Quick-Start Guide for Preparedness Newbies

From SurvivalBlog.com - here's some great tips for getting started with your preparedness plan!

SurvivalBlog's Quick-Start Guide for Preparedness Newbies

THE PRACTICAL PREPAREDNESS TEST

Suppose conditions are really challenging. Your home remains intact, but power is unavailable. Alternate sources for warmth and cooking would be needed. Assume there is no electricity for the purpose of effective planning. How must you change your routine? What would you need to get through each day's activities? Do you have the proper equipment? Are your appliances all electric? If, after the initial crisis has passed - maybe a week to 10 days - power has returned, GREAT! But what if it hasn't... This is not being pessimistic, only prepared. More...

Survival Tips for the Business Traveler

These suggestions are preparatory in nature for the start of any catastrophic situation and carry the following assumptions: Trouble comes unexpectedly. Chance (luck & fortune) favors the prepared mind. And in periods of catastrophe, while good will may abound – predators abound as well.

1. Make sure that your family has an emergency plan that includes what to do when you're not home. Have primary, secondary and tertiary meet spots, as well as innocuous signals that will tell the other parties if they've left and where they're going.

2. Don't tell strangers or your casual neighbors (anyone not in your network) how long you'll be gone, even inadvertently. More...

SOS Featured Product: LED Mini Outdoor Lantern

LED Mini Outdoor Lantern 7 Bulb

- Mini Outdoor/ indoor Lantern
- 7 LED bulbs
- Requires 4AA Batteries, not included
- 7" Tall with Handle up
- 4 function for 1 LED, 3 LED or all 7 LED
- Folding Metal Hanging ring
- Great for Boats, Camping, Power outages, and much more

Available at our website: SOS

ALL ABOUT CLAY.COM

Check out this great website loaded with information about Calcium Bentonite Clay:
ALL ABOUT CLAY.COM

Calcium Bentonite Clay is Mother Nature's pharmacy. It is volcanic ash with all the impurities burned out leaving pure trace minerals. Clay is a nano crystal of highly charged electromagnetic energy from the thermodynamic heat of a volcano. It can NOT be duplicated in a laboratory. Only God can make clay.

Most clays have a high alkaline pH. Clay is homeostatic and as such is an adaptogen that brings balance and equilibrium to the body. A balanced body can heal itself. That is what the body is designed to do when it isn't in overload and unable to filter out the build up of toxins and wastes in the body that begin causing health problems. Calcium Bentonite Clay's strength lies in its ability to adsorb and absorb, to suck into itself toxins, chemicals, viruses, molds and the bad bacteria, hold them captive within the molecule and carry them out of the body.
Source: Calcium Bentonite Clay

Solar Storms Could Be Earth's Next Katrina

Every few decades, the sun experiences a particularly large storm that can release as much energy as 1 billion hydrogen bombs. Officials from Europe and the U.S. say an event like that could leave millions on Earth without electricity, running water and phone service.

A massive solar storm could leave millions of people around the world without electricity, running water, or phone service, government officials say.

That was their conclusion after participating in a tabletop exercise that looked at what might happen today if the Earth were struck by a solar storm as intense as the huge storms that occurred in 1921 and 1859.

Solar storms happen when an eruption or explosion on the surface of the sun sends radiation or electrically charged particles toward Earth. Minor storms are common and can light up the Earth's Northern skies and interfere with radio signals.

Every few decades, though, the sun experiences a particularly large storm. These can release as much energy as 1 billion hydrogen bombs.

How Well Can We Weather The Solar Storm?

The exercise, held in Boulder, Colorado, was intended to investigate "what we think could be close to a worst-case scenario," says Tom Bogdan, who directs the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder. The Center is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"It's important to understand that, along with other types of natural hazards, (solar) storms can cause impacts," says Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who also took part in the tabletop exercise.

Bogdan and Fugate say that eventually there will be another storm as big as the ones in 1921 and 1859 — a sort of solar Katrina.

But the impact is likely to be far worse than in previous solar storms because of our growing dependence on satellites and other electronic devices that are vulnerable to electromagnetic radiation.

In the tabletop exercise, the first sign of trouble came when radiation began disrupting radio signals and GPS devices, Bogdan says.

Ten or 20 minutes later electrically charged particles "basically took out" most of the commercial satellites that transmit telephone conversations, TV shows and huge amounts of data we depend on in our daily lives, Bogdan says.

"When you go into a gas station and put your credit card in and get some gas," he says, "that's a satellite transaction."

Disabled Satellites Are Just The Beginning

The worst damage came nearly a day later, when the solar storm began to induce electrical currents in high voltage power lines. The currents were strong enough to destroy transformers around the globe," Bogdan says, leaving millions of people in northern latitudes without power.

Without electricity, many people also lost running water, heat, air conditioning and phone service. And places like hospitals had to rely on emergency generators with fuel for only two or three days, Bogdan says.

In many ways, the impact of a major solar storm resembles that of a hurricane or an earthquake, says Fugate.

But a solar Katrina would cause damage in a much larger area than any natural disaster, Fugate says. For example, power could be knocked out almost simultaneously in countries from Sweden to Canada and the U.S., he says. So a lot more people in a lot more places would need help.

Individuals don't need to make any special preparation for a solar storm, Fugate says. The standard emergency kit of water and food and first aid supplies will work just fine.

"If you've got your family disaster plan together, you've taken the steps, whether it be a space storm, whether it be a system failure, whether it be another natural hazard that knocks the power out," Fugate says.

Copyright 2010 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

Planet X, 2012 and More

Check out this website. There's TONS of interesting information!

Planet X, 2012 and More

Surviving 2012 and Planet X

Troubled Times - Hub of Information

When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein | "DO THE RIGHT THING! FOR YOURSELF... YOUR FAMILY... THE PLANET..."

72-Hour “Grab-and-Run” Survival Kits


Preparedness Checklist


Disinfecting Your Water


When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein | "DO THE RIGHT THING! FOR YOURSELF... YOUR FAMILY... THE PLANET..."

Basic Seed Saving describes useful terms and concepts central to seed saving.

I n t e r n a t i o n a l S e e d S a v i n g I n s t i t u t e
saving seeds, seed-saving education and permaculture

Basic Seed Saving describes useful terms and concepts central to seed saving.

Store or Starve by Ron Shirtz

Store or Starve by Ron Shirtz

Full-body scanners used on air passengers may damage human DNA

Full-body scanners used on air passengers may damage human DNA