Archive for ' Evacuation'

“Gone In 60 Seconds”… Do You Have a Disaster Prepared Mindset? Posted:March 13, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

“Gone In 60 Seconds”… Do You Have a Disaster Prepared Mindset?

Guest post by Tara who blogs at Disaster Mom.  Check it out! Ashes fell like rain and smoke drowned out the fiery red sun on our cozy Southern California beach town in October of 2007. The [...]

Survival Survey:  What Are Your Plans For Bugging IN? Posted:March 08, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What Are Your Plans For Bugging IN?

I got a question from one of my readers, Dee, and thought it would make a great Survival Survey. I live on my own in a suburb of a large city and don’t think I’m going [...]

Self Rescue: When Staying Put to Survive Isn’t an Option Posted:August 23, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Self Rescue: When Staying Put to Survive Isn’t an Option

by Peter Kummerfeldt as posted at Survival Common Sense (Stay or go? A fundamental precept of urban and wilderness survival is that during or after an emergency and/or survival situation, you should stay put so rescuers [...]

An evacuation dilemma: can you help? Posted:July 09, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

An evacuation dilemma: can you help?

Our July Skill of the Month is planning an evacuation, and for some of us, that’s easier said than done.  Survival Mom Renee posted this question over on the Survival Mom forum, and I think we [...]

July Skill of the Month:  Plan your evacuation route Posted:July 02, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

July Skill of the Month: Plan your evacuation route

I know I skipped the June Skill of the Month!  I’m going to give you two July skills to work on. Watch for the second one to be posted this week! I’ve been thinking a lot [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: A Germ Killing Must-Have for your B.O.B. Posted:June 15, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: A Germ Killing Must-Have for your B.O.B.

Recently, I bought an E-Cloth after learning how it could help keep my house more sanitary.  It’s a pretty amazing invention, a microfiber towel that has been proven to remove 99% of bacteria from hard surfaces [...]

Lessons for Hurricane Evacuations Posted:April 19, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Lessons for Hurricane Evacuations

  Last year, Kathlyn Smith of Texas shared with me some of her hurricane experiences.  She’s a single mom in her 50′s and has managed to ride out two recent hurricanes, Ike and Rita, on her [...]

Maybe an earthquake emergency kit isn’t such a bad idea Posted:March 16, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Maybe an earthquake emergency kit isn’t such a bad idea

Whenever I get panicked about something scary, the end of the world, for example, I wait a few minutes and the feeling goes away.  I’m not panicking about earthquakes, but after I watched this video, I [...]

Bugging Out to the Country Posted:January 10, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Bugging Out to the Country

Guest post by Patrice Lewis, columnist and blogger at Rural Revolution When many urban or suburban people think about Prepping or Survivalism, they think about bugging out to a more rural location.  This has to be [...]

Planning an Evacuation Posted:January 07, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Planning an Evacuation

Guest post by David Michaud, Emergency Disaster.net Home, in most situations, is where it is easiest for you to survive most emergency disaster – that is the place, after all, where your food and water supplies [...]