Surviving Extreme Weather: How to Survive the Worst Storms, Floods, Droughts and Cold Spells

Although most of the time the weather does not constitute a threat to most of us, there are many weather conditions that can kill or injure, or destroy your home. Surviving Extreme Weather helps you prepare for every eventuality, including storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, snow blizzards, avalanches, extreme heat, and flooding.

Surviving Extreme Weather includes chapters on understanding different kinds of climate, predicting the weather, preparing for bad weather, protecting your home, and how to survive in extreme environments. Highly illustrated throughout, the book offers practical tips on topics such as:

• Fixing up hurricane straps and storm shutters
• How to find and purify water
• Where to go during a flood
• How to recognize and treat heat and cold injuries
• Reading cloud formations