[SkyPilot]

Ping to preppers for kartographer.

I have not read this book but I might pick it up now.

This is interesting:

15 Things I learned from One Second After & My Survival Tips

1. Buy an Edsel (have viable transportation - classic car or bicycle)

2. Stock food

3. Distances that, today, are insignificant, would mean never again seeing loved ones or even your own home if you were stranded far enough away

4. Take care of health issues before the disaster (remember what happened to Tom Hanks in Castaway....)

5. Being a refugee places you in so much danger, that hunkering down, no matter where, is probably preferable (refugees historically fare very poorly)

6. Young men will be at a premium for hard physical labor and security

7. There will be a window of time, initially, in which very few people will realize what has happened

8. There’s probably no such thing as having too much stored food as long as you rotate it and keep it as safe as possible from the enemies of food storage

9. If I get injured anywhere on my body, no matter how minor it may seem, take it seriously! And stock up on a good first aid kit and plenty of hand sanitizer

10. Paranoia may keep me alive

11. Stock up on books (including survival guides)

12. Check out antique stores and estate sales for all sorts of low-tech, pre-computer age tools and appliances

14. An EMP event would be the absolute worst case scenario, hands down

13. Skills and supplies are equally important

15. It would be worth your time to research how to make a Faraday cage

[pa_dweller]

To that I'll just add When all Hell Breaks Loose

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to SkyPilot for the heads up!

[lulu16]

SkyPilot, I was going to post this link, too. This list is from one of our Freepers, who has also been featured on television.

What she didn’t list, which made me very afraid, was to store dog food. DOG FOOD!

To my friends who don’t believe in prepping, I told them I would only babysit their dogs when they went out of town, if they gave me a huge bucket of dog food, just in case, something happens and they don’t make it back, their dogs will have a chance of survival.

[Art in Idaho]

Good list. Thanks for posting.

[bgill]

4. Take care of health issues before the disaster (remember what happened to Tom Hanks in Castaway....)

What happened to him other than going mental over losing WILSON!!!!!!

11. Stock up on books (including survival guides)

Amazon.com and BDalton have lots of ebooks (kindle and nook) for free. However, print out skills and how tos so you'll have them when your computer doesn't work.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And don’t forget:

16. Guns. Low-tech enough to survive EMP, and good for blowing away attacking zombies.

[dennisw]

https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B0122SBDJE

You can read a sample chapter of One Year After. You just need to sign into Amazon. I am going to read right now.