Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios

Intro

• We don't rise to the level of expectations, we fall to our training
• We want, Resilience, ability to withstand initial shock when catastrophe strikes then where with all to respond quickly and constructive manner
• The only way you don't shut down, is with, exposure, practice and experience
• Exposure to different kinds of stress, add variables (shooting while, moving, in the dark, while some is screaming), Cold plunges, heat, Sit with the feeling of discomfort
• If you start shutting down, -> conscious breathing (deep breathing) and positive self talk (you got this)

Planning

• Always plan for things to go wrong, -> goal of being adaptable
• You should optimize preparedness for the things that are most likely to happen based on your demographics (do you live where earthquakes are common? Tornados? Heatwaves? Drought?, Do you drive a crazy amount like a trucker to prepare for car accident? Do you live in cities, terrorism?)
• PACE - primary, alternate, contingency, emergency (4 levels of back up plans)
• house fire rehearsal, front door, back door, bedroom window, closest window by any means necessary (PACE respectively)
• must rehearse, know which window, does it have screens, will it stay open, do you have a fire ladder, do you know how to use it etc.
• when planning you want to have, a good set of tools, good general info about your surroundings the the issues, realistic views of what's possible for you mentally and physically
• arrogance and ignorance - assuming it will never happen to me, just not wanting to think about it -> it's bad don't do that

Situational Awareness

• you need to know when something is off, know what operating as normal looks like, need experience in that place and situation, to calibrated
• scan area, left to right, right to left, bottom to top whenever you enter a new environment, for signs out of the ordinary is about to happen.
• secondary attacks, are popular after a first attack
• people that stand out, people in places they normally wouldn't be, people not in places they normally would be, people doing things that no one else is doing, people not doing things that everyone else is doing, -> universal threat indicators

Bio Indicators

• flushed or pale skin, shallow breathing, fast breathing, sweating, fidgeting, (nervous, scared or excited)

To When Going Places

• Scan area, where are exits, what are paths to them
• look at hands and deminor and look for attitude and hands doing things
• example, angy man in an argument, hands not gesturing but in pockets or in a bag
• ask to be seated near an exit, with a good view of the couple, possibly leave, possibly intervene,

Decision Point

• make decisions simple as possible
• recognize that you make good decisions all the time (day to day, morning routine, driving, etc) for confidence
• get off the X, automatic response should be to move

Deadly Force

• think about your personal criteria for deadly force
• do you need to fear for your life? If they're stealing does it matter what they're taking? If they promise not to hear your does that change things? If your kids are around does that change things
• do everything in your power to avoid it, if you can't, Commit to it.
• there are legal consequences, their are moral consequences

Every Day Carry

• edc encompasses everything on you (including shoes vs flip flops)
• self defense, (pistols, pass)
• tactical and survival knives, for fighting vs chopping and sawing and skinning.
• non lethal - stun guns (short lived) and spray (target eyes, jet stream) (Can and should be used by men too), then flee or get the upper hand.
• environment dictates what you want, taser for frat party as spray would hit by standards, spray for morning run in the hills alone
• alarms, whistle (can startle attacker or draw attention, when you need to be seen as in trying to be kidnapped)

Survival

• 72 hrs, is the goal
• medical, tourniquet, individual first aid kit, trauma or compression bandages, combat and compressed gauze and medical tape.
• shelter and fire, mylar blanket, lighter, hurricane matches, magnesium fire starter,
• food and water, protein bars, solution for purify water, chlorine dyoxide tablets
• illumination, flashlight, head lamp,
• signaling, fire, flashlight at night, mylar blanket to reflect sunlight, loud whistle herd for miles
• signal mirror, made of stainless steel,

mobility

• all wheel sedans (for some off road potential, and capacity to carry things)

• shelter, -> in, on, under

  • Mylar blankets
  • Sleeping bags, rates for cold, sleeping pad, tent?

• water

  • 2 gallons per person at any time in car
  • rain water capture mechanism
  • purify
  • boil, need pot of some kind
  • chlorine bleach, to purify
  • filter through cloth first if cloudy

• Food

  • nuts, jerky, bars, gels

• Communications

  • phone
  • signaling, green foliage becomes white large plumes
  • satellite based communication

• First aide

  • tourniquets, have multiple
  • accessibility, not just in trunk
  • brun dressings
  • bandages
  • gauze
  • splints
  • trauma sheers
  • sharpie, to indicate who's been treated and with what

Bug Out for Real

pg 173

Home Stead

• Goal of home stead is not to prepare for end of days but mostly to plan so that in the event of something like a natural disaster when infrastructure is down and service are worn thin you can still be safe and comfortable
• early warning and redundancy
• sensors, cameras and alarms
• goal, to see threats coming as early and far out as possible
• motion sensors
  • lights (floor lights) detection (deterrent)
  • motion sensors on doors and windows, do an alarm and send notification to police
• cameras
  • should get street, too you wanna see who's coming
  • internal cameras, asset protection (for we are important)
  • way to easily see what the cameras see (phone)
• alarm
  • alert them they are compromised,
  • analog solutions and low up keep
• Obstructions
  • thorny bushes under windows,
  • loud gravel paths
• medical
  • clean work and sanitary conditions
  • trauma scissors, sheers, clams, needles and surgical thread,
  • hydrogen peroxide, iodine, rubbing alcohol, disinfectant wipes. Good for wounds and equipment reuse
  • minor afflictions, ointments and pills, syrups and things, bandaids and such. Stock up on what you need based what you need regularly
• preventive care and hygiene
  • vitamin and mineral supplementations
  • epi pens and anti biotics -> expire quickly and hard to get but worth while
  • orthopedics and compression bands to make sure you can work well, contact lenses and solution
  • unscented soap, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, toothpaste and tooth brushes, nail clippers,
• Water
  • water on hands (rain catching rain buckets, tap water in containers)
  • ear Mark some for washing
  • fema 2 weeks water on hands at all times. 1 gallon per person per day. 1/2 drinking and 1/2 for food prep and hygiene.
• food
  • canned - 5 yrs
  • Jared, boxed, dried 1 - 2
  • food you like to eat (pickled, soups, rice, beans, fruits, nuts, jerky)
  • cycle through it in your normal use (replace oldest and cycle to front)
  • emergency meals, dried
  • garden or green house
  • foods you like and stand up well to canning, or pickling or jamming
  • chickens,
• power
  • generator, propane or diesel. Must decide what to power. Refrigeration, HVAC in winter and summer. Beyond that selective
  • you will run out
  • solar arrays, residential wind, (contingency)
  • battery (emergency)
• community is the foundation
  • Good for redundancy and helping people and relying on and doing well