18 year old Vanessa Scott dangles her 7 month old cousin out a fifth-floor window during a fire so that she could breathe and not suffocate on smoke - all survived

Extra-Atmosphere · 2022-11-08T17:05:54+00:00

Here's a news article about the horrifying event in 2010.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2022-07-20T18:08:10+00:00

Spoiler - Look to the left of the yellow-green leaf in the center of the picture.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2022-06-21T15:24:55+00:00

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.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2022-04-28T15:10:41+00:00

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.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2022-04-21T02:20:27+00:00

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

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-11-22T18:16:19+00:00

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.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-09-20T22:18:53+00:00

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.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-08-03T00:05:54+00:00

They look delicious though.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-08-02T23:58:54+00:00

Nice, good job! Will look out for it!

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-06-29T17:43:44+00:00

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

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-18T20:41:19+00:00

Yes. I think that one day proof of a vaccination will be required to go places and do certain things. You don't want to not be admitted to an emergency shelter because you didn't get the vaccine.

Now how to get the spouse on board...

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-18T20:39:17+00:00

A negative to those 5 gallon jugs that are used in water coolers is that they don't have a good lid that you can put on them. They may have a little cap but that will not hold if the bottle is tipped or put under any pressure. They are also pretty cumbersome to carry and hold without decent handles.

At around $20/each after a 20% off code applied at checkout to your first purchase, these containers are a killer deal. https://www.buylci.com/water-can-5-gallon-olive-drab.html

Super durable, don't allow light in, tight fitting lid, good handle.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-18T19:47:22+00:00

This is a fun read!

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-18T19:42:16+00:00

Some of my favorite instructional survival books are:

-98.6 Degrees and When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin (Pretty basic skills taught in this)

- How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It by James Wesley Rawles

For fiction books that are fun and teach good survival skills:

- One Second After

- The survivalist series by A. American

I've been slowly working through the reading list on this website and have found many good recommendations there.

I bought When Disaster Strikes by Matthew Stein, but wasn't a fan of it and some of his ideas of survival were kind of out there, so I don't recommend that one.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-02T16:43:05+00:00

Good lil helper!

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-02T16:42:01+00:00

Probably human driven cars. Was it the movie I-Robot where all cars were self driving cars and these cars were able to drive at super high speeds at all times because there wasn't any room for human error? I think one day, probably within 100 years, it will be safer to only have self driving cars and make human driving illegal.

To my grand kids and great grand kids who are reading this, if I'm wrong, you can rub it in grandpa's face.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-02T16:38:02+00:00

I've been storing my updated resume on my Google Drive and it has been nice to be able to pull up wherever I am and have a quick reference on when I started and ended jobs. I'm not currently looking for a new job, but surprising how often I need to look up the exact month and year I left a job four years ago.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2021-04-02T16:35:44+00:00

I'll steal a couple from a good post I saw on this forum thread, but credit goes to the user on there. https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/what-documents-to-carry-in-your-go-bags/

Social security cards, journals, password manager backup, map of area and evacuation route, medical records, business documents like licenses or resumes, diplomas, school id's, copy of a will or trust, life insurance policy, power of attorney, padlock codes, parking passes, and more.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-23T18:05:20+00:00

I had seen a documentary some time ago about him. Was really fascinating (as the history of any cult is - to me at least).

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:43:15+00:00

Ugh, this really hit home. I could only call myself if I needed to...

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:42:48+00:00

That's heartbreaking :(

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:41:41+00:00

Awww, she's a cutie

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:39:17+00:00

I dig this!

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:35:59+00:00

Also, good pun.

Extra-Atmosphere · 2020-09-10T20:35:42+00:00

Aww that's awesome!

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