Ready.gov

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a fantastic webpage on building simple survival kits, and how to deal with some of the "scares" that have popped up over the last couple years.

Ready.gov has plans for you to protect yourself and your family in case of biological, chemical, nuclear, or natural disasters.

They even offer instructions on building a survival kit. They aren't too bad, but a little on the simple side. They'll get you to the next town or shelter, but won't be sufficient enough to give you a good start on a new life in the midst of a national/global disaster.

The only thing I personally learned from their site, that I didn't already know, is the idea of creating a "shelter-in-place" to seal a room from contaminants.

Interesting, but scary. Let's hope we never have to use those methods of survival.