Preparedness Principles: The Complete Personal Preparedness Resource Guide for Any Emergency Situation

by Barbara Salsbury

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882908065
• ISBN13: 9780882908069
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Horizon Publishers & Distributors
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Reference

The world is scary right now, but this book gives a lot of comfort on ways any person at any stage can be prepared for a variety of situations.

Comprehensive Emergency Preparedness Guide

This book was published in 2006 and is very comprehensive in it's scope of topics. It goes into detail in a lot of practical and important areas that are only briefly mentioned in other rererences I've seen. The author has obviously had a lot of experience in this area and does a great job of sharing it in this book.

Excellent book, but read in small bites

Now, I'm not one to promote the "panic principle", trying to scare people with visions of potential disasters to frighten them into stocking their cellars with ten or twenty years'-worth of food, etc. Thankfully, this book is not about "panic", but simply about "preparedness". Preparedness for what? Do we really need to ask in this day and age? Let me sum it up with two words: Hurricane Katrina. Yes, many of us do not live anywhere near a hurricane zone. I live in a dessert (I mean, a desert--don't I wish I could live "in a dessert"!). Droughts, fires, and yes, even floods are the natural threats most faced by my state. Each state in the Union has its own challenges to cope with. And natural disasters may not actually be the "threats" most of us need to worry about. Loss of employment and health setbacks surely make having at least a few months' worth of supplies--both food and money--quite simply the "sensible" thing to do. Preparedness Principles is designed to help us understand how to implement a sensible plan of approach to the unpredictable nature of life. To be honest, the biggest mistake I made with this book was to sit down and attempt to read it straight through all at once. I found myself overwhelmed and discouraged in less time than I could say, "The monsoons just knocked the power out again!" ("Monsoons" are what we call our Arizona summer thunderstorms.) Unless you are already deeply involved with food storage, this is a book best read and incorporated in small bites. Don't try to read it like a novel. Use it as a resource, which is exactly what it is! Some of the suggestions will be beyond your immediate means to implement. That's okay. One of my favorite quotes in the book is: "Preparedness is not an all-or-nothing thing. Something is much better than nothing, even if the something is just a little bit of something." In other words, if assembling a year's supply of food is overwhelming, then start with something smaller. Two weeks worth of food. A month's worth. Three months' worth. One of my favorite sections of this book was the suggestion of building "mini-pantries" spread throughout your house, rather than throwing in the towel with the exclamation, "But I don't have any room to store anything!" As Salsbury points out, a few fruit bottles stashed in the linen closet, a few cans of food under the bed, will eventually add up. Another chapter that intrigued me had to do with indoor mini-gardens. Now, I can kill just about any plant you can throw at me, but I remember one summer when my green-thumbed dad grew the most delicious baby carrots in our backyard. I've often thought longingly of those carrots, but I'm not an outdoor gardener. Too many weeds, too many bugs. It never occurred to me that I might actually be able to grow small carrots right inside my house--weed and bug free! That's an idea I might actually try, just to taste those baby carrots again! (Salsbury describes many more vegetables you can grow inside your ho

Preparedness Principles... no, it's not boring!

REVIEW: It's been several years (my oldest was six, now he's 29) and many household moves since I've written a serious list for storage items. Back then I remember feeling, I don't know, like Noah, as I built up stores against a possibly disastrous future. But another couple of moves depleted my storage and lost my list. Now it's a new era. My oldest grandson is six. I'm selling my cute red PT Cruiser with leather interior because I can't stand the rising price of gasoline. I'd rather eat than sit in the driver's seat of a fun car with an empty gas tank. I truly look forward to stocking my shelves with necessaries, and Salsbury's book has captured my imagination as surely as the best mystery novel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote. Salsbury knows her stuff, especially since she's experienced her own disasters. She comes to the subject with a dose of practicality (don't go in debt to get your survival supplies!) as well as humor ("Nature's best 100 percent natural polyester blanket. Made from hand-fed, organically grown polyesters...") There is no generic storage list here. Salsbury offers bare-bones basics suggestions, but she emphasizes the final list should be yours. I also like that she includes attitude as a bare-bones basic. (Alright, readers, here's a spontaneous bit of review for you: I just walked out onto the porch to find every single gallon of factory-sealed spring water I'd hauled from the car in preparation to carry down to the basement with the LIDS OFF. "Who took the lids off the water?" I yelled. My nine-year-old covered his face with his hands before confessing. "Why would you do that?" I asked, admittedly a little louder than necessary. "Because it's just water," he said, peeking at me through his fingers. "I didn't know." It's true. He didn't know. I often buy water for our fish tank. So I shut my mouth and went for a bike ride. Now I'm back, feeling much better after a cool, refreshing drink of bottled spring water.) Regretfully, I have yet to make the time to get all the way through Salsbury's book. I'm reading a little each day, like a hummingbird returning to bright flowers to suck up the delicious nectar. The layout is very reader friendly, with boxes of helpful hints, charts, planning sheets, and diagrams of how to build several types of shelves and mini-gardens in the appendix section. I was so excited by Salsbury's encouraging words that I showed the book to my husband, Bob. He flipped to the Index, then riffled through the pages. "I don't see anything in here on guns and ammo," he said. So, if you're planning to survive with the use of firearms, you'll need to supplement your reading. Just so you know. I've got my pencil sharpened and my notebook out as I scan Salsbury's hefty 364 page 8" x 11" book. (Hm. If all else fails, I can eat the pages for roughage.) I've already hauled half the stuff out of our small 1900's furnace-filled basement to make room for more important storage than toy plastic pompoms and an orange

Comprehensive Preparedness Book

This is an extremely helpful book. The author obviously has first hand knowledge and experience. I'd refer all emergency preparedness people to this work.