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Organization and Preparation are the Keys to Surviving Disasters
Whether it is a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, fire or blizzard, all these weather disasters ...
Flood Survival
PROTECT THE CASH IN YOUR STASH
How and Where to Store Your Supplies and Gear for the Long Haul
As a vendor at several prepper shows, I have had the privilege of learning from customers and, ...
PADDLE OUT OF YOUR PREDICAMENT
Consider Canoes and Kayaks When Making Your Transportation Plans
With each stroke of the paddle, I moved the kayak smoothly down the Homosassa River, in wester...
Dangerous Waters: 10 Tips for Surviving a Flood
As the city of New Orleans begins preparations for a possible hurricane, a storm has already brought tornado warnings, heavy winds, and flooding rains. Nearly 8...
Proactive Planning: Do Something!
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, was known as a man of action. He is quoted as having said, “In any moment of decision, the best thing y...
Stories of Survival: The Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood Survivor Who Saved Millions
It was an unusually cold, steady rain for late May, and the Conemaugh River began spilling its banks, leaving knee-deep water throughout the city of Johnstown, ...
Floods: World’s Biggest Killers
Believe it or not, but the most common natural disaster on Earth and the leading cause of fatalities by natural disaster worldwide for all of history is floodin...
The Effects of Drowning
It is one of our most primitive but visceral fears; thrashing in the deep, far below the water’s surface, lungs burning for oxygen, arms straining toward the ev...
Flesh-Eating Bacteria: 5 Things You Need to Do to Protect Yourself from Vibrio
In the summer of 2018, a South Texas man died after wade fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. A fatality was also recorded in Virginia and a man from New Jersey was l...
Stay on Top: How to Survive a Flood
Floods can be caused by major storms that cause water levels to rise quickly in rivers, lakes and other waterways. Excessive rainfall is only one possible reaso...