If you look around the internet these days, you might get confused about whether it’s better to be bugging-out or bugging-in should a disaster strike. It seems like most of the big name preppers are recommending bugging-out, rather than staying ...
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9 Items You’ll Need To Survive The First 72 Hours Of A Crisis
It finally happens … the crisis you’ve been preparing for. All that training and stockpiling you’ve been doing is going to start paying off. What you do during the next few days might decide whether you and your family make ...
Read More »Why Your ‘Get-Out-Of-Dodge’ Survival Plan May Be Doomed
Whether you live in a little farm town that sits on the edge of nowhere, or your humble homestead is an apartment somewhere in a concrete jungle, all regions face some sort of crisis event risk. But what do I ...
Read More »The First 24 Hours After An EMP: How Far Will People Go To Survive?
The natural instinct to survive and to protect family runs strong in human beings. In the 20th century alone, from Jewish families in Nazi-controlled Europe to Soviet dissenters in frigid Siberian gulags, the will to live burns deeply. So when ...
Read More »5 Real Events That Would Empty Every Grocery Shelf In Your Town
Many if not most Americans do a poor job of stockpiling supplies. Instead, when disaster is imminent, survival instincts take over and they rush to the store to buy as much water and food as possible. For example, look at ...
Read More »The No. 1 Reason Many Preppers Are Doomed
Several million people America are preparing for the worst. Whether it’s for a terrorist attack, economic crash, natural disaster or something else, people stock up on supplies, food and weapons for the worst to come. Pray for the best, prepare ...
Read More »The Ultimate Starter List For Every Get-Home Bag
As events this winter have proven, it’s a good idea to have a “get me home bag” (GHB) at all times. That 15-mile drive to work will feel a whole lot further away if you are ever forced to make ...
Read More »Surviving the Survival: Coping with the Aftereffects of Natural Disaster
With the obvious exception of an earthquake, it is generally not accurate to say that natural disasters strike without warning. But even though most people caught in a hurricane, flood, tornado, or wildfire usually have some chance to prepare for ...
Read More »Real Life Crisis Survival, Part 1
Editor: This article is courtesy of Frank, a consultant from Phoenix who was doing mission work in Guatemala last week when a volcano erupted. Two days later tropical storm Agatha hit, devastating the country. Guatemala is a beautiful country that has long struggled with poverty, famine, civil war and injustice. That’s what motivated me to visit for two weeks on a church-sponsored mission to feed the hungry and teach people about the benefits of personal hygiene.
Read More »Another Reminder of the Need to Prepare
In just a few short years we've seen natural disasters altering the lives of individuals, communities and now entire continents. There was Katrina, then the Indian Ocean tsunami, the earthquakes in Chile, Haiti and China, and most recently the volcanic eruptions disrupting travel and commerce in Europe.
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