Monday, January 31, 2011

Why Survival Kits Are Becoming So Popular

By Viola Bontrager


Everyone is becoming used to keep survival kits in his home, nowadays. Almost always you will learn of a natural catastrophe happening somewhere in the world these days, whenever you turn on the news channel. It might be as awful as a Tsunami, an earthquake or a drought.

The world is starting to see some fairly adverse weather conditions with people in normal modern society being cut off from the rest of the world due to unexpected circumstances.

There is a craze in the media recently to focus on the forecast by the Mayan tribe and Nostradamus, which says that the world will go back to its creator in the year 2012. A host of reasons are there to make this date very important. Even if you are sceptical about this prediction, you must have noticed that the planet earth is definitely going through some changes. However, you need not be so much concerned as to make an underground home in your backyard, though it will make some sense to have home survival kits as an emergency essential.

Emergency kits must be ready in your home to help you survive through a bad storm, giving you the necessary support until the emergency services reach you. If you have adequate water, food, heat and other emergency essentials stored to support you for seventy-two hours, they can prevent a bad situation getting hold of you.

Urban survival has come to be an indispensable feature of modern life. You can overlook this only at the risk of your life or the life of your beloved ones. Have a look around your home to note the things your family need everyday. These are the items like food, medicines, warmth or electricity. Suppose these survival essentials are not available during a long-term emergency. Can you guess what will happen? People used to the comfort of modern living can hardly imagine that any calamity could happen to them. You open the refrigerator whenever you are hungry. It seems to be just the normal mode of living. Nevertheless, you should abandon this attitude and take the responsibility to keep yourself prepared by having a survival kit or some emergency essentials ready at your home.

You can purchase all sorts of readymade survival kits that contain a good range of the basic equipment needed for different sized families. You can add to this to make it more personalized such as adding a couple of inhalers for a family member that has asthma or nappies if you have a baby. You can even build your own emergency kit with specialized essentials; the point is not to leave it too late.




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