Urban Survival Skills

Essential reading for all survivalists and preppers – urban survival skills! Here you’ll be able to learn about urban survival techniques that can mean the difference between life and death for you and your family. The more you know about survival strategies and skills, the better prepared you’ll be to see your way through a disaster situation. Learn essential survival techniques to avoid the lethal missteps that most people make when faced with potential life and death decisions. Being prepared means being aware.

Part II: Do You Know How To Tie A Knot?

March 23, 2011
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Part II of do you know how to tie a knot. Five more useful knots.

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Part I: Do You Know How to Tie a Knot?

March 16, 2011
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It Could Save Your Life: Crucial Knots & Their Applications Knots are essential to survival in the outdoors and in emergency situations, and for sailing. Knowing which knots to tie and how to properly perform these actions can mean the difference between security and safety or death. Knowing how to tie a knot can help [...]

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Water Collection, Purification, & Storage in an Urban Environment

March 9, 2011
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In the event of a catastrophe, whether natural or man-made, water is perhaps one of the most crucial elements lacking in an urban setting. Earthquakes can disrupt water mains, or water treatment plants can be shut down or destroyed, leaving us with only the water we have in bottles and storage. Careful planning and forethought [...]

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Fire Pit Construction

March 2, 2011
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The Essentials to Safer & Longer Lasting Fires Fires are essential for surviving in almost any environment. Fire is required to purify water, cook food, create warmth, signal for help, and protection from wildlife. Therefore it is essential to learn the various methods of constructing fires.

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Situational Awareness and Normalcy Bias

March 1, 2011
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How often would you say you get “caught off guard?” In an everyday context, this could be as harmless as reaching for your coffee mug without looking and spilling it on your carpet, or as serious as failing to notice an oncoming car as you step out into the street. These mistakes are easy to [...]

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Friday Stuff 10-22-10 Zombie Edition

October 22, 2010

This Friday we bring you some of the best Lock Picks I have found and a good educational source on the topic. Why you would learn lock picking was covered in our previous article Lock Picking: Why Would You Learn It. In this article we will touch on it briefly and then move on to [...]

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Zombie Survival

October 5, 2010
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Roughly a year ago my best friend insisted I read World War Z by Max Brooks. At first I was very reluctant. Zombie genre stuff just wasn’t me. After some prodding, I came around and picked up a copy. A chapter into it and I could not put the book down; I was hooked. Soon [...]

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Creating Emergency Weather Alerts

September 21, 2010
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Millions of people lose property every year and some lose life to severe weather every year. Weather can be one of the most destructive and dangerous forces in nature. To make matters worse, it can turn on a dime. When it does, will you be informed? Being notified of such conditions can be the thing [...]

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CERT: Emergency Response Training For The Masses

September 11, 2010
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A couple of years ago, after reading Emergency by Neil Strauss, four friends and I enrolled in a CERT Program. It seemed like it would be a good first step on our road to preparedness and a great first step gaining practical Urban Survival Skills. What Is CERT CERT, short for Community Emergency Response Team, [...]

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Lock Picking: Why Would You Learn It

September 10, 2010
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Lock Picking is a skill with it’s own mystique. To some is takes on a scary even criminal connotation. To others it seems like a neat skill to have. There are tons of sites dealing with Survival that often discuss lock picking. Today I am not going to discuss the how to, but instead the [...]

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