Location and skills

Whether you intend to stay at your current location or decide to move your
family to a safer location, make sure you have ample amounts of resources
available to hold out for as long as needed.

For starters, ample dry and canned goods as well as plenty of fresh water can keep you in the game for awhile but as food supplies run short you must be resourceful and able to live off the land.
Without getting into too much detail (there are many books on this subject
alone), there are few skills every survivor should have in their bag of tricks. Just
ask the boy scouts!

Basic understanding of:

• Hunting and trapping
• Fire making
• Leather working
• Gathering
• Farming
• Herbalism
• Canning
• Fishing
• Tracking
• Carpentry
• First aid Martial arts/hand to hand combat
• Negotiations (contact with others for trade is inevitable)
When determining if your location can support you and your family’s needs for an
extended period of time, there are a few things to take into consideration.

• Do you:
  have access to a clean water source? Or are you able to purify water?
• Do you:
  have a continuous source of protein or are you reliant on modern conveniences?
  Is the soil capable of being farmed?

How extreme are the seasons? Are there
ample trees or other fuels to burn for heat and cooking?

• Does your:

location provide natural protection from threats? Are there layers of defense that can be utilized?

The listing below shows a few examples of modern amenities that may not be available in an actual survival event. These are just a few things to get you thinking about and in turn planning for.

For each of these items just think, what
would life be like without these?

• Electricity
• Plumbing, receiving and discharge
• Refrigeration
• Heating and cooling
• Computers
• Antibiotics
• Prescriptions
• Fuel
• Phones
• TV
• And many more