YOUR WEB GUIDE TO EMERGENCY & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND SURVIVAL

Get Prepared, Be Prepared, Stay Prepared

If you were alive and aware on September 11, 2001, you will forever remember where you were when BREAKING NEWS bulletins flashed across TV screens and flooded radio airways. It's an event the emotional wounds from which still fester for many people. Yet for the majority of us, it's not a "top-of-mind" happening. With subsequent attacks, the "Shoe Bomber," the "Underwear Bomber" and the "42nd Street Bomber" having been foiled, we've been lured into a sense of complacency, and that state of mind is fraught with danger.

This Web Guide to Emergency and Disaster Preparedness and Survival Section of NewEnglandTimes.Com has not been created to scare or alarm you, but rather to help you plan.

It's focus is on how to prepare for almost anything from hurricanes to fires, vicious storms to radioactive fallout from Fukushima (which is nothing to worry about at the moment), terrorist attacks to encounters in the woods with a bear or moose. It also covers ways to survive if you go on a nice long hike and get lost. And it delves into the psychology of how your mind will react to a disaster and the need to stay calm and focused.

The stories appearing here are offered to help you through a range of survival situations. We discuss aspects of the economy for which you need to prepare and help teach you what to do, what your priorities should be, how to find shelter, water and food and how to stay well away from panic, an emotion that's ends a shock throughout your system, and how you react to it may mean the difference between getting out of whatever situation you find yourself alive or not.

As co-founders of NewEngllandTimes.Com, my wife Terry and I have been studying preparedness and survival since the first attack on the World Trade Center back in 1993.

It's important to understand that what we present here is to help you prepare, but to do so over time. We don't recommend that anyone max out their credit cards to be prepared for something that never happens, as was the case with Y2K. The advice we offer has been researched and researched again to make sure that what appears here is the latest information about getting through any crisis, from loss of electricity to a major biological terrorist attack.

While we write about preparedness and survival, we are not obsessed with it, nor are we members of any Dooms Day groups. We're pragmatists who stay aware and monitor all we can to keep abreast of any threats. Again, we want to help you prepare for anything that could happen with New England being our primary focus, but many of the articles we write for this ever-growing section can apply almost anywhere. If you have questions, please email us at jim.hyde@newenglandtimes.com and we'll do our best to answer them for you.

Listed below are the most current articles, and we'll be adding lots more over time. Thanks for visiting this section and we hope you find it to be informative.

Check back frequently. We will be adding material to this page often.