Earlier this July I tweeted: “Prepping is always good but in the long run you will need to be part of a community. A community with several skill sets. What do you think?”. Interestingly, YouTube guru Nutnfancy (Richard Hewitt) just posted a 45 minute video on his YouTube channel about this subject (I can highly recommend...
YouTube user ArkVProductions has posted an interesting video in which he narrates the dangers of what happens to a nuclear power plant after a disaster situation and no one is maintaining the plant. It is nice “food for thought” and as such illustrates nicely that long-term survival requires a different way of preparing/mindset than short-term survival. Related...
“Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. This is achieved through risk analysis, which results in information that provides a foundation for mitigation activities that reduce risk, and flood insurance that protects financial investment.” (Source: FEMA website). As we wrote before, mitigation is an import...
The following article is a contribution of Withoutruleoflaw.com reader Dennis Kennedy, Director of Training for the Counterterrorism Institute of America, LLC in Utah. In his article Kennedy discusses how to prepare for a sudden outbreak of violence, promotes firearms training and provides some ideas on how to prepare for situations in which you need...
Being aware of your surroundings (“knowing what is going on” aka “situational awareness”) might save your live. Situational awareness should become an integral part of your “personal” mitigation. As discussed in the more foundational article about Emergency management, mitigation is about prevention of certain hazards developing into potential emergencies. The two videos attached to this article discuss the concept...
Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. If you envision it as a cycle, it would involve four phases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. In this article we will look at these four phases a bit more in-depth for some insight in how you can apply these...
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