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Survival Sheltering
Being Secure Means Different Things to Different People
When it comes to shelter, or the process of sheltering during a survival situaiton, the best thing we can do is to base that concpet of "shelter" as "A place where you, personally, feel safe to sleep".
The reason for this distinction is because where I feel safe is going to be far different from where you might consider to be safe for you.
This has a lot to do with the level of training, the skills you possess, the nature of the environment where you find yourself, and a host of other factors.
These factors will all interact with your own person levels of fear, anxiety, stress, and even the weather conditions.
This means that there are factors we can control, and a host of factors that we cannot control.
You have a limited amount of that control based upon the level of work that you put into the process of staying safe.
For example, the image above might not "Be Safe", because she could easily get attacked, hurt, or even die of exposure.
But to her, she likely "felt safe enough" to risk sleeping on that bench, She made a choice based on her own experiences.
Home is where the heart is, but shelter is where you stay alive, keep safe, and
remain protected from the environment or danger.
remain protected from the environment or danger.
Your Shelters will depend on your situation, environment, weather conditions, levels of training, skills, daner, and any number of factors.
Sheltering Where You Can
A key principle of the sheltering process is the time frame for which you need to be sheltered.
This is going to depend a lot on the scenarios in which you find yourself needing to acquire that shelter or protection.
Take for instance that you are caught in a major rainstorm. You might take a few minutes to pull over in your car and wait out the harsh rain long enough to avoid an accident.
If you were walking, then you likely made a bee-line toward the nearest storefront or house porch in order to attempt the stay dry.
But what if you were the homeless lady on the bench from above? Would you just stay there and deal with the rain? Where would you go and for how long?
In fact, you would go wherever you can. This is because there is an immediate need. This same principle applies if you are being chased through the woods by a hungry grizzly bear.
If you found yourself homeless on the bench in the middle of the sunny, warm, summer afternoon, then you might not be in a rush to find any shelter.
This is because the scenario has changed considerably compared to that of the imminent danger of a bear attack or the concern of becoming sick due to extended rain exposure.