Bugging Out - Paperback

by David E. Crossley (Author)

In 2010 and 2012 thousands of buildings throughout the UK were evacuated because of flooding In 2011 residents fled from homes threatened or destroyed by fires set by looters In 2005 a tornado in Birmingham injured 30 and caused 40million of damage including complete destruction of some homes In 2005 a series of explosions at the Buncefield oil storage depot Hertfordshire devastated the terminal and surrounding properties In 1990 winds of up to 100mph killed 97 people and caused 3.37 BILLION of damage across the UK Every year tens of thousands of people are driven from their homes by domestic fires Similar things or worse can happen anywhere in the world. Who says it could never happen to you? Bugging Out, and its companion volume Bugging In, together cover options for the scope of incidents from short-term power cuts and industrial action, through flooding and fire, to pandemic and war. The information is applicable worldwide but these books are different because unlike most of the genre they are written with people in the UK and Europe very much in mind. Reading Bugging Out, and applying the advice given, can make the difference between days or weeks of inconvenience that might be unavoidable but survivable, or a nightmare of personal and financial loss and bureaucratic turmoil, or even the deaths of you and your family. Take control of your fate. Read this book and then take action, to safeguard your family and their future.

Author Biography

Son of a Scottish mother and Yorkshire father, David Eric Crossley was raised in Yorkshire. After a number of unsatisfying jobs, he joined the forces in 1970 and was a soldier for over 20 years. Qualified as an instructor in Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare, Combat Survival, Urban and Counter-revolutionary Warfare, Signals, Advanced First Aid, Light Rescue and Fire fighting, among other things, he served in Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Central and South America and Europe. He has lived through the reality and aftermath of wars and counter-terrorist operations, and as an advisor and rescuer during Aid to the Civil Powers missions after major disasters overseas. After leaving the forces, David settled in Scotland. He worked as Training Manager Scotland for the British Red Cross for 4 years including training overseas service and emergency response volunteers, and now works as an independent survival consultant and writer. David has been writing professionally since the 1980s and has had over 100 magazine articles and short stories published in outdoors, survival, military, business and general interest magazines. He has also published Bugging In - a guide to survival-in-place; Bugging In and Bugging Out - in a single volume; compiled, edited and wrote much of an urban survival reference, published as Streetcraft, for Ludlow Survivors Group; plus There Falls No Shadow - the first novel of a post-apocalyptic series; and is working on the second in the series, Slow the Shadow Creeps.