August 2010

The New Free Suburban Survival Blog Classifieds Online!

August 31, 2010

Well, everyone, in an attempt to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for, The Suburban Survival Blog has launched our own Survival Classifieds section where you can post what it is you are looking to sell, and where those of you (us) are looking to buy can browse and do [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, Camping, Classifieds, Cooking, Gear, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance, Water

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Les Stroud – Living Off the Grid Video

August 31, 2010

Many of you have no doubt seen this video in the past. It is the one hour documentary that Les Stroud recorded about buying a piece of property and living off the grid potentially simplifying life. That, however is not the reason I am posting this video. My friend Doug actually gave me the idea [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out Location, Les Stroud, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Testing Your Bug Out Route(s), I Am Beginning To Do This

August 30, 2010

A couple weekends ago I tested a bug out route (via vehicle) to a point that intersects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three other routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this intersection point “Point B.” I wanted to test the following: Viability of the route Normal traffic [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out Location, Bug Out Route, Bugging Out

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PDF on Obtaining, Storing, and Keeping Water Clean

August 29, 2010

Green-Trust.org has a post today on obtaining, storing, and keeping water clean, and there is a free PDF for download. I wanted to share with my readers. Check out the post here: http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress/2010/08/29/water-for-life/ It is 52 pages in length and offers up some good information, even if you live in the suburbs or the city. [...]

Tagged as: Water, Water Purification, Water Storage

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New Features Added to The Suburban Survival Blog

August 27, 2010

Well, I’ve added some new features today that make this blog much like a social network. I’ve done so, so that many of you can register if you like and partake in the conversation more deeply if you choose. You will notice, at the top of the page, a registration link that says “Sign Up.” Please feel [...]

Tagged as: General, Personal

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“What’s the Best Survival Weapon?” Over At FieldandStream.com

August 27, 2010

So, this is an article I ran across this week, from Field & Stream Magazine Online. They had one of their guys upload the article about a few survival weapons that he did some independent tests on. The Henry AR-7, just happened to be one of them.

Tagged as: AR-7, Henry Survival Rifle, Survival Rifle, Survival Weapon

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National Preparedness Month is September

August 26, 2010

Check it. So I don’t know how relevant this is to the readers of this blog, but maybe the information can be used to spread the word to family, friends, and neighbors. National Preparedness Month is September. Ready.gov says that National Preparedness Month is “designed to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for [...]

Tagged as: National Preparedness Month, Preparedness, prepping

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Protecting Your Preps by Caching Some Along Your Bug Out Routes

August 26, 2010

Protecting your preps (Security) is one of the basic five basic survival priorities, and is usually one of the last things we think about when it comes to preparations. One way I have been looking at protecting some of my preps, is to begin caching them along my Bug Out routes… The reason for this [...]

Tagged as: Bugging Out, Cache, caching, geocaching, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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EMP, One of My Favorite Disruptive Disaster Subjects in the Blogsphere Again

August 25, 2010

So if you haven’t been paying attention over the past few days, EMP is getting some blogspehere attention again. As I have mentioned in previous posts, in the suburbs I see it as being a viable disruption for the group that would like to make it happen. With that in mind, here are a few [...]

Tagged as: Electromagnetic Pulse, EMP

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States of Awareness, Jeff Cooper’s “Cooper Codes”

August 25, 2010

This was originally published on 05/2004 by someone else, somewhere else, and I copied and pasted it to a word document for my own personal reference. It goes into the states of awareness that I think all suburbanites should be aware of when making through their day in the suburbs or the city. It is [...]

Tagged as: awareness, cooper codes, State Of Awareness

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