Survival Engineers
Be prepared and you'll not only have the proper supplies, you'll also know how to protect them. To drive this point home, consider how complacent we are... A recent poll conducted by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reveals startling complacency in average citizens .
How can 100 million Americans believe this? In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, more than 1800 people perished.
Please don't get me wrong... ...I'm not thrilled by the prospect of living off the grid and being self sufficient. But I'll do exactly what I have to do. This is why you need to have a plan in place. You need the Rule of 20 to light your way. Don't fall into the darkness of being unprepared and unable to resist the temptation to steal what you need to survive.
It's time to realize that not everyone will survive. It is your choice whether you'll be the one to survive, or the one to join the looters fighting for every scrap.
More than 17,000 died in the 2011 Japan Earthquake. And on the one-year anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake, the Prime Minister estimated 316,000 people had died, mostly because help simply could not get to them in time.
Despite lessons of recent disasters, the poll finds that almost one-third of Americans believed that during a major disaster, calling 911 would bring help within one hour.