• Preface
  Introduction
  The survivalist
  Survival skills as a basis for preparedness
  Keep it simple - needs not wants
  Shelter - The number one priority
  Water - More than just collection
  Fire - We love it and we need it
  Food - Thanks for the grub
  Sanitation - Minimizing the risks
  Emergency first aid
  Lists
  Resources
  About the authors
  

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Purchase Ready or Not

Imagine you are in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. It could be anything; a natural disaster such as a hurricane, flood or forest fire. Maybe it’s a terrorist attack. Perhaps there has been a major power outage, the water supply cut off or seriously polluted.
Or imagine that your car has broken down on a road trip in adverse conditions. Or a hiking trip has gone horribly wrong.
In each of these scenarios life as you know it has been disrupted. Now you will have to survive until the authorities have the situation under control or civilization has caught up with you.
As a responsible citizen you owe it to yourself, your family and the over stretched emergency services to make your survival a priority.
In the book, Ready or Not written by Tom Beasley and Susan Conniry, you will discover all you need to know to keep you and your family safe in the aftermath of an emergency situation. Tom and Susan bring to the pages of this book, the field crafted expertise they have learned though years of training in the wilderness and those same simple skills adapted for urban disasters. They also bring you their insight into the human mind and in this handbook they describe how the instinct to survive will fill you with ingenuity, determination and strength to overcome the toughest of situations. Read more...

We do practice what we preach! 

On October, 2003, the worst fire in the history of California ravaged San Diego County.  Our home stood in its way.   Practicing what we have preached and written about for years, we were prepared.  We had cleared the brush, practiced fire drills and equipped our home with a simple misting system.  As the fire approached, we turned on the misters, and evacuated.  When we returned 32 hours later we found our home standing in the midst of the fire damage.  Everything else was gone: outbuildings, vehicles and landscaping.  We were without power for 11 days and the phones were not connected for 7 weeks, but we made it through the "dark" days.  We never impacted the emergency services; we stayed home and took care of ourselves.  Since then we have rebuilt our lives but we continue to be prepared in the event that another catastrophe might side swipe us.  Complacency is not part of our personalities.  We are survivors!  You can be too.