6 Survival Tips That Will Get You Killed

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Every­one is an expert these days. There are a few myths regarding things you should do to survive a situation, The fol­low­ing list gives you 6 Survival Tips that will get you Killed.

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For reasons unknown either be a plane accident, riptide, cruising misfortune, or you just end up stranded in the middle of the ocean, you suddenly are confronted with a Shark. What do you do? Well if you are about to aim for its nose, which is not known to be a weak spot, it’s generally considered a bad idea. The mouth and snout are very close and you won’t have time to move away. You are bound for death if you try punching the nose.

Incase of an EarthQuake Get Under the Doorway

Well, this is what they taught us when we are in school. Learn to run under the doorway when an earthquake occurs. However, not so many were lucky. And instead of the doorway, its best to use a table. There are more chances of getting crushed if you were under a doorway. With modern type structures, as well as cheap imitations, which could be deadly during an earthquake, it would be best to stay away from the doorways during earthquakes.

In Case of Lightning, Lie Down Flat on the Ground

If the weather is going crazy, and you see lightning hitting all over the horizon, make sure you do not just LIE DOWN on the ground. If you are lying down and lightning strikes it will contact your body, and will burn your internal organs causing you cardiac arrest.

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You are hiking in the woods, and you got bitten by a poisonous Snake. What do you do? Well, if you have a friend with you and ask him to suck the poison out, it’s more likely that your friend will die from poison too. So its best to avoid that type of rational move of sucking any poison out of you. It’s best to use a suction cup best to suck out the poison.

When Thirsty Eat Snow

Unless you boil it first, or else you could get sick from anything that might have been there before, like an animal corpse, with deadly bacteria found in the snow. It’s best not to put snow in your mouth.

6023c224fa56b4dab0984004cab65ae8Drink Water from a Cactus

Unless you want to drink highly alkaline, noxious fluid, you might want to leave the Cactus idea alone. The liquid inside the cactus isn’t purified water or natural water. Looks like water, but nowhere close. You could get sick, and you could be vomitting and that will make you dehydrate faster. Only drink from barrel cactus. It’s only one specific type. So make sure you research what a barrel cactus is, and be able to point it out.

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11 unusual uses of Q-Tips/Cotton Swabs for Survival

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Q-Tips are known to get the gunk out of your ears. However, they are also known for many other uses such as survival.

We conducted a list of 11 unusual uses of Q-Tips for Your Survival

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1. Firestarter

Soak cotton swabs in WD-40 spray and place on ziploc bags for camping. You could also dab your q-tip into some petroleum jelly, and then lighting it up, will keep the q-tip burning for a long time.

2. Aromatherapy on the Go

Soak the cotton swab in your favorite essential oil scent and transport in ziploc bags.

3. Medical Wounds

Dab Q-Tip Ends with some medical ointment and use the q-tip end to heal the wounded area or cut.

4. Clean Inside Your Eye from Dust

Dip Q-tips into some water and get the under flap of your eye to clean the dust or whatever entered your eye.

5. Light Candles with a Shortwick

Dip a Q-Tip end with rubbing alcohol, light end with lighter and place flame over wick until wick catches on fire.

6. Loosen Your Zipper

Dip your Q-Tip end into some olive oil and run over the stuck zipper teeth.

7. Clean your Flashlight

Tip in your Q-Tip in alcohol and clean the lens mirror of the flashlight you have for your survival.

8. Clean Your Pet’s Face

Great for cleaning your pet’s eyes and ears.

9. Arts and Crafts

Q-Tips can be used as paintbrushes and to be used for sculptures

10. Repair Kits

Use Q-Tips to get some glue on them and get the Q-Tip with the glue to repair anything broken.

11. Stirrer

Use the Q-Tip to Stir any drinks you might need to stir with. Coffee, tea, soups.

 

 

 

 

7 Tips to Surive a Power Grid Attack

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The most vulnerable infrastructure is the Power Electrical Grid. grid-down-city

Here are 7 Tips to Survive a Power Grid Attack that may occur in your location.

 

Understanding the Situation
Understand that the government will not be able to help during this type of power grid disaster. The simple fact is that emergency management personnel have no contingency plans to deal with this type of event and would be overwhelmed in a matter of hours.

Preparation
You will need to make sure you have food and water stocked up for a probable power grid attack and moving to an isolated location away from civilization if possible with friends if needed. We know there might be looting going on during this disaster, so you would want to stay away from the uprising that may occur.

Shielding your Electronics from EMPs, CMEs and Solar Flares.
You Can install surge protectors and shielding equipment on your everyday devices. Just make sure you search for the best one that will surely shield your electronics during a power grid attack.

Get to know the neighbors
During any type of emergency it would be good to know and find out who might have any special skills such as , paramedic, nurse, doctor, police etc so they can help on the survival process of possible grid attack.

Get A battery Operated Radio
In times like these, anything that is battery oriented will probably save your life. Used a partial hand crank radio where you can use them even if the batteries run out. But for more modern types of tools, use some kind of battery operated radio. When power shut down, the battery will keep you going and help you contact someone for help.

First Aid Kit

In the case of a power outage, you will most likely be bugging-in and, therefore, have access to your household’s first aid supplies. However, it is still prudent to have a separate store of essential items such as bandages, antibiotic ointments, tools, any over-the-counter medications your immediate family use, and antidiarrheal medication to help your family cope with the change in sanitary and dietary conditions.

Solar Flare Survival Checklist

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solarflareearthBug Out Bag Checklist

A bug out bag should provides the essential items you need for any survival situation.

Shelter

Shelter will be your top priority due to hypothermia or any heat-related illnesses that can kill you. So best have a sleeping bag, and a waterproof bivy to keep you dry and warm. Also, make sure that the clothing you wear or have with you can be also used as some type of shelter.

Water

You will need a good water filter, for any type of water you might find. Keep in mind you can only survive three days, without water. So make sure you have some sort of stainless steel container so you can boil your water.

Food

Take with you high-calorie food rations to give you the energy you need. Keep in mind you can survive three weeks without food.

Items and Tools

* Knifesimplesafety_kit
* Multitool
* Headlamp or flashlight
* First aid kit
* Paracord
* Water bladder with drinking hose
* Lighter or firestriker with Vaseline covered cotton balls
* Extra socks, underwear, and change of clothes.

Specialized Item Checklists

Everyone in your family should have a bag with the essential items listed above. Once you have the bare essential items consider adding these specialized checklists to your bag and spread them over other member’s bags.

 

Items for natural disaster or rescue situation

* Signal mirrorp-3
* Flares
* Whistle
* EPRIB
* Brightly colored clothing, poncho, coat, and tent
* Handheld CB Radio

* Ground Mat
* Solar Crank Radio
* Fishing Kit
* Folding Saw
* Axe, Hatchet, or Machete
* Camp stove with fuel (avoid butane, get a multifuel stove)
* Shovel
* Four Season Tent or Tarp for Shelter
* Cooking items
* Dish soap
* Trash bags
* Duct tape
* Sewing kit

How to prepare for a solar storm

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Emergency-SuppliesIf a Solar Storm was to occur, the pulse will knockout electronics, cell phones, computers, navigation systems, laptops, electronic watches and clocks, to electronic radios, television to hospital equipment, DVRs and so much more, most of which would no longer work. You will have to be prepared

Prepare for a Solar Flare Disaster

What to do?

Make sure you have lots of emergency candles, matches, flashlights and extra batteries on hand at all times.

You will need to store loads of drinkable water plus some filtration method so you can purify any water that needs to be purified for some reason.

nonperishable-foodNon-Perishable Food will be very helpful so make sure you stock up. Eat healthy, natural and real foods and get regular exercise. This just makes good common sense.

Get some activity games while you are going through a solar storm. Forget your iPads, and iPhones, board games, books, and puzzles will keep your mind occupied while you wait out the disaster.

Make sure you have some kind of weapon to protect you by wrong do’ers. Grow your own food in special gardening containers. You will also have to learn how to cook outside.

Learn to grow food in whatever area you have available. Try container gardening, vertical gardening, hydroponics or a square foot garden and Learn to cook outdoors over an open fire.

These are the best things to do to survive when a Solar Storm happened.

5 Ways to Survive With a Lighter

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lightersMaybe the absolute most valuable device for somebody to have in a survival disaster is a lighter. While some may argue that lighter is a tad bit too easy to have and that in a real surviving situation, you might not have any lighters. Beginning a fire the Neanderthal way may be the way to go, however, you still need to know the basics on how to light a fire with a couple of rocks and a stick. So save the fuss, and get yourself a lighter.

A survival lighter is exceptionally smaller, is generally accessible, and gives an extremely valuable capacity to somebody all of a sudden push in a crucial circumstance. For somebody deliberately searching out the wild places of the world, a dependable lighter could be your savior. Yet, for a lighter to be as valuable as could be expected under the circumstances, it must be generally insusceptible from the impacts of wind and the components, and offer a spark of fire that won’t be extinguished by a small breeze. Tempest confirmation lighters offer only that sort of administration and are surely understood to survivalists around the globe, a large portion of whom convey two or more in nature.

Here are 5 ways that a decent survival lighter can help you with:

zippo-661x441Building Fire for warmth

In an icy atmosphere particularly, warmth will be fundamental for a man that’s out in the wild. Some sort roof is key as security from climate conditions, however it will likewise be important to keep warm, and in spots where the thermometer plunges low during the cold night, a flame can fight off frostbite.

Cooking sustenance

People can survive three weeks without nourishment. In fact, the body starts to become weaker far sooner than the three week period, and that implies muscle coordination and even mind capabilities will be diminished far sooner. Crude sustenance may be tasteful when absolutely necessary, yet cooking water additionally eliminates germs and microscopic organisms that may be available, and will take into consideration a healthier admission of nourishments that are not ordinary parts of the human eating routine.

Protection against wild creatures

In a range where there may be predators out and about, a flame can be a fundamental assurance for the survivalist. Wild creatures have a characteristic to fear fire, and a large number of them having seen the harm that out of control fires are fit for, won’t enter a campground where an in number flame is blazing. Obviously this implies that the flame must be kept on all the time and that an enduring supply of fuel must be accumulated. Conveying a blazing bit of wood along as you look for wood supplies will bring about most creatures to stay away.

Water decontamination

There are obviously, many ways of filtering your water, one is boiling the water, another is having with you filtered water bottles, that clean dirty water. But let’s say you don’t have any at hand…You will have to boil the water until you kill all bacteria.

Create your Own Survival Mini Kit

Wrap your lighter with duct tape, add several fish hooks to one side of the lighter, and some sewing needles on the other side, to give yourself a tiny toolkit of items that can help with other aspects of survival.

Finally, wrap a long strand of heavy fishing line around the whole lighter to provide a means for fishing or makeshift trapping.

The Best 7 Survival Smartphone Apps

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Smartphone-Battery-Survival-TipsA Smartphone has the capability to save your life in the most extreme survival situations.

Today, we use our smartphone for almost everything in our daily lives. That’s why there are apps for just about everything you can think of. Some apps though could come in handy, and could also be life savers. We have concluded on the The Best 7 Survival Smartphone Apps to date.

Make sure you download these apps for your next wild adventure.

1. Flashlight App

First things first. In the dark wild, you will need some kind of light to help you find your way through the darkness. Your trusty flashlight. This app works by using that use your phone’s tiny LED flash to illuminate as well as any small modern flashlight you’ll find in the camping aisle of your favorite retail store.

2. Military Smartphone App: U.S. Army Survival Guide

Can’t get your campfire started? Not sure if that snake suspiciously obstructing your trail is poisonous? No matter what your wilderness question or emergency, this 1,400-page app has your back. Adapted from an actual military survival manual, this invaluable guide will tell you what to do if you get lost, injured or caught in bad weather.

3. Must-have Smartphone Apps: American Red Cross First Aid

Twisting an ankle or cutting your hand on any normal day is a painful inconvenience but it usually won’t kill you. Especially if you are in the wild, it’s a different story. The magnitude of an injury could be magnified in the woods. If you have sprained your ankle then that means you’ll have a harder time moving around, and maybe a cut on your hand could soon get worse if not properly cleaned. The American Red Cross’s First Aid app is a comprehensive collection of first aid knowledge that should probably be installed on everyone’s phone. The app allows its users to quickly find instructions for dealing with health emergencies like broken bones, burns, heart attacks and fevers.

4. Dropbox: Smartphone Apps for Document Safekeeping

You will need your important documents saved somewhere safe, and no better place than using some kind of cloud server storage like Dropbox.
While you want to keep those physical copies, you also want to keep a digital backup. Just grab a copy of the Dropbox mobile app so you’ll have access to them from anywhere, even if you can’t get to you computer. Likewise, you can keep a hard copy of those documents on your phone as well.

5. BootPrint Pocket Survival: The Signal Finder of Smartphone Apps

This app helps you record the exact location of where your phone picked up a signal, if you ever lost your signal. This will help you when you need to make an emergency call the right way. There is also a built-in compass, which will direct you to the right direction so you don’t need to fiddle around with maps

6. Wild Edibles App

If you run out of food, and you are bout to starve to death, then have no fear because Wild Edibles App is here to save you. The app offers detailed descriptions and as many as eight different images of more than 200 wild plants so you locate and will help you identify possible food sources that won’t get you sick or kill you just by eating them. It includes an interface that will help you identify, harvest, and prepare wild plants utilizing the know-how of noted outdoorsmen Steve “Wildman” Brill, “America’s Go-to Guy for Foraging.” It also offers more than 100 different recipes from Wildman’s own edibles cookbook.

7. Prepper Smartphone Apps: the SAS Survival Guide

This application will help you identify the plants you can eat from and what you can’t eat. There are 400 searchable pages of information on basics like building a fire and finding water, to more advanced things, like hunting for survival .

These are our choices of The Best 7 Survival Smartphone Apps you can use right from your smartphone.

9 Everyday Items for Survival

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As living beings, we humans have basic needs for survival: warmth, water, sleep and food. If these needs aren’t met, disaster can soon follow. Everyone should have a survival preparedness kit stored in his or her car or with them on any camping and hiking trip.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the top 9 Every Day items for survival

1. Dental Floss

flossCarrying some dental floss around with you at all times can actually help save your life. It should be known that the same sturdiness that makes dental floss could come quite in handy in the wilderness. You can actually be used to put necessary sustenance in your stomach. Floss can be turned into a snare for catching small animals or even as fishing line. Floss can also be used to bind sticks or other items together for shelter from the elements. So there you have it, make sure you have dental floss with you for those hard times.

2. Cell Phone

In case of an emergency Having a cell phone with you can help rescuers locate you. Your cell phone, even if off, still sends out signals to
a tower. This makes it possible for rescuers to locate you if lost. The bright glow from the screen can serve as a tiny lighthouse or beacon.

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A bandana has some fairly obvious uses in survival situations, including as a signal to catch the attention of possible helpers, as a sling or as a hat to protect against the sun. You can use the bandana to cover your neck, when cold too. You can utilize the bandana as a filter to aid breathing in dusty or cold conditions. You can strain water and also to bandage a wound. Perhaps best of all, this versatile item is cheap, light and easy to carry.

4. Garbage Bags

Having plastic garbage bags with you in the wild will help you to cover your backpack and keep it dry in case you are in wet situations.
Garbage bags are also useful in staying warm and dry. It can also be used as protection from the sun. Garbage bags can also be used to obtain and maintain drinking water, by filling with snow and allowing to melt you get pure drinking water straight from the bag.

5. Wrist Watch

wristYour wristwatch can still be a big help. You’ll need a non-digital watch in working condition and a sunny day. Hold your watch with the dial facing up and parallel to the ground. Turn it, while keeping it parallel, until the hour hand is pointing in the direction of the sun. If it’s morning, south should be about halfway between the hour hand and 12 o’clock, clockwise. If it’s afternoon, south lies about halfway between the hour hand and 12 o’clock, counterclockwise. North will be on the same line but in the opposite direction Keep in mind this tequnique isn’t 100 percent accurate, but it is a close approximation on which way to go.

6. Shoelaces

Shoelaces can serve you a number of purposes. You can use shoelaces as rope or a string. By adding a sharp object you can use it as a hook, and can become a very decent fishing line.

You can also build a poncho type tent, by tying the laces together, and then by stretching them between two tree trunks, tie them around and hang the plastic over, like a tent. You can then use some sharp sticks as tent stakes.

You can use your shoelaces to climb up a tree to get a better view of the surrounding land. While still wearing the shoes and using the laces as traction, you could get your self up high on that tree.

7. Soda Can

An empty soda can is another multipurpose tool. Use a soda sodacan to collect and store rainwater. Try soaking a cloth or sock in long, wet grasses or plants and then wringing that water into the can. It’s even possible to start a fire with a soda can and some chocolate. Rub the chocolate on the bottom of the can, and then use the wrapper to polish the bottom until it looks like a mirror.

8. Socks

Socks can help collect and filter water, which, as we’ve learned, is crucial to survival. Socks won’t purify water, but filtering it through fabric can help remove the more visible sediment and creepy-crawlers. And if you’ve managed to build a fire, you can now boil the water, making it safer to drink.

9. Glasses

In a survival situation, glasses can help you accomplish two very important things: getting rescued and building a fire.
Use your glasses to reflect the sun’s rays to create a distress signal. Rescue personnel or a passerby will see the flashing, allowing them to locate you more easily. You can also dismantle your glasses if necessary and bend the wire frames to make hooks or small tools.

We hope you enjoyed this article of the 9 Everyday Items for Survival.

How to build you own solar power generator for under $200 or less

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To most of us, solar power still seems like a thing of the future. Yeah, we know some people live off the grid with them, and some folks can afford to line their roofs and heat their pools with them. Not most of us.
But it turns out that you can generate real, usable solar power in your very own home (or wherever), and it’ll cost you less than $300. What’s the catch? Oh, nothing. You just have to build the generator yourself.
And however am I supposed to do that, you might ask? Well, by following this handy 8 step guide from rain.org, of course.

Voltage
For about $100 you should be able to get one rated at 12 volts or better at an RV or marine supplies store.

Battery
Buy any size deep cycle 12 volt lead/acid or gel battery. You need the deep cycle battery for continuous use. The kind in your car is a cranking battery—just for starting an engine. Thhe cheapest ones should cost about $50-60.

Buy a DC input.
Get your self a triple inlet model which you can find at a car parts store for about $10. This will power up your DC appliances.

Get an Inverter
If you want to run AC appliances, you will have to invest in an inverter. This will convert the stored DC power in the battery into AC power for most of your household appliances. A variety of cheap inverters from 100 watts to 3000 watts can be found online if you search for “inverters” on google. Or just head to your closest appliance store in your area.

Attach meter and DC input
Use a drill to attach the meter and DC input to the top of the box.

Attach your insulated Wire to the Meter on the Battery
Connect the negative (-) pole first. Only handle one wire at a time. Connect the DC inlet to the battery in the same way. Connect the solar panel to the battery in the same way.

End Result
Put the solar panel in the sun. It takes 5-8 hours to charge a dead battery; 1-3 hours to top off a weak one. It will run radios, fans, and small wattage lights all night, or give you about 5 hours of continuous use at 115 volt AC, or about an hour boiling water.

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