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Prepare for Extreme Winter Weather: Forecasters Warn of Bomb Cyclone
Prepare for Extreme Winter Weather: Forecasters Warn of Bomb Cyclone If you aren’t dealing with extreme winter weather, consider yourself lucky. 90% of the 48 continental U.S. states started off 2018 below freezing (32 degrees or lower). For weeks, severe winter weather has pounded many parts of U.S. and Canada with no end in sight. Currently, […]
Winter Survival: Practical Preps for an Emergency Bug Out
Winter Survival: Practical Preps for an Emergency Bug Out “I got to, got to, got to, get away…turn me loose, baby.” – Jimi Hendrix, “Stone Free” Yes, ReadyNutrition guys and gals, there comes a time when you just “got to get away,” so to speak. This doesn’t mean to the sands of (what used to […]
Emergency SHTF Packing: How To Efficiently Pack a Bug-Out Bag
Emergency SHTF Packing: How To Efficiently Pack a Bug-Out Bag This article is a continuation and the second part of the load management series written at the request of Mr. Brent Westbrook, a ReadyNutrition Reader. In the first part, we covered how to stagger a load by weight and pack it according to function for […]
Operational Essential Task Lists for When the “S” Hits the Fan
Operational Essential Task Lists for When the “S” Hits the Fan ReadyNutrition Readers, this is “Part 2” of our METL series. To refresh, METL is a military acronym that translates into “Mission Essential Task List.” Part 1 covered a METL for training and how to prepare yourself and your family in terms of what to […]
Essential Skills, Tasks, and Training for Preppers and Survivalists: Part 1
Essential Skills, Tasks, and Training for Preppers and Survivalists: Part 1 For this article, we’re going to go into “basic focus” mode: you start out with the basics and build upon them. This is the type of mindset and foundation that work for everything in life (basically). You use it as a format in everything […]
If You Don’t Know the Answers to These Questions, You Need to Work on Your Prepper Mindset
If You Don’t Know the Answers to These Questions, You Need to Work on Your Prepper Mindset This article’s purpose is to provide you with a framework of ideas for self-assessment. The piece is Part I of two parts. It is one of the U.S. Army’s Principles of Leadership to know yourself and seek self-improvement. […]
Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim
Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim ReadyNutrition Readers, Simply put, urban survival will be quite a bit different from survival in a remote wilderness area or even a sparsely-populated suburban area. Let’s game some options, remembering that these options are general. These actions aren’t specific to the type of breakdown […]
You Are Either A Prepper Or A Future Victim
You Are Either A Prepper Or A Future Victim The recent disasters around the world have shown most people are ill prepared for sudden disruptions to normal life. Just as there was a lack of imagination that allowed 9/11 to happen, the population suffers from a lack of imagination that allows them to suffer from sudden […]
Sales To “Common Sense Preppers” Soar Amid Nukes, Quakes, Floods, & Storms
Sales To “Common Sense Preppers” Soar Amid Nukes, Quakes, Floods, & Storms With North Korea threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean as its leader and President Donald Trump casually bandy about threats of thermonuclear annihilation, people in the US and Japan are understandably starting to worry. After all, US intelligence agencies […]
Why and how to wargame your emergency/disaster plans
Why and how to wargame your emergency/disaster plans I spent a lot of years in the military and have worked with many different agencies and countries in that time. One thing I found universally true is the more effective and higher-level a groups (Delta, Special Forces, Navy SEALS, S.A.S, etc, the more they wargame their […]
A Crash Course in Preparedness – Week 2 – Medicine, Sanitation, and Surviving Disaster Diseases
A Crash Course in Preparedness – Week 2 – Medicine, Sanitation, and Surviving Disaster Diseases Welcome back to week 2 in our Crash Course into Preparedness. Last week we discussed the basics of survival and gear needed for a short-lived event. One of the comments from last week’s class mentioned that it isn’t hard to […]
Want to Be Better Prepared? Find Some Prepper Friends
Want to Be Better Prepared? Find Some Prepper Friends We’ve all heard about Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker and business philosopher who said that we are the average of the five people with whom we spend the most time. This relates to so much more than business success. If you are a person who is striving to […]
Better A Year Early Than A Day Too Late
livelifehappy.com Better A Year Early Than A Day Too Late Preparation only has value if it’s done in advance He who hesitates is lost. ~proverb Change, especially a collapse scenario, often happens quite fast. So fast that there’s little to no time to react in the short frenzy between “before” and “after”. This is true […]
Letters from Venezuela: This Is What Life Is Really Like in a Post-Collapse Society
Letters from Venezuela: This Is What Life Is Really Like in a Post-Collapse Society If you ever wondered what life was really like in a post-collapse society, look no further than Venezuela. Today, I’d like to share a first-hand report of everyday life there. The country has been on the way down since a socialist […]
Where Do You Go in a Hurricane?
Where Do You Go in a Hurricane? As a West Indian, I’ve lived through quite a few hurricanes in my time. My level of responsibility in each varied quite a bit. I was eight years old in my first hurricane and I thought it was great fun, as it was so exciting during the hurricane […]
