SURVIVAL EMERGENCY AND DISASTER

Whether coping with 9/11 or dealing with the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami certain knowledge is needed to sustain life. This knowledge was used in Hurricane Katrina and also the Midwest Great Flood of 1993. Could some of this knowledge have prevented the devastation of the Black Death of Europe, Asia and Africa in the mid 1300's? Your survival in disaster preparedness is essential to emergency planning for you and your family. Learning to live and cope under such conditions relies upon your knowledge and leadership to extend that survival to others. Is it possible that basic survival knowledge could have lessened the loss of life in the Happy Land Social club fire in the Bronx in 1990? It's quite possible. Still a byword and seen as a hobby emergency preparedness is very important to society as a whole.

Even the most minute of education can be as important as another. If your vehicle breaks down on a country road in a blizzard, do you know how to make a snow shelter or a pair of emergency snowshoes to acquire help and supplies? Are you roping a makeshift tent and need to know the proper way to form a clove hitch knot or even how to whip a rope? Is the square knot really just meant for kids and of no use in an emergency? This knowledge is vital as is learning to make a candle out of a pop can and vegetable oil. What about First Aid? Do you know it and can you apply it? The human brain is an incredible natural computer. Learn all you can so that these occurrences will not get the best of you.

The other side of the coin to survival is leadership. Though not seen as important it's necessary to providing protection for others. Start learning now to feel comfortable speaking in public settings. This will help gain you confident and will groom you to access certain knowledge on the spot when it is needed. Master the necessities of posture and grammar in speeches that you may be able to further lead and persuade others to your cause. Is it possible that this confidence in leadership could have saved saved some of the 53 who died in the Rodney King Uprising, otherwise known as the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest or the 1992 Los Angeles Riots? How many could have been led or persuaded to safety if only they had a shepherd to lead them? It's amazing to note the greater impact of someone even learning to conduct music and the use of the tools learned therein. Click on any one of these links and unlock a wealth of knowledge fitting to ensure your survival.

Even in economic unrest and instability emergency preparedness is a key to your sustained happiness and longevity. Prepare every needful thing by learning how to budget your money and how to save for those unforeseen and inevitable occasions. Self reliance equals happiness and ensuring your financial standing in the future will link your confidence now to your prepared status in the future. One for the Money is an absolute marvel in simplified debt relief in the major step toward financial self reliance. Dependency on others has never been and can never be happiness. Balancing your income and expenses requires discipline and stalwart perseverance. Heavy emphasis, though, should be placed upon income and savings. How much better could your life be in current financial “pickle” times or even those unprepared during the Great Depression? Study and apply this little booklet to reduce your expenses and live a much more simplified life.

The gems of knowledge learned in the Boy Scouts of America is priceless. Encourage every young man to sign up, attend and learn how to survive outdoors, cook and even hunt for food. This organization has celebrated it's centennial year and continues to prepare hundreds of thousands of youth every year to lead the cause of survival in the future. Those merit badges are testaments to life itself. Earning the rank of Eagle is the capstone to one's boyhood and thus becomes a responsible and upstanding citizen and future husband and father. In essence he becomes a prepared adult.

Again, these links have valuable information to expand the scope of this article. Nutrition is vital to survival. In harsh high altitudes gardening can be just as productive as in the lower atmospheric levels. This is emergency and disaster preparedness. Many learn how to build a proper greenhouse below ground level to protect the delicate produce from the environment. Just imagine the many emergency and disaster occurrences that would necessitate the garden program in such altitudes. For most of us where we live is by choice but for many it's a matter of heritage and tradition and the idea of living elsewhere is incomprehensible. They need not suffer for such noble decisions. Ample preparation can be made to ensure happiness.

Likewise, city dwellers need not be hampered with thoughts that gardening isn't possible. Though small, it's a certainty that one can groom a seed into a fruitful plant. Many have gained huge success through the art of hanging inverted gardening. Like the Topsy Turvey one can easily rig up a planter just like the popular ones shown on television.

Part of emergency preparedness is food storage, preparation and preservation. This article links to the Vacupack Vacuum Packer and it's many benefits. Sealing your food from air and the decay of the environment greatly extends the longevity of your food. This is a motorized machine and although a magnificent tool there are other avenues not electrical in nature. TheZiploc Vacuum Pump is a manual air suction system. Using a special duct in the plastic bag you can remove the air in preparation for refrigeration or freezing or even storing dry goods.

Electricity may not always be available. Power is susceptible and a major disruption is always possible. How many times has over-demand in the summertime caused rationing of power or even blackouts? Learning the skills of our ancestors is always beneficial. Learning to grind wheat into flour can be both fun and educational. This link shows the simplicity of electric and manual options to grinding wheat into flour. Flour doesn't get any fresher than that! To go from wheat to flour and then straight to bread making is truly a treat for the young and old.

Waste is part of being human. Proper disposal of human waste is paramount in emergency preparedness as well as health. Educate yourself in the sanitary choices we have in human waste management. Bacteria and even disease is easily spread through this waste. Simple procedures can be followed to ensure clean emergency living.

What obstacles in your past and the nation's could have either been prevented or the severity lessened through the education of emergency and disaster preparedness? The choice is really up to us as far as the level of impact these situations effect us. As we point our telescopes to the stars to learn more of our universe for the benefit of the future, we too must take care of business here and now in order to provide for our own futures.

Take heed to the education of emergency and disaster preparedness that you, your family, friends and even nation may be protected. As you prepare every needful thing may your lamps be full of oil as your makeshift candle.