Survive In Place
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This came to me from my bio-weapons expert who studied under Ken Alibek. It is a basic procedure for how to go into and out of your safe room in the event of a bio event.
I’ve considered the possibility that I may have to get OUT of that safe room to perhaps retrieve medicine, shut off utilities, or heaven-forbid, draw someone away from my family.
My method consists of the following. After building the safe room, sealing it, and getting everyone inside, I divide the remaing space into a larger living zone, and a smaller ‘warm’ zone. The warm zone should be easy to seal to facilitate access.
Everything outside the room is a ‘hot zone’. To be more specific, think of an airlock in a spaceship. You want to do a space walk and need to get out. The inside of the ship is the cold zone which leads to a sealed door which opens onto the warm zone.
Once inside, the cold door is re-sealed behind you and at that point you open the door to the outside . In this chamber, you have your Tyvek suit, HANGING UP, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment, your gas mask, a bottle of bleach solution in a spray bottle, roll of duct tape, box of latex (or nitrile) gloves, and an extra gallon of bleach and water to mix it.
Going out, all you have to do is put on the suit, gas mask, and latex gloves, duct tape your wrists and ankles, and place the duct tape roll on one wrist. The reason you do this is so that if you tear your suit while in the hot zone, you can instantly re-seal it.
Coming back in, this procedure must be followed exactly: Both latex gloves come off and you don’t touch anything except the bleach bottle. If you didn’t use latex gloves, you’ll contaminate your bottle. You take the spray bottle and start at the top of your suit on the hood. This works easier if two people go out, so that you can get hard to reach spots, but in a pinch it can be done alone. Working down, you saturate and make sure that no part of your suit is dry, remembering the bottoms or your feet. Once, done, you unzip the suit, let it fall to your ankles, step out, and hang it up with the back towards you, and without touching the back because this part is still ‘hot’. Now you can spray the back. You are almost done.
Retake the spray bottle and mist over the walls and floor and then, making sure the door to the hot zone is closed and sprayed, you open your inner door, enter, and then re-seal it. No door shoud ever be open without the one preceding it being shut and sealed.
This antechamber is also important in that you can use it to decon other occupants if they’ve been exposed, and also decon people who come in from the outside after you’re already in there. It must be insisted upon that those entering remove all clothing and be sprayed with bleach and then rinsed off. Modesty is trivial in this situation and a pair of scrubs will fit just about anyone. These need to be kept in the cold zone so people will just have to turn away while they dress. As for the bleach bath, it need not irritate the skin, because a 10 to 1 water to bleach ratio is extremely effective.
Note from David:
The same concept of “hot”, “warm”, and “cold” areas can be used for a chlorine gas incident or other non-weaponized chemical incidents, except you do not need to use bleach. Depending on the chemical agent, it may or may not make sense to do this. If you have specific chemical threats in your area, you will want to find out the concentrations that are lethal, what kind of mask you need to filter the chemical out, and what you need to have on hand in your “warm” area to neutralize it.
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Thanks,
David Morris
It’s Scary
I’ve wondered about this subject. Your information co-insides with other information I’ve gathered.
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[Looking forward to joining your program just as soon as "Obama sends me my check"
Seriously, sounds like great info looking forward to joining as soon as financially possible.
Thanks
Gentlemen,
I’m happy to say I’ve been way ahead of the curve in realizing our beloved country was being taken over by SOCIALISTS. Their ultimate goal is the ONE WORLD ORDER (say GOVERNMENT). When I had my home built in 1999, I had a seperate off-set room dedicated as a SAFE ROOM and placed a safe door on it that can be closed from inside & disabled that it cannot be opened from outside. We’re stockpiled with everything we need to survive, and I mean EVERYTHING. Know this: I will defend myself, my family, and my property to my death! Several shot guns & my favorite FN FAL L1A1 will do my talking to tresspassers. I’ve been telling my friends & relatives for over two years now to BUY AMMO…..LOTS OF IT. Purchase (if you don’t already have one) a semi-auto pistol, semi-auto rifle, and a pump or semi shotgun. Woe to those that are unable to defend themselves from “whoever”.
IN GOD WE STILL TRUST!
Love this info., However, as Stan said “it’s scary” having to think like this…. What’s worse is… for the last 6 or 7 years, I\We’ve turned a blind eye to a “Chemical plant” less then 3 miles down the friggin’ road!!!
Anyhow… I am WAY Late to the idea of getting set-up with stock piling “Ammo” and guns, as Ammo is already So Hard to find it Sucks! Okay So this is No biggie right…. My next plan of action was: My Brother and I bought a Reloader, Sweet! (^_^)…. OH guess what…. NO one has any friggin’ “Primers” now, WTF man!!!?
I’d really like to know WTH is going on, that WE have these problems getting Ammo and or even Primers?
Thanks for this info., and here’s to TRYING… (^_-)
GOD Bless America
Peace Jeff
PS.. Thanks David
thanks for all of the info!
haven”t found any that i could not use yet.
in todays world anything that will help to survive what i am afraid is comming is well worth getting.
larry
thanks again.
Good stuff. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. J.
I say one thing to thr people who brag about not having any firearms in their house. “You are responsible for the safety of yourself and the people around you.”
I liked this, brought back the NBC training from the Marine Corp.
I like the info and I like the idea of safe rooms.
Would love to hear more about how to make one for one of the bedrooms of a home.
Mike
As Mike just said, I like the idea of a safe room….I have a large, windowless bathroom with a walk in closet that might be ideal. It does, however have a large, very high skylight. Any problem there?
[If you can't reach the skylight, I'd pick another room -David]
Thanks for the info. Jeff, keep looking, the primers are out there you just have to search. Suggest Cabelas and GunBroker. Don’t forget lead and brass. Keep up the good work informing the public. To all, remember, God is in control and if you don’t know Jesus not much else matters.
every e-mail has been one eye opener after another.I have no safe room yet but I’m working on it . taught my wife how to shoot semi-auto pistol and my son god knows can shoot the bead of of dew off an apple at 200 yards (god bless him). It took some time for my wife to see what i mean about being ready for anything now she sees the light . i pray we will be ready for the future what ever it holds . GOD HELP US ALL .thank you for the info i will join when my family has the funds to do so . kevin
Thanks for the great info. I’ll be joining when the bird squats again.
Thank you so very much for the info. You have me already looking around for a safe room.
Good info. Ammo supply is starting to catch up in Des Moines. 50 rounds of Blazer .40 has dropped to $14.99 a box at Scheels / Jordan Creek Mall. I picked up 200 rounds of .30-06 – thats about all i can afford at one time, but i do it just about each time I get paid. You don’t have to get everything all at once. Every step you take puts you that much further than the rest.
Greetings David,
My membership is knew since this morning, and I can agree with the others that this is the survival information we need. If I could add, duck tape has a shelf life, especially if stored hot. Double check a couple of times a year making sure it still sticks, Blessings to survival families, in the end ‘God’ Yahweh is your best resource. David W.
Overall a very good tip, especially for those that live close to a target area.
Luckily we live in a rural area and the nearest RR lines are 10 miles away (usually downwind)! However, we get heavy truck traffic to the north until the new bridge is completed at Hoover Dam. Because of the steep grades on the highways, we average 1-2 truck accidents a month that results in the closure of our main bridge. Hopefully, any gases will dissapate.
We did get a jump on food, arms, ammo and first-aid supplies.
Our main concern is having to evac. if an attack is made on Hoover Dam. We live above any flooding if Davis Dam fails (but it would take out Bullhead, Laughlin Casinos, and S. to Needles), but a Hoover Dam failure would send a wall of water that would take out everything in its path all the way to the Gulf of California!!!
Thanks for the info. Got the first lesson and wish I didn’t have to wait a week for the second. I’m a single female on my own here and feel a need to get more done. Stocking up on food and some supplies but want to make sure it’s right. Really looking forward to the lesson on what to have. I have a 38 but nothing else. I’m small (5 ft and not real strong) so maybe a 410? Any suggestions for us that may have to go this alone would be appreciated. Especially for us girls. Thinking of a judo class or something.
Thanks.
Extremely reliable information, and will join as soon as i am able to. Can’t wail. Take care and stay safe.
How do you get 1000 cu ft of air per person per minute flowing thru this safe room so you don’t overheat or suffocate?
[David’s reply: Hi Esther,
I cover this in much more detail the course, but here are the basics:
-1000 cu feet/person/minute is a LOT of air. That’s the entire output of a small central air conditioning system.
-The average person breaths in about 11,000 liters of air per day (388 cubic feet).
-Average air contains 20% oxygen. We use 25% of that (taking it to 15%) with each breath.
-The rate at which you go through oxygen will depend on your level of fitness, calmness of mind, number of people, weight of the people, number of animals, temperature, altitude, injuries, medical conditions, and several other factors.
-When you go into “survive in place” mode in an encapsulated air-tight safe-room, you’re doing so to respond to a passing threat. Using historical accidents/attacks as a guide, simply being able to survive for 2 hours will protect you from 95+ percent of the incidents that happen.
-If you are VERY concerned about having to last longer than that, you can either create a larger safe room or purchase one or more tanks of O2.
-In the course, I recommend having both hot and cold packs available in your safe room to help you handle a wide range of temperatures.
David
Being prior military I can give a passing grade on this info and add one more Caution, always think through your procedures before you act on them
and have them written down in your decon area as a check list. Critical Thinking is always your first weapon of choice.
emalee try stick fighting and akido combine what you learn for it to be more efective. Watch the congress they are trying to pass HR45. We as a people need to remember what our firest president said in his inagreal adress to the new nation.
I’m in the same boat as Emalee. Short and not strong. I’ll be joining soon. Thanks for the info.
I don’t know when I’ll be able to save up enough “allowance ” for a membership. I am semiretired, which means that they closed my plant and I had enough years for a partial pension. Thank you for your information. My intention is to subscribe, just don’t know when I can make it happen. Thank you and God bless you, Dave
wonderful stuff sir,
I am rural instead of urban, but I’m actually more concerned about becoming a target from frantic unpreparred people after the fact. I’m enrolled in the course and in hopes it will give me more ideas. I pray I never have to take a life to defend my family, and I pray none of us ever have to use any of this stuff. However to be clueless is just asking for disaster. Good stuff in here, keep up the good work and GOD help us all if things dont settle down!
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the info about air in the safe room, I always wondered about that. I plan to get the course as soom as I have some etrra cash. Until then, keep the tips coming and thank you very much!
Butch
air filtration: 1. plumb 3 large water filtration devices in sequence 20micron 2 micron and carbon 12v fan and you can have a positive system pressure on your car. be sure to take the dashboard apart and seal the vents with expanding foam.
2.a vacume cleaner with a dirty bag was well studied for creating positive pressure in housing near nuke plants, and was found to be effective. central vacume is easily modified by reversing the plumbing at the canister.
3. bio- put sick individuals in the bathrooms. turn fan on. Decon as dave described. bedroom is ante chamber to bathroom and is warm zone.
Thanks for the info. I hope to join soon.
This is excellent information. I have been reading the excerpts of your lessons and will be signing up soon. I am not usually fond of electronic books and/or info, because I prefer to read the actual pages in my hands. But, your material seems honest and straight to the point. Thanks
12gauge shotgum ammo is readilly available at most sporting goods stores. In my opinion a shotgun is the ideal weapon for home defense. They are cheap, available, versital, and least likely to be targeted by additional gun control legislation. I live in a suburb and I don’t think I will need to defend myself from threats beyond the range of a shotgun. I have an affordable pump action for each member of my household. They are all the same model. Parts and ammo are interchangeable.
I just happened upon your site and it resounds with what I have been thinking for the past few years. However, I am a 60 grandma with a 60 year old grandpa that likes to stick his head in the ground when it comes to things like this. He actually believed that Obama was going to make positive changes and now is so disheartened he hardly watches the news.
I plan on taking Dave’s course and hopefully get my husband to take it also but he just feels that there is nothing that can be done to help us. On a fixed income so money is tight, especially paying our own health insurance and meds. What is really maddening is that my husband was in the military but the VA says he makes too much (under $55,0000.00) for them to help (some little known law Cogress passed in 2004).
I am encouraging my daugher, son-in-law and their four boys to beging gun lessons and to take Dave’s course. If I can protect my kids that is what matters.
Love it…thanks so much for taking the time…I hope we never need it, but thankfully we now know what to do. God Bless
Thanks for the tip to remind me. I have a lot to prepair…My mind is geared for this it the preperation that I’m lacking…Thanks
Make sure your duct tape is NASHUA brand; 300 or 398. Look on the inside of the roll.
God helps those who help themselves.
My daughter keeps saying, ‘we need to get guns’, she’s not kidding, and I wish I could afford to buy what she wants. Most people look at me like I’m crazy, but, just like a pregnant woman who goes into ‘nesting mode’ right before giving birth, I’ve felt a strong sense of ’storing up’…unfortunately, I was a ‘day late and a dollar short’, when I literally missed pulling my money out of my mutual fund just days before it all bottomed out. But even bits of info like this reenforce what I’ve been feeling. I think I know what my daughter will be getting for her 22nd birthday in March. She just wants to go hunting, right? Can someone send me info on ways of preserving my own food and things now, until I can afford to buy the more expensive prepackaged stuff? I was going to get a food dehydrator and one of those vac things to protect food…plus I want to buy bottled water, but all of it seems to just have a 1-2 year exp. date on them, which means you have to be very careful about rotating. I’m recovering from a major cervical spine surgery, so I have to wait till I’m able to drive myself to the store and start a concerted effort to start my storage and planning. thanks all.
Suzi
Better to be prepaired than get hit blind sided,now aday we don’t know from where or when.And we know it’s a state of mind,But i can feel it in my bones,We must try to live in harmony,an you need to watch your back,It’s
kind of like a fair warning,An keep the Faith. Thank you for the tips,
Great idea- it sounds so logical, but having it in place BEFORE a problem is the key!
well i dont live in the city but want to be pepared for annything that could happen i was in the navy and have some training but my bigest concen living whare i live less then a 1/2 hr drive is oke rige tn and that thay sill store bio wepons and nuke mitaral there that is in the process of being turmated but i know there more then what is relese to the public thank for the tips and keep them coming as soon as i get back working i will take the corse god bless all
good info. I worked in the nuke business for 20 yrs. let me add a few things if I may. most ‘Trybec suits are disposable and don’t have a hood.
you can buy them in bulk, if you know you’ve been contaminated, take the suit off inside out and dispose in airtight bag (this should be the same procedure with head cover and gloves) use a plastic grocery bag for hair and to cover shoes. NEVER shake hair or clothes in a ‘warm’ area. add a cheep peep hole to both inner and outer doors for monitoring! you can use masking tape to seal your legs and hands(it’s alot cheaper) and doesn’t unstick when wet like duct tape. also have a razor knife or good scissors in case someone has to be ‘cut out’. A good lesson in a contaminated enviroment is to pretend your walkin thru a room full of ‘poop’. pretend everything is covered and you don’t want it on you!, stay away from puddles! and last, don’t store extra water in milk jugs, they are biodegradable and will decintergrate in a few months. Soda bottles last and last.
Good stuff Dave. It’s a scary world today. I don’t even want to think about this stuff. I’m a former Firefighter/EMT, and I got lots of anti-terrorism training right after Sept.11th. You can’t bury your head in the sand, and hope it all goes away.
It’s very good and i started doing it to make sure I am ready.
It sounds real good Dave, thanks for all that you are doing to get the public ready for the unknown.
Great information. Thank you. Jim