Survival situations crop up all the time, all over the place. Take natural disasters for example. A blizzard in the Northeast, tornado in the Midwest, the occasional hurricane in the southeast or an earthquake on the West Coast – no matter where you live, a survival situation can appear at any time.

Even the federal government suggests everyone have emergency supplies on hand.

For the average survivalist, “emergency supplies” are a given – we just take it one step further – assuming an “emergency situation” can last anywhere from hours to in worst cases, weeks and maybe even longer.

There are staples you must have in your survival cache, but there are also a lot of critical survival items that get overlooked, because, lets face it, you cannot spend all your time preparing for a hypothetical crisis.

You don't have that much free time and you would eventually go nuts.

To help avoid that, on the next page, we cover 11 commonly overlooked survival items.

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