Survival Planning – Community or Individual

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Planning is the key to preparing for survival during a disaster. This is one of the reasons I developed my survival gear checklist which is available on this site for download.

Although we prepare as individuals, we can learn some important lessons from the people that plan for our communities when it comes to disasters. An example of this is in a recent article that I found on the web, Tuscaloosa Chief Offers Key Tips When Facing a Natural Disaster.

The Tuscaloosa Fire Chief Alan Martin, presented several tips to various community agencies to help better prepare them for natural disasters. Although these were aimed at emergency personnel, I thought that several of the items really apply to us as individuals as well. More

Americans Believe More Natural Disasters

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Based on a recent Harris poll, many Americans believe there are more natural disasters.

More Americans believe that we are experiencing an increase in natural disasters across the world. This recent Harris poll, pointed out that 76% of the people polled felt that there was indeed an increase in occurrences. Of the people that felt this way, just over half of them said that they were actually prepared. The definition of being prepared in this survey was having enough food, water and shelter to survive for at least a 72 hour period. More