She’s lucky, did some things that were poorly thought out, but others that were smart. It’s a different season now, and hopefully you readers have gone ahead and repacked or added to your vehicle kits, for your specific areas.
Link:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/arizona-student-stranded-snow-survived-candy-bars-melted-snow-9-days-article-1.995414
-Greg
One of the largest outdoors/media/shooting sports trade shows will be coming back to Las Vegas in 2012, January 17-20, and The Preparedness Podcast will be there, covering new preparedness products. It’s almost impossible to cover everything, so what would you readers like to focus on? I’m not going to be there for the whole show, but I should have enough time to cover a decent amount – and enough time to make some posts direct from the show.
Feel free to shoot some ideas out to us – comments page works, or email, and maybe I’ll see you at the show!
-Greg
Just another item to stock up on now if you use it regularly.
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Get ready for peanut butter sticker shock – NorthJersey.com
The reports of what shoppers are about to see at the grocery store are widespread and not pretty. Kraft’s Planters peanut butter will increase in price by 40 percent on Halloween. Peter Pan could go up more than 20 percent. Jif’s wholesale prices are predicted to rise by 30 percent in November.
There has been a natural disaster that has caused at least a billion dollars of damage inside the United States every single month so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been 10 major disasters in the United States this year. On average, usually there are only about 3 major disasters a year. At this point, disasters are happening inside the United States so frequently that there seems to be no gap between them. We just seem to go from one major disaster to the next. Last year, FEMA declared an all-time record of 81 disasters inside the United States. This year, we are on pace for well over 100. We just got done dealing with Hurricane Irene, and now we are dealing with historic wildfires in Texas and unprecedented flooding up in the northeast part of the country. This has been the worst year for natural disasters in U.S. history, and we still have nearly four months left to go. Hopefully after everything that has happened this year it has become abundantly clear to all of us why we need to prepare for emergencies. The world is becoming an increasingly unstable place, and you never know what is going to happen next.
Read the rest of the article for more (and there’s a lot more):
The link goes to a photo article of a group of homeless people in NJ. It shows life living in a shanty town. If you study the pictures, you can learn a lot about what life like this is like and what is important for survival. You’ll notice that being comfortable, even in a minimal sense, is important and shouldn’t be underestimated. Surviving isn’t a camping trip, it’s everyday life.
THE GREAT RECESSION: Life In “Tent City” In Lakewood New Jersey
