The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.
If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.
It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.
If you’re truely in a survival situation, where are you going to charge your phone after the first 24 hours of emergency?
Joke’s on you, the online survival manual can tell you how to do that!
Let alone the demonstrable reality that cell towers get massively overloaded when shit goes down. And that is assuming the infrastructure is even still up to be accessed.
No. There is some stuff you keep physical copies of. This is (presumably) one of those things.
Okay but why not both? They didn’t say “exclusively available online”.
I have a solar cell charging station, but I suspect a lot of people don’t.
Had a factory explode just next to my city once. With everyone panicking, all connectivity (including calls and texts) was down in less than one hour. It was a while ago, but our infrastructure is more fragile than we imagine.
A lot of cell towers (at least used to) have only hours of backup. In Houston when hurricane Ike tore through, cellphones were useless due to overloading at first, then various towers started going offline at 24, 36, 48, etc. hours. I think after Ike, at least some were upgraded to 72-96 hours, but I would not expect that to be the case at all in areas that don’t frequently see disasters.
You would download it and read it today and then maybe just refer to it later if you need it? It’s only 20 pages.