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"We are not going to stop even one minute. Nobody in the rescue team is putting in doubt that we will bring him out, and we all remain confident that he will be alive."January 17, 2019 at 3:09 PM Said a government official quoted in "Crews Race To Save 2-Year-Old Spanish Boy Who Fell Down 300-Foot Hole."Members of a Swedish company that helped locate the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground in 2010 arrived on Tuesday, Spanish police told Reuters.Julen was playing with his 1 1/2-year-old cousin when he fell down the hole.... The hole may have been drilled by someone in an attempt to find water, El País reports. "There are hundreds more like that one, covered with rocks, and nobody thinks...Tags: Law, Survival, Oliver, El Pais, Ann Althouse, Julen, Civil Guard, Reuters Julen 39 people like this. Like "When she was forced to hide under the bed, Jayme told detectives, Mr. Patterson would box her in with totes and laundry bins that he secured with barbell weights."January 15, 2019 at 8:28 AM "He would turn on music to prevent guests from hearing any noise she made. And one time, when Mr. Patterson believed she had tried to escape, Jayme said he struck her and threatened worse consequences if she tried again. But last Thursday, after Mr. Patterson told Jayme he was leaving for a few hours, she managed to force her way out from under the bed, she said. She grabbed a pair of men’s shoes — apparently Mr. Patterson’s — and ran to a nearby road, shoes ill fitting and on the wrong feet, cr...Tags: Murder, Crime, Law, Survival, Patterson, Confessions, Ann Althouse, Jayme, Jayme Closs 48 people like this. Like "All in all... I prefer a campfire-roasted porcupine that I killed and butchered... slathered with highbush cranberry ketchup..."January 14, 2019 at 3:33 PM "... foraged chickweed salad with mushrooms on the side, a hot cup of stinging nettle tea to wash it down and a handful of wild blueberries for dessert. Bugs, sticks, sand and assorted forest floor debris sometimes makes it into my vittles but... 'It’s clean dirt.'.... My toilet is a hollow cottonwood stump and I bathe with a kettle of hot creek water. Some places along the highway offer showers but they cost money and contribute to ecocide, so I clean my crotch in the creek occasionally. But pe...Tags: Cleaning, Law, America, Poverty, Alaska, Commerce, Survival, Ann Althouse 8 people like this. Like "When she got near me I could see who she was. She told me, 'I'm Jayme.' "January 11, 2019 at 4:11 PM "I just held onto her, and I said we're going to find somebody who's home, we're going to call the police. You're going to be OK. You're going to be safe." [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Survival, Ann Althouse, Jayme 43 people like this. Like Why You Should Consider Volunteering With a Search and Rescue TeamJanuary 3, 2019 at 12:23 PM  Tags: Outdoors, California, Life, Time, Action, Sherlock Holmes, Survival, Scuba, Sar, Rescue Team, Myers Briggs, Manly Skills, A Man's Life, Georges Hébert, Search and Rescue Team, state Office of Emergency Services 99 people like this. Like "I threw the ball 100 metres towards the Swiss border and told the children to run and get the ball. They ran after the ball and this is how they crossed."December 31, 2018 at 7:17 AM "After that, the Italians left France and the German came in. It became too dangerous to play ball with the children like this. With the Germans we didn’t play these games.”From "French Resistance hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108/Georges Loinger escaped from German camp and spent rest of the war helping children cross Swiss border" (The Guardian). [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, France, Holocaust, Survival, Ann Althouse, Georges Loinger 3 people like this. Like Living off the grid in northern Wyoming.December 22, 2018 at 11:09 AM A charmingly practical view of what it takes: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Snow, Wyoming, Survival, Tiny House, Ann Althouse 10 people like this. Like "Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores crashed in terrain that was waist-deep in snow, with temperatures as numbing as 48 degrees below zero."December 12, 2018 at 12:46 PM "Without wilderness survival training, Mr. Flores adapted nonetheless. He wrapped Ms. Klaben’s injured foot in her sweaters, covered the openings of the cabin with tarpaulins and tried, without success, to fix their radio to send out a distress signal and build rabbit traps. What little food Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores had brought on board — a few cans of sardines, tuna fish, fruit salad and a box of Saltine crackers — was rationed and gone within 10 days. They drank water, some of it filtered thr...Tags: Law, Survival, Flores, Ed Asner, Ann Althouse, Sally Struthers, Robert Service, Helen Klaben Kahn, Klaben 41 people like this. Like How to Treat a Gunshot WoundNovember 30, 2018 at 11:26 AM Gunshot wounds can be one of the most devastating injuries a person can endure. Depending on the type of bullet, its trajectory when it hits you, and the location it enters, a bullet can rip apart internal organs, break bones, puncture lungs, and cause severe blood loss from critical arteries. Because gunshot wounds can cause such an array of damage, it would take years of training to understand how to treat them all effectively. But, there are things everyone can do to help buy time for a gun...Tags: Life, First Aid, Survival, Visual Guides, Tactical Skills, Ted Slampyak, Gun Skills & Safety 5 people like this. Like "The son of a doctor who fled China during the Cultural Revolution, Chau had been fascinated with the outdoors since he pulled a dusty copy of 'Robinson Crusoe' off his father’s bookshelf as a child…"November 28, 2018 at 9:55 AM "He later read the novel 'The Sign of the Beaver,' about a boy who is left alone and guards his family’s log cabin with the help of a Native American friend. That book 'inspired my brother and I to paint our faces with wild blackberry juice and to tramp through our backyard with bows and spears we created from sticks,' Chau recalled…. 'He lost his mind, definitely,' [said an acquaintance]. 'But ask any adventurer. You have to lose your mind a little bit, otherwise you don’t do it.'"From "'He los...Tags: Law, China, Christianity, Survival, Robinson Crusoe, Chau, Ann Althouse, John Allen Chau 26 people like this. Like "I’m a mountain boy, I’ve got everything I need. I understand (the police) are worried, but I’ve been here my whole life.... I’m not a survivalist. I’m a survivor."November 25, 2018 at 12:27 PM Said Brad Weldon, quoted in "Generators, Coors and canned food. How these ‘mountain boys’ are surviving in Paradise" (Sacramento Bee).“I can’t see myself sitting in a shelter, day after day, with sick people and screaming kids all around me,” said Lyndon McAfee, another of those toughing it out behind the lines.... “This is my home, Paradise, man,” he said. “I love this place.”...“I woke up and said to myself, ‘What the hell am I doing here?’” [saidStewart Nugent, who then] snuck back into Parad...Tags: Law, California, Fire, Survival, Nugent, Coors Light, Ann Althouse, Brad Weldon, Lyndon McAfee 4 people like this. Like "A Wisconsin legislator who is also a firefighter ripped the state Department of Natural Resources for persuading his department to rescue a deer stranded on a frozen lake...."November 23, 2018 at 8:53 AM "Republican Rep. Adam Jarchow... said he would fire the [DNR] warden tomorrow if he could for 'being complicit in putting firefighters at risk, over a stupid deer.'... 'This is a complete embarrassment and a joke,' tweeted Jarchow.... The DNR posted a glowing statement about the incident on its website Tuesday. The release praised Warden Jesse Ashton for organizing a team of wardens and local firefighters to rescue the deer, saying, 'Those little hooves are no match for slick surfaces!... Teamwo...Tags: Law, Wisconsin, Survival, Deer, Dnr, Department of Natural Resources, Adam Jarchow, Ann Althouse, Jesse Ashton 22 people like this. Like "As firefighters keep battling the blazes, a new menace is emerging: debris flows. The rains are coming to California..."November 20, 2018 at 8:45 AM "... as soon as Tuesday night, and the fires have primed the soil for another disaster that can claim yet more lives.... The problem is a fundamental change to the soil itself. When a wildfire burns vegetation, it releases organic compounds.... This soil normally absorbs water, but the organic compounds turn it hydrophobic, literally meaning 'fear of water.' It is not an understatement: You can pour a bottle of water on this burned soil and it’ll bead right off, as if the dirt were polished marb...Tags: Law, California, Disaster, Fire, Survival, Ann Althouse 42 people like this. Like 4 Ways to Make Improvised Urban Survival ArrowheadsNovember 13, 2018 at 12:16 PM The original arrowheads were made from organic materials — often through the process of “knapping” rocks like obsidian, chert, and flint. The sharp flakes of stone which resulted were then affixed to arrow shafts, and shot from bows by primitive hunters to take down game and battle their human enemies.
Still today, stone arrowheads are made by bushcrafters, and they can be life-savers in wilderness survival situations.
But what if you need to make an arrowhead in an urban environment, where st...Tags: Archery, Manly Skills, Outdoors, Self-Reliance, Survival, Tactical Skills 3 people like this. Like "Allyn Pierce was trapped by a wall of fire as he tried to flee the flames coming closer and closer to his truck... 'I was like, I think I’m done'..."November 13, 2018 at 8:03 AM "... said Mr. Pierce, a registered nurse who was trapped in traffic in Paradise, Calif., where most of the community was burned. 'I just kept thinking, I’m going to die in melting plastic.'... Fearing he might not make it out of Paradise alive, Mr. Pierce recorded a goodbye message to his family as the town burned to the ground around him. 'Just in case this doesn’t work out, I want you to know I really tried to make it out,' he later recalled saying into his phone. He held his coat against the ...Tags: Law, California, Fire, Driving, Survival, Peter Gabriel, Pierce, Ann Althouse, PARADISE Calif, Allyn Pierce 2 people like this. Like Drill, Baby, Drill: What will we look for when we mine on Mars?November 12, 2018 at 12:37 PM  Tags: Video, Space, Spacex, Elon Musk, Science, Documentary, Trailer, Economics, Nasa, Earth, Mining, Innovation, Mars, Survival, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic 88 people like this. Like How Will We Know the World Is Ending?November 12, 2018 at 11:51 AM  Tags: Science, Earth, Survival, Environmental Policy 92 people like this. Like "We were going to be cremated when we die, but I thought, this is it, I’m going to be cremated right now. This is when I die."November 11, 2018 at 10:27 AM Said Beverly Fillmore, 87, who drove out of the Paradise fire, quoted in The Mercury News.The inferno has claimed at least 23 people so far — six in vehicles, another just outside one — as the Camp Fire roared to life Thursday morning.... More than ever, it seems, those trapped by wildfires aren’t just the stubborn few who refuse to evacuate. California wildfires are increasingly wicked fast — with year-round fire season colliding with late-autumn near-hurricane strength winds — giving people li...Tags: Law, California, Fire, Survival, Richard, Ann Althouse, Said Beverly Fillmore, Zetta Gore 9 people like this. Like The aptly named Joshua Quick. What weapon did he use to stop the yoga shooter? A vacuum cleaner.November 5, 2018 at 7:59 AM "The gun stopped firing. I don't know if it jammed or what. So I used that opportunity to hit him over the head with [a vacuum cleaner]." The shooter used the jammed gun to hit Quick in the face, and Quick "jumped up as quickly as I could, ran back over and next thing you know, I'm grabbing a broom, anything I can. And I hit him again."From "Hero who stopped incel yoga gunman by beating him with a vacuum cleaner: Student tells how he pounced on woman-hating shooter when his gun jammed after he k...Tags: Murder, Law, Survival, Names, Trump, U S Supreme Court, Joshua, U S Border Patrol, Ann Althouse, Trump and immigration 34 people like this. Like 5 THINGS ABOUT: FAST MOVER TACTICAL PACKNovember 1, 2018 at 5:13 PM  Tags: Backpack, Military, Survival, Rothco, Rothco NY, Tactical Pack, Fast Mover Tactical Backpack, Molle Gear, Survival Bag, Transport Pack 134 people like this. Like Why You Should Stay With Your Car When StrandedNovember 1, 2018 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Cars, Stranded, Lifehacks, Survival, Danger 76 people like this. Like The ethics and the method of filming Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan.October 31, 2018 at 4:20 PM I would not watch this live and find it terrifying to watch even knowing he succeeds. It's beautiful too: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Photography, Law, Sports, Survival, Alex Honnold, El Capitan, Ann Althouse 46 people like this. Like "A French extreme free climber who calls himself Spider-Man... climbed Heron Tower, the tallest building in London City’s square mile, on Thursday afternoon."October 25, 2018 at 2:31 PM The NYT reports. The man's real name is Alain Robert, and he is 56 years old. The building is more than 750 feet tall, and Robert "didn’t even know about" it until "I saw some pictures when I came to London two days ago." [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: London, Law, Sports, London city, Survival, Robert, Ann Althouse, Alain Robert 38 people like this. Like Man fell 40 feet into an abandoned gold mine, broke both his legs, and — before getting rescued 48 hours later — had to fight rattlesnakes.October 19, 2018 at 3:50 PM BBC reports. [Author: [email protected]r.com (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Bbc, Snakes, Survival, Ann Althouse 49 people like this. Like How to Treat Someone for ShockOctober 18, 2018 at 10:08 AM Shock occurs when the body’s internal organs aren’t getting enough blood flow. A person can go into shock for a variety of reasons including severe bleeding, vomiting, heart attack, spinal injury, or even certain drug overdoses. The symptoms of shock are fairly broad, but usually include weakness, clammy skin, fast heart rate, quick breathing, sweating, and thirst. If untreated, a person in shock may start to feel confused, lose consciousness, or go into cardiac arrest. That’s why it’s importan...Tags: Life, Survival, Manly Skills, Visual Guides, Ted Slampyak, Amazon Illustrated 43 people like this. Like "In my interview with Rener Gracie, whose grandfather established the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu method 90 years ago, he told me there are four phases to nearly all sexual attacks on women..."October 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM "... 1) Identify an unsuspecting target, 2) Subdue the target, 3) Exhaust the target, and 4) Execute the sexual assault. We want to fight with all our might and the moves we have above in the second phase. In the third phase, however, right before an assailant executes his sexual attack, all he wants to do is exhaust the victim and gain complete control, so fighting back actually may backfire at that point, wasting energy. Gracie’s Women Empowered training program teaches women to recognize when...Tags: Law, Rape, Survival, Gracie, Ann Althouse, Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Rener Gracie 12 people like this. Like Communications Gear Import BanOctober 2, 2018 at 10:58 PM Survival Blog:
Back in August, I warned SurvivalBlog readers about an upcoming FCC rules change. Well, the ban did indeed arrive, on Monday. As of September 24th, 2018, the FCC banned the importation of some quite capable dual band models of inexpensive Baofeng ham radio handie-talkies:
FCC Enforcement Advisory No. 2018-03
Because of this new FCC “enforcement advisory” ban, I predict that fewer and fewer these particular hand-held ham radios will clear Customs. Then, Amazon and eBay listin...Tags: Fcc, Ebay, Military, Survival, Baofeng, Pat Hines, Communications Gear, Customs Then Amazon, JWR 12 people like this. Like "[He] said he had been scared and often cried while adrift... Every time he saw a large ship..."September 24, 2018 at 8:16 AM "... he said, he was hopeful, but more than 10 ships had sailed past him. None of them stopped or saw [him]."From "Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in 'fishing hut'" (BBC). The "fishing hut" is "a 'rompong' - a floating fish trap without any paddles or engine... which... floats in the middle of the sea but is anchored to the seabed by ropes." Before the ropes snapped, the 19-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang lived alone out there, visited once a week by "someone from his company who ...Tags: Law, Indonesia, Aldi, Bbc, Survival, Ann Althouse, Adilang 21 people like this. Like How to Measure Remaining Sunlight With Your HandsSeptember 21, 2018 at 12:45 PM You’re in the woods near the end of the day and you ask yourself: should I set up camp now, or do I have enough daylight to keep trekking further down the trail? But you’re not sure what time sunset is, and therefore how much light you have left. Sure, you could check your watch/phone, if you have one. But maybe it’s not working, and even if it is, there’s a simple, age-old method you can employ to find out how many daylight hours there are before the sun sets. The cool part is that the only eq...Tags: Outdoors, Life, Survival, Manly Skills, Visual Guides, Ted Slampyak, Amazon Illustrated 45 people like this. Like How to Make a Sandbag WallSeptember 11, 2018 at 11:22 PM Sandbags are one of the most effective ways to deflect water when storms and heavy rains cause flooding. Arranging sandbags into a wall can direct the flow of water away from buildings, roads, or any sensitive structure that might be damaged by a deluge. Keep in mind that a sandbag wall is not completely waterproof. Make sure you have a strategy for dealing with any water that seeps in through cracks in the wall. Electric pumps are your best bet for handling additional water, but you can also b...Tags: Life, Survival, Electric, Army Corps Of Engineers, Manly Skills 30 people like this. Like |
