Monday, September 17, 2012

List for Survival Kit - What's On Your List?

By Matt Burns


In this article, we're going to take you through some of the most important things to remember when making your survival kit list. Having a survival kit is one thing, but having one that is correctly equipped is quite another. With much of the blame for the increase in recent natural disaster across the planet being placed firmly at the feet of global warming, it has never been more important to have your survival kit packed and ready to go. But how do you know what to put in it? This is a very difficult thing to think through, as it's something you hope will never happen to you. Unfortunately however, times are such that you do have to think about it. And putting the wrong things in your survival kit is largely akin to not having a survival kit at all.

The whole reason behind having a list for survival kit is so that, when disaster does strike, you have all of the things you could feasibly need in order to survive on hand and easily retrievable. At the time when crisis strikes, even the calmest and most prepared of people will be overcome by fear and panic. The logical and rational among us will try not to let the fear take over, but like it or not it will impair your thoughts to a certain extent. Simple things that in normal circumstances would pose no problem to us will, in the event of a disaster, render even the best among us as panic stricken and unable to think straight.

A natural disaster or crisis can and will happen when you are not expecting it or not prepared for it. That's just an unfortunate fact of life. So it's important to take every possible step that you can to make sure that if and when something like that does happen to you, you have the tools and hand to help to look after yourself and your family. And it's this reasoning, and this desire to be prepared and equipped to deal with all eventualities, which forces many of us to want to have a fully prepared disaster kit on hand at all times.

Now you see the problem. You are going to need more food and water to see you through a disaster like this then you would ever be able to carry. Let's not forget either, that you should never rely on your car being useable in a crisis like this. Your survival kit should always be small enough to carry on your person. Far better, to carry the tools and equipment with you that will help you to gather safe food and water in the days and maybe even months after the crisis.

New products are being released by some of the worlds leading and most innovative survival companies on a daily basis. Obviously it goes without saying that the basics of your disaster kit such as food and drink will never change. But there are more and more products emerging on today's market, which can drastically improve your chances of survival in the event of a major disaster.

So before we all start to search for the perfect list for survival kit, in the hope that this will see us lucky few emerge from the ashes of global disaster, maybe we should slow down just and as ourselves...is this the end of the world, or just an unfortunate coincidence? It might be farfetched to claim that the world as we know it will end, but it's even more farfetched to not be prepared for a disaster of some scale. Reporters and fear mongers may over exaggerate the threat a bit to inflate readerships, but if you fail to prepare at all, then prepare to fail completely.




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