Could you survive if power, water and food stores were lost?
TOM BROWN JR. EXPLAINS "TRACKER SCHOOL" (8/22/12): Survivalist, Author, Tracker, Tom Brown Jr. explains his "Tracker School" in the Pinelands of Ocean County. STAFF VIDEO BY TOM SPADER
Survivalist Tom Brown Jr. (right) and Waretown Tracker School instructor Carmen Carradino display some of the tools used in survival in the wilderness. / Tom Spader/Staff Photographer
Tom Brown Jr.’s survival tips
• Cook stew. Stay away from open-fire spit cooking. “You cook anything on a spit, you can kiss half of the nutrients gone. … It’s dribbled off,” Brown said. Stew puts the nutrients on your plate.
• Live in a diverse ecosystem. The nutritional needs of a human are diminished in the Pine Barrens of Waretown. There, about a square mile of land is needed to support a person, but as little as a quarter square mile of land can support a human in more ecologically diverse forests.
• Use layers for warmth. A four-foot-thick debris hut can keep a person warm in temperatures as cold as 20 degrees below zero. In a suburban environment, a similar effect can be achieved by using multiplemattresses to make a shelter. The internal trapped air acts as an insulator. “You don’t even need a fire,” Brown said.
• Cook stew. Stay away from open-fire spit cooking. “You cook anything on a spit, you can kiss half of the nutrients gone. … It’s dribbled off,” Brown said. Stew puts the nutrients on your plate.
• Live in a diverse ecosystem. The nutritional needs of a human are diminished in the Pine Barrens of Waretown. There, about a square mile of land is needed to support a person, but as little as a quarter square mile of land can support a human in more ecologically diverse forests.
• Use layers for warmth. A four-foot-thick debris hut can keep a person warm in temperatures as cold as 20 degrees below zero. In a suburban environment, a similar effect can be achieved by using multiple
Imagine the world you know ends tomorrow. Imagine electrical grids failing, supermarkets closing and the safety nets of modern civilization crumbling, leaving millions of Americans without food and drinkable water.
Though the idea seems extreme to most people, some are preparing for such a scenario. So called “preppers” or “survivalists” are amassing food, shelters and knowledge to withstand a world different from the one that exists today.
Even small-scale disasters can prove stressful if not disastrous, as tens of thousands of Monmouth County residents learned in July when a water pipe line collapsed, disrupting drinking water from the tap.
That’s a scenario Jason Borrelli, a 2005 Point Pleasant Beach High School graduate, is prepared to face.
Borrelli and his fiancée have amassed a collection of water bottles so vast, the storage space under his queen-size bed is stuffed with the containers.
“I’ve stockpiled water like it’s nobody’s business,” said Borrelli, 26.
The space under another queen-size bed in the couple’sFlorida home is completely filled with toiletries that they plan to barter for food and supplies, if needed. In addition, several closets in the couple’s home store nonperishable food.
Though he fears a disease pandemic, economic collapse is most likely to cause the kind of catastrophic disaster he is preparing for, he said.
Such a collapse “is going to happen sooner or later,” Borrelli believes.
A prepper is an “all-encompassing term that defines someone whether they prepare for a disaster or whether they’re interested in sustainable living,” said Tom Martin, founder of the American Preppers Network.
The network started as a social media website in 2009 with about 100 hits a day and has since grown about a million individual visitors a month, Martin said. Visitors there discuss concerns about recent events in the news, such as fires in the western United States, rising food prices, access to oil and economic instability, he said.
“Your typical prepper out there isn’t prepping for the 2012 Mayan doomsday. I think that’s kind of silly,” Martin said.
Though the idea seems extreme to most people, some are preparing for such a scenario. So called “preppers” or “survivalists” are amassing food, shelters and knowledge to withstand a world different from the one that exists today.
Even small-scale disasters can prove stressful if not disastrous, as tens of thousands of Monmouth County residents learned in July when a water pipe line collapsed, disrupting drinking water from the tap.
That’s a scenario Jason Borrelli, a 2005 Point Pleasant Beach High School graduate, is prepared to face.
Borrelli and his fiancée have amassed a collection of water bottles so vast, the storage space under his queen-size bed is stuffed with the containers.
“I’ve stockpiled water like it’s nobody’s business,” said Borrelli, 26.
The space under another queen-size bed in the couple’s
Though he fears a disease pandemic, economic collapse is most likely to cause the kind of catastrophic disaster he is preparing for, he said.
Such a collapse “is going to happen sooner or later,” Borrelli believes.
A prepper is an “all-encompassing term that defines someone whether they prepare for a disaster or whether they’re interested in sustainable living,” said Tom Martin, founder of the American Preppers Network.
The network started as a social media website in 2009 with about 100 hits a day and has since grown about a million individual visitors a month, Martin said. Visitors there discuss concerns about recent events in the news, such as fires in the western United States, rising food prices, access to oil and economic instability, he said.
“Your typical prepper out there isn’t prepping for the 2012 Mayan doomsday. I think that’s kind of silly,” Martin said.
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