Real-world strategies for confronting your worst nightmares.
Unlike many survival books that offer one person's opinions, WHAT IF? Experts' Survival Strategies for Natural Disasters, Urban Threats, and Other Deadly Emergencies is a scenario-based guide with insights from a panel of more than 40 actual survival experts to help you plan for and confront worst-case scenarios. These pros include trainers for U.S. military special operations, the Department of Defense (DoD) and law enforcement SWAT. There are no keyboard warriors here; these are people who have made a living learning and teaching how to survive threats and then stay alive in nearly any conceivable scenario.
Based on information researched by the editors of OFFGRID Magazine, WHAT IF? covers a wide gamut of nightmare scenarios in categories the average person is quite likely to encounter at some point:
• Natural Disasters
• Crime
• Terrorism
• Threats while Traveling
• Grid Down
Respected experts such as Tim MacWelch, Kevin Estela, Rudy Reyes, Jared Wihongi and John Nores, to name a few, offer answers to a lot of uncomfortable questions that, unfortunately, require deep forethought in today's world. You owe it to yourself and your family to prepare! What if...
• You're caught in an earthquake?
• Your neighborhood is attacked by an angry mob?
• You're threatened by a stalker?
• You're caught in a mass shooting?
• Hackers take down the power grid?
• Your child is abducted?
• Critical supply lines are indefinitely interrupted?
These questions and dozens of others are presented in scenario-based stories that force you to think about how should realistically respond when your life is on the line.
You'll learn how to prevent becoming lost in the backcountry or stranded in your vehicle. Deal with economic collapse and angry mobs like a well-trained professional. Or come out on top if faced with earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, utility outages, suicide bombings, hijackings or hostage situations. No matter what befalls you, WHAT IF? has you covered.
Remember: Knowledge is the key to preparation, and preparation is the key to survival! Whatever worst-case scenario keeps you awake at night, WHAT IF? Experts' Survival Strategies for Natural Disasters, Urban Threats, and Other Deadly Emergencies) is your guide to overcoming uncertainty and confronting our fears with confidence.
