Lesson 3

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Survive In Place Lesson 3
The Ultimate Step-By-Step guide to creating your Urban Survival Plan
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Welcome to your third SurviveInPlace© lesson!
Remember, itÓs a self-paced course, so you can complete it in 12 weeks or
stretch it out longer once youÓve received the lessons.
Last week, we covered:
1.
The survival mindset and how it could have prevented an F-16 pilot
from committing suicide ď hour after safely landing his plane.
2.
How cell phones could stop you from making contact with
relatives during an emergency.
3.
A process to keep you from ending up with a garage full of
survival stuff you canÓt use.
4.
Evening test
5.
Identifying local threats
IÓd love to hear how your exercises from last week went for you. Please let
me know by emailing me at
david@surviveinplace.com
.
This week, weÓre going to be covering the following:
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 1.
Reviewing Local threats, your map & finding more online.
2.
Assessing your Urban Survival Skills/Weaknesses
3.
Assessing your current stockpile.
So, hit the ÐprintÑ button, start reading, and letÓs get prepared!
IÓm going to be referring you to several websites this week. IÓve received
feedback from other students that it is VERY easy to get distracted and spend
hours on these sites if you donÓt have a clear objective in mind when you go to
visit them.
I want to encourage you to spend very little time on these sites until you have
finished this weeksÓ lesson. Once you have made measurable forward progress
with your Urban Survival Plan, then go back and look at these great resources.
-David
Last week, I had you start to make a note of threats in your local areas. If
youÓve got them handy and your local map that you bought in week 1, weÓre
going to start putting them on your map.
Depending on where you live, this could be a VERY quick exercise. In short,
weÓre going to map out some of the bigger threats and choke points in your
area, as well as your home and places you are likely to be traveling to/from
(work, relatives, friends, and/or church).
I like marking maps with a combination of highlighters and pens. Highlighters
draw attention to a particular area, and written notes provide necessary detail.
As youÓre going through this exercise, remember that you want to be able to
understand your notes 6-12 months from now, so put notes in the margins if
you need to.
In particular, weÓre going to be looking at a 1 mile radius around your house
and place of work (or places), the routes between them, and any other locations
that are pertinent to you (childrenÓs school, elderly parentÓs house, etc.)
The point of this exercise is to try to get a handle on current potential threats to
your safety and identify areas that are likely to be more dangerous or difficult to
travel through in the initial stages of an emergency in your area.
WeÓre going to look at 4 items of interest: current potential threats,
accidents/targets/natural disaster, civil breakdown, and choke points.
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Current Potential Threats:
In addition to talking regularly with local law enforcement, youÓre going to want
to be observant of whether or not criminals are currently active in your
particular area.
As an example, if you start seeing a big increase in graffiti in your
neighborhood, it could indicate gang activity; or it could simply be ÐtaggersÑ. If
you want to learn more about gang graffiti and how to tell the difference
between simple vandals and gang members, I suggest that you go over to
Robert WalkerÓs site, ÐGangs Or UsÑ quickly and watch a 2 minute video on
gang graffiti deciphering. For now, just watch the 2 minute video and
bookmark the page so you can go back when youÓre done with this weekÓs
lesson.
>>
http://www.gangsorus.com/graffiti.html
You can also view all of the crimes that your local law enforcement is reporting
by going to one of these two sites:
http://www.crimereports.com
If your city does not share data with crimereports.com, try:
http://www.spotcrime.com
On crimereports.com, I suggest clicking on the ÐCrime TypesÑ button and
selecting violent crimes. Then, pick the 30 day option.
This will quickly show you all of the violent crimes committed in your area in the
last 30 days, as reported by your local law enforcement.
In the upper right hand corner of the map, it will tell you how many crimes are
being shown. Crimereports.com will show a maximum of 500 crimes on a given
map, so make sure you zoom in so that this number is under 500.
The addresses that have a teal blue box are addresses where multiple incidents
have happened in the last 30 days. If there are areas with multiple teal blue
boxes, consider marking them on your map.
Accidents / Terrorist Targets / Natural Disasters
Take a look at your map or
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp
if you donÓt have your map handy and locate the railroad tracks in your area. If
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 you are within a mile of the tracks, you need to have a plan in place for rail
accidents.
One such incident happened on January 6
th
, 2005 at 2:40 AM when two trains
collided in Graniteville, South Carolina causing 90 tons of chlorine gas to be
released into the air. Since it was the middle of the night, there were 5,400
residents sleeping within one mile of the accident and of those 5,400 residents,
9 people died of chlorine inhalation and 250 people had to be treated for
chlorine exposure.
Before you get too worried, I want you to put this in perspective. There are
only 5-10 rail crashes a year in the US and the Graniteville crash is the WORST
one since 2005! Most deaths in rail accidents happen because of the actual
crash and not because of chemicals released into the air.
That being said, in addition to accidents, Arabic terrorist websites have been
promoting the use of homemade thermite to cut rail lines or weld debris to rail
lines in urban areas to derail trains suspected of or known to be carrying
hazardous cargo. These sites are also promoting attacks on industrial chemical
storage facilities. In particular, theyÓre targeting anhydrous ammonia
(fertilizer), hydrogen fluoride (pharmacology, plastics, refineries), methyl
isocyanate (pesticides, adhesives, rubbers), and chlorine.
WhatÓs that mean? It means that if you live/work near a rail line, you should
know that a crash/toxic leak is a possibility and decide what your response
would be if a large scale chemical release happens. It isnÓt likely to happen, but
if it does, you may be the only person in your immediate area who has thought
through what to do and who can act immediately and guide others around you.
Fortunately, your preparations for this scenario will also carry over to the more
mundane (and likely) threat of an industrial fire upwind of your location.
As an example, if you hear a massive train crash ď mile upwind from you
during a ÐnormalÑ time and immediately see a cloud rising up into the air, you
might want to take action by getting out of the area.
There was no explosion and you can figure that if the wind is blowing straight
towards you with a light breeze (10 mph), you probably have 3 minutes before
any of the smoke/chemicals reach you and the best course of action is to leave
in your car and tell your co-workers/neighbors to do the same.
LetÓs say that you are directly north of the explosion. If possible, you want to
escape directly to the East or West so that you will be completely out of the
path of the cloud. If you remember your geometry, you want to put distance
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between you and the incident while traveling perpendicular to the direction of
the wind.
Keep in mind that your response will most likely be different if a large scale
chemical release happens during ÐnormalÑ times than if it happens during a
local/regional emergency if normal travel isnÓt an option.
If such an event happens during a time of general emergency, or if you arenÓt
one of the first to evacuate, you may have to Survive In Place. WeÓll be
covering this in a couple of weeks, including how to create a small safe area in
your home or office within minutes that will allow you to drastically increase
your chances of surviving a chemical incident, should one happen near you.
You should also consider developing a similar plan if you live within a mile of a
chemical manufacturing company, refinery, fuel storage facility, or
manufacturing facility that has large stockpiles of chemicals.
Start making note of these facilities as youÓre driving around and donÓt be afraid
to ask firemen if there are any facilities near your house that you should be
aware of.
You can also get the locations of many of these facilities right now by using
Google Maps.
Simply go to maps.google.com and enter the following search:
Refinery Houston (or whatever your city name is)
And press the Ðsearch mapsÑ button.
YouÓll get back results for actual refineries and the offices of refineries. A
general tip is that if a result is in the middle of the city, itÓs an office and if itÓs in
a large open area, itÓs a refinery. Google has the option to do a satellite view or
street level viewing. Both will let you see whether or not there is an actual
refinery or not, but since youÓre only concerned with facilities that are in your
immediate area, another option is to simply drive by and see whatÓs there.
Another search to do is:
Chemical dealers Detroit
When the results come up, look above the results on the left hand side and
youÓll see the following:
Categories: Chemical Dealers
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