Do not rely on others or the government to meet your family’s basic needs, especially in the first 72 hours following an emergency. It will take at least that amount of time before you can receive any kind of aid. Therefore, it is necessary to carry a 72 hour emergency kit with you at all …
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Emergency Preparedness: Inspiration From “The Walking Dead” TV Series
The 2nd half of “The Walking Dead” returns Sunday February 10th. As one of the more popular TV shows we thought we would do an article on some of the lessons we can learn from the show. While getting prepared for any sort of emergency we tend to think of immediate needs like do I …
An Introduction to Emergency Food Storage
What Is Emergency Food Storage? In the Western world, having regular access to food and drinking water is taken for granted. If your access to food and drinking water was interrupted for any amount of time, what would you do? Having a plan will ensure your survival and comfort, and the time to be …
Geigerrig Rig 1600 Review
The Geigerrig Rig 1600 is the flagship of the Geigerrig Hydration packs. It holds their largest bladder and has the most packing space of any packs that Geigerrig manufactures. I recently moved out west and started researching hydration packs. I wanted a pack that would work for day trips or as a possible bug out …
Emergency Preparedness – Putting Together a Car Survival Kit
Daily sprints from point-a to point-b, as well as long distance road trips, along with the large amount of time we spend in our vehicles create plenty of opportunity for unexpected disaster to present itself. In this article, I will discuss the need for a car survival kit, the items to include, and how it …
5 iPhone Apps For Those Who Love the Outdoors
Forget lugging around cumbersome field guides to assorted species, maps, atlases, and other means of tracking where you are and what bird that is. There are numerous iPhone apps that provide all the fun and necessary nature information you need with just a few clicks. Use these apps to help sharpen your survival skills; check …
Holiday Emergency Preparation
Door-buster shopping. Visiting family. Getting kids to sleep before Santa comes.
There are plenty of events that require keen survival skills during the holiday season, and some of them require more than just patience and longsuffering to overcome. With everything else going on this time of year, it is easy to forget some of the basic safety and preparedness skills. Here are a few to keep in mind whether you trim the tree, light the menorah or participate in any other holiday festivities:
Emergency Preparedness Leads to Large Donation to Local Food Bank
The Community Action Services and Food Bank of Provo receives a generous donation of quick-cook meals thanks to the emergency preparations of others. During National Preparedness Month in September, SurvivalBased.com committed to donating one meal for every $10 spent on emergency supplies through their website. Customers responded in a huge way, resulting in a donation of 4,320 meals.
Trick or Treat Contest
Who says grown-ups can’t trick or treat? Not us! Only we want YOU to do the tricking, and we’ll provide the treats. That’s right—you trick. We treat. Every Monday this month, starting on October 8th, we will identify one specific area of emergency preparedness on our Facebook fan page. Comment on that Monday post telling us your best trick, technique or secret based on that topic.
Go Mylar or Go Home
For years, emergency food supply was synonymous with aluminum cans—#10 aluminum cans to be precise—and for good reason. Readily accessible, easy to use and very familiar, aluminum cans were, and still are, a great way to preserve food for a “rainy day.”
But technology advances and as it does, some older techniques make way for new and improved methods. Not that aluminum cans don’t have their place, but in today’s emergency food supply packaging, Mylar pouches are the way to go.