Prepper's Instruction Manual: 50 Steps to Prepare for any Disaster

by Arthur T. Bradley

★★★ This manual provides 50 of the most useful preparedness steps! ★★★
★★★ Try Bradley's "Survivalist Series" and apocalyptic western, "The Watchman." ★★★
If your community was hit with a major disaster, such as an earthquake, flood, hurricane, or radiological release, how would you handle it? Would you be forced to fall into line with hundreds of thousands of others who are so woefully unprepared? Or do you possess the knowledge and supplies to adapt and survive? Do you have a carefully stocked pantry, a method to retrieve and purify water, a source for generating electricity, and the means to protect your family from desperate criminals? In short, are you a prepper?
This book contains fifty of the most important steps that individuals and families can take to prepare for a wide range of disasters. Each step is complete, clearly described, and actionable. Together, they cover every aspect of disaster preparedness, including assessing the threats, making a plan, storing food, shoring up your home, administering first aid, creating a safe room, gathering important papers, learning to shoot, generating electricity, keeping warm, and much more.
Recent events have reminded us that our world is a dangerous place, whether it is a deadly tsunami, a nuclear meltdown, or a stock market collapse. Our lifestyle and even our very existence is forever uncertain. Join the quickly growing community of individuals and families determined to stand ready. Become a prepper!

Genres: Survival

270 pages, Paperback

First published July 2, 2012

About the author

Events have made me who I am, neither a hardcore survivalist nor an all-trusting soul. I am a Boy Scout in the truest sense of the word—­dedicated to family, country, and good citizenship. As you may already know, an enabling element of those ideals is being prepared.

It took the horrific events of 9/11 to wake me from my routine complacency. In one single moment, I came to realize that our world is not as safe as we would all like to believe. We have no guarantee of safety in this world. Disasters occur on an almost daily basis all around the globe. Major events in recent years have included the devastating tsunamis striking Japan and the coast of Sumatra, the rash of tornadoes that swept across the U.S. in 2011, Hurricane Katrina, the deadly earthquake in Haiti, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to name just a few.

I believe with all my heart that we have a duty to prepare our families for the dangers they face. I started my preparation by reading nearly every disaster preparedness book currently available. If you check Amazon, you will see that I am the #1 reviewer for many of these books. Even with all the material out there, I could not find a single book that offered a complete, well-reasoned approach to practical preparedness. As a NASA engineer, I took up the challenge by conducting very careful research – disecting fact from folklore. Three years and many thousands of dollars later, I have finally released a handbook that offers well-researched advice that can be put into practice in the real world by normal families.

I wrote this handbook for my own family, but I would be honored to share it with yours. If you are not fully satisfied with the Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family, send it back, and I’ll refund your money, no questions asked.

Arthur T. Bradley, Ph.D.

Reviews

[Nicholas Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Working in the field of disaster mitigation for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management I have read dozens of disaster preparedness guides, taken countless FEMA disaster tests and become a prepper myself. I know better than most how important it is to be prepared for disasters at all different levels; from your household to the local and federal level. When I am preparing my disaster plan it is imperative I get the information from someone I trust. That person has become Mr. Arthur Bradley—the leading voice in a field flush with negative stereotypes about doomsday preppers due to reality tv and tragic national news.
Mr. Bradley adds an intelligent and compassionate voice to disaster preparedness your family can trust. His new prepper instructional manual will teach you how to prepare for various disasters in 50 steps. He will teach you about the 14 human needs and how you can ensure they are met during a disaster. In addition, you will learn how to prepare both inside your home and outside of it for various disasters.
Many people go about their daily lives unsuspecting and naïve of how at risk our species is to disasters. Do you know what an EMP attack is? How about the frailty of our national infrastructure that feeds your house electricity. What about the importance of basic needs like starting a fire, sheltering in place or being able to barter for goods?
If you answered no to any of these questions then the prepper instructional manual is something you should invest in. This tiny investment will teach you how to harden your house, collect rain water, start a fire with basic resources, defend your family and so much more.
Mr. Bradley should be a household name, for the information he provides could end up saving you and your family the next time disaster strikes.
I will be reading his Emp Attacks and Solar Storms book next and will continue to trust him for my disaster preparedness needs.

[chucklesthescot · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not a book written by the steriotyped prepper portrayed as a right wing nutter who wants a zombie apocalypse so he can use his doomsday shelter. This book is about how to look after your family in probable disaster scenarios to give yourself the best chance of survival until the crisis has passed and to escape a pending disaster situation.

The book covers things like house fires, earthquake, tornado, car breakdowns in isolated areas as well as advice on financial affairs, obtaining medical training, operating HAM radio and first aid kits. It really is an in depth home survival manual which I learned a lot from. There is something it it for everyone from normal homeowner to dedicated prepper. Excellent read.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Refresher for DP TYpes

This is a great overview that had me going back and checking my Bugout Bag. The links to the worksheets are gone, so you’ll need to make your own checklists and spreadsheets.

[Gisela Hausmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are books we want to read for their entertainment value and books we think we should read because they are important (e.g. for our safety). I thought that Dr. Arthur Bradley's "Prepper's Instruction Manual" belonged into the latter category.

When I first peeked into this ebook I kind of meant to confirm to myself that I pretty much knew "everything" anyway. After all, I have lived in a potential hurricane strike zone for 25 years and also taken a First Aid course with two refreshers. I would just briefly peek into the book and read it ... later...
The more surprised I was to find out that a) I did not know "everything" which indeed concerns my personal safety and b) "Prepper's Instruction Manual" is a lively and appealing, almost riveting, book. The peeking turned into reading, and the reading turned into "could not put this book down". I read the entire ebook from A-Z in one session only getting up to get fresh coffee. And, even while I did that, I was focusing on the subject and thinking, "I need to get a camping cooker before the hurricane season starts, so I can be sure to always have coffee, in case power fails." (Pretty obviously, I love coffee.)

"Prepper's Instruction Manual" is cleverly written an engaging. Instead of throwing information at the reader this ebook presents 50 scenarios, which give the reader the opportunity to evaluate which of these apply to his/her life. e.g. I don't have an oil refinery in close proximity of my home town, so I could have skipped the chapter ( I read it anyway, it was much too interesting to be skipped). I liked how the book made me think about my life's situations in a new way.
The truly modern approach of this extremely helpful ebook becomes clear by the time one reaches the chapter "buy some Gold". It reminded me of what my grandparents had told me about living through the Great Depression. With the world having been close to financial collapse in 2008, this book proves to be a true modern guidebook for these times.

Most surprising about this ebook is its light and attractive tone. Even though the book speaks of difficult situations, its tone is appealing. I appreciated that for myself as well as all readers. When things sound too dreadful we have a tendency of tuning out and blocking the thought of such. The book's author, Dr. Arthur Bradley, is gifted in hitting the right notes.

Next week I will be putting a "Grab-and-Go" bag together, which is another bit of valuable information, I never thought about in the clarity presented.

This is a must-read book for everybody but Superman and Wonder Woman.

Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book. It had manageable chapters. Acting on the need or making the preparations in any chapter will make you better off than you would have been otherwise. Makes it easy to bite off a bit at a time to be better prepared when a disaster or emergency strikes.

[Patrick Trent · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a lot of food for thought for emergency preparedness. It gave different scenarios to consider and what to do from a preparation standpoint.

[Doug Niehus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok