How to Survive a Sharknado - and Other Unnatural Disasters - Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack

Zusatztext "[T]he perfect companion to have on hand while watching some of the most absurdly awesome movies the SyFy Channel has to offer... [and] a must own item for fans of B-Grade creature features! It also makes a fantastic companion piece to the now iconic ‘Zombie Survival Guide’. Highly recommend[ed]! --ScienceFiction.com Informationen zum Autor Andrew Shaffer is the author of humorous nonfiction and fiction! including Literary Rogues! Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love! and! under the pen name "Fanny Merkin!" Fifty Shames of Earl Grey. His writing has been published in such diverse places as Mental Floss! Maxim! and The Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on FOX News! CBS! and NPR! and his irreverent greeting cards have been featured on The Colbert Report. Klappentext Sharks Are Flying at Your Head at 300 mph. How Will You Survive? In the apocalyptic world we live in! Mother Nature is angry. Danger waits at every turn! and catastrophes like the Los Angeles sharknados have taught us that we need to be ready for anything. Too many lives have already been lost. But fear not. How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters is the first and only comprehensive guide to surviving the very worst that Mother Nature can throw our way. Inside this life-saving reference! you'll find: • Vital information about dozens of unnatural disasters and ungodly monsters that can injure! maim! or kill you! from arachnoquakes and ice twisters to piranhacondas and mega pythons; • Easy-to-understand survival tips for avoiding a bloody demise; • Inspirational words of wisdom from survivors! including Fin Shepard and April Wexler; • Useful resources! such as the Shepard Survival Assessment Test (S.S.A.T)! and much more. With this essential book in hand! you too can be a hero who laughs in the face of calamity while saving friends and family. Or you can just avoid getting savagely ripped apart by a robocroc. Either way! you've been warned. Now be prepared.Sharknado 2: The Second One premieres July 30 at 9/8c on Syfy! Fighting Mother Nature Antdemic Vitals Also Known As: Insectfluenza First Observed: Indonesia (2013) • Est. Max. Speed: 20 mph • High-Risk Groups: Birdwatchers, First Responders • Look Out for It In: Tropical Areas • Threat to Humanity: • Risk of Encounter: • Fin’s WTF Factor: An antdemic occurs when a deadly flu virus is spread to humans by infected mega fire ants. These six-inch winged insects are aggressive and highly contagious, and their bites are excruciating. Even if you survive an attack, your time is limited. Within hours of being bitten, the flu virus reduces you to a violent zombie. Death is the only cure. STUDY nnn The first antdemic began in 2013 with a series of mega fire ant attacks on a remote chain of Indonesian islands. As the body count climbed, scientists descended upon the region. Among them was University of Indonesia researcher Eva Sims, who linked the attacks to a deadly flu outbreak also occurring on the islands. “No one had connected the influenza to the mega fire ants,” she says. “But that’s exactly what was happening. The ants contracted the virus from attacking infected birds, then passed the virus to humans—who started attacking each other. It was chaos.” Unfortunately, Sims couldn’t convince a skeptical World Health Organization (WHO) of the threat. “They told me to stop watching so many zombie movies,” she says. If the WHO wouldn’t do anything, Sims would. There was still time. “The virus was not spreading from person to person. If it made that leap, the antdemic could spread worldwide,” she says. Her theory was simple: Eliminate the mega fire ants, eliminate the virus. Sims found their breeding ground—a towering mound hidden deep in the jungle—and wiped the ant colony out with the most effective insecticide available: dynamite. AVOID nnn The Centers f...

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"[T]he perfect companion to have on hand while watching some of the most absurdly awesome movies the SyFy Channel has to offer... [and] a must own item for fans of B-Grade creature features! It also makes a fantastic companion piece to the now iconic 'Zombie Survival Guide'. Highly recommend[ed]! --ScienceFiction.com

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Shaffer
• Publisher: 3 Rivers Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.07.2014
• EAN: 9780553418132
• ISBN: 978-0-553-41813-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 181 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Three Rivers Press
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire