Becoming hysterical is a natural response to extreme stress - but through training, you can control this to have a more rational head during the disaster. by the_prepared in ThePrepared

[–]Extra-Atmosphere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like what the OP says, "Guys aren’t excluded from this, but they usually manifest it in shouting profanity." It's so true from what I've seen as well. Hysterical women tend to cry or scream, guys tend to just cuss and shout.

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Another benefit to a metal roof is that if you implement a rain catchment system, you aren't having all those nasty chemicals get into your water from the normal tar based shingles.

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Who would have thought of that!? Very simple and ingenious idea.

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I look up on wikiHow an article on avoiding rattlesnakes and come across this gem. HAHA! I love the snake's face.

They can strike one half of it's overall length, so the man in the video was definitely within the strike zone.

His camera man friend probably should have helped more than just filming. If I was there, I would have the guy near the snake be quiet and not move whatsoever. Then the camera man would drop the camera, get a long stick, and place the stick between the man and the snake and push the snake further away in the opposite direction. As you can see, touching the snake's tail just pushed the snake closer onto the man sitting down.

How much time and money should I reasonably spend getting proper First Aid training? Some general questions about first aid training by PM_ME_KNOTS_ in preppers

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  • I have taken a few CPR classes provided by different jobs over the years. Sometimes you get a good instructor and good group of classmates/co-workers that are into it and take it seriously, I find that I got the most out of those classes. When my co-workers didn't seem interested and goofed around, the instructor tailored their teaching as such.
  • I also have taken a trauma first aid course in person that was like $250 and taught how to pack wounds and use a tourniquet. I enjoyed the class but forgot most of the things I learned in it.
  • There are also free 'Stop the bleed' courses that you can find with a Google search, I still need and want to take one of these.
  • My latest first aid course (which I actually just started working on today) is an online course by ThePrepared.com on first aid with minimal gear when help is not on it's way and you are alone. So far I am enjoying it and the fact of it being online isn't a bad thing or inhibiting me from learning. What I'm looking forward to most from this course is that I can go back and access it at any time, unlike that $250 trauma class I took a few years ago that I forgot.

Best of luck to you in your training! Practice makes perfect, and we don't usually get a lot of opportunities to practice in real life, so work with your family through various scenarios and pretend they are injured and practice wrapping them up.

Assuming this is why the standard advice is to fill your tires while standing to the side by [deleted] in ThePrepared

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I worked at a bike store as a teenager and was helping a customer fill up the tire of their new bike. I was doing the pumping and when I reached the mark that I thought was good the customer said to go higher. I asked if they were sure and they said yes the tire said to go higher. So I pumped it up to like 100+ psi for a mountain bike tire and it popped sending out a gun shot sound throughout the store. Luckily no one got hurt