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Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years
Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years In 2020 at the onset of the covid pandemic scare and right before the lockdowns I’ll never forget going on a grocery run on a Friday afternoon only to find near empty roads and near empty stores. The few other […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI–Preparing For Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI April 4, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Preparing For Collapse A contemplation prompted by a couple of posts I read early this morning. One was a list of actionable ideas for preparing for Peak Oil and the other an article on the mainstreaming of ‘Doomsday Prepping’. […]
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make This past weekend Texas experienced its first tropical weather event for the 2021 season, and the season doesn’t officially begin until June 1st. Each year the tropics have been becoming active earlier than expected, and at this time they are unofficially starting the season in mid-May. Now […]
5 Frugal Prepping Tips For Beginners
5 Frugal Prepping Tips For Beginners You never know what’s going to happen. But, lately, I’ve had so many questions from those I know that have never been interested in preparedness before, asking how they can help themselves out on the cheap because they honestly “feel” like something is coming. You never know what’s going […]
The 7 Pillars of Urban Preparedness
The 7 Pillars of Urban Preparedness The 7 Pillars of Urban Preparedness is an introductory course that Selco and I teach. This is a foundational module that we refer to often because so much is built from these seven pillars. Selco and I created this framework to hang things in a logical sequence. When Selco […]
10 Blackout-Proof Preps You Need To Get Through Extreme Weather Emergencies
10 Blackout-Proof Preps You Need To Get Through Extreme Weather Emergencies Generally speaking, the American lifestyle is largely dependent upon the power grid. And when the grid goes down during the hottest times of the year, our eyes are opened to the need to have essential off-grid preps to survive. A sweltering heat wave that […]
How To Create a Wildfire Action Plan
How To Create a Wildfire Action Plan Wildfires can happen suddenly and be catastrophic for those affected. Because this emergency is a quick one, you should have a wildfire action plans ready and be able to execute it if the worst happens. Wildfires can happen suddenly and be catastrophic for those affected. Because this emergency […]
Selco: “Here Are Some of the WORST Pieces of Prepping Advice I’ve Heard”
Selco: “Here Are Some of the WORST Pieces of Prepping Advice I’ve Heard” The competition for the worst prepping advice out there is pretty sharp. It’s been going on for many years and has a tendency to get even more ridiculous as time goes on. One reason is that a lot of the advice is […]
Winter is Coming: Here’s Your Vehicle Emergency Kit Checklist
Winter is Coming: Here’s Your Vehicle Emergency Kit Checklist “Still … in this world only winter is certain.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire) If you happen to be a Game of Thrones fan, you know the Stark Family motto: “Winter is coming.” It’s inevitable and sometimes dangerous. Many […]
Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee
Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee They universally apply to any unexpected emergency As I type this, there are over 16 large wildfires currently burning across northern and southern California. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. Millions are without power. My hometown of Sebastopol, CA underwent mandatory evacuation at 4am Saturday night. […]
Prepping: The Only Way to be Ready for Anything is to be Ready for Anything
Prepping: The Only Way to be Ready for Anything is to be Ready for Anything Most of the time, no one actually expects the S to HTF on that particular day. Most folks don’t go through their lives expecting one specific disastrous event to occur, and then have it unfold according to a predetermined script. Several years […]
A Survival Guide For 2019
A Survival Guide For 2019 How to safely navigate the ‘Year Of Instability’ As the first month of the year concludes, it’s becoming clear that 2019 will be a very different kind of year. The near-decade of ‘recovery’ following the Great Financial Crisis enjoyed a stability and tranquility that suddenly evaporated at the end of […]
How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland
How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland When I moved to southwestern Virginia, I really didn’t expect to be dealing with hurricanes. But, as I’ve just learned, a system like Hurricane Florence could affect places that are as much as 350+ miles from the shore. So, if you […]
5 Likely Hurricane Aftermath Scenarios To Prepare For
5 Likely Hurricane Aftermath Scenarios To Prepare For It is currently hurricane season for the Atlantic and Pacific regions of the United States. As I write this article, Hurricane Florence is a Category 3 storm with the potential to reach Category 4 status. As of now, the storm has an uncertain path, but East Coast […]
