Survival Life Hacks That Saved People

Life is full of uncertainties. One can never know when danger can come to them. In such circumstances, it is always good to know how to save yourselves during such situations- can be choking- when alone, kidnapped, fire and so on.

1. Don’t walk away from your car if you’re stranded in the desert or in snow. Your car is easier to find than you. If you’re in the desert, you may need to get under your car to protect yourself from the heat.
The exception: If you know where you are and know how to safely get to a safe place, do it, but don’t go in search of help without having a destination in mind. And don’t walk too close to the road, to avoid being hit.

 

2. Don’t pour water on a grease fire. One of the many things I watched on TV as a kid were Elvis Presley movies. In one of his movies, he has a date with a girl in her apartment. She cooks a roast in the oven for dinner. Elvis arrives and the food is burning. Flames are shooting out of the oven. She makes a move to throw water on the fire, but Elvis stops her and grabs a container of salt and throws handfuls of salt onto the fire which promptly puts it out.

 

3. If you’re ever kidnapped, try to leave personal items along the way, like drop a ring or earring in the car or something. It can be helpful for those trying to find you and can be evidence in a trial.

  
4. I’m absent-minded. I once left my wallet on my car when pumping gas and drove off with it on there. It fell off on the side of the interstate and a couple saw it, pulled over, and used my ID to find both me and my parents on Facebook to message us. They wanted to be sure that I wasn’t kidnapped and threw it out as a clue. I had never even thought of that before, but I remember thinking, “What a clever idea.”

5. If you’re in a crowd and there’s a possibility of being trampled, go with the wave of people instead of against it and, when possible, go back and diagonal to get out of it. If you’re too rigid, you’ll get pushed over and trampled to death and you absolutely don’t want to be to the front. 

 

6.You can scare off an attacker by placing 2 fingers in your mouth and causing a vomit reflex. This advice was given to me once by my dad, and I remembered it when 5 guys in a car pulled me into their back seat. I looked around at the guys and asked, “Where in here can I throw up?” They made a screeching halt and threw me out of the car. May have saved my life.

 

7. At all costs, don’t let an attacker drag you into a vehicle. You never want to go to a second location. About 30 years ago, the then CEO of my Fortune 500 company was accosted by an ex-employee in the parking lot. With a gun pointed at him and orders to get in the car, his answer was, “Shoot me here.” The ex-employee drove off and was arrested later that day.  

 

8.Don’t leave your drinks unattended at a bar, it’s very easy to pour something into them. 

 

9. If you’re a stabbed or impaled and the offending object is still in your body, don’t pull it out. Doing so can make you bleed out. 

If the object goes into the body smoothly, it will more than likely create a wound internally that is almost identical in size to the object, so it essentially acts as a plug. If it is pulled out, any blood vessels that are cut will no longer have the knife’s edges pressing against them and they will begin to bleed. If you pull it out and don’t notice a lot of blood, the bleeding could be internal so you wouldn’t even realize that you are bleeding. You could also do some serious damage pulling out the object. My wife is a trauma surgeon and has had people cut organs pulling out knives or other sharp objects. 

 

10. If  you’re lost in the woods, don’t leave your location. People searching for you will start at your last known location or where you were heading, and you’ll just make their job harder by expanding the search area. If you have to leave, follow the water. Early cities and towns were usually founded near a source of water. If you follow a stream, you’re more likely to run into civilization... Usually downstream, but really depends where you are. 

 

11. If you, for some reason, get stabbed in the eye with a stick, cover both eyes. Moving your injured eye can cause more damage, and it’s impossible to move your eyes independently. If they aren’t covered, you’ll instinctively look around with the uninjured one. 

 

12. If you feel an earthquake start and the shaking doesn’t fizzle out after 5 or 10 seconds, assume it will be big and take cover under something sturdy or run outside where there are no power lines or bits of building above your head. Don’t stand in a doorway.

If there was an earthquake at the beach you’re on and you see the water receding away, run to higher ground immediately because a tsunami is coming. If you’re in a town near water and see the water in ditches or rivers flowing the wrong way, seek higher ground too, because it’s another indicator of an upcoming tsunami. 

13. If you believe an intruder is in your home, whatever you do, don’t turn on the lights. As much as you’d feel more comforted if the lights were on, you know your house better than anyone. You would have an easy time moving around your house while the intruder will be a lot slower.

And don’t use flashlights either. They will give away your location.

 

14. Don’t jump in the water to save a drowning person unless absolutely necessary like, for example, to save a child. Drowning people tend to clasp on to their rescuers and drag them under with them. Find something to throw or some sort of lifeline.

If a drowning person does grab on, they will essentially try to climb you like a ladder or push you under, trying to get the leverage to get some air. It’s instinctive at that point and impossible to override. If you’re being pushed under, just swim down out of their grasp, come up little ways away, and try to re-approach.

 

15. Don’t mix household cleaners, especially bleach and ammonia. This will produce a toxic gas that can kill you. If it happens to you, try to get out of the place where the mixing happened as soon as possible. Get to fresh air. 

 

16. You can perform the Heimlich maneuver on yourself by making a fist and pushing upward quickly on the space between your rib cage and navel. You can lean on a piece of furniture and quickly thrust your abdomen against the edge. I’ve done it twice. Still alive. 

 

17. If you’re hiking or doing anything else outdoors, alone, tell someone where you’re going and when you should be back. If you become incapacitated, this will greatly increase your survival chances. 

Also, take a little extra food and water because no one ever plans to get lost. 

 

18. If you live alone, have a check in person that you text goodnight to and who will notice if you don’t. A coworker of mine who lived alone choked to death in her home. So you just never know. It isn’t just the elderly who have unexpected risks when living alone.

 

19. Get a CO gas detector in your house. One near the furnace and one near your bedroom! You cannot smell or see CO leaks from regular household furnaces. These detectors are pretty inexpensive too. 

Fun fact: There are many stories of people thinking their house is haunted because of CO. It causes memory lapses and other symptoms that people attribute to haunting. Also, make sure that once you have purchased one to keep on top of maintaining it, even if it’s as simple as making sure the batteries are good. A few years ago, while I was in my first year of college, my family and dog back home suddenly started to get sick and not feel well (e.g. coughing, low energy, the dog started throwing up). A few days passed, and my dad had already scheduled for someone to come over for a routine furnace inspection/repair estimate. After the inspection, the guy told my dad that the furnace was leaking carbon monoxide and that the current levels in our house were over 3 times the normal permissible limit. We never knew because our carbon monoxide monitor had gone dead all of a sudden. He said that had we not noticed it for a couple more days my parents, younger sister, and dog all could’ve very possibly died in their sleep. 

 

20. If you’re in the passenger seat of a car, never put your feet on the dashboard. In the event that you’re in a car accident, knee bones into your skull won’t end well.

21. If you have a skin mole that has blurry edges, isn’t symmetrical, is a weird shade of red, weeps fluids, or acts like an open wound that won’t heal, you might have skin cancer. Go to a doctor immediately. Melanoma kills fast.

If you have benign skin moles, keep an eye on them. Get an idea of how they should normally look so you’ll notice if any begin to change, as I mentioned above.
Don’t forget to put on sunscreen! 

 

22. If you have been on the fence for a while about being too cold to continue in a back-country situation, you are already too cold. Immediately make emergency efforts to get warm. Having hypothermia severely clouds your judgment.

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