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Pick an Emergency Meet-Up Spot After a disaster, we all know that local communications will run the gamut from dicey to non-existent. When you arrive at a new destination, take a moment to find a location reasonably close (a full-day’s walk or less) to your hotel/Air BnB/hostel/other center of ops where you agree to meet your travel buddies if you get separated …
Get that hiney in gear! Drop and give me 20! Okay, how about 10? Maybe…5? It’s a sad commentary on our society that the mark of a successful human often involves having our butts glued to a seat in front of a glowing blue screen. While this posture can certainly make us successful fiscally, it wrecks havoc on us physically. …
This one is easy-peasy. So easy, in fact, that you have zero excuse for not doing it right this second. You ready? Here it is: Download a first aid app for your smartphone. My current faves… Red Cross’ First Aid app American Heart Association’s Pocket First Aid & CPR app …and as a special bonus, check out an interactive movie …
Cash is king…and this is never more true than when the power is out. Credit card readers don’t work, ATMs won’t acknowledge you, and bank tellers are stricken helpless. So hedge against this by stashing some extra cash in your backpack, in your hotel, and even in your rental car. Small bills are best, since everyone and their brother will …
Wanna phone home after a natural disaster? Or at least call your mother-in-law to tell her you’re okay? Seems like it would be a simple matter of scrolling through your mobile phone’s contact list and punching the call button…but what if you run out of juice before you can get through the jammed phone networks? And what if no juice …
Today, we’re gonna talk about drugs. The legal kind. Do you have prescription medication that you just havetohavetohaveto take every day? If your quality of life would take a definite downward turn without your meds, you MUST take a few moments to put an extra 7 days’ worth of pills in your ditty bag or suitcase when you leave for …
Keep a pair of closed-toe shoes by your bed. That way, if an emergency occurs in the middle of the night, you’ve got something to put on your delicate tootsies before fleeing the scene. Stepping on broken glass is not most people’s idea of fun (although I’ve heard there are exceptions…).
Are you bleary-eyed in the morning, and not just because of the previous night’s bender? Chances are, you need glasses! Or contacts. To each his own. In any case…for those of you who require visual aids, stash a spare set of specs in your carry-on when you travel. If you’re a packrat like me, you probably still have glasses from …
Keep an eye on your rental vehicle’s gas gauge. When it approaches the half-full mark, veer into a fuel station and fill ‘er up. Remember, when the power goes down, so do the gas pumps.
Electromagnetic Pulse. Sounds like the stuff of James Bond novels, doesn’t it? A mysterious phenomenon that does…what, exactly? Well, there is the scientific aspect. To wit, an electromagnetic pulse—or EMP—of the type employed in this novel is accomplished by detonating nuclear warheads above the atmosphere, where the blast does some fancy dancing with Earth’s magnetic field and essentially mimics a …
