Emergency & Disaster Preparation Links
Online Preparation Resources
Updated 19 April 2009
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Why prepare? The Fragile Shell of Civilization
A Family Plan for Civil Disorder
What To Do If A Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent (PDF version)
Index of Categories
Military – Operations Training
Nuclear, Biological & Chemical –Weapons of Mass Destruction
Discussion Groups, General Prep sites and Blogs
Communications
“Beverage” antenna for emergency communications
Communications in a Come as you are war FM 24-12
Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabet
Radio Operators Handbook fm24-19
Where There Is No Phone (FEMA)
Communications\Amateur Licensing tests
General Class License Questions
Technician Class License Questions
EMP Protection for Radios: EMP1, EMP2, EMP3, EMP4
Firearms and training
Food – Water
Aprovecho Low-Tech, High Efficiency Cooking and Heating solutions
Aprovecho – a simple Vita stove
Canning Meats Poultry Fish and Seafood
Common Ingredient Substitutions
Creating and Maintaining Sourdough Starter
Dietary Guidelines USDA/HHS
Dutch Oven Recipes and Reference
Dutch Oven Temperature Chart (more)
Emergency Disinfection of Drinkingwater-2006 EPA
Family Food Stockpiles (Dept of Agriculture)
Food & Water in an Emergency FEMA
Food Storage for Safety and Quality
Food Storage, long & short term
Heat Retention (fire-less) cooking
Heat Retention (fire-less) cooking
Household Well Water - Colorado
Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
LDS Food Storage (I emphatically do NOT endorse LDS theology, but they do have many good suggestions on physical preparations)
National Center for Home Food Preservation
Native American Health Recipes
Ol’Buffalo Outdoor Cooking Resources
Packaging and Storing Dried Foods
Refrigerator and Freezer Storage
Safe methods of canning vegetables
Storing Vegetables w Room plans
Water Treatment Methods (more)
Woodgas Stove for cooking
Food - Water\Gardening
Container Gardening Washington
Raised Bed Gardening Washington
Vegetable Gardening Washington
Food - Water\USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning
Guide 01 Principles of Home Canning
Guide 02 Canning Fruit and Fruit Products
Guide 03 Canning Tomatoes and Products
Guide 04 Canning Vegetables and Products
Guide 05 Canning Poultry Red Meats and Seafood
Guide 06 Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Vegetables
Guide 07 Canning Jams and Jellies
General Preparations
American Red Cross – Disaster Preparedness, Health & Safety Training
Are You Ready - FEMA PDF document
Basic Survival Equipment field gear, soldier gear, full gear
Be Prepared, Not Scared from Canada
Children, Helping them Cope (Israel)
Children, Helping Them cope with Disaster (FEMA)
Citizen Guide to Disaster Preparedness
*Community Pre-Pandemic Mitigation Guidance CDC
Denver Emergency Preparedness Guide
*Disaster Preparations for Youth, Texas 4-H
Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association
Do-It-Yourself Emergency Preparations
Emergency Preparations – A Poor Mans Guide
Emergency Preparations – Stan & Holly Deyo
Emergency Preparedness Guide Canada
ePodunk - Community profiles
Family Disaster Plan Worksheet
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Financial Preparations Before A Disaster (PDF)
Generator Installation Information
Get Prepared Canada
Government Shelter & Survival Documents
*Implementation of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
Israeli Defense Force Home Protection
LDS Emergency Prep Manual (I emphatically do NOT endorse LDS theology, but they do have many good suggestions on physical preparations)
Minnesota’s “Code Ready” Preparedness Campaign (press)
Northbrook, IL Emergency Preparedness Guide
*State Hazard Mitigation Officers
Preparedness Depends on People
Preparedness Guide for persons with disabilities
Principles of Self-Sufficiency – Don McAlvany
Rolla, MO Emergency Preparations
Sheep Wolves and Sheepdogs (mindset)
Shelter In Place Guidelines - Office
State Hazard Mitigation Officers
Prep Tip links – Steve Quayle
*Survival Instructions, Pocket sized
*Texas Extension Disaster Education Network
Woodgas as an alternate fuel supply (more)
Woodgas Generator for Petroleum Emergencies (Running a vehicle on wood, would you believe?!)
General Prep \ Heating
Kerosene Heater Sengoku Manual
General Prep \ Fiction
Health-Medicine
Am Civil Defense Assoc. Medical Supplies
Army Health & Medical Training Courses
Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities CDC 2003
Guidelines for Field Waste Management TB MED 593
Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings 2002 rr5116
Herbal Substitutes for Common Pharmaceuticals
NATO Emergency War Surgery Manual
Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Plan HHS
Providing Mass Medical Care During a Pandemic HHS
Psychological Reactions to a Major Disaster
Special Forces Medical Handbook ST 31-91B
US Army Physical Fitness Training fm 21-20
USMC PFT & Body Fat Manual MCOP6100.12
USMC Semper Fit Fitness Presentation
US National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Jul 2007
Virtual Naval Hospital (Medical Library)
*Basic Human Physiology MD0007
First Aid
*First Aid Basics - CDC
USMC Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK)
Homeschooling
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)– Organizations
John Holt’s work on Homeschooling
Wikipedia article on Homeschooling
Maps
Mapblast (MSN Maps)
Military Bases in the Continental UnitedStates 2006 Index
Military Bases in the Continental United States 2006 Map
Near Real-time satellite Images
Netstate state information
Nuclear Power Plants in the U.S.
Power Grid Interconnect Regions
Tiger Map Server (US Census Bureau)
Various Country & Regional maps
Military Operations & Training
Military Survival
Survival Evasion & Recovery MCRP 3-02H
Nuclear, Biological & Chemical (NBC) - Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
What To Do If A Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent (pdf version)
Basement Shelter - Canada 1961
Basic Course for Civil Defense IG-3-2 1955
Blast Mapper – scenario for blasts at any given location
Civil Defense Handbook H-14 more (aka “In Time Of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters” 1968)
Civil Defense Museum Library online
EMP and Terrorism - Popular Mech 9-2001
EMP attack - What to do to prepare
EMP Protection US Army TM 5-690 Chapter 5
EMP threat - Report to Congress 2005
EMP Survey – Institute of the North
Expedient Fallout Shelters MP-79
Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements 1967
Fallout Shelter Stocking Plan DCPA CPG 1-19 1978
Fallout Shelter Survey Guide for Engineers and Architects NP-10-2
Home Basement Fallout Shelter FEMA H12A 1980
*Home Shelters FEMA H-12-1 1980
Kearney Fallout Meter with Report
Nuclear Contamination Avoidance FM 3-3-1
Nuclear Burst Effect on Electronics (EMP)
Nuclear War Survival Skills 1987
Oak Ridge Museum Online Library
Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ_ Iodine pills, tabl.htm
Potassium Iodide QandA Delaware
Protection In The Nuclear Age FEMA 1985
Rehearsing Nuclear War Survival MIT
Ten for Survival - Attack Preparations 1959
The Day After – The Preventative Defense Project
Vulnerability of urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack
Outdoorsmanship and Woodcraft
Great Outdoor Dudes – various outdoor topics
Knife Sharpening Instructions (Buck Knives)
Map Reading & Land Nav GTA05-02-013
Natural Weather Indicators and Folklore.doc
Reference
Aircraft Recognition FM-44-80 september1996
Army Correspondence Course Materials
Geometric Functions FM5-33 Ch10 Terrain Analysis
Various “How To” Article links
Language Translation
• AltaVista Babelfish
• Google Translation
• FreeTranslation.com
• Dictionary.com
• Mezzofanti Translations
• ePals Translations
• PROMT Reverso
• PROMT Reverso
• SysTran
• AlMisbar Arabic Translation
• Cimos Arabic Translation
Religious-Cultural
Christian response to terrorists
How Can I Share My Faith Without An Argument
Wesley New Testament Commentaries
Worldview – Don Ratcliff conference
Threats
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Global Map of Terrorist or Suspicious Incidents
Hazard Mitigation Workbook - Michigan EMD-PUB 207
Hazard Analysis - Michigan 11-pub207_60747_7
Hazard Identification - Michigan - 5-pub207_60738_7
Insurance Information Institute statistics
Military Guide to Terrorism 2005
MS-13 National Geographic Explorer Special
Police State Road Map (conspiracy or threat?)
Risks & Hazards, State By State 1990 – FEMA-196 (sorry, it’s not free)
Uniform Crime Reports from the FBI
USGS National Hazard Support System
Utilities
Viewer Utilities
Stuffit Expander (Windows)
Word Viewer (Windows 2000&XP)
Discussion Groups, General Prep sites and Blogs
(internet links may expire or be changed without notification, but are provided here for research)
The Art of Survival – Pamphlet by Papa Bear Whitmore
Backwoods Home Index of articles
Delta Gear – various product info and reviews
Disaster Center – provides online coverage of disasters in the United States, compiling and providing links to disaster related statistics and studies
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Energy production Maps & Stats from the DOE
Food Storage by Emergency Essentials
Joel Skousen – Long Term home security
Northeast Intelligence Network
Oakridge National Laboratory library
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Outdoor Safe – Survival instructor Peter Kummerfeldt
Society of Primitive Technology
Survival Blog (John Wesley, Rawles)
Survival Ring - articles index
Survival, news, medicine, etc. links (tons thereof)
Television Station Link Search Engine
Time Bomb 2000 – World Events Focus Group and Forum
Time Bomb 2000 - Preparation Forums
USGS Recent Earthquakes in the US
Wilderness Survival Institute (Papa Bear Whitmore’s organization)
News and Comment
Conservative Media Outlets
Don McAlvany Intelligence Advisor
Hal Lindsey Report News within the context of Biblical Prophecy
Michael Yon – Dispatches from Iraq you won’t find in the MSM
Mainstream Media (MSM)
Watching America (foreign outlets)
Recommended reading
Reference
Complete Wilderness Training - Hugh McManners
Don't Get Caught With Your Pantry Down - James T. Stevens
Foxfire Book series http://www.foxfire.org/
Nuclear War Survival Skills - Oak Ridge Nat’l Laboratory 1979 & Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine 1987 (PDF)
Outdoor Survival Skills - Larry Dean Olsen
Preparing for Emergencies - James McKeever & Jeani McKeever
SAS Survival Guide – John Wiseman
The Secure Home - Joel Skousen
The Sense of Survival - J. Allan South
Special Forces Medical Handbook (ST 31-91B)
Survival Guns – Mel Tappan
United States Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Survival Manual - Dick Couch, Captain, USNR (Ret.)
US Army Survival Manual (FM 21-76)
Whatcha Gonna Do If The Grid Goes Down? - Susan Robinson
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook - David Werner, Carol Thuman & Jane Maxwell
Biographical Reference
Beyond Survival – Gerald Coffee
One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey – Sam Keith/ Richard “Dick” Proenneke
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Periodicals/Newsletters
Modern Survival Magazine Online magazine from the former editor of the discontinued American Survival Guide/Journal of Self-Reliance
Questions and comments: tirec [at] juno [dot] com
The preparers have used reasonable care in compiling these links, but make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents or any warranty of fitness for any particular purpose. Because it is impossible to predict with any certainty what circumstances the future will bring about, the information and opinions contained herein are not guaranteed to produce any particular results, and the advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for every individual.