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Hurricane Sandy, Five Days Without Power, Three Weeks Later, and the Gear That Made My Life Easier

November 23, 2012

This is my (Suburban’s) slightly overdue postmortem of Hurricane Sandy. It’s Thanksgiving day as I write this, and I want to say thank you again to all of you, my readers, as well as a Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families. My thoughts this holiday weekend are with those who’s homes and lives have [...]

Tagged as: Bug In, Bugging In, Gear, Hurricane Sandy, Nor'easter, Weather

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Hurricane Sandy, a Review, by a Contributing Author from Long Island

November 13, 2012

A contributing writer to the Suburban Survival Blog, and lives on Long Island hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. I’ve asked him for his post mortem recount of the hurricane, what worked and what did not work for him during the storm, power outage, and overal disaster here in the Northeast. By the time this is [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Disaster Preparedness, Gear, Hurricane Sandy, MasterPo, Natural Disasters, Preparedness

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Hurricane Sandy Updates via Facebook

November 1, 2012

Hey everyone, I just want to let you all know that I am making personal updates about Hurricane Sandy on my facebook page and will be putting together more comprehensive posts for the blog later. Please check out the page if you have not at www.facebook.com/SuburbanSurvivalBlog. Thanks and for those that can get to the page [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Hurricane Sandy, Natural Disasters, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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My Food Storage is Changing, an update on Apartment Prepping…

September 24, 2012

As my time prepping matures, and living in an apartment, I am also finding that my prepping is starting to morph a bit. As I prep for food, most specifically, I find that cans of food are becoming cumbersome. Specifically, soups, tunas, canned chicken (which is a personal favorite of mine), etc. I also find [...]

Tagged as: Apartment Prepping, Bugging In, Bugging Out, Food Storage, Personal, Preparedness, prepping

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The Modular Survival Kit, Cache Valley Prepper

August 1, 2012

The Modular Survival Kit is a fairly simple concept. And one that I know that the military is familiar with, but not one that I’ve heard get much attention in the prepping community. Once I had built up my kit, as any aspiring survivalist would do, I did a few practice bug-outs in the form [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Bugging In, Bugging Out, EDC, Gear, Guest Post, Modular, Modular Gear, Modular Kit, Modular Survival Kit, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, survival, survival kit, Survivalism, Weather

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Pandemic Thoughts, and How’s Your NBC & Quarantine Gear?

March 23, 2012

As I spend time writing this post, I am on a plane watching the film Contigion. If you have not seen it, it’s a film about a pandemic that started and begins to be widely spread by those traveling. As the film progresses, it is found that the pandemic is a deeply deadly virus. The [...]

Tagged as: Bug In, Bugging In, Gear, NBC, pandemic, prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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SouthernPrepper1 on Suburban Security

March 5, 2012

This was sent to me by a friend, and if you have not seen it, I think it is worth it… I thought I would share. Suburban Security, Part One

Tagged as: Bugging In, Bugging Out, Preparedness, Security, Shelter In

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Test Cooking with Preps, Breakfast for Dinner, Part One

February 10, 2012

I like breakfast for dinner. I do. I have James Bond’s fetish for scrambled eggs. Give me scrambled eggs, an omelet, or frittata any day of the week and I am a happy guy. So, tonight, we make breakfast for dinner. I have picked up some tester / samples from various vendors and I am going [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Cooking, Food, Food Storage, Preparedness, Self Reliance, skills

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Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation

September 8, 2011

We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and other preps for freshness. We also talk a lot about storage, how to store, what to store, etc. Yesterday, I undertook a small job of repacking some of my “basic” preps. What are some of my most basic preps. Well, rice and [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Bugging Out, Food Storage, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Hurricane Irene: A Preppers’ Postmortem

September 1, 2011

The storm has come and gone. Your experiences all depends on where you were at the time. Some places by me got hit hard (and are still without power as I write this). Others like my immediate area got away pretty cleanly (unless you were right on a canal). Even house by house was different. [...]

Tagged as: awareness, Bug In, Bugging In, Self Reliance, State Of Awareness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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