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Index of How to Survive Hard Times - by Robert Wayne Atkins. How to Effectively Evacuate a Big City Without a Car by Robert Wayne Atkins. How to Effectively Evacuate a Big City Without a Car Copyright © 2007,2008 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All Rights Reserved. If you live in a major metropolitan area then you may not own your own vehicle. The city's existing mass transit system will take you anywhere you need to go within the city. Therefore everything you could possibly need is within easy reach, such as doctors, hospitals, restaurants, grocery stores, and everything else. However, during a major disaster event some of the problems of living in a big city would be: (1) the mass transit system will probably become unreliable or simply stop, (2) deliveries of food to the restaurants and grocery stores will stop, (3) the electricity may become intermittent or stop, (4) the water and sewer systems may fail, and (5) it would only take one fire to burn the city to the ground.

MacGyver, Survivalist, or Stockpiler: The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Should Know. It's your word against his..

MacGyver, Survivalist, or Stockpiler: The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Should Know

If he ain't talkin, your word pretty much wins. Also, don't try draggin him back in your house after he's dead.. The cops will be able to tell he was shot inside your house. As soon as you're involved in a shooting like this, call the cops, then a lawyer.. You are so bad ass. Seriously, you're advocating shooting a potential burglar with your "Mossy, Remy or Mr. We're not all in middle school, you know, and life is not like a Die Hard movie. I don't want to kill anyone. I am not running from my house. You can be a moral coward and subject yourself to the will of a criminal, however I will suffer no such victimization. @jodark It's not cowardly to leave and certainly not morally cowardly to leave if there is an intruder in your house. Urban Survival – Do You have the 3 Things You Will Always Need?

WTSHTF maybe you are prepared for an extended survival scenario away from civilization, but you have to get out of the city first (maybe).

Urban Survival – Do You have the 3 Things You Will Always Need?

Are you prepared? 11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime. Please accept our apologies.

11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime

You have reached a 404 Page Not Found Error. Please use our search box or main menu above to find what you're looking for. Meals Ready to Eat a Three-Month Supply. Put your three month supply of food together with meals ready to eat.

Meals Ready to Eat a Three-Month Supply

This food supply is easy to use in an emergency. Skip Down To: 6 Steps to a 3-Month supply Recipes & Grocery List. Home Made MRE. I have been looking for sometime for a direct replacement for the commercial MRE due to the high price, weight and limited choices in entrees.

Home Made MRE

I first started back in 1983 with a then new vacuum sealing system. This was before retort pouches were widely available and the few that were had a limited variety. I was unhappy with the results I was having with the available choices of food for backpacking trips and started experimenting with my own concoctions. I tried instant rice, instant potatoes etc… I met with varied success but was never really satisfied with what I was coming up with. With all the new advances in packaging and the different choices now available, a homemade "MRE" style food pack can be made for a fraction of the cost of the commercial variety. Eddie's cheap, easy to build, turbo stove. I've burnt a lot of different fuels.

Eddie's cheap, easy to build, turbo stove.

Wood is excellent but almost any dry vegetable matter will work. I've also tried a number of plastics. HDPE and LDPE (recycle code 2 and 4) burn clean as you would expect. 38 Must Have Kitchen Items for Any Survivalist. Prepper Website - Preparedness, Survival & Alternative News. A survival blog for non-survivalists. Family Emergency Plan. Notes From The Bunker. Preparedness Pro - Panic-Free, Practical Preparedness Information. 208-237-5985.

Preparedness Pro - Panic-Free, Practical Preparedness Information

That was the phone number of one of my best guy friends in Junior High School. 208-237-2845. That was the phone number of my best girlfriend in my 8th and 9th grade years of school. 614-488-1181. Provident Living Today Will Always Reward You. The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation. DIY Kit Price varies An easy way to think about the necessary contents of a first-aid kit is to break it up into two categories: it should have bandages and it should have medicine.

The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation

For a bare-bones kit, Wedmore recommends plenty of gauze, including at least one roll of Kerlix bandages and some non-adhesive gauze. A handful of butterfly bandages, different-size bandages and an ace bandage should be included as well. An Assortment of Altoid Tin Survival Kits. One-Year Emergency Food Supply by Robert Wayne Atkins. Traditional One-Year Emergency Food Supply For One Adult (3,000 Calories per Day) Copyright © 2008,2014 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.

All Rights Reserved. Introduction The original retail price for each food item was established at the beginning of the year 2008 on January 9, 2008. The Total Retail Cost for the entire one-year emergency food supply on January 9, 2008 was $1,385 in the Southeastern United States. Monolithic Marketplace - Welcome.

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