FRIDAY 1/21/11 - I could almost laugh - it wasn't true

Came across these instructions on the internet today

This instructable is designed to tell you how to stay warm, in varying degrees of cold.

This article assumes you do not have a house or apartment.




So, crap, guess what. You're homeless.


Things didn't work out for now, and now, well, ...now what?


Where do we go from here?


First things first.


What does a human need? (not Want, but Need.)


Quickly.....unfortunately, much of your Western civilization programming will be working against you in this process. We've been taught to gratify many of our less important whims.

Fundamentally, a Need is something required for pragmatic survival.
A Want is something that would be nice. Your priorities may vary, but what a human needs to survive
is pretty simple. Air, Water, Food, Shelter. Sometimes you may additionally need medicine,which can occasionally be improvised.more about that later.

If it's cold, you have to figure out the way to stay warm. If you're in a place where it gets much below the 40s Fahrenheit. About 4.4 Celsius), you'll need to do it fairly quickly. Before dark.


When the sun goes down the temperature drops quickly, and that's bad news for you.


Even if you're a husky fella,
your extremities will chill and cramp easier, and if you go to sleep, if you wake up, you may wake up with hypothermia . Not fun.


There's also frostbite. . Oh, buddy.


If you're caught homeless in the cold, don't panic. This is survivable, and a chance to prove you're resourceful enough to do it well enough to come out healthy.


It's 9 PM on a Friday night in Boston and the temperature is dropping. 


With luck I will win a bed at 9:30 in Harvard Sq - if not back to Logan Airport....


I can't take much more of this. By that I mean the unknown from day to day if I have a place to rest my head each night. 


Wish me luck...