Survival Packs
Posted by Monty | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 24-06-2010
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There are many considerations to make when choosing to buy or build your own survival packs, and the better the questions asked, the better a survival pack will be catered to meet your needs. Dwelling on potential disasters on a regular basis isn’t necessary for being prepared. What is important is learning what you can do to keep you and your family safe in an emergency situation, and what kind of survival pack you need to ride out the aftermath of a disaster, either natural or manmade.
The majority of the survival packs on the market abide by a law of three. Each survival pack will provide basic accommodations for each person for three days. The contents of most survival packs also have a 5 year shelf life if not longer. Typically for home or office use these survival packs are stowed in five gallon, sealable buckets. For automotive use or for more portable needs smaller versions can be stowed in backpacks.
Basic survival packs generally contain food and water rations, water purification tablets, supplies for emergency shelter, duct tape, work gloves or vinyl gloves, dust masks, light sticks, shake flashlights, portable radio, safety whistle and a basic first aid kit and sanitation supplies. More comprehensive survival packs might also contain respirators, anti-radiation medication, NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suits and gas masks are also available to the public to add in to their survival packs.
Though no survival pack is going to make surviving a disaster easy, they are designed to lessen the blow to you and your family by providing the basic needs of food, water, shelter, and light that can quickly be taken away in an emergency. When evacuation isn’t an option survival packs can help you weather the storm and keep you and your family safe until help can come to you.