Survival For Everyone

Here's How You Can Feed Yourself In A Survival Crisis

By Modern Combat and Survival

Packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag requires a lot of thought. In a recent survey, over 75% of respondents said that military MRE's were the best survival food for bugging out in your survival kit. Were they right?

If you pack a BOB (bugout bag), you have a lot of survival-oriented gear in it. What some people consider almost an afterthought, however, should be one of your primary concerns, and that is survival emergency food preps. Your survival kit bugout bag is useless if it has a lot of gear but doesn't have so much as a single calorie you can use to keep your energy up.

If you pack your bugout bag for three days worth of an emergency, food you need to include must address the major factors to survive a disaster:

Keep Your Bugout Bag Emergency Food Convenient

When bugging out for survival, you want emergency food that you can eat on the run. Bugging out isn't camping - the point is to get from Point A to Point B quickly in order to survive.

Survival Kit Emergency Food Must Be Nutrient Dense

The three macronutrients your survival food should include are: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Carbohydrates and calories are most important as an energy source.

Survival Kit Bug Out Food Secret

The real trick to packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag is to keep it very light. Water is heavy, so prepared food is heavier than dehydrated survival food.

You don't necessarily have to buy dehydrated camp foods, either, although those are good. Anything that is dehydrated, that gives you an option to choose when to rehydrate it, is a better choice than a hydrated food for survival.

The best emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag in our video is Top Ramen noodles because it fits all the criterea and is the lightest of all emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag.

The Base Essentials - What You REALLY Need To Stay Alive In A Survival Situation!

By survivalmike

We'll talked about a Real Survival Kit, that helps in any survival situation all over the world.

Watch video and pack the real and true things for your adventure.

The 5 Most Forgotten Items in Disasters and Emergencies

By: BudgetBugout

These are five items that you should not forget in your survival kit:

Make sure you have your important documents with you.

Heavy Mil Trash bags will surely make your life easier.

If you're taking your pets with you, remember to bring some of their items too!

Some things medicine related.

And your phone charger...

Watch video to see details

Disaster Preparedness

By Mary Peck

Disasters strike anytime, anywhere and do not discriminate as to who is touched by devastation, not even our most vulnerable citizens—residents of long-term care facilities. Oklahoma people with disabilities may need to take additional precautions in order to be ready for expected and unexpected winter weather events.

Preparing for and responding to emergencies that affect individuals living in long-term care facilities requires coordinating the work of many. While long-term care ombudsman supervisors/volunteers are not first responders, they can play an important role in emergency planning and response. Ombudsman programs can resolve complaints, protect rights and promote access to services for residents before, during and after emergencies and disasters.

Significant weather events such as tornadoes, at times, have devastated long-term care facilities and their residents across the country. Individual incidents—fires, explosions, floods, power outages and other disruptions—have forced residents to relocate. Both state and local ombudsman programs have been called on to assist with preparation and response, often without the benefit of clear guidance or policies.

The fact that ombudsman programs have risen to the challenges of emergency preparedness and response without clear guidance is evidence that the office staff are concerned, committed and willing to assist.

Can you imagine? The television meteorologists are calling for people to take shelter. Tornado sirens across counties are blaring warnings. While most people are hunkering down in closets, bathtubs and storm shelters praying that the violence will pass without incident, long-term care staff are rushing to gather their charges in a windowless hall or room.

Many must be pushed in wheelchairs, some directed on walkers and others carefully guided to the safest place in the building. Remember, cold weather can stress respiratory and circulatory systems making it more difficult to travel or complete tasks that require physical exertion.

Oklahoma is listed as one of the top 10 disaster-prone states as ranked by historical statistics on major disaster declaration. Disaster preparedness is a question for family members to ask of facilities when dangers exist. Almost all facilities have a generator or access to one maintaining the operations needed for residents. Each ombudsman supervisor/volunteer is available for assistance during severe weather outbreaks and disasters.

During Hurricane Katrina, the vulnerability of nursing home residents came to the forefront when 35 residents at one nursing home located outside of New Orleans died during the hurricane. Some drowned in their beds. A Houston Chronicle investigative journalist revealed that at least 139 nursing home residents died during the hurricane or because of it.

A well-executed evacuation plan is a top priority. Long-term care facility owners and administrators are federally required to have an emergency plan in place with staff training. All staff members should be aware of their roles in case of a major emergency such as tornadoes or power outages, such as the following:

The need to identify residents with wristbands or nametags.
Include medication lists
Having a supply of potable water
Ensure transportation for the residents to evacuate and a place to evacuate to
Transportation of wheelchairs and medical equipment
Working with local emergency coordinators to decide about evacuation in a timely manner
Staff’s ability to handle illness or death during an evacuation
Training of all staff members to remain calm and follow the learned procedures are key in saving the lives of nursing home residents during a disaster.

Building a Primitive Wattle and Daub Hut from Scratch

By Primitive Technology

I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and the ridge line (highest point) is 2m high giving a roof angle of 45 degrees. A bed was built inside and it takes up a little less than half the hut.

The tools used were a stone hand axe to chop wood, fire sticks to make fire, a digging stick for digging and clay pots to carry water.

The materials used in the hut were wood for the frame, vine and lawyer cane for lashings and mud for daubing. Broad leaves were initially used as thatch which worked well for about four months before starting to rot. The roof was then covered with sheets of paper bark which proved to be a better roofing material (*peeling the outer layer of bark does not kill this species of tree).

An external fireplace and chimney were also built to reduce smoke inside. The hut is a small yet comfortable shelter and provides room to store tools and materials out of the weather.

The whole hut took 9 months from start to finish. But it only took 30 days of actual work (I abandoned it for a few months before adding bark roof, chimney and extra daub ).

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Video Source: Primitive Technology

Emergency Food Serving Sizes You Must Know In Advance

Not all serving sizes are created equal when it comes to Emergency Food Storage. Understand what you really need to know when it comes to buying food storage and preparing for whatever may come!

Survival Tips That Will Secure You in a Wilderness Situation

Okay, if you find yourself in a wilderness situation where you might have to spend your night out, a couple days out, a week out or a month out, there are five big things that are my top five that you need. The top five are food, water, shelter, fire and attitude. Of those top five, they're in a specific order, at least I believe they're in a specific order, food is the least important.

A lot of people think "Oh my g**, I need to have something to eat." Really, you can go four weeks without food. So, before you start to break down and malfunction from lack of food you have about three weeks. Water, however, you have about three days so that's more important to locate and find. Water is more important than food.

More important than water is going to be shelter. Shelter is something that, especially in a cold environment without warmth or without a fire, without shelter you maybe have a few hours that you can survive and function really, really well.

After that your ability to function deteriorates. So, we have least important is food, next least important is water, then you have shelter and fire. Fire is important because it allows you to cook food, it allows you to stay warm, it allows you to purify water.

But the number one most important thing that you need to thrive in any wilderness or urban survival environment is your attitude. Your attitude greatly affects how well you're going to do whether you have any resources or whether you have no resources at all.

Your outlook and your attitude is going to determine everything, and that's the most important thing that you have, and that' also something that you always carry with you. It's not something that you buy, but it's something that you're always going to have.

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