With 2012 here and a lot of anxiety over civil unrest and chaos, it's important to think about what you will do to keep your home safe if things go south. The last thing you want is fear and anxiety if people start acting crazy after a catastrophe.
Until things get really bad, most people don't want to turn their home into a crazy looking fortress. However, if looting or riots seem to be imminent, knowing some simple techniques that will make your house look unappealing for the crazies will give you some peace of mind.
While some blogs advise you to trash the front yard outside your house to make it look like your home was already ransacked, that is no guarantee that some stragglers might not want to pick over your house again.
Other believe the old fashioned "Looters will be shot" threat spray painted on the garage is the best idea. While that is more effective, It also has the unfortunate side effect of advertising to everyone that you have guns. While that is a given in most areas of the South, that is not always the case. Sometimes you don't want burglars to know which houses they can stake out and break into for guns when you are not home.
A quick, simple and very robust way to discourage anyone from choosing your home is to use something called a "Prepper's Welcome Mat." This is a large piece of plywood with nails sticking up fastened to the porch outside the front door. This will make it almost impossible for anyone to merely walk up to your door and try to kick it in.
The Prepper's Welcome Mat is much better than a simple door barricade alone, because it doesn't just make it hard or impossible to kick the door in. Better, it makes it almost impossible for anyone to even try.
Using this same technique, you can also protect the windows so that nobody is going to choose your house. They'll be able to see from the sidewalk that it will be much better to just keep moving and pick an easier target.
Will these techniques stop a determined mob? No, almost no passive means of defense will do that. However, by slowing them down, you will give yourself more time to either call a friend for help or employ more active means of defense like firearms.
To learn more urban survival techniques, you can check out an urban survival manual here.
You can also check out this blog that is dedicated to sharing all sorts of urban survival techniques.
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By Mike Kuykendall, Urban Survival Techniques Expert at Survive2day.
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