It's challenging knowing what type of shelter to build when you're in need of one. So much depends on your existing conditions, building materials, and the tools you have with you.
It's important to consider whether it's safe enough to search for materials before constructing your shelter.
But you also need to take the weather and climate into consideration — will a mud hut keep you safe from the rain? Probably not. Will you be wasting precious time looking for grass to thatch your roof if you're currently stuck in the snow?
And what else is there to build with? These are all vital questions you should ask yourself prior to making a shelter. Most of the time building a shelter will be about improvising, and remembering which shelters are the easiest to make depending on the SHTF situation at hand.
One of the best tools you can carry is knowledge. Knowing your options ahead of time, based on your surroundings is the key to surviving. Check out the slides for some excellent examples of primitive shelters!
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Gabriela Guzman Alejandro H Guzman
Da$#%&!@*
I am not a prepper.
I was however in the Boy Scouts, who’s motto is “Be Prepared”.
Because, I took this too heart, I have saved 10 people’s lives. I was prepared for the situation, and people are alive because, I wasn’t a bystander who was ignorant.
Anyone can learn how to swim, but if you don’t know how when the time comes….you die, and maybe your loved one.
Being prepared doesn’t make you wierd….it shows your responsibility to your family.
Richard Dodd Oh, that…..I’ll shelter in place….Deep well, plenty of game and fish and if we get real hungry, we have to horses.
It’s better if you come up with your own funny comments. Js
Explain that to the folks in the depression, Venezuela, the Da5rk ages…yeah..you have No clue Ian Porter
Explain what to them? What are you talking about, Austin? You are so off point it should be embarrassing, but I don’t think you’d even understand why. Please, go on. Do explain.
Still waiting after all these years for you goobers to bring about thus change, but so far things look to be getting worse. Least you guys feel better about yourselves tho lol
Awesome!
Leaving modern built structures for primitive living is utterly insane. Short of total devastation in which case these shelters won’t mean a damn thing.
Say a mass militia of gunmen are looting and stealing from “modern day structures” and killing mf when shtf..then ull run..and build ur teepee..jeffferrryyyy!!! 🙂
People are gonna say what they want. Free exchange of ideas and discourse.
Justin Johnston, I found a solution to our shelter needs…
Talking about Buying fire insurance for your home is a copout also. Buying it is not paranoia, it is preparing for the worst while hoping for the best.
Nothing wrong with being prepared. Why are y’all so defensive? Get it? See what I did there?
Brenda Berry
This works for me.
Diego Urbano
http://www.shtflibrary.com
Wait… if their is a collapse… will my house fall down
Dude have you never heard seen or read ANYTHING about what’s happened in the US alone? Hurricanes, floods, contaminated water in ohio. The great depression my grandpa lived through.
Your little government isn’t gonna be there all the time to pamper you.
People go months and months with no shelter after$#%&!@*like that happens.
We don’t have tin foil on our heads.
You’re just blind and think we are talking about zombies and an apocalypse.
It’s called reality
My little government, James? How old are you? I’m guessing around 22, maybe less.. thank you for the wake up call, though
Chaos and panic will have the smart ones running as far from the “structures” as possible.
Doug Betts here you go bro
Marvin Honeycutt
Bill Kleinschmidt Into the welcoming arms of the country folk, who’ll be thrilled that people are digging holes and building shelters in their territory? No. The “smart ones” will have figured out a way to survive among the structures.
Well, indeed it would be difficult and dangerous but there are non pharmacological based therapies that may help alleviate the condition you describe. In a SHTF scenario there are going to be casualties no matter what. Infected teeth that go septic, ruptured appendix causing peritonitis, etc etc. Realistically expecting the current life expectancy to stay the same after a total societal collapse is not very sound thinking.
Don Douds I agree
Connor
One word: misery. It loves company.
My daughter just had two ear infections with a fever of 104. I think that without antibiotics it could have killed her.
Tyson Anderson most likely
Matthew Hensman
Brandie McCaskill
Ric Handorf
dang thing froze up on me so I couldn’t get past the first image. Why is dude on the left flying his igloo, steering his backpack?
We’re American’s we live in houses not dugouts.
I’ve done the debris hut and a snow shelter. Both are surprisingly warm.
just got a fucking virus thanks to this post people do not click on this link
To many redirects. Couldnt get passed the first page
Dave Lic
never hurts to be prepared.. even if it’s just the know-how to do it.. you may never need the knowledge, but if you do.. the i-net prolly won’t be there for you to go look it up.. m 2 cents 🙂
Cheri Copeland-Gartside Greyhound
No TV James.
i have built and slept in all of them, most during the boy scouts
Ww1 .. the left stuff up .. ww2 the left again but this time with the help of socialist .. now in 2016 we see Italy Spain Germany Greece France England Australia America and Canada nearly all of Europe under the spelm of socialism and we are heading fir ww3 .. seriously after we win line them up shoot them so it doesn’t happen again
I learned all these as a kid when i was in the scouts
This will not help you when the zombie Apocalypse happens
I will just stay at my house, it is where I live.
I love it when ads keep me from viewing the fucking content
None of them will because all of the nuclear reactors we take care of here in the US are going to make our planet unlivable.