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