One of the toughest things you could face in a disaster is having to spend a night out without a roof over your head. Alone or with your family, this is a whole different ballgame than during the day. It’s colder, you are not moving around, and obviously it’s dark. Add to that the confusion …
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Gimme Shelter Part 2: Types of Shelters
With a proper shelter site picked out, the next step to getting you under some shelter is to build the best shelter for not only the conditions, but the supplies you have and can find. Part two of this series on sheltering in a survival situation will show you the basic types of shelter structures …
Gimme Shelter, or How I Learned to Shelter Safely Part 1: Shelter Site Selection
Whether you’re in an emergency survival situation or a planned one, having a shelter is more important than many people fully understand. A shelter can be anything from an abandoned house or building down to a lean-to built with tree branches. For the sake of this series we’re talking about the shelters you build yourself. …
Prepping for the Top 7 Disasters that Will End the World
Everyone has their own opinion on how the world will end. “Doomsday Preppers” used Twitter to see what disasters will shake up society and end human civilization. Through the Doomsday Dashboard, here are the results they found: 1. 29% – Flu Pandemic 2. 18% – Cataclysm (2012) 3. 13% – Economic Collapse 4. 11% – …