Survival Preparation: Local Emergency or Global Cataclysm

By Alan Ingram

We have not been without an national emergency since the end of WW2. During the last few years they have become a lot more severe, and a hell of a lot closer. A complete collapse of social systems, or public utilities could be imminent. This is not a doomsday book. It is a preparedness guide book. The contents of this book are intended to be acted on immediately, then, and only then, will you have chance to stay in control of your surroundings in an emergency.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462894963

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Copyright © 2011 by Alan Ingram.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2011910645

ISBN:         Hardcover                           978-1-4628-9495-6

                   Softcover                            978-1-4628-9494-9

                   Ebook                                 978-1-4628-9496-3

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

This book was printed in the United States of America.

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Contents

Preface

Cataclysm

Assumptions

Section 1

Records And Personal Stuff

Section 2

Where And If To Go… Stay Or Leave Town

Section 3

Defense Against People And Weather

Section 4

Food And Drink

Section 5

Health And Sanitation

Section 6

Checklist And Miscellaneous Items

Section 7

More Things To

Worry About

Appendix 1

Drying Fruits And Vegetables

Appendix 2

Meat Products

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my mother, Constance Ingram, who would gather me up every night when the sirens wailed, and with my three year old brother, hurry to our air-raid shelter where we would spend the night on a concrete floor.

And my father, Ernest Ingram, who was not there,—he drove a bus through the streets of London, every night, air-raid or not, He never failed.

Try to imagine the anguish in caring for the needs of two hungry, growing boys, in a town where 6,000 people lost their lives in a ten month period during the 1940 blitzkreig.

PREFACE

America has experienced periods of uncertainty in the past. Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War will recall the interest in bomb shelters, growing your own food and relocating out of the cities.

You will also remember our one-time secretary of home defense Tom Ridge, some years later, telling us that to survive bacteriological warfare, you should lock yourself and your family in the cellar and seal all the doors and windows with plastic sheeting and duct tape.

The average person cannot survive without air. Your death by asphyxiation would have been gentler and quicker than the presumed bacteria. But what a way to go.

Where do these people come from?

Remember Mother Earth News? Under the banner of teaching you how to grow your own food, make candles, tan hides, raise pigs, and yes, even how to distill alcohol, they marketed a very successful magazine and ran a return to the land school in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

At that time, the information was captivating, the magazine well presented, and hordes of ponytails descended on North Carolina. Some of the ideas were a little far-out, involving carburetor adjustments and arcane mechanical groupings, but it was a lot of fun.

That was then, and this is now.

This book is not like Mother Earth News. We are dead serious, and we have only one interest and that is to provide an answer to the question, What if you woke up tomorrow morning to find the electricity was cut off and businesses were shut down—what would you do about it?

You might cuss the utility company, wash and shave in cold water if the water was not also cut off, eat a cold breakfast, put on an extra sweater, and sally forth to your job.

You would find out that without electricity, everything had stopped, you had no job to go to, the streets were empty.

A cataclysm had taken over while you slept.

Grocery stores, banks, gas stations—all were closed. In fact, everything was closed, and money as a system of exchange was worthless.

You are now no longer in control of things.

Things are in control of you.

We’d like to avoid that and put you in control. Read on.

CATACLYSM

Generally, this booklet is intended to shock you into doing everything necessary and, as outlined, in the belief that a cataclysm will happen. Then and only then, if you are prepared, will you be able to act properly and without hesitation while all around you are wondering what to do next. If you plan ahead, you will survive.

If not, be prepared to endure life-threatening occasions at worst and extreme discomfort at the very best.

Whatever the cause of the cataclysm—terrorists, economic collapse, plague, or hurricane—you may get no warning of an emergency, so read this book carefully and expedite its contents immediately.

There are three types of emergencies, which could occur:

1.   Emergency lasting two or three days, gasoline and food not available.

2.   Emergency lasting seven to ten days, gasoline and some food available.

3.   Emergency lasting more