Table Of ContentTHE ULTIMATE
SITUATIONAL
SURVIVAL GUIDE
SELF-RELIANCE STRATEGIES
FOR A DANGEROUS WORLD
ROBERT RICHARDSON
Living Ready BOOKS
IOLA, WISCONSIN
www.LivingReadyOnline.com
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE:
Situational Awareness: Prepare to Survive
1. Know Your Threats
2. Develop Your Personal Action Plan
3. Stockpiling Survival Supplies
4. Emergency Communication
5. Bugging Out: Planning to Evacuate
PART TWO:
Surviving Natural Disasters
6. Surviving a Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado
7. Surviving a Flood
8. Surviving a Hurricane
9. Surviving a Winter Storm
10. Surviving an Earthquake
11. Surviving a Wildfire
PART THREE:
Surviving Crime and Violent Situations
12. Situational Awareness and Crime
13. Self-Defense for the Real World
14. Home Security and Surviving a Home Invasion
15. Avoiding and Surviving a Violent Attack
16. Avoiding and a Surviving Sexual Assault
17. Avoiding and Surviving a Carjacking
18. Staying Safe While Using Public Transportation
19. Surviving an Active Shooter Situation
20. Surviving Workplace Violence
21. Surviving a Hostage Situation
22. Surviving a Kidnapping
PART FOUR:
Surviving Man-Made Disasters, Threats, and
Terrorism
23. Surviving a Riot or Flash Mob
24. Surviving a Nuclear Disaster
25. Surviving a Biochemical Attack
26. Surviving a Pandemic and Outbreak of Disease
27. Surviving a Power Grid Failure
28. Surviving a Cyber Attack and Hackers
29. Surviving a Water Infrastructure Problem
30. Surviving a Major Food Crisis
PART FIVE:
Surviving Financial and Economic Threats
31. Setting a Budget
32. Prepping on a Budget
33. Develop a Plan for Long-Term Financial Security
34. Surviving a Job Loss
35. Surviving a Recession and Total Economic Collapse
Introduction
Help isn’t coming!
It may sound harsh, but the reality of most crisis situations is that you’re
going to have to be your own first responder. When disaster hits, or when
confronted with an unexpected threat, there’s a very good chance you’re
going to have to survive on your own with only the knowledge and
training you possess. With that in mind, how prepared are you to survive
a real-life crisis situation, or deal with the chaos that will ensue during the
aftermath of a catastrophe?
Do you have a detailed plan in place to deal with disasters or crisis
situations?
How long could you last without essential services like water, power
and sanitation?
Do you know what the most likely threats are to your safety based on
your geographic location or lifestyle?
The main purpose of this book is to motivate you to take action. To
motivate you to put the right plans in place to see you through a crisis
and ensure your ability to protect yourself and your family from a wide
range of very real threats and disasters. By implementing the plans and
strategies in this book, you will be able to survive everything from short-
term natural disasters to long-term economic problems, breakdowns in
society and social unrest, and infrastructure failures or disasters.
This is not another Wilderness Survival Manual; this book is your guide
to surviving real-life 21st century threats. These are the threats you are
likely to face—the kind of threats you need to start preparing for if you
want to survive.
What are you willing to do to guarantee your survival?
What are you willing to do to guarantee your family’s
survival?
Hopefully you are willing to do whatever it takes. That being said, you
need to have a plan of action. This book will lay the groundwork for that
plan and will help you build a rock solid preparedness foundation. I’m not
going to lie to you—it will take some work on your part. But I believe you
owe it to yourself and those you love to take a serious look at the
concepts detailed in this book.
PART ONE:
Situational Awareness: Prepare to
Survive
Despite what you may have seen on so-called “Reality” TV survival
shows, preparedness is more than just guns, gear, and bunkers full of
food. Survival has nothing to do with some guy running through the
wilderness performing a bunch of stupid stunts. Living through actual
disasters, dealing with real-life threats, and protecting yourself from the
dangers that are out there requires you to adopt a survival mindset and to
develop your situational awareness.
In this section I will help you
identify what threats are out there, and help you spot them before
they can do you harm.
manage your exposure to threats, access your vulnerability, and help
you do everything possible to completely avoid a catastrophe.
lay out a detailed step-by-step plan for surviving crisis situations,
including actions to take for surving during the aftermath.
1. Know Your Threats
Do you know what you’re preparing for? It may sound like an odd
question, but most people really don’t have a clue.
To begin with, you need to understand the exact types of disasters and
threats you’re going to face. This may sound a little simplistic, but not all
disasters are created equal. What works in one situation, or in one area
of the world, may not work when you factor in specific location-based
threats.
While some of the supplies, techniques, and skills you need to survive
may overlap, to be truly prepared for any situation you need to know
exactly what type of disasters you’re preparing for and what problems
you’ll most likely encounter as a result of that specific disaster.
In later chapters I will discuss how to identify and prepare for disaster-
specific problems. But to get the most out of this book, and to be
prepared for the specific threats that will most likely affect you, you’re
going to have to do a little work.
That work starts with identifying the most likely threats you’ll face
based on your geographical location, your lifestyle, and a number of
other factors that will be unique to your specific situation. The following
section will help you get started with your preparedness planning.
THREAT ASSESSMENT
A threat assessment helps you visualize what threats you’ll face,
scrutinize known risks related to the threat, strategically evaluate your
response, and helps you start to identify the specific steps you need to
