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Preppers Basic Skills

Shelters

List of

requirementsfor shelters

Protection

from the

cold

Wind

protection

Protection

from

insects

Snow

protection

Sun

protection

in excess

protection

from

moisture

IMPORTANT:

Keep your shelter dry, building adrainage channel in the ground around

it.

Ensure that the shelter has enough

ventilation, especially if you want to

light a fire inside to cook with.

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# Where not to build shelters

1

the top of a windswept mountain: there will be coldand wind.

2

a valley or low zone can be wet and therefore prone

to freeze overnight.

3

a plateau that retains the fog: this plateaus are

invariably wet.

4

the slopes leading down to the water: they are

usually ways that animals use to move to areas with

water.

5

under a tree that has nests of bees and wasps or

dead wood. The dead wood po break and fall on

top of each other when the winds are strongest.

6 under an isolated tree: it can attract lightning.

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