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Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival
A solid, fact-filled, potentially live-saving guide. Now in an updated 2nd edition, Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide To Home Storage And Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli is a solid, practical, no-nonsense, but completely "user-friendly" reference for the selection and acquisition of stockpiled food and water for emergencies; growing, raising, and finding food; preserving food at home by means such as home canning and dehydrating; emergency evacuation in a crisis; and other preparation safeguards for weathering a natural or man-made crisis. From clothing issues to transportation needs and communication alternatives, the Crisis Preparedness Handbook is a solid, fact-filled, potentially live saving guide, and especially recommended reading for anyone seeking to protect themselves and their loved ones in times of local, regional, national, or international calamity.
Best book on the subject: This guide covers all aspects of preparedness, from food storage to weapons caching. Extensive source material is provided, including web addresses, stores and books for further study. Spigarelli does not preach or lecture. Unlike many other books on the subject, there is no overt religious point of view or political agenda. Spigarelli merely suggests that it is sensible to prepare for whatever eventualities the reader expects and provides the tools to do so. This is a book to read thoroughly and keep as a reference. The details on food storage alone are well worth the price.
Excellent Resource on Long-Term Food Storage: A a great resource on long term food storage, but I gave it 4-stars since I didn't think it gave enough attention to other areas in this emerging area. Written in 2002, it provides its information taking terrorism into consideration, which is definitely a positive. I think the guide could be updated to include preparedness skills for pandemic flu threats and other emerging issues, but this is a minor criticism. All in all, the book is probably one of the best sources for practical information on food and water storage and general survival skills. The resource list at the end is worth the price of the book. I also appreciated the fact that the author realized that budget considerations are important in this area and that not everyone can afford to buy thousands of dollars worth of freeze dried foods.
Not an emergency survival manual: This guide will not help you survive an emergency that you have not prepared for, but it will help you prepare so that you avoid emergencies in the first place.
Just as the title says, this is a preparation handbook. It will help you prepare the place you live so that you can make it through tough times in relative safety and comfort.
No, it will not help you learn to forage for nutritious weeds, track NWO soldiers to their base in the forest, or how to most efficiently loot the bodies of the dead. On the other hand, it will help you decide what food to store and how much, how to keep your electricity running, how to keep a working water supply, and includes a very brief section on guns.
I've read a lot of self-sufficiency books and this is one of the most well rounded that I have encountered. If you are already a survival nut, this won't cover any new ground, but if you have people in your life you are just beginning to show some interest in self-sufficiency, there is probably no better introduction.
Serious Preparation Advice for the Serious-minded: This manual gets only four stars, because although it is a very well researched and practical book, it is probably, as some other reviews have observed, strong on food preparation, needs and preservation (very important) but a little light in other areas.
I do think, however, this is an excellent book and for anyone who is keen to inform themselves and prepare for crisis management beyond the 72-hour disaster scenario and wants to be prepared for "long emergency" scenarios, I think this book is indispensable.
It is a very serious book and has some indepth and quite complex information. It is by no means something written for the armchair survivalist.
It is not what I'd call light reading, either, nor should
it be.
If you have a serious interest in crisis preparedness, this is an excellent
book to have.
Good food storage / supply guide, lacking in emergency survival
This book is an excellent resource for developing a plan to deal with the aftermath of a disaster, whether natural or man made.
The author walks the reader through determining the amount and types of food they should store, providing many insights into saving money by avoiding "miracle" survival foods.
However, this book falls short of preparing the reader to survive either a chemical, biological or nuclear attack, the chapters that pertain to these topics are very light and the author recommends purchasing his other book to learn how to survive these disasters.
This book is excellent for the individual that wants to prepare a food and water supply and is also good for readers on a limited budget, the author identifies several ways to save money by preparing the food for storage yourself.
This book also has an excllent check list for an emergency escape kit, also known as a 72 hour kit, and general survival tools.
The book has a short list of suppliers in the back, many of which can be found by using google or yahoo. The author also directs readers to his website for more up to date information, unfortunately the website only contains an advertisement for one of his other books.
All in all if you are looking for really good information on how to store a food and water supply, whether it be a 1 week or 5 years this book will give you information enough to get started.
If you are looking for tips on surviving the immediate disaster though purchase another book in addition to this one.
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