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When All Hell Breaks Loose | 
 enlarge | Author: Cody Lundin
Creators: Russell L. Miller, Christopher Marchetti
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Category: Book
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 948
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 450
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 142360105X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781423601050
ASIN: 142360105X
Publication Date: September 20, 2007
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Survival expert Cody Lundin's new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psychology and the skills necessary to negotiate a disaster whether you are at home, in the office, or in your car.
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 When All Hell Breaks Loose June 4, 2008
64 out of 73 found this review helpful
When All Hell Breaks Loose
"If you are going through Hell, keep going."--Winston Churchill
Once upon a summer day, a Grasshopper hopped and danced and sung to his heart's content. An Ant passed, dragging a huge sack of powdered milk, beef jerky, and salt.
"Why not come and sing karaoke and do a Jell-O(tm) shot with me," chirped the grasshopper, "Instead of breaking your back, working all day?"
"I am preparing for hard times ahead," said the Ant, "and I recommend you do the same."
"Why worry about winter?" said the Grasshopper. "There's plenty of food right now."
But the ant continued his hard toil. When winter came, the shivering grasshopper had no food and found himself slowly dying of hunger. So, he kicked down the Ant's door only to find out that the Ant had completed a comprehensive martial art training regimen that focused on close-quarters combat and self-defense, and that food was not the only thing the Ant had packed away. Only then did the Grasshopper realize that...
It is best to be prepared for the days of necessity. Haven't you ever stayed awake late at night running through "what if" scenarios? Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornados, zombies, asteroid strikes -- you didn't build that bomb shelter in the backyard just for the kids to use as a playhouse. Well, grab your gasmask and a copy of When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes by Cody Lundin.
He is not another paranoid survivalist huddled in a cave spouting Bible verses and lovingly stroking his guns. Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. His expertise in practical self-reliance skills comes from a lifetime of personal experience, including designing his own off the grid, passive solar earth home.
This book is not going to teach you how to wrestle an alligator, or try to convince you that all you have to do is gaze into your backyard to find endless amounts of wild edible plants, or that wild game is there for the taking. Hunting and trapping are true arts and require practice, the right equipment, and the proper environment to be successful. What this book will do is provide the knowledge to help you survive the standard survival scenario, which lasts about seventy-two hours, in the most practical, affordable, simple and realistic way possible.
The book is divided into two parts. Part one deals with the psychological aspect of surviving. According to the author "surviving a life-threatening scenario is largely psychological on the part of the survivor(s). Get this fact into your head now that living through a survival scenario is 90 percent psychology, and 10 percent methodology and gear." He covers how to define your survival priorities with his "Pyramid of Needs" and great checklists for preparing you physically, mentally and emotionally, as well as spirituality and the equipment you are going to need. This section will give you the common-sense foundation upon which to base your survival plan.
The second part of this basic survival guide contains the information to keep your physical body alive. Specific chapters on emergency sanitation, water, food, first aid, communication, and more are presented in the most practical detail as possible. Entire books have been devoted to each of the above subjects. So, don't expect this book to cover every possible aspect of these skills, but appreciate the excellent overview..
Perhaps the greatest survival skill of all is being able to keep calm in the face of chaos. This is accomplished by being sensibly prepared and not scared. It may sound romantic to live off the fat of the land. You may have a great yearning to live wild and free. I sometimes get the urge to grow a beard, live in a cave, and become a combination of Grizzly Adams and Daniel Boone, and then I realize that many indigenous peoples died young and died hard. No one plans to find himself in a survival situation. That's part of what makes those situations so terrifying when they happen. This book can be a useful for keeping you and your family alive, or you can pray and wait for FEMA...
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No Hype, Just Richly Informative... January 28, 2008
45 out of 51 found this review helpful
Unlike so many other survival manuals attempting to prepare us for Ragnorak (Armageddon), Mr. Lundin avoids the scary hype and simply provides us with honest, clear perspective aided with genuinely valuable information, all of which is valid, reliable and credible.
It's a real-deal guide about how to create the necessary: planning, preparation, practice, psychology and personal responsibility for realistically surviving serious crises.
A solid book December 5, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
If you get any preparedness book, get this one. Cody Lundin, a wilderness survival expert, gives us urbanites a solid course in what you really need to survive a disaster, step by step. Where many books (and TV shows) promote a fearful attitude, I found this book calming, because he explained so clearly what you might face in the days after a disaster and how to handle each as they came.
He uses short bites of information and lists along with extended explanations so this book can be actually be used in an emergency without having to wade through pages of data to find what you need, but you get a thorough knowledge of the reasoning behind what you'll be doing.
I've read quite a few of these books and this is the best one I've found by far.
Everyone in America should read this book. November 15, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is great. It places a lot of emphasis on the survival mentality. A lot of people skip this step and go for the gadgets or hard core survival/anti terrorism type books. For the value, your money is better spent on this book because of its contents, not it's coverage. Cody Lundin shows exactly how a lay-person must think to survive anything from catastrophic events to a collapse of the stock market. Provides insight on self reliance and many tips along the way. I would recommend this book to everyone except Chuck Norris. He doesn't need it. :0)
Survival! October 21, 2007
72 out of 90 found this review helpful
Living in southern California, we are being bombarded by environmentalists, government agencies, and even the Governor to BE PREPARED! Few really are. Most don't know how, or where to start, so are frozen in place, like a deer in the headlamps of an on-coming car.
Cody Lundin has lived it, and lives it every day, so is the pioneer to lead the way. This book takes the reader by the hand, and shows him, step-by-step, how to face what is inevitably going to happen... and how to get through it.
The hard and difficult questions we all think about, but never ask, are answered here. It is written with a boldness and with bottom-line common sense.
I read it, my husband read it, and I read it again. We're ready.
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