Tag: making an emergency shelter

Emergency Shelters

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 …

Continue reading

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 …

Continue reading

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. …

Continue reading