Apr202012
Instant Survival Tip: Use the Rule of 3 to ID Your Disaster
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I teach about the importance of the Rule of 3 in my webinar class, “Survival Rules You Can’t Afford to Ignore,” and recently applied the rule to identifying the most likely scenarios for prepping. It’s so simple, I don’t know why it hadn’t occurred to me before!
If you’re wondering what to prepare for first, answer these 3 questions:
- What is the most likely natural disaster that might occur in your area?
- What is the most likely extreme weather event that might affect you?
- What is the most likely personal or man-made disaster that might occur?
Once you answer these three questions, you have 3 events to plan for. To refine your decisions and actions even further, order these 3 events from most urgent to least urgent. For example, if you consider a blizzard to be the most likely weather event but summer is right around the corner, perhaps the natural or man-made disaster on your list should be given the highest priority for now.
Is your list finished? Well, get busy!
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Break the the 3 questions in to categories and you will come up with more results to refine.
Bets'
My husband asked me what possible events would make us have to bug out. Living next to a forest preserve for one. If we have a dry summer, a lighting strike could ignite the entire woods. We’re also a half mile from the RR tracks, a chemical spill might be something that could happen. An earthquake in Illinois isn’t unheard of and tornadoes are plentiful. Lots to be concerned about and prepare for this season!
MJ
Bets, sounds like you live very close to me. . .and there WAS a chemical spill on the RR tracks. . .
Heather
Please remember the Great Lakes are a fault line. Many people don’t know that. There is also one running through NY state into Ontario and Quebec. That is why some of the transit system is above ground.
Selina
Yes there are. 23 Years ago in northern Illinois there was a huge earth that sent everyone flying out of their homes in disbelief.
I now live in northern Alabama and lived through the 2011 April storms. We were blessed and only lost power for a few hours most in the surrounding towns lost power for weeks. Our small town had the only gas and food in a 30 mile radius. I find it interesting that people who panic at every rain storm are not interested in survival preparedness. I am just happy to have found this site.
maggi
i live on the gulf coast in florida – hurricane alley. what can i say. we also get a few tornados here that can cause lotsof damage but nothing like the midwest has all the time. canes are enough for me.