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Once you start on the journey of preparedness, it seems like there is no end. If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself constantly asking the question, “What have I missed?” Each potential new disaster you hear about provides more ...

The power grid upon which Americans depend for nearly every aspect of life is attacked once every four days, an investigative report from the nation’s largest newspaper chain revealed. Gannett and USA Today reporters analyzed federal energy records and found ...

A severe solar storm with the potential to disrupt wireless communications, GPS and the electric power grid took scientists by surprise on St. Patrick’s Day – and has experts worried because the federal government’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) did ...

Electricity prices reached an all-time high in 2014, according to new data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). If that wasn’t bad enough, the Bureau’s statistics indicate that electric rates will keep going up in 2015. Additionally, the ...

More than 300,000 are without power across the Southeast and store shelves empty of essentials after Winter Storm Octavia coated areas with ice and dumped 18 inches of snow in one Kentucky town. Electricity was out for 153,000 in Georgia, ...

The electricity is out, but the refrigerator is full. Does that mean that the only way you can cook your food is on a stick over a fire? No. Even in a desperate grid-down situation, you don’t have to limit ...

Legislators in eight states have introduced laws designed to literally pull the plug from the National Security Agency by choking off the resources the organization needs to organize within a state’s borders. The bills are part of an effort to ...

A rebel attack on a key transmission line shut off electricity to 80 percent of Pakistan’s population, blacking out the world’s second largest city, Karachi, and the nation’s capital of Islamabad. Around 140 million people – including 23.5 million in ...

A massive magnetic solar storm could knock out much of the US electrical grid and leave 130 million people in the dark, a report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concludes. The Federal Interagency Response Plan – Space Weather ...

Winter seems to have arrived early in most of the United States this year, with the sudden freezing temperatures, icy roads and snow catching many by surprise. Winter storms can be outright dangerous if you aren’t prepared. Consider the following ...