Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Arwen in NJ — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:39:39 GMT

This article fails to note that Mr Rescorla perished in the Towers because he went back after people who did not leave when instructed to, and instead stayed to gather work, personal belongings, make phone calls, etc.

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Scoot — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:44:40 GMT

I agree with VLWood & IMAFYNE. Reminds me of when I watched the first clips of the Columbine shootings I was greatly disturbed that the kids were not running out of the school. Apparently they had been instructed to get under a desk and cover their heads? My brain kept shouting "Why aren't the kids spilling out of the doors and out of the windows???" I instructed my kids, if that horrible event ever happened, to survive the situation in anyway they could. If they felt it was safer to run-then run! If they felt safer to hide in a closet-do it! If they felt safer to get out a window or door--don't hesitate!! If they needed to fight--then do it!! I told them to go by their own survival instinct & common sense and no one else's. I told them not to sit under a desk like a sitting duck waiting to be shot.

In panic situations, I usually kick into the mode of going thru the motions of doing all of the right things--and fall apart later. Instinct just kicks in.

Oh & another situation has bugged the heck out of me, too. The airplane flight that went down in the frozen waters in DC years ago..... The firemen stood on the bank while a frozen passenger was fighting for their life & losing the battle. It may be that their superiors told them not to act without the proper equipment.... BS! A bystander, not an authority figure, took off his jacket & jumped in the water and saved this person. It was such a disgrace & a scary thing to think about. Just like cops, who are trained for these situations & trained to protect us--don't burst in on these school shootings. It seems like all they do is surround the school & wait.....Sad!!

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

paintman41 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:39:02 GMT

Every disaster has its own set of circumstances and it is good to be as prepared as we can to face it. Those times when making a quick exit from your home and you will need certain items to help you survive, think about packing an old suitcase with needed items, such as seasonal clothing for a day or 2, medications, money to see you through a few days, some kind of food items in case there are none available, copies of important documents (wills, bank account info., passports, inverstments,phone numbers etc.) in water proof containers, blankets and maybe a waterproof tarp and matches and flashlights. If you give it thought many items will come to mind, but the weight will need to be considered, and the number of family members will determine how many suitcases need to be ready.

Keep handy near the door of your house so they can be taken quickly.

Just an idea that may be a life saver in an emergency.

Sandy

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

wpsmithjr — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:51:43 GMT

I figure if I'm in a disaster, I'll just sit around and wait for the government to come help me.

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

VLWood — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:23:34 GMT

The Twin Towers story strikes me as another of life's lessons on why we should DISOBEY AUTHORITY (not always, but often) and teach our children to do the same. (As a mother and grandmother, I'm happy to say I succeeded at that,) Our lives, and our descendants' lives, may depend on it.

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Dr Rik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:43:21 GMT

In the event of emergency, crawl under your table, put your hands over your head, bend down and kiss your ass goodbye.

Or use your brain and take care of yourself and everyone that you can.

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Mark10 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:44:40 GMT

Hello All,

I live in CA and am preparing an emergency kit in preparation for an earthquake, should one occur. Do any of you know where to purchase organic, healthy food kits? I can't seem to find any online, but can't bear to stock up on the disgusting junk put into most kits. Any thoughts? Thanks!

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

imafyne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:33:24 GMT

I agree that the reptilian brain has a major role in the "freezing" people experience in the midst of disaster. However, in addition to this biological factor is the socio-psycho programming we have undergone as members of this "lofty" civilization. The powers that be have treated us and taught us, for more than 100 years, to be helpless and vulnerable. They've done this primarily through media bombardment (movies, advertising, news), and we have become a weak populace, unable to think for ourselves in a life-or-death situation.

I have refused to be the blind sheep in the fold. When horrible things happened in my life my brain immediately clicked into "survival/help" mode --instantly knowing what had to be done and doing it. I don't think about it. I don't question it. I do it. NOW. It's a dissassociative function that blanks emotion and focuses solely on logic and reason.

You can learn this through what Islander calls "awfulizing." Call it "practice." Simply "see" yourself functioning swiftly and rationally in a disaster scenario. SEE yourself calmly doing what you have to do to save your self, and the people around you -- without panic, emotion, fear or uncertainty. KNOW that it is right, and is rational.

Practice with little things: it's how I taught myself, years ago, to drive a standard transmission car. I visualized the process over and over. When the day came to actually get behind the wheel and grasp the stick shift, I knew what I was doing.

Survival of our neighborhoods, communities and our very species will depend solely on whether or not we have the brains to do so. Plan now, with the "things" you need, then plan with the actions you will take.

And, as Rick Rescorla warned: don't believe everything you hear...

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

violetgirl — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:14:06 GMT

I live in Minneapolis, I crossed the I-35 bridge a few hours before it collapsed. I always experienced vertigo traveling over that bridge--no other bridge! Perhaps some deep part of my brain "knew" the bridge was unstable...

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Islander — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:15:22 GMT

There is nothing mystical about intuition. It is simply the sum of our experiences, stored in the unconscious mind where we cannot easily access it, but valid nonetheless.

One of the best methods to confront our fears and anxieties is to "awfulize" them. Here's how:

Visualize the thing you are afraid of. Surviving a tornado? Asking for a divorce? Inviting a girl to the prom? Being in an airplane crash?

Imagine the very worst thing that can happen. Run through the ways you would deal with all the probabilities. Leave nothing unexplored. Do all the "what-ifs." Roll the outcomes around in your mind. Chances are you will come to terms with your fears and find peace.

You ask a girl to the prom and she turns you down. Worse, she makes fun of you to all her girlfriends. Pretty awful. How will you deal with it? Why not just laugh it off? If she's that insensitive, she's not a girl you'd want to date after all. Next week it will be replaced in everyone's mind with a new drama. Will it even matter in a year? In a month? Next week? Of course not. So pick up the phone!

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

WellAware — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:42:48 GMT

I'd say that Dr. Mercola has just been paying attention. Trauma abounds so consistently these days, for so many, that I believe most of us who are awake live in a state of---not- Post Traumatic Stress, but Present Traumatic Stress, which has its own characteristics, one being that you don't really get relief, don't really get a chance to begin the lengthy process of healing.

The Midwest flooding dynamics, not yet over by a very, very long shot, will send out its ripple effects for years from now, and the rivers haven't even crested yet, as I write.

I believe with the current state of the world, one risk is desensitization to trauma around us because we hear so much about it, if we're reading UNembedded journalism. I feel it in myself often; just too much and too horrendous for me to wrap my mind/heart around, so I kind of freeze my heart in still motion. Not unlike the "freeze" state that was referred to above. And of course, if the masses are basically "frozen" from so much shock and awe, we're far less of a threat to those attempting to gain more and more control over, and reduce, the masses.

Keep in mind also that the little known/publicized knowledge about mycoplasma fermentans (biological form of stealth warfare), now lying dormant in almost every human at this point, is triggered by trauma, then feeds on our cholesterol to get activated, then manifests in us through a variety of different disease processes. References on this: Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Dr. Garth Nicholson, Dr. Donald Scott and Joyce Riley, RN.

Re. 9-11: do your homework on this unfolding trauma. I assume anyone reading this does NOT still believe that the official story is correct, but wondering whether people have studied information out there, as you need to realize the UNfolding trauma of this and from whence it likely originated. Think Trojan Horse, which is also true for much disease these days...

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Mercola Fan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:57:23 GMT

Glen Beck and several others have recently offered this same kind of article to his viewers on his email list. Do ya'all know something we don't know?

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Claude Pechabadens — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:22:55 GMT

The thing is, you have to remember that freezing up in events of trauma and catastrophy is very noral, it is one of the skills that animals, when they are caught in the wild, do, if their system know they cannot run away or fight at that moment; we have to know that the flight or fight (or fright) phenomena brings reactions coming from our reptilian brains that we cannot always control. There is a very interesting book that I am reading in my studies from Levine, called Waking the Tiger, healing trauma.

IN it, he explains what happens in the wild and the necessity for animals, once their frozen state is finished, and if they find the danger has gone away, will start shaking off their bodies to release all the stress energy which has got them frozen, and then flee... By being frozen, they have a chance of survival, it is what their system tells them.

So of course you should try not to freeze, but if it happens and you are shaking afterwards, don't try to be grown up and adult, let it shake and live what is happening in your body... So it can avoid being traumatised in a deeper way.

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Green Tea — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:33:42 GMT

Two days before a rather large earthquake struck (6.2) where I live I had an uneasy feeling and an overwhelming desire to purchase an emergency radio. It helped me immensely in that I was able to obtain info I would not otherwise have had access to, not to mention it gave me a confidence boost in my intuition. Ask and ye shall find!

re: Important Tips You Need to Know on How to Survive a Disaster

Carol Morrisey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:52:31 GMT

The article omitted what many people do during disasters: pray. I've found that prayer calms me, helps me focus, and opens my mind to those "gut feelings" that offer accurate advice. Our instincts can also be to panic or focus on hysterical fears. I also believe with all my heart that prayer calls upon the power of our infinite God, who can protect and guide us. I have experienced this personally many times.