How To Increase Your Odds Of Surviving a Disaster

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The people who walk away from catastrophes all have a few things in common. Now you can follow their lead.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Preparedness
Speed
Drills
Neighborliness

Step 1: Have drills

Hold drills with your family for fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters until the repetition locks the life-saving behavior into their brain. People react best in an emergency if they're trained to go on automatic pilot.

Tip: When flying, always listen to the flight attendant's instructions and read the safety card in your seat pocket, no matter how many times you've heard it all before.

Step 2: Be safe, not sorry

Don't waste time debating whether the building is really on fire or not. Get out at the first sign of danger, and ask questions later.

Tip: If you see people frozen with fear, yell at them. This is what flight attendants are trained to do to get shocked passengers to leave a burning plane.

Step 3: Hurry up!

For heaven's sake, hurry up! Amazingly, people are inclined to dawdle during an emergency, rather than acting as quickly as possible.

Step 4: Leave everything behind

Leave everything behind. The few seconds you took to grab your iPhone could be the few seconds that cost you your life.

Step 5: Befriend your neighbors

Get to know your neighbors. That's who will be next to you when a catastrophe strikes.

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[GamerMaster2041]

Forgot to say :What about zombie attack?

[yihanglee]

nothing you can do about a tsunami though :D

[CNNSucks1]

Run like hell. :3

[RobloFlight]

step one : be lucky , reasearch from myself is that almost half of my body could be broken without being lucky.(trust me i almost died in 2 almost car crashes)

step two : be Alert and fast,dont panic this will just stop you and cost time

DYK:im just nine?!

[sutdip]

metoer

[ergentonio]

THERE WAS NEVER A NATURAL DISASTER I KUWAIT!

[blahblahlikespie]

@nunoyobiznis I was only horsing around. As much as I can despise them, I would never leave them behind.

[nunoyobiznis]

@sophiatoontown u won't agree with that statement anymore when ur house is on fire :D

[nunoyobiznis]

@blahblahlikespie as much as i don't exactly like my siblings, i would still be sad if they got hurt :'(

[TheLEGORobloxian]

@yihanglee Divin suit!

[newchihuahua]

@yihanglee Yes you can. EVACUATE!

[spralea]

BUT I JUST MOVED IN MY HOUSE!! THERE IS A FIRE BEFORE I KNEW MY NEIGHBOORS :(