Threat Detection for the Home: Putting a Plan in Place for Early Warning

by suburban | Mar 26, 2024 | Bug In, OPSEC, Personal Security, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Home secu­ri­ty sys­tems not only pro­vide essen­tial pro­tec­tion for loved ones and prop­er­ty, con­tribut­ing to peace of mind, but they also play a piv­otal role in threat pro­tec­tion by deter­ring poten­tial bur­glars — with 83% look­ing for signs of an alarm... Read more

Assessing the Credibility of Martial Law Being Forced Upon Citizens of the United States in the Future

by suburban | Mar 13, 2024 | Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, Government, Martial Law, OPSEC, Personal Security, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

In this blog post, we’ll exam­ine the poten­tial and cred­i­bil­i­ty of mar­tial law being imple­ment­ed in the Unit­ed States. Being from the U.S. and hav­ing not expe­ri­enced mar­tial law first­hand, as some sec­ond and third-world coun­tries have, it is just a... Read more

The First 30 Days: Building a Future After the Fall

by suburban | Mar 5, 2024 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Communications, Food Storage, Health, Hygiene, Mutual Assistance Group, Personal Security, Preparedness, Prepping, Psychology, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival, WROL

The fol­low­ing is a fic­tion­al account of the first 30 days after an apoc­a­lyp­tic event and how we may “attempt” to recov­er some nor­mal­cy in the neigh­bor­hood if we can­not make what could be a dead­ly and dan­ger­ous trek to the bug-out loca­tion... Read more

Character Matters, Quick Thoughts About Shelter With in a SHTF

by suburban | Aug 26, 2015 | Mutual Assistance Group, Personal Security, Preparedness

In con­sid­er­ing to form a sur­vival group or just sim­ply who you would allow shel­ter­ing with you in an SHTF/WROL emer­gency there are many arti­cles, videos, books, etc that dis­cuss the type of peo­ple to seek for inclu­sion in such a group: A mechan­ic, a... Read more

Bear Encounters

by Cameron | Apr 24, 2015 | Personal Security, Pets, suburban survival

After the long win­ter we have had here in the north­east, spring­time is a very wel­come change of sea­son. Spring is a time of new begin­nings and this year is no dif­fer­ent… but with the new begin­nings comes wildlife inter­ac­tions that sub­ur­ban­ites may not... Read more

Precision Rifles for the New Gun Owner

by Cameron | Apr 13, 2015 | Gear, Guns & Weapons, Hunting, Personal Security, Preparedness

This is the final install­ment in a series of arti­cles designed to intro­duce a new or novice firearm own­er to the weapons they should have and be com­fort­able using for a SHTF sce­nario.  The oth­er install­ments cov­ered car­bine, shot­gun, hand­gun, and... Read more