Early release of emergency preparedness questions

Can you please make a playlist with all your emergency preparedness kit videos?

Mitchell

Thanks. I had never hesrd the term so I wanted to folliw up on it. I have Auerbach's set but I do want to take a course. Thanks for the search suggestions. I will definitely look for more info.

PDFs for WFR texts abound online, but pay attention to the publication dates because some of the information more or less stays the same but some of it changes critically and substantially (e.g. CPR best practices have changed in the last 10 years, especially for children and infants). There are also plenty of recent texts with good information (search 'riot medicine' 'ditch medicine' 'street medic training') that are covered with disclaimers because most of us doing the things in those books constitutes practicing medicine without a license, which is illegal but if you're in a bad situation...you make your own choices. I did a WFR last year and while it's not cheap (I think I paid $1400) it's some of the best money I've ever spent and I highly recommend it to anyone who has access to it.

Sturdy

Awesome, thanks!

WFR -wilderness first responder, "Woofer" When I took the class that's how the instructors referred to the group.

For the content that you can't put on YouTube (second last question) you could upload to another site like Vimeo or something and link in the comments/description. I choose Vimeo because you can private videos with a password.

Samwise

The analogy regarding "push the right buttons, beat the level" does indeed accurately reflect a mindset among my generation. A subset of us, however, play fighting games, in which there's an understanding that you can do everything right and still get outplayed, which is pretty much what you described. I feel like that may resonate well with some viewers.

well, you can make a hobby out of it. i like backcountry off grid, off road, and the jeep is set up for that. enough food, fuel, clothing, shelter, water, all the stuff for two people for ten days. btw, beau, if you haven't done it yet, go to long range america for secondary gas tanks for the gladiator. they are excellent, and in 4wh, aired down, i can go about 500 miles in sand. jeeps don't have enough legs.

Randy Allen

I do live in Phoenix Arizona. Generally, in the truck I always have 2 liters of fresh water in 2 1 liter Nalgenes. This time of year, if I’m going road tripping or any off-roading, there’s either 1 or 2 22-liter (6 gal) water bottles in the back. Water is everything. Also, when in the back of beyond, or even a few miles off pavement, there’s a small backpack with a 3 liter water bladder inside. Oh, there’s always a “sun hat” (one of those hats with ventilation and a neck drape) permanently in the truck. Dehydration is so easy to have happen. You don’t want to go there.

Jon Adams

"Things need to get worse..." isn't necessarily war romanticising. It's a matter of society historically speaking, need to experience great suffering among the greater majority before they even think of coming together. Humans needed to experience no humanity to demand it. Now the push is to abolish humanity because society became too comfortable and listened to the lies of the very wealthy who have an unhealthy need to own and control everything.

Being prepared for natural disasters is a common way of living in Australia, being prone to fires and flooding yearly. Emergency services provide lists of what should be kept in emergency packs.

I was wondering what the textbook was that Beau mentioned a couple of times. It dounded like "Woofer Textbook" but my Goigle-fu wasn't strong enough to find anything that made sense. TIA!

2022 version https://thesurvivalmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/FM_21-76-US-army-survival-manual.pdf

I was about to ask one question but now I actually want to expand it a bit. My original question is, can you recommend a good survival book (preferably one I can listen to via audiobook). But the more I thought about it, and I don’t mean to stray off topic, but it might be interesting for others (I know it would be for me) to see a list of books you might recommend regardless of topic)

Jeff

This is my offer. We live on 193 acres and our first and foremost fear is running out of water. Never considered canned water; we use old Gatorade bottles. When power blips we run our water into pots and other storage means. We have been out of power for 12 days max and we learned to cover these interruptions with a generator.