I am constantly thinking through and rethinking survival scenarios. Of all of these, the loss of our electric grid, either due to a solar event or an EMP attack, is probably the most challenging, as well as being the most ...
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Is Prepping Dead With Trump In Office?
As strange as it may sound, at times I almost look back nostalgically towards the years President Obama was in office. Back then it was easy to convince conservatives of the need to prepare for a disaster. We could always ...
Read More »Why Mexico May Be The Best ‘Bug-Out Location’ You’ve Never Considered
A bug-out plan is something that every seasoned prepper has, but developing a good bug-out plan is another thing entirely. For most of us, the hardest part of that is coming up with a place to go, in the case ...
Read More »23 Items (Besides Food & Water) FEMA Says You Should Stockpile
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a two-part series about what the federal government says should be stockpiled. Read part 1 here. Perhaps surprisingly, the federal government has been part of what has driven the prepping movement. ...
Read More »The Silent-But-Deadly Weapon Missing From Most Survival Caches
If there’s anything that will bring up controversy in the world of survival and prepping, it’s a discussion about weapons. Everyone has their own ideas about what’s the best, and most of those ideas are based upon some pretty ...
Read More »The Chemical-Free Secret To Fighting Homestead Pests
Unfortunately, pests are a fact of life. Actually, they’re a necessary part of the ecologic chain, but it’s hard to remember that when they’re invading your home and garden. Ever since buying our home in the country, we’ve been battling ...
Read More »6 Clever, Off-Grid Ways To Cook When There’s No Electricity
You may not think of it this way, but the vast majority of the food we eat is cooked. Oh, it may not actually be cooked in your kitchen, but it was cooked somewhere. Frozen foods, breakfast cereal, cookies, bread, ...
Read More »10 Stockpiling Tricks That Will Make Your Food Last Longer
You would think that stockpiling food would be easy, right? Just buy a bunch of food, stash it away somewhere where it won’t be eaten, and you’re good, right? Uh, wrong. Building a stockpile and making it last is a ...
Read More »How To Treat Gunshot Wounds When There’s No Doctor
Accidents happen; that’s a basic fact of life that we have to deal with. We have a huge medical infrastructure to deal with those accidents. Even so, the action that is taken immediately, at the time and scene of the ...
Read More »Prepping For An Evacuation: How To Be Ready When The Gov’t Says ‘Get Out’
Mother Nature has incredible power available at her fingertips — much more than we humans do. With water alone, she is able to destroy some of mankind’s greatest accomplishments. Water leveled the city of Miyako, Japan, in 2011, as a ...
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