Survival

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation

Oscar Wilde

How to survive after a disaster?  Tips and preparation guides, including the best animals to raise can be found at Popular Mechanics http://www.popularmechanics.com/survival/

Top most unlikely Items for your survival?

1. Beer

“Buy a lot of it,” says Trey Click, a magazine publisher who rode out last year’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. “It’s one of the only things you can use for money in the aftermath.” Need your neighbor to help you clear trees out of your yard? A case of Bud is a better motivator than a $20 bill when all the stores are boarded up.

2. Handheld CB Radio

Think no one uses CB radios anymore? Think again. These things can be a direct line to emergency crews and tow trucks, exactly the folks you might want to get in touch with after a disaster. Plus, they work when cell towers don’t. Look for one that also tunes into NOAA weather channels.

3. Contractor Bags

Thick, sturdy 3-mil contractor bags are the multitool of the disaster world. They’re tough enough to stuff with sharp debris, they work as an impromptu poncho or water barrier for leaky structures, and you can use them to drag heavy objects.

4. Glow Bracelets

When the electricity is out, you may not feel like celebrating, but these party favors can come in handy. “Houses get dark really quickly with no power,” says Mark Vorderbruggen, who went five days without electricity after Ike hit Texas. “I used them to mark the location of radios, flashlights, batteries and door handles.”

5. A Good Book

When stuck in his Jeep for two weeks, Daryl Jané would have killed for a good book. “I had water and a sleeping bag, and that’s all you really need to survive,” he says. “But it gets so boring after a while. If I’d had a book I would have been set.”

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenarios/4331516.html

There’s also http://www.ready.gov/.  Worth looking at.  You paid for it.

Speaking of paying for it, Newsday on Long Island has initiated paid access for their internet news.  How many subscribers have signed up for the $4 million overhaul of their internet news site?  35.  That’s about $115,000 per subscriber.  At $260/year, the simple payback is over 400 years. 

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Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope