Different fabrics have radically different properties. Choosing the wrong type, or mixing clothing of different materials, can be disastrous!

During a flood, there may be water everywhere, but none to drink. Here’s some survival tips on where to find potable water during the disaster.

Five broad categories capture most situations where a person may have to “survive” until rescued or until the weather conditions improve and the individual can rescue themselves. The categories are: Becoming lost, being caught out after dark, becoming stranded, becoming ill or injured and unable to proceed and bad weather that makes continuing on dangerous. [...]

  Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation with simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods. I can hear the groans and complaints from the hardcore preppers and survivalists already: “A CAKE? That’s supposed to be a SURVIVAL RECIPE?” Yep. It is. And here’s [...]

Only fools deliberately put themselves in danger to test a survival technique, or to prove something.

But how are you supposed to learn? Is there a safe, practical way to learn how to deal with emergency or survival situations without risking injury or death?

Many of you are subscribers to the SurvivalCommonSense.com weekly email update. For the rest of you – here’s what you’re missing! This week, we’re talking about how to avoid drowning in a flash flood in the desert (More people drown in the desert than die of thirst. Bet you didn’t know that!) We also talk [...]

More people die of drowning in the desert than of thirst, according to the United States Geological Survey, and that is usually because they were surprised by a flash flood. Learn how to avoid that situation!

This post was sent in from a reader in Los Gatos, CA. The hiker in the news story, Edward Rosenthal, 64, of  Los Angeles, went for a dayhike on Sept. 24 at Joshua Tree National Park, CA., was lost for six days and nearly died of thirst. Rosenthal’s ordeal started after he became disoriented after [...]

Always take lots of water along, and never depend on being able to find it! But it’s a really good idea to know where to look for water in the event of an emergency. Here are some desert water tips from survival expert Peter Kummerfeldt.

In priority order, after shelter and the need to defend your body temperature, preventing dehydration is the survivor’s next most important necessity.