"*Do not get in a doorway during an earthquake.* Get under a sturdy table ~~or get down next to something sturdy.~~
~~Rescuers often find still-alive people in what’s called the “triangle of life.” Debris will fall onto the sturdy object and create a triangle-shaped safe zone next to it.~~
Edit: this has apparently changed since I took CERT training. The common advice is to “drop cover and hold on.” Thank you to those who commented!
The doorway thing was only true way back in the day for adobe and brick construction."
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Arthur 4 month s ago
A lot of these "water" tips: technically true but if you're faced with a choice between drinking pee and maybe messing up your kidneys... and dying of thirst... its pretty clear what the smart choice is
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Marilyn 4 month s ago
#26 Well, why not??? It would help if they would say WHY it's a bad idea. Personally, I've yet to see a tornado peel a bridge up and blow it away. You get up under the abutment and you can sit there pretty as you please while the tornado just scoops up all the people laying in the ditch.
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Cilla 1 month ago
Marilyn, *lying in the ditch
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Roxanna 4 month s ago
#1 Not convincing... I won't donate nor receive any organ for transplant. I'll accept my fate and die...
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Clair 4 month s ago
#3 Anyway, train to be at least competent at boxing. Then you'll have a better chance if you absolutely have to fight.
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Jefferey 4 month s ago
Clair,
I hope the assholes who downvoted you get mugged, sodomized and shot by some Monkey-Poxed Haitian someday. They probably look like my avatar.
I hope the assholes who downvoted you get mugged, sodomized and shot by some Monkey-Poxed Haitian someday. They probably look like my avatar.
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K.c. 4 month s ago
#24 butane lighter freeze in cold.
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Johnny 4 month s ago
K.c.,
Yes but warms up to usable temps in your hand or mouth. (Alaskans are actually trained to always have a lighter and a knife).
My Jr High did survival training on a mini island in Alaska, I got "Best solo survivalist".
1. Air
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Warmth/fire
5. Food
6. (I forget) maybe communication or tools?
7. Entertainment (very important to survival alone or with others)
Hard to tell if some of these are meant as Do's or Don'ts, but I can say, don't do deadly dangerous things for low value items. I've known a trained Coast Gaurd who drowned while trying to retrieve a fishing hook stuck on a bouy, while stupidly fishing off a beach in waders during a rainstorm.
Yes but warms up to usable temps in your hand or mouth. (Alaskans are actually trained to always have a lighter and a knife).
My Jr High did survival training on a mini island in Alaska, I got "Best solo survivalist".
1. Air
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Warmth/fire
5. Food
6. (I forget) maybe communication or tools?
7. Entertainment (very important to survival alone or with others)
Hard to tell if some of these are meant as Do's or Don'ts, but I can say, don't do deadly dangerous things for low value items. I've known a trained Coast Gaurd who drowned while trying to retrieve a fishing hook stuck on a bouy, while stupidly fishing off a beach in waders during a rainstorm.
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Johnny 4 month s ago
#38 I know two dogs that survived 4 days trapped under a landslide, because they were sleeping on the couch and the fallen roof made a triangle with the back.
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Johnny 4 month s ago
ALSO, when lost as a pair, always stay together. I know people who have died on mountaintop or while lost I the woods because they sent their partner for help, and then left the location their partner left them, or their partner didn't make it and they did because they stayed put. Just go together or stay together.
I hope the assholes who downvoted you get mugged, sodomized and shot by some Monkey-Poxed Haitian someday. They probably look like my avatar.
Yes but warms up to usable temps in your hand or mouth. (Alaskans are actually trained to always have a lighter and a knife).
My Jr High did survival training on a mini island in Alaska, I got "Best solo survivalist".
1. Air
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Warmth/fire
5. Food
6. (I forget) maybe communication or tools?
7. Entertainment (very important to survival alone or with others)
Hard to tell if some of these are meant as Do's or Don'ts, but I can say, don't do deadly dangerous things for low value items. I've known a trained Coast Gaurd who drowned while trying to retrieve a fishing hook stuck on a bouy, while stupidly fishing off a beach in waders during a rainstorm.