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What's happening now? Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornados on my?!?! Is there a war going on or a rebellion somewhere we can learn from? Discuss here...

More than likely everyone will encounter deadly weather or some sort of natural disaster in their life time. Here we discuss how to survive earthquakes, tornadoes, deadly heat waves and everything else mother nature can throw at us.

Nothing kills a man better than another man. There is always a war or a revolution somewhere. Is our world really on the brink of collapse? Discuss the various scenarios such as peak oil, economic collapse, 2012, Global Warming, etc. Does the govt. really have massive deep underground bunkers? Why?

There are dozens of ways to provide shelter. Obviously, some are more comfortable and others provide more protection. Here we discuss the various survival shelters and which one's work better for which situations and the various environments.

Everyone needs food for survival. There are thousands of ways to provide food for yourself and your family in survival situations. Here we discuss everything from our favorite survival rations to hunting and trapping to gardening and even how much food one might need.

You can't last very long without water and can last even shoter if the water you drink is bad or impure. Here we discuss some of the various ways to find water and various ways to ensure it is clean and safe for you and your family to drink.

Your sanitation and health is just as important as finding a good shelter or reliable food source. It's just as easy to die from infection or disease as it is from lack of food or water. Here we discuss ways to stay healthy when it becomes impossible to run to the hospital or to the local pharmacy.

So you have a great shelter, you have all the survival supplies for you and your family, now how do you protect it? In a survival situation, people WILL try and take your stuff. Here we discuss the various ways to protect your family and the supplies you were smart enough to gather prior to any survival situation.