I have a copy of John Wiseman's SAS Urban Survival manual. I was disapointed. It has stuff like make sure you have an electric circular saw so you can make repairs to your property before further damage occurs. Yeah, but if you don't have utilities, then your electric circular saw is useless. The book sold because of his name and reputation. The information was not what I was looking for. It might help others or maybe I had incorrect expectations.<br><br>Tom Brown has a book on urban/surburan survival. I found it better oriented to surburan/urban people who are not heavy into survival. Good for the average person who is stuck at home due to extreme weather event for several days/weeks.<br><br>What I was looking for was ways to collect and purify water in an urban/suburban environment. Alternate food gathering techniques besides looting local stores. Home defense, etc.<br><br>You might want to stop by Plainsman's Cabin Forum. There is a sub-forum (The 'Burbs) discussing urban/surburban survival. Some good ideas about adapting homeless lifestyle techniques, foraging, dumpster diving, etc. <br><br>http://pub7.ezboard.com/bplainsmanscabin<br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by resqman on 02/13/01 01:48 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>