Jim Cobb of Survivalweekly.com just came out with a new Urban Survival Book entitled Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies For The City and Suburbs (See link to purchase below). Mr. Cobb came to the Prepared Bloggers Facebook Group to help with his virtual blog tour (great idea I might add) and I gladly agreed to do so. The book is on its way for a full book review (I will updated this article once the book arrives and I get a chance to dig into it) and after that is done we will be giving away a copy to one lucky reader (more on this when I update this article later).
Author and survival blogger Jim Cobb encourages readers to abandon an “It could never happen to me” mentality in his newly released book Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies for the City & Suburbs.
- See more at:
http://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2014/10/15/urban-emergency-survival-plan-keeps-youprepared/#sthash.K2n7erbK.dpuf
Author and survival blogger Jim Cobb encourages readers to abandon an “It could never happen to me” mentality in his newly released book Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies for the City & Suburbs.
- See more at:
http://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2014/10/15/urban-emergency-survival-plan-keeps-youprepared/#sthash.K2n7erbK.dpuf
Author and survival blogger Jim Cobb encourages readers to abandon an “It could never happen to me” mentality in his newly released book Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies for the City & Suburbs.
- See more at:
http://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2014/10/15/urban-emergency-survival-plan-keeps-youprepared/#sthash.K2n7erbK.dpuf
Author and survival blogger Jim Cobb encourages readers to abandon an “It could never happen to me” mentality in his newly released book Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies for the City & Suburbs.
- See more at:
http://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2014/10/15/urban-emergency-survival-plan-keeps-youprepared/#sthash.K2n7erbK.dpuf
What I like the most about this book is that it comes from a fresh perspective. Everyone today writes about bugging out to survive in the woods (which I personally think is a huge mistake for most people to voluntary make yourself a refugee) when most of those who dwell in the city have no idea how to live out of a bug-out-bag, much less thrive in a bushcrafting scenario. I believe the current mentality in alot of main-stream prepping sites will lead to more deaths than people becoming bushcrafters or mountain men overnight. I have been working on my bushcraft/woodcraft/wilderness survival skills for awhile now and honestly don't know how long I could support myself in the woods (the game population in my area is vastly reduced and if I have to go in the middle of the winter growing anything or gathering and storing for winter is out of the picture). So without going further off topic I believe a bug-in or shelter-in-place mentality is a great thing to have unless you have a fully stocked retreat out of town waiting on you. If you don't have that second home waiting and you live in the city.... pick up Jim's book and see if you can adapt a few of his "new perspective" ideas to your preparedness plans.
Excerpt from URBAN EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PLAN, Chapter 7 – Security & Defense
Book Contents:
Chapter 1: Urban Threats
Chapter 2: Governmental Disaster Plans
Chapter 3: Making Emergency Plans
Chapter 4: Emergency Water
Chapter 5: Food Storage
Chapter 6: Sanitation, First Aid, and Shelter
Chapter 7: Security and Defense
Chapter 8: Bugging Out
Appendix A: Food Storage and Meal Planning
Appendix B: Everyday Carry Items
Appendix C: Workplace Emergency Kit
Appendix D: Get-Home Bag Checklist
Appendix E: Vehicle Emergency Kit
Appendix F: Bug-Out Bag Checklist
Excerpt from URBAN EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PLAN, Chapter 7 – Security & Defense
Safety in Numbers
We live in rather unique point in social development.
We are more globally connected than at any other point in history. Yet, at the
same time, we are the more disconnected on a personal level than ever before.
On a daily basis, we might chat with a friend on another continent, yet we
don't know the names of the people who live right next door.
It is important to get to know your neighbors,
particularly in an urban or suburban setting. You need not become best buddies
with everyone in your building but you should do what you can to at least learn
their faces and names. If nothing else, this will help you notice strangers in
the area after a disaster strikes.
If the opportunity presents itself, encourage your
neighbors to engage in some prepping themselves. I’m not suggesting you invite
them over for a guided tour of your disaster supply closet. But, remember,
every person who sets his or her own extra supplies aside is one less person
who is likely to knock on your door, looking for a handout.
There is safety in numbers, of course. By networking
with your neighbors and getting to know them, you can begin to recognize
strengths they have which you may lack. For example, you may be fearful of
firearms and hesitant about owning one but your neighbor is a lifetime member
of the NRA and has expressed numerous times his or her strong dislike of thieves.
On top of that aspect, despite what the media likes to portray, many human
beings do tend to try and help one another during a crisis. Not all, of course,
but quite a few will do whatever they can to help their fellow man or woman.
This is helped dramatically if the people actually know one another.
You could also go a step further and look toward
setting up a Mutual Assistance Group (MAG). This is a group of people who have
committed to working together in the event of a disaster or other emergency. A
MAG is not something that is formed overnight but takes time and effort to
create and maintain. An excellent resource for creating a MAG is MAGS: The
People Part of Prepping by Charley Hogwood. Not all members of your MAG
will necessarily live in your building or even on your block. But, most if not
all of them will reside close enough that you can rely on them for help, just
as they will rely upon you.
Jim Cobb is a recognized authority on disaster readiness. He's written several books, including PREPPER'S HOME DEFENSE, COUNTDOWN TO PREPAREDNESS, and PREPPER'S LONG-TERM SURVIVAL GUIDE. Jim has been actively involved in prepping and survival planning for about thirty years. In addition, he is a licensed private detective and has worked in the investigative field for about two decades. Jim lives in the upper Midwest with his lovely wife and their three adolescent weapons of mass destruction.
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