Disaster: Recovery : Your Personal Guide to Surviving the First Few Weeks

Rivers, Collyn

ISBN 10: 1925403815 / ISBN 13: 9781925403817

Published by Woodslane Pty, Ltd., 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disaster: Recovery : Your Personal Guide to Surviving the First Few Weeks
• Publisher: Woodslane Pty, Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925403815
• ISBN 13: 9781925403817
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Disaster: Recovery is a down-to-earth book that explains how you and your family can cope during and particularly after disasters such as floods, bushfires and typhoons that can and do happen (not just may happen) around the world at any time. It is one thing to survive the initial impact of a disaster. It's quite another to survive the subsequent fallout. Water and electricity may fail, phones may stop working, roads may be impassable, food and fuel stores often run out of supplies. Medical help may be unobtainable as emergency services must scale priorities. This globally applicable book explains the whys and hows of surviving those vital first few weeks following a major disaster, and includes advice on the basics of being prepared. This is a book virtually every Australian home should have on the shelf.

About the Author

As a ten year old child and then young teenager, Collyn's circumstances were such that he had no choice but to cope alone in London throughout World War Two. He joined the Royal Air Force when 17, and trained as a ground radar engineer, later becoming a research engineer. From 1959-1960, Collyn drove a 4WD truck (twice) the length and breadth of Africa, then migrated to Australia. There, he became a publisher and founded Electronics Today International and later, in 2000, moved with his Finnish-born psychologist wife (Maarit) to remote north-west Australia. With only bore water to hand, they built a cyclone-proof solar-powered home that was virtually self-sufficient. Whilst there, they coped with the worst cyclone to hit the area in 100 years. In 2010, they moved to a (now all-solar) house in Church Point, Sydney.