How Do You Classify a SHTF Event?

by suburban | Sep 22, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I tend to think a lot when I have a lit­tle down time.  I was on the plane for work this week and it hit me, that I am not sure h0w I would clas­si­fy what type of an event and how severe it was before I were going to bug out or bug in.  The more thought I... Read more

Your Home Crisis Guidebook for a Survival Situation or a SHTF

by suburban | Sep 21, 2010 | General, Levels of Awareness, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Fam­i­ly.  They say fam­i­ly is one of the most impor­tant things in life. If it is just you and the wife or you and the hus­band, they are fam­i­ly. If you have kids, and your kids have kids, now that’s a fam­i­ly, and no doubt they are very impor­tant to you.... Read more

A Note From “Suburban”

by suburban | Sep 20, 2010 | Personal

I’m read­ing a new book.  It’s very modi­va­tion­al, and it has me a bit pumped up.  It is cap­i­tal­iz­ing abit on social media trends, but makes a LOT of sense in oth­er areas.  So, this prompts me to write this post, which is much dif­fer­ent than... Read more

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

by suburban | Sep 17, 2010 | Crime, Levels of Awareness

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... Read more

Looking Into Solar Backup

by suburban | Sep 16, 2010 | Bug In, Energy, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

So, I have been look­ing into solar back­up sys­tems for sev­er­al low volt­age pieces of equip­ment.  I’ve been look­ing into this now for prob­a­bly about a year.  Of course, I’ve done noth­ing about it part­ly due to cost, and part­ly due to the fact that... Read more