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Table of Contents
Section 1: Survival Prepping 101- Everything You Need to Know
You probably know SHTF stands for When Shit Hits the Fan. Although you know what it stands for, do you know what it means? If you do not, here is a minified explanation; in survivalist lingo, SHTF means THE big disaster. Note the use of the. This is so because, this impending disaster, if it does exist, will lead to the absolute breakdown of civilization and social order. If you have watched the film The Book of Eli, what the characters in the film had on their hands is an apt representation of a SHTF scenario.
Prepping alludes to preparation. Concerning SHTF situations, prepping is any action you take to prepare for this impending disaster in a bid to increase your chance of survival when disaster strikes.
Survival Prepping
Surviving out in the jungle (bugging out) will require several things: proper tools to enhance survival, proper skills to ensure survival, and a knowledge base to give you and your people an edge.
Prepping will require you to learn, and stock up on appropriate tools while ensuring to stock up only the most essential tools. Prepping avoids redundancy and overstocking. It will require you to develop necessary skills such as the art of starting fires without matches, and keeping warm at night. It will require you to know what to do, and consequently, what not to do in different instances. For instance, as part of your prep, you must learn which light to use at night to curtail reliance on flashlights; this may well ensure survival when others do not.
Survival Prepping: The Rule Of 3s
In survivalist circles, there is an old rule that most likely originated from the SERE program, a US and UK military course that teaches high value military personnel how to survive, evade, resist and escape. This rule is called the rule of three. This rule helps you pare down to the most vital things and prioritize the most urgent needs. The rule entails the following:
- Three Minutes without Air
You must consider your immediate safety first. The maximum the average human can stay without air is three minutes. After 3 minutes without air, unconsciousness follows.
- Three Hours without Shelter
In harsh environments, your body will, by default, try to protect itself as much as it can. Harsh cold or searing heat may hinder your survival chances as your body works to regulate the core temperatures. In such a case, try as hard as you can to find shelter within 3 hours.
- Three Days without Water
Perhaps because the body is roughly 50% water, we require a constant supply of water to survive. After 3 days without any, the body will find it hard to execute normal functions, making survival hard.
- Three Weeks without Food
Unlike water, it is possible to stay 3 weeks without solid food. However, staying longer than this puts your survival at great risk.
- Three Seconds without Hope
Without hope for survival, everything else is irrelevant. If the situation is such that hope for survival is null, all the skills you have learned are useless.
As such, you should strive to have these necessities in their order of importance:
- Air
- Shelter/clothing
- Water
- Food
But even as you provide these, you should ensure that hope is top on the list of things you have.
Basic SHTF Essentials & Long Term Survival Guide: Food & Water
There is no other way to look at this one. If you are looking to have food and water supplies that will sustain you for the long term (we are talking in terms of years here), in addition to stocking up the foods with the right shelf lives, you will have to look at developing a source of food and water that you can control.
Prepping Basics: Food and Water
Of all basic needs, these are the most basic. Prepping procedures here are threefold:
Stocking up on appropriate foods and water (foods with lengthy expiration dates)
Storing these in a fashion that ensures maximum longevity
Picking up relevant skills to ensure that once the stock dries up, you have the capacity to find more (with the example of digging wells, hunting, etc)