Survival Shelters

Well, naturally, unless an earthquake, tornado or other natural disaster has destroyed it, the safest place to be will be your home or apartment. Even if a storm has caused a power outage, if you’ve already prepared for a disaster with supplies, food and water, then you probably have enough to last for an extended length of time.

If your home has been damaged beyond safe inhabitation, travel trailers, RVs or tents pitched in the backyard, provided it’s not the middle of winter, will work as temporary survival shelters. These options allow you to stay close to your home and protect your belongings, while the wheeled shelters, provided they are well stocked, will provide many of the comforts of home, including cooking, beds and sanitary facilities.

      

In the event you are not at home when disaster strikes, your only option may be to stay where you are, at least until it becomes safe to leave. Emergency shelters may include an office building, a school, hospital, the mall or church.

Most commercial business or office buildings will have water, an area with vending machines or food, microwaves and coffee maker, as well as a landline phone service. In many cities, the power lines will be underground, so the chances are the building may still have power.

Note: Since 9/11 many employers have taken steps to provide some type of emergency survival supplies in case of a disaster that leaves their employees isolated from outside assistance.

Remember if there is looting and rioting, a decision will need to be made as to whether to resist, hide or run. A group of people can take turns standing lookout, but if you are alone in the survival shelter and the building has been invaded by unfriendly looters or rioters, then finding a good hiding place may be your best survival action.

Desperate Times = Desperate Measures

Try to avoid makeshift shelters such as any public place that offers food, drugs or weapons, those will be the first place looters head for. In extreme emergencies where the city is being evacuated and your transportation breaks down in mid-evac, breaking into an empty home for temporary shelter may be your only option. The legal ramifications of your decision can be sorted out after the emergency has passed.

Whether your are planning to survive at a homestead or in an urban area, chances are that sooner or later you will face a power outage. There are things that can be done to provide the elctricity to which we have become so accustomed.

• Build A Solar Battery Charger
• Build A Solar Heater
• DIY Solar Battery Charger
• Solar Heater

Often a rural survival retreat will have different shelter needs and involve a different existence.

• Subsistence Living
• Survival Homestead

Therer are different types of shelters and you may need to build your own or know how to turn whatever's handy into a protection from the elements.

• Shelter Construction
• Shelter Design
• Shelter Underground
• Surviving In The Car
• Underground Survival Shelters
• Wilderness Shelter
• Winter In The Wilderness Survival