Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Jennifer Ruzsa ]
#126273 - 01/25/2007 03:56 PM |
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All good tips above... Keep in mind too that you won't actually DIE if you miss a few meals here and there.
Food is the LEAST important actual aspect of preparedness, IMO, and is at the bottom of the list with water and shelter/warmth being the most important.
agreed. i'm pretty sure with water, you're actually capable of surviving much longer. i can't really remember, but i seem to recall the body being able to surive at most a couple weeks without water. but with drinking water, and without food, the body can survive much longer.
but heck, there's that one teenager who allegedly throws the whole theory out of whack.
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Jamie Fraser ]
#126281 - 01/25/2007 04:45 PM |
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All good tips above... Keep in mind too that you won't actually DIE if you miss a few meals here and there.
Food is the LEAST important actual aspect of preparedness, IMO, and is at the bottom of the list with water and shelter/warmth being the most important.
agreed. i'm pretty sure with water, you're actually capable of surviving much longer. i can't really remember, but i seem to recall the body being able to surive at most a couple weeks without water. but with drinking water, and without food, the body can survive much longer.
but heck, there's that one teenager who allegedly throws the whole theory out of whack.
I have done numerous 10-day water fasts, and my longest and most recent fast was 40 days on water alone. Granted, I prepared for the fast by "saving up" on nutritious calories (I ate a lot of nuts, seeds, and fatty fruit like avocado) but I did it. And I could have gone longer without dying. May not have been HEALTHY to go longer, but it would have been possible. I still had ample energy at the end of that 40 days. So, IMO, the average thin American can go significanly longer, but I posted the minimum fasting length without doctor supervision.
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Jennifer Ruzsa ]
#126286 - 01/25/2007 05:11 PM |
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An I the only one with Duct Tape? I also got the GI issue 300 mileanhour tape, you guys aint gonna make it
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Dennis Jones ]
#126324 - 01/25/2007 09:35 PM |
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here is a site you may want to check out: http://www.NoahsWish.org
They do disaster animal response training plus other info.
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Roger Blowers ]
#126332 - 01/25/2007 10:35 PM |
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I am from Canada, but when I was searching the web on another site I notice that Fema will give you the information that you need. Good luck.
http://www.fema.gov/
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Marcia Pontius ]
#126333 - 01/25/2007 10:52 PM |
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I swear all you really need is a roll of duct tape. Seriously, I don't mind being prepared for having ot be on my own for a couple of weeks, but I don't think I want to survive if it's going to be me, the cockroaches & a bunch of looney survivalists (no offence).
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: susan tuck ]
#126365 - 01/26/2007 08:08 AM |
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I swear all you really need is a roll of duct tape. Seriously, I don't mind being prepared for having ot be on my own for a couple of weeks, but I don't think I want to survive if it's going to be me, the cockroaches & a bunch of looney survivalists (no offence).
Sure you would, you'll have your dog and if you planed ahead about 50 pounds of chocolate, you'll be good to go
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Dennis Jones ]
#126368 - 01/26/2007 08:24 AM |
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Dennis, I'm with you. How does it go, "Country Folk Will Survive"? We rely heavily on duct tape, too. We have all the equipment (including duct tape) we need to become totally self sufficient, if we had to do so. I sure would miss my indoor plumbing, though, if disaster strikes. Someone was talking about how important water is, I could not agree more. Except for air, and protection of some sort from the elements, water is the most important thing we need to allow us to survive. Which reminds me a show my husband and i watched several months ago, it had the true story of three different people who were lost in the wilderness. Two survived, the third did not. The one who did not supposedly had been camping, hiking, etc, before. What killed him was water. And stupidity. It's pouring down rain, he has a tent, and a skillet, no fire, and he's dehydrated. What does he do? He drinks from a river, gets giardia, gets weak, succumbs to hypthermia and dies. Notice I said, it's POURING DOWN RAIN....he has a TENT...and SKILLET...
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Jennifer Ruzsa ]
#126370 - 01/26/2007 08:42 AM |
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All good tips above... Keep in mind too that you won't actually DIE if you miss a few meals here and there. So your 30-day food supply, if you take that down to just 1 or 2 meals per day, or even every other day, might last much longer. And when your food supply is up, most healthy people (even those who are slim) can survive 10+ days without a bite of food. If you're at all overweight, you can go more.
Food is the LEAST important actual aspect of preparedness, IMO, and is at the bottom of the list with water and shelter/warmth being the most important. In fact, it's SOOOOO far down the list of importancies that I find it funny that it's the first thing people think of when they think "disaster preparedness"
Typical North America, I tell ya! Ditto what Jennifer said. I'm sure a lot of the survival tips about food and water are based on 3 squares of food/day and 8 glasses of drinking water/day. Neither of which I do under normal circumstances. Hiking/camping teaches you how little you need of certain things to get by for several days. Water, as Jennifer said, being the MOST important. And water can be stretched out if you keep physical activity low.
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Re: Do you have a Disaster Plan?
[Re: Dennis Jones ]
#126372 - 01/26/2007 08:51 AM |
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An I the only one with Duct Tape? I also got the GI issue 300 mileanhour tape, you guys aint gonna make it You and McGyver! Duct tape - good for tying up bad guys and pulling cars out of ditches
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