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What you need to know about surviving a disaster

30 Outdoor Travel Hacks To Turn You Into A Backpacking Badass. Whether you’re backpacking in the great outdoors or backpacking abroad, some of these might just save your life (or at the very least, make things a little easier). Here's my favorite tutorial for making one of these: Wrap a water bottle, lighter, utensil, or virtually anything else with about 5-6’ of duct tape, so you have it if you need it but conserve precious space and weight There's a host of these DIY charger plans and kits available online (including some pretty awesome solar-powered ones). Pictured here is the Mintyboost, one of the more straightforward plans we've seen, and which can be purchased as a kit: Like this guy. Use a lighter to seal the end of the straw.

Simply squirt out a little toothpaste onto some foil and let them harden. Just add water. They’re thin, ultra absorbent, and dry quickly-- invaluable for the amount of pack-space they take. feature: upload.wikimedia.org/ 7 Survival Tips That Could Save Your Life. #2 Is Awesome! Have you ever wondered how to filter water, keep away the mosquitos or how to make a solar microwave? These tips might save your life one day. 1. Need some light in a pinch and a candle alone won’t cut it?

Grab a soda can and cut open the sides, fold them out and place the candle in. This will reflect your light and give you some decent protection from the elements. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. For a visual preview of all of the tips in this list, watch the video! Credits: HouseholdHacker. Free Survival Books. Survival Skills 101: How To Store Gas. Survival Skills 101: How To Store Gas. Secret Asteroid Threat ~ Near Final Phase O' DECEPTION TO END ALL DECEPTIONS - SPACE WEAPONS PROGRAM.

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Shelter. Water. Fire. Food. Lighting. Medical. Skills. Manuals and Resources. Surviving in the Wilderness. 100 Items to Disappear First. 100 Items to Disappear First 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy...target of thieves; maintenance etc.) 2.

Water Filters/Purifiers 3. From a Sarajevo War Survivor: Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war - death of parents and friends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks. 1. Foxhole radio - ZombieSquadWiki. From ZombieSquadWiki Work in Progress The traditional foxhole radio is made out of scavenged parts by some soldiers during World War II. This page documents that radio as well as improvements to help it work better. The construction of the radio is not very difficult and most people age 6 and up should be able to make one.

Basic Radio The basic radio is simply a diode, crystal earpiece (piezo electric), and an antenna. The antenna is the top left triangle looking thing. The coil is the spring looking thing Ground is the right triangle The headphones are the ear muff looking things The diode is the triangle with the line on the left side Making the coil Items required About 50 feet of wire bottle or other non-conducting form about 6 inches in length and about 2 inches in diameter pen, nail, stick to make taps Where to scavenge parts from Wire You can use any wire, it must have a non-conductive insulation.

Bottle This can be any empty shampoo bottle, contact lens cleaner bottle, or even pvc pipe.