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emergency preparedness, survival gear, survival kit - October 12, 2011

How You Can Help During a Disaster

Emergency preparedness is crucial, now more than ever. With heightened terrorism alerts and the recent frequency of natural disasters, everyone should be taking the initiative to stock emergency food storage and set up a survival kit. First and foremost, keep yourself and your family safe.You may be asking yourself how you can help others during a disaster. The single most important thing you can do to help is to make sure that you and your family are prepared for emergency situations. The less you have to rely on outside help, the more it frees up those resources to help others....

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emergcy preparedness, long-term food storage - October 06, 2011

Keeping the Faith During a Disaster

People tend to ask “Where was God” when a disaster strikes. It is hard to say how any of us would react in the face of a disaster. You may have done your due diligence in emergency preparedness, but when the time comes, will you be able to hold onto your faith? It could shake your spiritual foundation. The Chilean miners trapped for over two months underground in 2010 survived because they reminded each other to stand in their faith.Whatever your spiritual beliefs are, being engulfed in a disaster is when you must stay grounded in those beliefs. You must...

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emergency preparedness, freeze dried food - October 04, 2011

Worst Case Scenario: Zombie Apocalypse

Halloween night is usually a little spooky and eerie around these parts, but this particular Halloween was even more so. Maybe it was the fact that I was in the basement rotating a bag of candy out of my emergency food storage for the trick-or-treaters and I had disaster scenarios running through my head, but there seemed to be a stale sense of doom in the air.As I headed upstairs, I felt a need to make a mental note of my surroundings one more time: food and water stash, 72 hour survival kit, baseball bat. Wait, baseball bat? Foolish, a...

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emergency food storage, emergency preparedness, survival food - September 30, 2011

Pesky Pantry Pests Pose Problems

Emergency food storage is a large target for common pest infestations. Mice, rats, ants, moths, weevils, and silverfish all seek out stashes of food to call home. Keeping your survival food free from these pests is challenging to say the least. It requires a little research, some planning and a lot of diligence. Chemicals and insecticides are not recommended around food storage, so part of the challenge is finding safe methods of keeping these vermin away. Even if these products are not in the vicinity of your food, they are still harmful beyond the animals you are trying to control....

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emergency preparedness, exercise - September 27, 2011

Shape Up for a Bug Out

You may have done a good job of emergency preparedness by gathering food, water and emergency supplies, but if you had to bug out today, that is, evacuate due to an emergency situation, would you be able to withstand the physical demands placed on you? Imagine hiking for days with all your gear on your back, lifting heavy objects and just surviving outside. Have you done a good job preparing your body for the challenge? The majority of us would probably answer “no”.Conditioning your muscles and cardiovascular system for strenuous activity is often overlooked while stocking supplies for an evacuation,...

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