25
Must-Have Survival Skills
Perhaps you've noticed.
The world we live in is deteriorating.
Aside from
the geophysical part that seems to be going haywire with increased
volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, weird weather
patterns, dead animals and diseases, there are plenty of manmade
catastrophes looming on the horizon, too. With more humans on the
planet, the greater the competition for resources. More countries
seek nuclear devices than ever before, with advancements in
technology, this is a much easier process than anytime before.
Biological and chemical weapons are also much easier to manufacture
because of leaps of technology in regard to computers. Oil markets
are much tighter because of the countries of China and India and
their increasing need of energy to fuel their booming economies, and
new finds of oil fields cannot keep up with the demand. One more
thing... the debacle of the world economies needs no introduction.
In
short, bad times... REALLY bad times... could and probably will be
coming to a neighborhood near you. Unless you and your family take
this possibility seriously, if and when something extremely horrible
happens, you could very well end up one of the large number of
statistics.
That's
no joke!
Many
survival sites have informative and excellent advice intended to help
you make it through a limited amount of time should your everyday
life become totally disrupted. However, what exactly does a person do
IF the society nearly all of us have become much too dependent on,
fails to recover for an extended period of time, if ever again? What
IF civilization implodes and only begins to recuperate months, or
YEARS, have gone by?
If
you watch some of the TV ideas people have on survival being interviewed, you may wonder what exactly these people are
thinking. Those who have prepared for major problems are
woefully unprepared for any disaster lasting for more than a few days at
best. One lady thought having a flashlight meant she was prepare! A
man I know has 4 gallons of water. Big deal! Even for those who have
invested in years worth of food and supplies, there are some basic
survival skills that must be learned and understood in order to
increase one’s chance of making it through a possible long-term
survival situation.
The
following are 25 suggestions of those survival skills that will
likely be needed after a nightmare hits human civilization with a
vengeance. Each of these 25 skills deserves an entire article to do
them justice. ALL of them are worthy of searching on the web, printing
and placing in a Disaster Folder. You might even search Google or
YouTube for video explanations and demonstrations. Only a brief
overlay of each of these is discussed here to avoid long
descriptions. Further information can be obtained through many
survival books and the many articles on each subject. Situations and
personal handling of “Stuff Hits The Fan” (SHTF) situations will
differ widely, but the foundation will likely be there for almost
everyone. The main objective is to get more people into learning and
practicing these survival skills so if/when something cataclysmic does
happen, more will be better prepared to deal with and make it through the intense human tragedy.
Here we go...
1.
Prepare
for the worst.
Individuals can still hope for the best, but one characteristic of
far too many folks – including so-called “Preppers” - is how they
still don't really believe anything disastrous could happen to
them. To all my Christian friends who believe God will spare them, Noah and Joseph come to mind as two men for whom preparation was a really great idea! Revelation even says "the Bride has made herself ready" and there are many other Biblical examples, too.
Too many of those who DO ready themselves for disasters cannot
find within themselves to approach the subject with their families
and friends. Fear of rejection, embrassment, whatever the reason, an
actual discussion of the topic could save the lives of those we love so much - if only we would talk about this. Such denial
leads to a failure to prepare beyond a couple of weeks at most. To
them, there remains the government or some other “safety net”
there for them when their preparation runs out.
2.
Learn
and train your mind to expect the totally unexpected.
The bizarre oftens happens, and there are events that are going to
freak out even the best- prepared survivalists. Some people will
prepare and practice all sorts of drills for various horrors, which
is a great habit to get into. There still lurks the possibility of
something so strange and weird it ... (WANT MORE? if you would appreciate the complete list of 25 Must-Have Survival Skills, just ask! Send an eMail to miketummillo@me.com and type the word "HELP" in your Subject Bar. More to come!)
Every blessing,
Michael Tummillo
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