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SURVIVAL EXPERT: Tim MacWelch’s Approach

With your own food storage in place and the ability to disinfect water you collect near your home, you can focus on the protection of your property, family, and possessions.

Prep

This scenario is a great example of the concept of “prepare for one disaster very well, and you’re well prepared for most disasters.” As far as our family is concerned, an earthquake taking down our utilities isn’t much different from several other crisis situations knocking out those things. Sure, there’s probably more damage with a quake and it will take longer to repair than a cyber attack, for example, but we prepare for long-term utility outages (that may result in civil unrest) just like most other disasters.

There are plenty of supplies that you could buy in advance that’d help in this situation. In the city, I’d want

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