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General Preparedness

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There is a lot to add here so I have divided it up a bit.  On this page you will find the overall general type preparedness stuff.  You will also find links to additional pages that cover a variety of special preparedness subjects.
Checklists
Children & Preparedness
Emotional/Spiritual
Food & Water
Go-Bags, Supplies, Evacuation, Shelter-in-Place

Important Documents Book
Community, Government & Military
Financial & Recovery
Seniors & Special Needs
Drills, Practices & Quizzes

3 Great Interviews On Preparedness
Are Preppers Crazy or is it Crazy Not to Prep?
Can a Preparedness Plan Be Wrong?
EIS-Emergency Information Sheet or ECC-Emergency Contact Card?
How and Where to Learn Traditional Skills
Preparedness/Survival Group Membership Information Form (6 pgs to collect basic membership information)
How to Make a Preparedness Plan that Works & Not Go Broke
Life's Pollution
Mindset - What Mindset?
Play the What If Game
Quotients, Quotients & More Quotients - Your Survivability Quotient
Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign
Tips on selecting members for a successful Preparedness Survival Group - Getting Along Today & Tomorrow
What is a Bug-Out Vehicle & How do I Select One?
Long Duration Crisis Considerations
What Are the Odds? Prep Info (graphics only) Part 1
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 2

What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 3
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 4

What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 5
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 6
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 7
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 8
What Are the Odds? Risk Maps and Prep Info (graphics only) Part 9


3 Simple Survival Items
Back-up Plans
Crisis Possibility Probability Needs Acquire Lists & W-W-W-W Calendar Forms
EIS Sheet EIS – Emergency Information Sheet new site (print duplex)
Preparedness/Survival Group Membership Capability & Competency Survey (76 pgs Collects only the capability & competency survey information)
How to become a Prepper
Miracle Inventions for Preppers
Preparedness - What's In It For Me?
Read, Think, Plan & Do – The Scarcity of Skills  (article)
Ready, Se,t Go! 24 Weeks of Crisis Supply Procurement
Top Preparedness Show Stoppers
Utility Shut-off & Safety in an Emergency
Winter Preparedness & To Dos
A National Preparedness Month Resolution & A Little Perspective
What Are the Odds? General Number of Recorded Occurrences and or Mortality Information
What Are the Odds? Odds of Occurring in Percentages per Lifetime or Century
What Are the Odds? Odds of Event Occurring '1 in' Per Lifetime or Century
What Is Your Area at Risk For?  What Are the Odds? (NPM 2015)



4 Great Sites to Help Keep You Informed
Crisis Preparedness Pocket Guide
Facts of Life & Preparedness
First Aid Kits- Lightweight & REI Basic-Comprehensive Care
How People React to a Crisis
Is There a Hierarchy for Acquiring Preparedness Needs?
TNTs Preparedness & Survival Hierarchy Pyramid of Needs
NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)

READY or NOT - Get Ready
READY or NOT Quiz
Roots Run Wide & Deep for New Prepper Movement
Stocking the Homestead Kitchen
U.S. Hazard - Risk Map Links (Aug. 2011)
Fall To Dos - Preparing for Winter
What's In a Word? Homesteader, Self-reliant, Prepper, Survivalist
24 Weeks of Preparedness Planning & Supply Procurement 2015
Preparedness Supply Cost Estimates for Procurement & more Sep 2014 final (download in Excel to view all tabs)


ANTS – Americans Networking To Survive
Doomsday Clock 1947-2012 & A Brief History of Doomsday from LiveScience.com (legal size paper)
Gun Show Folly
How to Form a Successful Preparedness Survival Group
Preparedness/Survival Group Membership Capability Competency Skill Ability Talent Matrix Excel Workbook (collect membership information and the full range of capabilities and competencies, along with membership renewal information. The other three membership forms complement the Membership, Capability, Competency, Skill, Ability, Talent Matrix  and the matrix allows you track membership advancements. (Excel Workbook) )
State Rankings for Preppers -The Most/Best as of 2010 (Excel workbook)
What is CERT
Where to Find Your Community's & States Emergency Management Plans & Agencies
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan vs a Crisis Based Plan – Complete

Due to the file size restrictions for the free site hosting, this document is broken into 12 segments: Parts A-L. Segments A, B & L contain most of the tables; Segments C-K are graphic charts of the rest of the document.
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part A
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part B
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part C
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part D
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part E
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part F
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part G
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part H
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part I
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part J
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part K
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 1– What are the odds-Possibilities, Probabilities & the Needs Based Prep Plan Part L
(If you wish the document in one piece, it was still @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/126965157/What-Are-the-Odds, however you will need a login to the site to download.)
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 2– What’s A Needs Based Plan?
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 3– Mobility Issues
Building a Needs Based Preparedness Plan 4– The Final Data Collection
Building A Needs Based Preparedness Plan 5– Putting it All Together

Is Your Pool Safe?
It Only Takes A Moment to Drown
Home Security Handbook
Home Security (tri fold)
Disaster Preparation, Survival, defending the homestead (must login to download)
Commit a Minute: 100 Things to Make Your Home Safer (article GREAT common sense free to almost free things you can do)
Citizens Helping: Fire Corps & EMS
Manufactured Home Fire Prevention and Home Fire Safety

Carbon Monoxide Safety Tips
Working Together for Home Fire Safety

Digital Security & Privacy for Human Rights Defenders by Dmitri Vitaliev February 2007 (once you click on this link the download dialogue box will appear to download)
List of Library Info in PDF from DelMarVa Survival Training (live link to many downloads on many subjects)
SunWise: Feel Like Sizzling? (Poster, FAQs, Quiz)
Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Lightning
31 Day Triple-Redundant Survival Plan
Basic Survival Skills for Aviation
Can You Survive?
Disaster Preparedness: Concepts.  Guidance  and Research 2006
Emergency Preparedness and Survival Basics Guide
Get 10 - Get Ready For Emergencies
Global Risk Catastrophe Plan: How-to Handle It Easily (must login to download)
Handbook of health in war and peace: A manual of personal preparedness 1917
How to Prepare for Any Disaster Your Easy Step-by-Step Preparedness Guide (can be downloaded for free by supplying your email address)
Get Ready by NFPA (blackouts, wildfires, volcanoes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, service animal owners, mobility challenged, older adults, nuclear power plant incidents, national security, landslides, hurricanes, home fires, hazardous materials incidents, floods, extreme heat, earthquakes, relief aid in a disaster, winter storms and extreme cold)   
The Personal Disaster Preparedness Guide
Top 10 Things You Can Do To Prepare for a Disaster (Do a search on "Top 10 Things You Can Do To Prepare for a Disaster pdf", click on the xa.yimg.com link and the document will download)
10 Most Common Emergency Food Fails Infographic by FoodInsurance.COM
5 Basic Survival Skills You Should Know Infographic by FoodInsurance.COM
The Lowdown On Water Storage Infographic by FoodInsurance.COM
12 Survival Things You Can Make With Duct Tape Infographic by FoodInsurance.COM

Life Jackets Aren't Just for Boats!
Your Home Doesn't Come with a Lifeguard
Personal Security At Home, On the Street, While Traveling
OPSEC A Guide For Family and Friends
Everyday Preventive Actions That Can Help Fight Germs Like Flu
Be Firewise Around Your Home  (Brochure)
Fire Escape Plan Grid Worksheet
Mitigation of the Rural Fire Problem-Strategies Based on Original Research and Adaptation of Existing Best Practices 2007
Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure
Electronic Frontier Foundation 2013 Privacy Report: Who Has Your Back?
Internet Enemies Report 2012: Are You Being Watched? (you will have to login to download, the report is well worth it!)
Guide to Safe Scouting The BSA Ready & Prepared Award
SunWise: Prevent Eye Damage
Wind Chill Chart (NOAA)
11 Steps to Survival (1969 Canadian Dept of Natl Defense)
American Civil Defense 1945-1984
Citizens Homeland Defense Guide - The Art of Survival
Disaster Response: Principles of Preparation and Coordination 1989 (This is a very good read and copyright allows for re-distribution if free, so here it is)
Global Risks 2006 by World Economic Forum
Handbook for the US Citizens by Service Corps 1942
How NOT to Survive by Kurt Saxon  (This link will take you to the actual text file http://textfiles.com/survival/how-not, which will then need to be copied and pasted into a document - OR - you can download the entire SURVIVALISM directory of text file @ http://archives.textfiles.com/survival.zip)
Planning For Survival (A 1988 FEMA All Hazard Guide)
Preparing Makes Sense, Get Ready Now
See & Be Seen During Hunting Season (this is no longer online and is a government doc, but is loaded with great tips so here it is)
There are real benefits to being prepared
United for a Stronger America - Citizens Preparedness Guidebook
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook Extreme Edition
You Will Survive Doomsday By Bruce Beach (for the online version http://www.armageddononline.org/PDF/Misc%20Books/survivedoomsday.pdf or Login here and download the book PDF version http://www.4shared.com/get/d1GA4W6_/You_Will_Survive_Doomsday_-_Br.html)


Where Is It Safe to Swim?
Vehicle Load Out Military Vehicle Go Bag List (don't know where I got this and I can't find it online anymore so here ya go)
OPSEC at Home Trifold
Flu and You
Flu Guide for Parents
Stopping Germs at Home, Work and School (No longer offered online in PDF format and it is a government doc loaded with great tips, so here it is)
Smoke Alarms: What You Need to Know
Danger Above: A Factsheet on High-Rise Safety
Home Computer Security in a Nutshell  (don't know where I got this from so here it is)
Ten Ways To Improve The Security Of A New Computer
The Essential Guide To Home Computer Security
SunWise: Summertime Safety
Learn the 30-30 Rule of Lightning Safety
101 Ways to Prepare for an Emergency
A Federal Employee's Family Preparedness Guide
Civil Defense Notebook (Canada Civil Defense 1958)
Disaster Survival Skills for the Urban Environment (do a search on "Disaster Survival Skills for the Urban Environment - W4AVA", select the  www.w4ava.org/races/ACSSurvivalSkillsUburban.ppt‎ link and download the PowerPoint presentation.)
Host a Preparedness Party!
In Time of Emergency - Citizens Handbook on Nuclear Attack & Natural Disasters 1968
Its a Disaster! What are YOU gonna do about it? A Disaster Preparedness Prevention and First Aid Manual
Emergency Preparedness Manual by LDS Provo Utah Stake May 1992
Prepared In Every Disaster Scenario
Rural America More Prepared for Disaster, Also More Vulnerable (this is no longer online, so here it is)
Super Sitter (sitter preparedness)
Taking Baby Steps in Preparedness for Families
Three Easy Tips to Survive a Disaster (article)
What is a survivalist homestead? (no longer online in pdf, so here it is.  You can find a current text format @ http://docs4.chomikuj.pl/657265121,PL,0,0,Survival--Building-a-Survivalist-Homestead.txt)

 Would You Know What to Do if a Person was Drowning?
Alarm, Sensor & Security Circuit Cookbook 1994
Survival Retreat Operations Manual (This is available online however it has an embeded java script that I question.  Since there is no copyright on it and the author is unknown, here is a clean download)
Fire Safe and Secure: Security Bars Escape Planning
Smoke Alarms: Why, Where, and Which CPSC Pub 559
This is Fire!
Computer and Internet Security
Home Computer Security (do a search on "home_computer_security www.cert.org" click on the link www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/home_computer_secur... and it will download)
BSA Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Workbook
Fast Facts About Lightning by NLSI
Winter Wind and Personal Safety
10 Steps for Disaster Survival
A Federal Employees Emergency Guide
Are You Ready?  (full FEMA guide)
Courage to Care: Family Planning for Disasters
Emergency Preparedness Projects by Chef Noah (this is really good)
Flirting with Natural Disasters: Why some organizations prepare and others do not (P10168)
Gold vs. Food - Which to buy first;  Hierarchy of Survival Needs (article great pyramid graphic)
In Time Of Emergency - Citizens Handbook on Nuclear Attack & Natural Disasters 1971
The Alpha Strategy Preface by John Pugsley (get the book it is well worth it!!)
Emergency Preparedness Handbook by NIH (2006)
Preparing Makes Sense for People with Pets
Rural Civil Defense Youth Program by Atomic History
Survival, Preparedness and Self Sufficiency: A Summary
Teaching Emergency Preparedness to Restricted-Budget Families (this no longer appears to be online at University of Maryland and I saw no copyright so here it is)
Why Prepare?
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook (std edition)
You Will Survive Doomsday By Bruce Beach (file version no graphics)


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