TEOTWAWKI – 2

Preparing for Disasters Overview: Page #2.

1….With any P.E. you will see Secondary Events ( S.E.) show up that complicate survival of the P.E.

  1. Water Shortage / Quality / Availability. How will you work around this? How to get water / purify it.
  2. Electrical Power Interruptions and / or outright failures. How to live w/o elect power.
  3. Natural Gas interruptions and /or failures. How to heat w/o Nat Gas & Elect.
  4. Automotive and Diesel Fuel Stock interruptions and / or failures. Storing & stabilizing fuel.
  5. Home heating oil interruptions and / or failures. same as Nat Gas.
  6. Food stock interruptions and / or failures. What to do when stores are empty.
  7. Radio / TV and Communication interruptions and / or failures. Who will you trust as news source?
  8. Sanitation System failure. How to live when public sewage system fails and backs up?
  9. Public Policing breakdown and failure.  How will you live w/o Law & Order?
  10. Fire, Search & Rescue, and Emergency Med Service breakdown and failure. How will you live w/o EMS?
  11. Health Care system breakdown and failure. No Medicines, no Hospital care. How will you live?
  12. Public Infrastructure breakdown and failure. Bridges down, power-lines down. What to know.
  13. Transportation System breakdown and / or failure. No Buses, Trains, Planes, or Shipping.
  14. Your personal home may be damaged beyond habitability. Where do you sleep and live?
  15. Family members may be separated. How will you all get back together? Do you have a plan?
  16. You or a family member may be injured. How will you take care of them? Do you have a plan?
  17. A family member may have died near you. Grief will now be on top of survival. Taking care of the Deceased.
  18. Personal Transportation may not operate. How do you get from here to there? E.M.P kills your cars, what to do.
  19. Your normal routines will be disrupted. How will you and your family members function? How will you deal with stress?
  20. You may be subject to violence from other people. How far will you go to defend you and yours? Do you have a plan?
  21. Others may try to take from you what you have. Will you defend your property from theft? Do you have a plan.
  22. Moral fiber of society will be tested including you and your family’s. Thinking & Planing starts now not at event.
  23. You and your family members’ Religious world view will be tested. Strengthening all your faiths starts now.
  24. Will you use deadly force to protect you and yours and what you have to survive with? You must have a plan before.