#shtf

Prepare Before Panic

Preparedness is not fear. Its discipline, awareness, and thinking ahead before emergencies happen. Build your survival systems quietly. Stay organized, and remain ready for uncertain times.

Skills to survive the apolcalype

These are meant to be split amongst the group becouse theres no way one person can have time to learn all these skills and remember them. 

Lock picking-breaking into abandoned buildings

Axe throwing-and handling an axe in general

Archery-for hunting food when ammo runs out

Tahtib-stick fighting martial art for when you have nothing but a stick

German Ju-Jutsu-techniques from Jujutsu, Judo, Karate 

Sewing-for fixing tent clothes 

First aid-to aid yourself and your group, getting hurt is inevitable in the apocalypse

Cpr-self explainable

How to filter water

Building shelter out of what you have in any enviorment-might need to travel for supplies

Gardening-we all need to eat

Fishing-we all need to eat part 2

Foraging- cant just pick any mushroom without knowing if its safe or not

Driving a car-mode of transportation when supplies like medication runs out in your town

Horse back riding and horse care-if gas runs out

Skinning animals and meatcutting-to prepare the food

HERE IT IS, if you'd like to check it out.

It's focused on spreading knowledge about self-sustainability and bushcrafting. I am far from an expert, but that's also kind of the point of the group -- to spread entry-level knowledge to other first-timers from reputable sources.

I have a collection of bushcraft and SHTF pdf documents that I will be hosting on Mega for free download, so swing by and see what's been put up so far. :)

No power means no digital money access. Here is what actually happens and how to prepare.

Ladies, listen up! Always trust your gut instincts, and if you absolutely have to knock on someone else's door for help. Pretend like you know them and try to signal that you need their help. Carry a note with the word "help" on it just in case you need to pull it.

Carry a Keychain alarm or hook one onto your clothing, a belt loop or coat zipper. Find something small and sharp to carry in your pocket or purse if you're not allowed to buy self-defense items. Scratch the person if they attack you, so you have their DNA under your nails.

Some pepper sprays come with a blue dye that sticks to and pigments the skin for potential identification.

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I live in a small apartment. I don't have a bunker, I can't make a root cellar, I have very limited space for storing food. We can't get all dramatic and prepare specifics for every possible scenario. My disaster preparedness has to be small, affordable, and useful in a wide range of scenarios. So how are we doing that?

First of all, I'm not vacuum sealing MRE's or whatever people are doing. I don't have space for that. I'm just making sure my pantry always has a lot of what we already eat. If we can't buy groceries for three months, we will basically just be eating the same stuff we always eat.

Learn what food goes farthest. For example, you can make rice porridge with one cup of rice to six cups of water. The rice just expands like crazy, so it goes a whole lot farther.

Keep a good first aid kit. As I said in a previous post, we can't trust ambulances to show up quickly anymore in my city. That means I have to be able to stabilize anyone injured or sick in my home, and then get them to a hospital if necessary. I'm making sure I check it twice a year, so we aren't discovering in an emergency that all our stuff expired six years ago or something.

Since I live in a high rise apartment, if the power goes out, it also means water goes out. I have enough water for three weeks for everyone in my house, including pets.

Knowing your goals is important here. I have family and friends all over the world, so for me, I need to keep my household safe until we can get to somewhere less affected. If the world ends, I'm not trying to survive forever so we can repopulate the earth, or anything... that sounds like too much work.

Now, when we consider that I live in a high rise, and I am not physically fit enough to go up the stairs all the way from the ground floor, we can see precisely where I really need to focus my energy - on getting more physically fit. Being able to filter water for several months and knowing where I can get some is awesome, but if I can't get out of my home and back with that water, all of that is useless.