Disaster Preparation: Page 14

Tells you what food, water and shelter is best to keep you safe if the big one hits.

Learn how you can get water from a tree if you are lost in the wilderness. All you need is a plastic bag or tarp.

Turn a paper clip into a safety pin with a pair of pliers and some ingenuity.

This video will teach you how to kill bacteria in dirty water, in the wild, with only a plastic bottle, a string and a lighter or match.

Bushcraft. Learn where to find edible plants in the wild including scurvy grass, sandfire, wild beet, and gorse. Also, see how to cook mackerel over an open fire

Andrew Price of Dyad Bushcraft demonstates a variety of signals that can be used in a surivival situation. Techniques include signals using whistles, mirrors, and flares.

Andrew Price of Dryad Bushcraft demonstrates how to make a whistle out of a piece of willow that could be useful for fun and recreation as well as survival situations.

There were two broad objectives to the 2004 TELEX project: One was to try to understand better why storms tend to produce a lot of positive cloud-to-ground flashes. The second part looked at the electrification of mesoscale convective systems.

This is a FEMA PSA about what kids should do during an earthquake. Be prepared and stick together. Hide under tables to protect your head.

Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine and Videojug team up in this informative video to demonstrate how to create a lean-to emergency shelter with minimal resources. You will need an uprooted tree, sturdy straight branches and plenty of leaves and debris. Choose the right spot for camp. Try and stay near water and fuel for fire. Try to stay away from animal trails. Check the area above your site. Always try to camp at the edge of the forest. These and other practical considerations are...

This video is a demonstration of an easy way to boil water while camping. Simply take a plastic bottle, fill it to the top with no space for air, close the bottle, start a fire and place the bottle in the fire. Since there is no air in the bottle it won't melt. After a couple minutes you will have boiling water. Careful removing the bottle from the fire.

Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine and Videojug team up to bring you this informative video demonstrating how to find water from your surroundings. You will need: plastic sheeting, a plastic bad, a small spade or digging stick, containers that will hold water, a filtration device, a means of water purification. Tips for finding water in you environment are discussed in detail. Condensation and dew can also be good sources of water. All these and other practical situations are discussed.

Myke Hawke shows you why a machete is one of the most important things to have in the jungle. He illustrates how to use the point, middle bow and the fine curved whittler.

Learn how to build a shelter in the desert by using things around you. Phil West will show you what to look for and how to use it. By using elephants chewing gum, branches and even dirt to build a shelter.

Learn about how you lose heat in a wilderness survival situation. This is part one of a series on survival shelters and skills by Ron Hood of survival.com. Defeat heat loss by understanding how you lose heat, building shelter and a fire.