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Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner

November 29, 2011
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Note: The following is the sixth installment of a series that represents a first-hand chronicle of a fictional economic collapse in the United States. This series is to be viewed as only one possible scenario. Contains explicit language.   May 2 – 195 days after Black Swan Day My Dearest Children – April showers might [...]

Tagged as: civil unrest, Crime, Economy, Food, Guest Post, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Endless Fall – Part 5: Hell Comes To Frog Town

November 15, 2011
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Note: The following is the fifth installment of a series that represents a first-hand chronicle of a fictional economic collapse in the United States. This series is to be viewed as only one possible scenario.   April 2 – 165 days after Black Swan Day My Dearest Children – Spring has sprung. Unfortunately the warmer [...]

Tagged as: civil unrest, Crime, Economy, Food, Government, Guest Post, Levels of Awareness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse

November 9, 2011
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I recently heard of a man called Fernando “Ferfal” Aguirre from Jack Spirko over at The Survival Podcast. Ferfal is from Argentina and has lived through their economic crash from December 2001 until today. He wrote a booked about his experience called Surviving The Economic Collapse. He also has a blog called The Modern Survivalist. I [...]

Tagged as: Barter, Books, civil unrest, Crime, Economy, first aid, Gold and Silver, Guns / Weapons, Health, Knives, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Psychology

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It’s All About the Jobs

November 2, 2011
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I read this article and became really concerned, frightened even. The figures from payroll taxes reported to the Social Security Administration on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. Even more alarming is this graph with the title “Fewer Jobs, Less Pay”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61336135@N06/6273282342/ And from the rest of the article: More significantly, the number of people [...]

Tagged as: civil unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, prepping

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Suburban’s Updated Travel EDC

August 25, 2011
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As promised, this is my post about my expanded Travel EDC.  It seems the more I travel, the more I think I need when on the road.  I am finding there is a fine balance between having what you think you might need in an emergency, and just packing your whole Get Home Bag in [...]

Tagged as: Business Travel, EDC, Prepardness, Travel, Travel Carry

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Cover vs. Concealment: Know The Difference!

July 19, 2011
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“Take cover!” A common and clichéd line from everything from old westerns to sci-fi television shows and movies to even some cartoons. But while entertaining, it is a tactical issue to be understood in the event of an SHTF event that leads to WROL. Even without this it’s just possible to be caught in the [...]

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Would YOU be a shelter? (Remembering Anne Frank)

June 21, 2011
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Everyone loves a scapegoat. Throughout history whenever something terrible happens either for reasons too complex for the common person to grasp or just the culmination of many other events people as a whole try to seek out someone, some group of people, to blame for the problem. Rarely do they see themselves as a cause [...]

Tagged as: Crime, Economy, Politics, Shelter, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Bad Situation

April 27, 2011
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I always leave my gas tank with enough gas to allow me to drive 100 miles or more should I need to escape the region quickly. I know that my tank holds enough to drive 320-350 miles when full. Thus, when 200 miles rolls around, I fill up, period. This is usually on the way [...]

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Car Broken Into In Front Of My Place, a Mini SHTF for Somebody

September 17, 2010
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Living in the suburbs can be tedious at times.  I don’t have a driveway, which means I have to part on the street.  Which means that a minimum of twice a week sometime three, I am moving my car first thing in the morning for alternate side street cleaning rules.  A personal pain in the [...]

Tagged as: cooper codes, Crime, Criminal Element

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