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The Extreme Weather Survival Manual

By Dennis Mersereau & The Editors of Outdoor Life
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Publisher Description

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
 
“Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them…We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.”—Slate

About Dennis Mersereau

Dennis Mersereau is the lead writer for Gawker’s weather vertical, The Vane. He also contributes to the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang, writes as "weatherdude" on DailyKos. For over 110 years, Outdoor Life has provided outdoor and urban survival expertise to millions of readers. Their authors have written on everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!). Readers count on them for survival information from the everyday (will I get rained on if I go fishing in Montana in April?) to the extreme (what if my plane crashes in a remote area?).

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