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What works in a rural/wilderness area can still be useful in an urban area, but much that you would carry on a business trip in your suitcase will not help much in the woods. In a larger disaster, you may evacuate, but get stuck on the road out. Or
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It depends completely upon your situation and environment. What works for the typical urban environment will not play well in, say, Death Valley....There you would do well to emulate the Boy Scouts.
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If you are ready for the woods, you are ready for someone's house or a hotel. The only things I would add are more clothes and toiletries.
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Yes, indeed, your cognition can degrade due to lack of water. Don't ask me how I know this....
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I'm strongly in favor of phone charger, contact lens solution, and clean clothes. But. Other than the phone charger and possibly the contact lens supplies, these are more comfort items than survival items. That's not wrong, it's just not all.
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Totally agree that "Deep Survival" is a very useful source. My practical experience in dealing with various personalities is survival, or near survival, situations came from several years of volunteer mountain Search and Rescue in Arizona
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Reading an essay on planning I realized that we might be planning - and packing , for the wrong thing. During most events 99% of the time we'll be 'bugging out' to a hotel, friends house or community shelter. Not a spot in the woods. And if my c
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Montanero is spot on here. I couldn't have said it better, including the book recommendation.
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Without getting into the person's reasons for prepping or planning for survival, he does bring up an important, and often not addressed, survival necessity. We all think we understand people, we deal with them every day, right? While the video make
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Originally Posted By: Robert_McCall To me it's similar to the oft-quoted "you can live for 3 weeks without food" survival advice. Yes, most people can but the survivor will be so weak long before the 21 day mark that it can affect their a
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My nephew, an avid hiker and climber, lives in CO and resided in Golden for several years. He says the trails and hills around there, where that fatality occurred, get a lot of foot traffic. He's seen a rattlesnake there once, so I guess they do avoi
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Originally Posted By: hikermorHow many snake bite fatalities do we incur in the US annually? About a dozen, I believe. Opioid abuse is probably a more pressing concern. IMO the low rate of snakebite deaths (mortality) blinds people to the impact o
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Dang, I was just about to submit that. Gaia works well, does need more memory than my IPhone 5 has. I'm about to upgrade to solve that problem Cool tools is a regular visit for me.
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free to $30 a year maps for computers, etc From Cool Tools site
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I did not get the impression the video is talking about strangers. Jeanette Isabelle
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I mean no disrespect to the OP, but, like hikermor, I find the video to be highly unrealistic for most. If you have really poor judgment, then, yeah, maybe it's worth something. The biggest clue to me that the video might stem from fantasy is that i
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The types that he regards as unworthy of his "group" are some of the types that I tend not to engage or trust in normal times...Why would anyone look to them in an emergency? This seems to be some of the simplistic reasoning that permeates
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Originally Posted By: TeacherROthere are also nice weather apps for you phone and computer... Getting weather info from the phone or the computer seems like a supplementary method. In an emergency or disaster, power is likely to go out, cell towers
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Good points!
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Originally Posted By: RatchRadio jay Allen has a lot of radio reviews, including weather radios. I tend to trust his judgement, given his deep background in the field. https://radiojayallen.com/ Where are his weather radio reviews? A keyword searc
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Originally Posted By: AKSAR...the world has "gone off the edge" many times in the past... I remember thinking that in the mid-70's ... when Disco became popular in clubs. What a nightmare!
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Radio jay Allen has a lot of radio reviews, including weather radios. I tend to trust his judgement, given his deep background in the field. https://radiojayallen.com/
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Originally Posted By: Jeanette_Isabelle I'm an 80s child. I don't want to alter that. Edit: When I was raised helps to define who I am. Most of my upbringing was during a more simpler time before the world went off the edge. One of the things one
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I came across this five-minute video on prepping that, I believe, is a must watch. Everything this man says is common sense; the way he puts it can challenge us to think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC6ClxwGs-o&t=3s Jeanette Isabelle
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Originally Posted By: M_a_xBesides as mechanical engineer I´m used to employ safety factors: estimate age and multiply by 2 or 3 to avoid being too low Same thing for estimating time to complete a project. Take you initial estimate, double it, and m
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