Disaster Handbook: Practical Guide for Residents

Here the delight of defeating a disaster awaits you. If a disaster ever damages your home and leaves you without power and pure water, this handbook will see you through those dark hours. This reference, which contains 216 pages of absorbing text and more than 200 visually rich illustrations and is entertaining as well as informative, describes how to prepare for a disaster in advance, be safe as it happens, and repair anything afterward. It further describes … How to store and use all the foods, tools, and other “calamity commodities” you will need when misfortune comes knocking on your door. How to perform those everyday tasks that keep you alive —cook, wash the dishes, clean your clothes, bathe, go to the bathroom, and keep everything sanitary. How to fashion all kinds of household items in simple and useful ways. How to deal with disasters at home or at work, in a public building or while driving, in a plane crash or train wreck, on a sinking ship or in the vicinity of a shooter. How to defeat disasters without generators, weapons, and wilderness survival skills. When disaster strikes, far more citizens realize the need for teamwork and try to help each other —and would rather be known as Samaritans than Survivalists. You would think everyone would want to know these things. But many potential readers will skip the shopping cart on the right because they have seen so many disasters on TV that they’ve acquired a panic mentality when they envision these events. “Disasters scare me to death!” they cry. “I don’t want to read about them!” But really, learning how to defeat a disaster is as easy as deciding to go out to dinner. Remove the dread that bars your doors of perception, and you will enjoy a banquet of treats that will make the difference between suffering and safety. You will enter a brave new world that will erase your panic, release you from the grip of terror, and remove you from the deadening effects of indifference —and lead you to that switch of initiative that will energize your intelligence, empower your imagination, and arouse your sense of vigilance in ways that will tilt the odds of danger from being forever against you to being always in your favor. Then you can hue from the quarry of solid reason and impenetrable confidence a course that will lead you, your loved ones, your neighbors, and your business colleagues to live in reasonable comfort and economy in nearly any disaster you may face, until better days return. Another reason why disasters seem so needlessly frightening is because many victims tend to see them as a whole rather than divide them into much smaller and more manageable problems. A disaster can seem overwhelming when you are confronted with everything at once —but if you break it down to the dozens of little things you need to do and knock them off one at a time, the whole thing can seem as easy as eating a lavish dinner one bite at a time. This book is organized so you can do this. If a disaster ever bangs on your roof and walls, with this book in hand you can dice the difficulty into its tiny parts until you can perform each part as easily as doing your normal routines during more tranquil hours. Please browse this book as long as you like. If you would like to learn more about it before buying it, take a look at its website at http://thedisasterhandbook.com.