Episode-05- TSP Rewind – Risk Assessments and Readiness Audits

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1127- Risk Assessments and Readiness Audits and was published on May 9th 2013th. The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Time to take a real hard look at where you are, where you are going and whether or not progress is being made in your quest to be more self reliant and more self sufficient. Today we begin with a review of my concepts of the inverse relationship between impact scale and disaster probability. We then go into a look at assessing your most likely personal risk factors and your individual risk tolerance.

From there we examine quite a few potential disasters and how they might effect you, how you would respond to them, where your are really shored up and where you are weak. We discuss what can be done to plug the holes in your preparedness and how to prioritize what areas you address first.

Join Me Today As We Discuss…

What is disaster probability
What is disaster impact scale
Why do impact and probability have inverse relationships
What does that even matter
Why focusing on the mega disasters gets you hurt by the “little” ones

Considering your 6 primary needs for survival
- Food
- Water
- Shelter
- Energy
- Security
- Health and Sanitation

Questions to Ask
- How would we and how long could we feed ourselves
- How would this effect our shelter (house)
- What would we do for clean and safe water
- What health risks would this cause if any
- How long would “recovery” likely take
- What specific regional issues exist
- How would existing health issues effect this disaster
- Would help be available, how long would it take to come
- What security risks might pop up beyond the normal
- How would we care for pets
- What would the impact be on our children (mental and phyical)
- How do we think we would respond mentally
- What phyical injuries might be incurred during the onset
- How would we get out if we were forced to leave
- How would we get along if forced to stay

Several Disasters You Might Face with Thoughts About Them
- Loss of employment
- Local storms
- A house fire
- Death of a family member or serious illness of the same
- Economic recession (more severe then 2008)
- Economic collapse and shift
- Flu or other pandemic
- Nuclear power accidents
- Any true global disaster with long term total system failure

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Comments

Episode-05- TSP Rewind – Risk Assessments and Readiness Audits — 1 Comment

Richard Hauser on October 11, 2016 at 3:47 pm said:

I’m loving the rewind episodes, and though I’m guessing that you haven’t listened to this one in a while, but does this mean you are training Dorothy to post Rewind episodes if you are incapacitated? Just an idea.

In this episode you mention making your businesses fault tolerant and maybe training relatives to keep it going if you can’t. I realize Dorothy probably couldn’t host a show, but she could probably post a Rewind.

Keep up the great work and enjoy your well earned vacation.