Survival situations come in phases and dependent on what the situation is, certain skills come in handy.

You do not, for example, need the same skills for a few hours with no power after a thunderstorm as you do for a few days after a blizzard or a few weeks after a hurricane. You do not need the same necessary skills during an electrical grid collapse that you need when getting lost in the wilderness.

While it would be nice to have the exact skills necessary for every conceivable crisis, doing so would mean you do not exist except to learn and train for whatever survival situation might come your way.

There are basic critical skills, however, that everyone who is survival minded must learn, practice and master that will come in handy in virtually any survival situation.

The list on the next page covers many of those skills.

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