Surviving Disasters in a Global Technology Age

How would you react if a disaster happened today? Do you know how technology can help you get potentially life saving information in everyday disasters, as well as world-changing ones? Do you know what technologies would survive a widespread disaster and how to use them? Could you use social media and the internet to help you survive? Could you be a digital volunteer and help others in a disaster?

Answers to all these questions and more are in this unique book. Included are chapters on disaster psychology, preparing for disasters, infrastructure independent technologies, situational awareness with internet tools, and being a digital volunteer. Along with the resources on the companion survivingdisasters.net website, you will be able to create a rational plan based on a personal hazard analysis and tabletop exercises, will know what equipment , like shortwave radio and scanners, will give you situational awareness in a complete infrastructure failure, and where to go for information when the internet is still in place. You’ll understand how to use social media and internet tools to monitor disasters as they happen, and even how to help others through digital volunteer communities.