Fast facts and practical advice to keep you prepared, whether you're dealing with mud or flood, drought or derecho.
This valuable, comprehensive guide is full of life-saving information for virtually any extreme weather event-blizzard, hurricane, firestorm, tornado, heatwave, and beyond. Weather reporter Dennis Mersereau, working with the editors of Outdoor Life magazine, debunks common myths, provides hands-on survival tips (some of them literally hands-on-as in, don't lose your fingers to frostbite), and shares some fascinating historical facts and world records. Learn how to: • Read a weather map • Survive in a snowbound car • Stay oriented in a whiteout • Make waterproof matches • Avoid lightning hot spots • Rescue someone caught in a flood • Know your monsoons • Survive a sandstorm • Make peace with the polar vortex • Drought-proof your home and much more