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...anything from a world ending asteroid strike right on down to forgettin your wedding anniversary. Staying out of certain situations is as important, or more important, than getting out of them.
attempting to gain long-term self-sufficiency.
IMHO, most folks should start off with short term self sufficiency and build on it. Lots of folks are killed in short term survival situations. A local fella had a power outage so he fired off his charcoal grill and brought it inside to keep the family warm. They all died from carbon monoxide. Others die because they don't know how to stop bleeding or prevent shock. A long term survival strategy isn't very good if ya kills yaself the first night.
I imagine you know as much or more than I do about this subject but there are folks out there who could not survive one night if their car broke down in a snowstorm.
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