Introduction & Overview
This blog will help you survive in emergency and extreme situations. At least I hope it will, and I sort of think it will. No guarantees, though. Let me be straight with you. Until about a year ago, I was no manner of survival geek or prepper. Like a lot of folks, I suspect, it was the onset of Covid-19, and the sudden chill of watching essentials disappear from the supermarket shelves, that provided the spur. What this means, among other things, is that I have never: participated in a SEAL team assault fought off a violent attacker (or a grizzly bear, though I did have a one-on-one encounter that I’ll tell you about sometime) occupied a tent for more than two nights in succession survived a major natural disaster, climate breakdown, or zombie apocalypse … … And so on. In some of these respects, at least, I am probably much like you. What I do have experience in, as an academic, is researching, sifting reams of information, judging. So when I set about my new pursuit, I did so pretty m...
