| | |  | Career Management Books | Home » » When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes | | | | | | | Description: | | Survival expert Cody Lundin's new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psychology and the skills necessary to negotiate a disaster whether you are at home, in the office, or in your car. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781423601050
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Cody Lundin | | Paperback:
| 450 pages | | Publisher:
| Gibbs Smith | | Publication Date:
| September 20, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 142360105X | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 118 reviews |
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 Great overview of general urban survival strategySep 03, 2010
I read this book a year ago and it forever changed the way I pictured surviving in an urban meltdown/apocalypse/etc. If you don't get Cody's sense of humor & style, the book may read a bit funny to you. It gave me many new ideas on how to handle many unpleasant situations. I wish he would go into more detail about his natural home design, but that would be another book.
Information you won't find in other survival booksAug 30, 2010
I've backpacked and camped for years, have read several survival books, and watched all the survival shows. Yet, I've learned from this book. It offers a unique perspective. Some of what the negative reviews call psychobabble, I found to be informative and thought provoking--although I won't adopt Cody's lifestyle.
It's a good first book for urban disaster preparation but is also a good supplement to a larger library. It's not as useful for wilderness survival although there is info on pasteurizing water at 149°F and/or using UV from the sun while debunking the need to boil drinking water for 20 minutes.
sweetAug 27, 2010
Got this book for my brother and he says he loves it. Shipping from the seller was great!
A Good Intro BookAug 24, 2010
I found this book to be enjoyable but uneven in ways that are likely to leave you either liking it or despising it.
Part of the problem is the audience for such books. On the one hand you have moms like me who just picked it up on a whim when we saw it at the library, and and on the other you've got your professional-styled survivalists who already have a library of books on this complex subject.
It's the last group that are least likely to enjoy WAHBL. Partly because Cody includes some very basic information which is going to bore them to tears, and partly because his approach to the material is whimsical most of the time. (I won't mention that he sometimes makes fun of the fringe element who have been waiting since the 1970s for the imminent demise of the North American infrastructure. Not likely to make him friends in that camp.)
As for people who aren't knowledgeable about disaster preparedness there's quite a bit of interesting material about things you know a little about already, and things you might not have thought about. Sanitizing water for one, keeping meal time sanitized with little water is another, with how to take care of a body should you run across one thrown in for good measure-- really the list is quite extensive. And disasters aside, it's just plain interesting at times to hear how this fellow lives in the American southwest, where he basically has cut himself off the grid, saving water in barrels, and using the strong UV to sanitize his dishes.
"When All Hell Breaks Loose" covers two aspects of survival; psychological preparedness and physical preparedness. Again there are going to be those who eschew the first because they don't like anything touchy-feelie like how Uncle Fred might loose it. But for everyone of them, there's going to be someone else who is going to have an 'ah-ha' moment.
For myself, I have to say that it took awhile for me to get into sync with the book. I really didn't like the quirky artwork. It didn't enrich my experience by helping me to understand the concepts better nor did it make me smile.
For the most part I thought the information was fairly well explained, although from chapter to chapter the depth to which topics were covered was uneven. Some where barely touched upon, while in others there was a great deal of detail. There were points when I skimmed information I have known since I was a young adult. And then there were other points where I really wished that the author had gone into more detail. I think, for example, that I could build a distiller. But there's no way I could make a solar oven based on either the diagram or the description. (It would be cool to build one with my kids.)
But, as the author points out, it must be remembered that disasters come in all flavors and there are many many points of departure so that it is almost impossible to cover all subjects to the depth where city dwellers, suburbanites, townies and farmers would be given exactly the right advice for them. So maybe my expectations are too high.
THE SKINNY:::
"When All Hell Breaks Loose" is a survival book that's interesting but which struggles to find its voice. At points it's approach is too simple, while at others it's not detailed enough. This book really serves the broad segment of the populace who isn't well read on the topic of surviving for an extended period of time without electricity and water.
I thought WAHBL had a nice introduction to the psychological aspects of surviving a disaster. Non-touchie-feelie types might not appreciate these chapters, but history has shown that the right mind-set separates the living from the dead in dangerous situations.
I also personally liked that Cody pointed out that you cannot survive well on your own. That the central unit of survival is a family or small community unit like a neighborhood. Your 'tribe', as it were.
People living in hurricane and flood prone areas -- really any areas where you could loose electricity and water -- could benefit from a quick perusal of this book. Just ignore the parts that annoy you.
Pam T~
mom and blogger
 Lot To Offer but...Aug 20, 2010
This book offers a lot and covers some areas that other books rarely touch, such as waste storage. The book overall is ok but the authors personal views of the world are tedious kind of quasi escaped from Woodstock with some patriotism and environmentalism thrown in and Buddhism or something similar.
Still overall a solid addition to any survival collection, I ended up skipping the pages where he starts laying his thoughs on rather thick.
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