thus, even when earthquakes strike, you should still know how to gather emergency food supplies from the land, forage, and have supplies to evacuate if necessary. Here are some tips to help you begin training, and it could be as simple as merely planting the correct things in your garden. We touch on foraging and techniques for collecting water, such as collecting rainwater and dew off of the land.
Earthquake scenario.Assume that there is an emergency in your state, such as earthquakes and mudslides and no help can get in. There is no rescue helicopter in sight because this was "the big one" and the earthquake devastated a 5 state area. Help may not come for weeks and depending on where you are and what condition your shelter is in, you will need to act fast. Gather your family, devise a plan, and set rules for safety. Count your food supplies and budget it to last for at least two weeks. All humans need food, shelter, water, and safety, no matter where you are. In an earthquake, animals sense something is wrong and flee with all their might, but humans are left behind. However, even though we cannot sense earthquakes coming, we can better prepare for the aftermath. This includes having an emergency food supply list, supplies stashed away in an accessible area, and previous disaster planning to help facilitate the quick evacuation or restoration to normalcy. Ensuring safety is one of the major steps you need to take for an earthquake scenario. You will need to avoid broken things, glass, debris, or even ruptured gas lines. Even if you have emergency supplies buried under the debris of your house, do not enter to retrieve it unless you know the area is secure and no gas leaks are apparent.
You can try to learn some self-defense skills if you ever have to do close quarters fighting. Thus, you can protect yourself against burglars, and muggings, which are bound to increase as police and social order go away. Some people would like to stock guns or learn self-defense to keep themselves safe from rioters. Sadly, most self-defense will only work for defending against 1-10 people at most, not entire mobs. If you have ever seen police clashing with protesters, you know that a couple guns against hundreds and thousands in a mob are no match. That is why the best strategy is to literally hide and make yourself nondescript. You may make it seem like your shelter is uninhabited or better yet; you camouflage your shelter so people don't even know where you live. As impractical as this may sound at first, this is where cellars and backyard bomb shelters may come in handy. If you live in a nondescript apartment building, perhaps it may be safe to stay there, as long as looters don't target your building complex. The most important catch is that looters don't steal your emergency survival food supply. If you have young children, don't let them play outside, because that will signal that vulnerable people live in the vicinity and hungry rioters may begin looting. At night, you may want to keep the lights off, so no one can tell that you are still living there. Don't go out at night- pretend like you're in a dangerous neighborhood of LA, and the last thing you need is the attention of local criminals. You will want to make your shelter like a small, but hidden fortress. In Damian Campbell's materials, he actually tells you to get out of the city as a preferred option. However, when you cannot, he also includes other tips on city survival as well. Below are some tips about food and water rations.
How to Forage.You should also learn to forage. For example, did you know that dandelions are an edible flower? Dandelions have grown in popularity because of their excellent edible qualities, and their hardiness. Not only are the young green leaves delicious raw or cooked, but they're easily cultivated and found everywhere. Harvest dandelion greens before they flower, or after first flower, but dandelion greens will become more bitter as they grow. For people who've been so conditioned to not appreciate bitterness, they can be a real shock to the palette. However, to know what to forage for, you should learn tips for foraging in the right areas. Suburban lawns are treated with lots of chemicals, so you may need to think twice before plucking them up there. Don't forage near highways or other polluted areas, since the plants will not be safe to eat.
Meat may also be prepared for long-term storage by drying it, or dehydrating it into jerky. People used to butcher their catches or animals, salt them heavily, and hang them out to dry in the hot sun. Salting the meat preserved it and kept bacteria and other microorganisms from breaking it down, and the hot sun pulled out the water, effectively petrifying the meat so that it could be stored for later consumption. You can do this with just about any kind of meat, including fish.You can also smoke meat to preserve it. Smoking is done in a small hut or smoker. The meat is hung or set in the smoker and a small amount of coals and or wood is placed in the bottom of the smoker. The meat is then immersed in smoke for days on end, drying it out and infusing the flesh with the smoke, making the meat last a long time after it's removed. Smoking can also enhance the flavor of the meat if done right.
What to do now.Even though you don't have a survivalist teaching you side by side, you have information sources like in this article and you can read more from experts like Damian Campbell. You should practice some of these time-honored techniques for preserving food, game, and drying your foraged foods.For now, you can create an emergency food supply list and stock up one non-perishable emergency survival food to get you through temporarily in the event of an emergency. Gallons of water, canned foods, dried and freeze-dried foods all make a good start. Stockpile sugar, flour, salt, Lyme, matches, and a book or two on how to identify wild edibles, make traps, and how to build shelters. Familiarize yourself with basic sewing skills. All of these things will add up to a more prepared you, in the unfortunate event of an emergency.
Damien Campbell approaches your emergency food supply list from the perspective of storing. He teaches you what to have on hand to endure through shorter term and longer term emergencies. As a bonus to survivalists, he does have a series of tutorials on generating water, and other special tutorials on electrical energy collection. Once you have an idea, you can start stocking up on what to have on hand and serve better your family, neighbors and friends.
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