We live in a world where water is a given—if you need water for drinking, cooking, washing your body, dishes and clothes, keeping grass and gardens green, and a myriad of other uses, you just turn the tap on, and out comes an endless supply of clean, usable water. If and when you turn the …
Category: Emergency Preparedness
Survival Kit Storage Locations
You never know where you’ll be when a disaster or emergency occurs, so in order to prepare for the worst, it is best to keep survival kits in places where you spend most of your time. For the majority of people, these places will include their home, car, and office. Naturally, a home survival kit …
Signaling For Help: Best Tips And Advice
Whether your plane went down near a desert island, Castaway-style, your boat got lost during a three-hour tour, or you took a wrong turn trying to avoid a bear while hiking, it’s important to know how to signal for help. Along with finding drinkable water, edible food, building a fire and constructing a shelter, it’s …
Gimme Shelter, or How I Learned to Shelter Safely Part 1: Shelter Site Selection
Whether you’re in an emergency survival situation or a planned one, having a shelter is more important than many people fully understand. A shelter can be anything from an abandoned house or building down to a lean-to built with tree branches. For the sake of this series we’re talking about the shelters you build yourself. …
Thinking Clearly: Getting the Prepper’s Mindset
One of the single worst setbacks for preppers to be taken seriously and not as crazy, gun-hungry kooks has to be the so-called “prepper” shows that have been appearing on TV in recent years. While they are opening up what is usually a very private lifestyle to a much larger audience, the shows are taking …
Five things you need in your 72 hour kit that you don’t know yet.
When you put your 72 hour kit/bug out bag together, most contain the obvious-food and water, ways to stay warm, dry, treat injuries, hygiene supplies, and such. But there are a few items that are not in most kits, which most of us don’t think about, but can make a big difference in our comfort …
5 Survival Lessons to Learn From The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli takes place in a post-apocalyptic future in which gangs have taken over and the world is a seemingly endless wasteland. The images in The Book of Eli are very much akin to what many of us in the prepper community feel could really happen, so while there’s a lot of incongruities …
Urban Camouflage
Sometimes, being prepared means being able to move from where you are to where you want to be. Disasters and emergencies don’t always wait until you are safely home, and even if you are sheltering in place, you may need to move around-to obtain supplies or services, to render aid, or any number of reasons. …
“Zombie Apocalypse”: What’s With The Fascination?
Ah, the zombie apocalypse. This concept has pervaded American culture for decades, arguably beginning with the classic 1968 horror flick Night of the Living Dead and plenty of movies after that, including Dawn of the Dead and more comedic takes such as Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies. AMC’s The Walking Dead remains insanely …