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If you don't want to wait to get your food stores in, then a quick and easy way to ensure that your family will be fed in the coming food shortage is with freeze-dried foods. Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food
Pets are people, too. If you love your pets, make sure you have a first aid kit just for them.
Pet Emergency First Aid Kit - 44-Piece
Sometimes a simple bandaid is not enough to have in a first aid kit.
Softpack 299-Piece All-Purpose First Aid Kit
The importance of water storage and purification cannot be stressed enough. Water Filters, Purifiers and Storage
A good emergency kit can make a world of difference in a disaster situation. Executive 72-hour Kit with Solar Upgrade
There's still time to make sure that your family has the supplies they need to survive the next disaster. Ultimate Family Preparedness Pak
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The End of The World as We Know it can refer to a variety of mega disasters
TEOTWAWKI However what kind of situation would be described as a TEOTWAWKI? Most of the experts in survival preparedness agree that "the end of the world as we know it" refers to situations that would forever change society and threaten the survival of mankind.
Other smaller disasters might be considered to fall under the category of WTSHTF (when the “stuff” hits the fan). That might involve any number of scenarios, including: economic collapse, peak oil, wide-spread famine, martial law, as well as a number of natural disasters if they were wide-spread or occurred simultaneously around the country.
Update May 1, 2008: With the rising prices of gas and food, other countries cutting off food exports and the continuing unrest in the Middle East, more and more people are beginning to think that the end of the world as they know it will come from an entirely different direction. In the United States many people are already experiencing a complete change from everything they have ever known. With massive housing foreclosures, continued layoffs, plus the rising prices of everything, the future is now...and it's not pretty! TEOTWAWKI and SHTF - often seen on survival preparedness sites and survival groups... The Pandemic Threat - The threat of a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is a certainty... |
   
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Some of the most common scenarios are a nuclear war, with several detonations in the United States. While some of the disaster scenarios seem unlikely, they are however on the list of deadly disasters that would forever change the world: a mega volcano eruption (such as the Yellowstone caldera); an asteroid impact; a worldwide pandemic, etc.
However, as you can see, scenarios that fall under WTSHTF could also be a end of the world event depending on its magnitude and severity. Most survivalists agree that being prepared for the absolute worst will insure that you are able to survive any type of lesser event.