Your Life
As the world continues to burst at the seams
We need to seriously look at how we approach survival from it.
Natural disasters from hurricanes, wildfires, drought, floods, volcanos and earthquakes all continue to rise in frequency and magnitude.
There are so many factors leading to this it is hard to know what is coming. The sun is changing, the earth expanding, our atmosphere and electromagnetic field diminishing, one thing is for certain, we need to be ready for anything.
We need mobile survival preparedness... which includes mental recognition and situational awareness. As I am now in Argentina and heading to Chile in a few days, I need to be aware of what environmental issues are possible.
Earthquakes
As Mexico has not only had a major earthquake just this week, it has had many. But so have several other events been triggered on "The Ring of Fire".
So let's look at how to possibly survive an earthquake. And strangely enough on my flight from Boston to Dallas, the first leg of the trip, I sat next to a Boston based rescue worker headed to Mexico City to help it the aftermath. His first time for an earthquake... great conversation, but I digress.
I have experienced a couple of minor quakes while living in Souther California.
At that time the mantra was to get into a door way if inside a building.
But after experiencing them, I decided to research them, but more importantly how to survive them. I came across the research of Doug Copp.
Doug Copp, was the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI). And at the time it was the world’s most experienced rescue team.
Doug Copp had vast experience as he states; "I crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation".
His Experience
Lead him to produce a body of work on why people survived in collapsing buildings and find the vital key of how they did.
His discovery was coined by him as "The Triangle of Life".
To his horror he found thousands of dead people (worst of which were schoolchildren found under their desks, compressed to the height of the bone thickness)... that tried to hide under furniture or door jams as instructed.
When a building collapses, the weight of the ceilings that falls upon the furniture inside, crushes these objects. However the oddity is that it leaves a space or void next to them. This space is what he named the “triangle of life”.
What else he discovered was that the larger and stronger the object was, the less it compacted. Also the less the object compacts, the larger the void or triangle it creates, the greater the probability for a person using this void for safety, will not be injured. These triangles form everywhere; next to counters, tubs, refrigerators, etc.
If you watch collapsed buildings, on television, you can actually count the “triangles” that formed, they are everywhere and It is the most common shape you see, in any collapsed building.
So pardon my use of this tragic event as a base for writing.
But with these events increasing dramatically and my travel to a prone area, as well as sitting next to a rescue official heading here... it seemed a good time.
Pictures found on web in Dallas, written in plane on eSteem app, posted on runway in Buenos Aires Argentina
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Image Credit: stuff.co.nz, Rebecca Blackwell API