About Us
Welcome to RuralSurvival.info
RuralSurvival.info is all about what the web address (URL) implies, Rural Survival information . We hope that you can take a few moments to look over the site and that you will also bookmark/add to favorites this site for future use. This is a relatively new website, started in early January of this year. Though currently lacking in quantity of content, we are continually adding thoughtful and intuitive survival and disaster preparedness content contributed by emergency management and preparedness professionals. The Index of Special Interests are worth a visit while you are here.If you have a web site, a face book page or any other type of site pages, we would most definitely appreciate a link to this site from your site; we will reciprocate in kind upon request provided that the site we are linking to meets our standards for decency and does not advocate unlawful activities. We have ready made HTML available to make the linking task as easy as we know how to using the copy and paste method. Please remember that his site is not about making money and therefore can not afford paid placement on search engines - therefore, the primary way people will know about us is by word of mouth and links from other web sites.
Finally, if you would like to contribute content to this site, please contact us. If there is a particular genre of a survival skill that is not listed in the Special Interests Subjects Index, please let us know and we will see what we can do about adding it. As an additional note on the subject of contributing content, contributing authors are permitted to furnish us with advertisement links and graphics for their business entity or entities to be placed upon those pages for which they contribute content without charge and as a "thank you" for their time and effort in preparing the material to contribute to this site. Further Information...
Thank you again for visiting RuralSurvival.info, please bookmark us before you leave and please come back again soon!
Respectfully,
The RuralSurvival.info Team
Our Mission Statement:
It is the common intent of the owners,
the associates of RuralSurvival.info and
presumably of the content contributors
to RuralSurvival.info
to use
said web
site for the following primary purposes:
To disseminate non-partisan, apolitical information to those
persons, farms, ranches, orchards
and other rurally located and/or agricultural enterprises and entities
for whom
reasonable and responsible mitigation ideas, plans and principles are
not realistically available; and,
to provide a centralized and very well known directory for the use of
the
general public to view business entities that have goods and/or
services for sale to the general public that are related to emergent
and/or survival happenstances; and,
to provide a standardized and categorized subject area whereupon
experts and professionals in the related fields of emergency
management, disaster preparedness and survival skills may post their
views, methods and ideas.
Discussion:
In todays fast
tracked world of urban
life and the suburban lifestyle and sprawl, the people that feed this
country are often
forgotten. There exists little data for rural persons to utilize to
plan for significant or cataclysmic disasters. Apparently, in
areas where 911 is more of a joke than a reality, in areas where a
call for an ambulance means a wait of hours instead of minutes, in
areas where fire protection means having enough water hose to reach
to reach the fire, the local populace has been all but forgotten.
It should be noted that even in a major metropolitan area such as New
Orleans, LA, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the government's inability
to cope with such a disaster.
Therefore, the reason for this web
site's existence; i.e., empowering people to do for themselves, to
think for themselves and therefore causing the enabling of people to
make prudent and logical decisions and to take actions that may serve
to prevent loss of life, loss of livelihood and/or loss of loved ones.
We hope to make a difference, even if it is just a
small one.
Emergency Services Professionals, Emergency Management
Professionals, Medical Professionals, and all other knowledgeable
persons
that have an interest in disaster mitigation and preparedness are most
welcome
to contribute content to this site. Further
Information.
About Us
RuralSurvival.info is exactly what it's
name suggests - a web portal to facilitate information availability to
the people that don't live in cities and have little access to fire,
police and medical services; said information coming from a group of
current and former/retired Emergency Management professionals, Security
specialist, Anti-terrorism
experts (and we don't use that term loosely), Law Enforcement,
Emergency Medical Personnel and
Professional Soldiers and Sailors of the United States.
Administrative & Technical Contact:
Tim Spencer, Salem, MO
- Site Owner
- Emergency Management Professional (Retired)
- Horse Farm owner
- 100% Disabled Veteran
How we pay for all of this...
Well, the time is donated by the content
contributors. The server space (hosting) and web work is provided
by Agri-Host,US
because it is owned by this site's owners' daughter and she
wholeheartedly agrees with the mission of this site. The
annual
domain name renewal will likely be paid for by whomever happens to have
a spare $10 bill at the time. Also, we utilize affiliate
advertising to subsidize our costs - please
visit this sites advertisers and sponsors so that RuralSurvival.info
can remain completely free. Please understand that we receive very
little operating capital from advertising. Your help would be very greatly
appreciated!
