Emergency Preparedness

emergency preparedness, Jared Matkin, survival gear, survival kit - July 05, 2011

Emergency Thermal Blankets in Your Survival Kit

If you’ve never actually wrapped up in an emergency blanket it may be hard to believe there’s any great benefit in including this tiny little sheet in your survival kit. I guess you could probably say I was a nonbeliever until I was actually forced to use one out of necessity in the back of an old station wagon that broke down on a cold desert highway (true story, but one for another time). The point is, there is always an emergency blanket in my survival kit now.This nifty little invention has many names. You may hear it called a...

Natural Disaster Insurance

Natural disasters occur everyday. While some natural disasters have forewarnings, many do not. Some of us become desensitized by the tragedies that are associated with these disasters as we see pictures and news stories affiliated with them regularly on the nightly news. Some of us do not become desensitized to these terrible catastrophes. We instead become prepared with the proper emergency preparedness items and survival gear.One of the most overlooked things that can drastically aid those affected by disasters is natural disaster insurance. A surprising amount of people that have spent numerous hours and dollars in emergency preparedness efforts have...

The Importance of Spare Clothing in your Survival Kit

When you are told that you have to evacuate your home and you only have 30 minutes what do you grab? Did you think to grab a change of clothes for everyone? What about extra shoes? While packing clothing might not seem as important as your family photo albums, making sure that your family is prepared does mean having spare clothes and shoes in your survival kit. Most people think of clothing as an afterthought and that they can go to the store and buy more clothes, but that won’t always be an option. If you were in a major...

Wardrobe Survival Kit

When it comes to emergency preparedness we talk a lot about the importance of survival kits and how they can be created and used for everything from first aid to search and rescue. It’s well known that natural disasters can have devastating effects on man made and natural environments, but it’s probably less well known that many of the injuries people sustain actually happen in the aftermath of an event.Think for a minute about an image of a devastated area. What does that scene look like? Buildings reduced to rubble, downed power lines, broken glass, blocked roads. It’s scenes like...

Rapture, Armageddon or Emergency Preparedness?

Massive earthquakes, super-volcanoes, solar storms, pole reversal—this is just a short list of things I hope to never experience in my life. These are also the kinds of things that provide some level of intrigue to all the doomsday predictions getting tossed around these days. For some people, the concept of such massive cataclysmic events prompts them to stockpile goods and increase their emergency food storage, while others tend to completely disregard these supposed revelations. Regardless of what you think or believe, there have always been and always will be people who make predictions about the destiny of the earth...

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