It's a recipe for disaster.
Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.
We need to look for water. Water, water, water, water.
We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.
The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.
It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.