Disaster Preparedness - Urban & Environmental
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Cody Lundin takes us all through an urban disaster preparedness scenario. How do you prepare? What do you need? Cody Lundin explains. The news reporter claims, "I've never felt more petrified going to the supermarket." Lundin does not discard the availability of any kind of food, even cat food. Household bleach, Lundin explains, is a multipurpose tool. Bleach can disinfect many things such as cleaning up after a corpse, water, and the container can be used to hold whatever you need. Using plastic bags to contain a corpse, to rat traps providing your next meal, Cody's got the knowledge and the advice you need to survive. Cooking oil can also be used as a candle to hold a flame or providing heat for a meal. Cody suggests that these tools hold their weight in gold. Lundin exemplifies how to open a tin can by rubbing it on concrete. Cody Lundin says, "it's all about maintaining core body temperature."
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10 Piece Kit For Survival
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The first 5, most vital, items Dave Canterbury describes as essential for survival does not have the ability to embed in external resources. However, Dave continues the 10 piece kit for survival. Dave proclaims that maintaining core body temperature is important. A 100% cotton bandana is important for a medical kit, or for char-cloth. Having a generic compass is important to have to get yourself around and navigate by visual bearing. Dave's compass has a mirror which is used for multiple uses. If an item doesn't have more than three purposes Dave discards it immediately. Headlamp is crucial to have to free up from using a hand, it would be nice for it to be water proof. Repairing cloth or stitching yourself up after a wound is a must have item to have in your kit with a canvas needle. Duct tape, of course, should be in your kit. "If duct tape can't fix it, it's not broken," Dave says. Duct tape tops all items for multi-use items.
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Cody Lundin's Survival Book
"I was commissioned by my publisher to write a book on urban survival in June of 2004. They initially wanted to use 98.6 as a framework for the new book, and even offered to help write it (cringe). Of course I refused. Nearly a year passed before more dialog happened with my publisher regarding the project. Over the months, I had grown even more disgusted with what was happening to my country, and how “fear” seemed to hold sway over the masses. I knew I could offer people an alternative to fear, vulnerability and powerlessness, and it was this knowingness that led me to want to pursue the project. After months of contract wrangling and negotiations, I started to write When All Hell Breaks Loose sometime in late 2005."
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Dave Canterbury's Waterproof Survival Book
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"I am writing this book to provide you the most straightforward and common sense approach to being prepared for what may be called a survival situation. Sharing information on what I call, theoretical survival crap is not my purpose. To be confident and proficient in the skills needed for survival takes practice. Know your kit contents and practice your skills by using them at every given opportunity. Then when the need arises you will be equipped to apply what you have learned. This is not a book about disaster preparedness in urban environments. It does not discuss “when the grid goes down ideals”. It is based on outdoor everyday activities and geared toward being prepared during an unforeseen emergency in any type environment or even for everyday use. It is also not a survival guide for the jungles of the Amazon or the high peaks of the Andes, but a common man’s book of wisdom for the areas that most of us spend our time the grand old USA. I have traveled the world and practiced my skills in many places. I can tell you from firsthand knowledge, that many of these concepts and skills will carry you wherever you may go."
-Dave Canterbury
-Dave Canterbury