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  1. Prepare Your Neighbors: Once your family is prepared, get your neighbors on the same page so they help you, not slow you down in a disaster.
  2. Talk is cheap. Physically prepare and act upon your preparedness plan. Practice, practice, and practice your preparedness plan frequently.
  3. Survival Tip: Prepare for the type of disaster that is likely to affect your area. Remember not every place on the planet has the same needs
  4. Custom Plan: Unless your family is part of the Special Forces they will have specific needs during a disaster. Custom-create a survival plan
  5. SURVIVAL TIP: Assume a disaster can happen, not the opposite. Survival is 90% psychological, so being mentally unprepared lowers your odds!
  6. SURVIVAL TIP: Try not to panic. You will be scared during a survival scenario, but the act of mental preparation is the key to survival.
  7. SURVIVAL TIP: Learn to Swim- When 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, learning to swim might be a good idea.
  8. SURVIVAL TIP: Assume a disaster can happen, not the opposite. Survival is 90% psychological, so being mentally unprepared lowers your odds!
  9. SURVIVAL TIP: In times of crisis, focus on the task on hand, survival, not who did it or why it happened. Think only about your get away!
  10. Special survival foods can bought, such as MRE’s, that last much longer than normal dried and canned foods. Save them for last.
  11. The greatest enemies in a survival situation are fear and panic. They cause you to react to feelings & imagination rather than the situation
  12. A common error in making a shelter is to make it too large. It must be large enough to protect you and be small to contain your body heat.
  13. SURVIVAL TIP: Here is a tip you probably never heard of. Need water to survive a disaster? Turn to your home's water heater, a great storage
  14. SURVIVAL TIP: If you can't count more than 30 seconds between lightning & thunder, that means the lightning is less than five miles away!
  15. SURVIVAL TIP: Gas lines break during earthquakes. If you smell gas, do not turn the light on to check. Open all doors & windows. Call 911!
  16. SURVIVAL TIP: A house can be engulfed in flames in as little as 30 seconds. Yell to alert everybody in the house so they will have time too
  17. SURVIVAL TIP: If your temp drops to 90 degrees or below, your organs begin to fail. Dress in layers, keep head covered, drink warm fluids.
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  19. SURVIVAL TIP: Use soda bottles to store wheat & rice. The Soda bottle is an officially approved plastic by FEMA for long term food storage.
  20. ALARMING FACT: In Zimbabwe, in June 2008, inflation unofficially reached about 2.5 million percent per year.