Hurricane Sandy… Two Years Later

by Cameron | Mar 23, 2015 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, CERT, Natural Disaster, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water, Weather

The events of Octo­ber 2012  in the NY/NJ area are well known to the nation.  Hur­ri­cane sandy made land­fall and wreaked hav­oc on many towns.  Being one of the most dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas on the plan­et, the dam­age was in the bil­lions. ... Read more

Summer’s Here, Work, Future Plans, and Prepping

by suburban | Jun 25, 2013 | Bug Out Vehicle, Gardening, General, Pandemic

Well, sum­mer is offi­cial­ly upon us.  When it came it came with heat and humid­i­ty.  With that there are sup­posed to be severe thun­der storms all week here in NJ.  I’m get­ting used to the rain, and am going to start call­ing New Jer­sey, “New... Read more

Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part 1.5, OPSEC

by suburban | Sep 16, 2012 | Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Preparedness

This is a sup­ple­ment to Bug Out Threats, Traf­fic and Fuel, Part One.  While trav­el­ing this week, it occurred to me I might have missed some­thing in the orig­i­nal post.  In fact it was brought to my atten­tion by a bud­dy of mine as we were... Read more

The Modular Survival Kit, Cache Valley Prepper

by Mr-Jones | Aug 1, 2012 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, But Out Bag, EDC, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Prepping

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... Read more

The 3rd Wave, Evacuation From A Disaster Location

by ST | Nov 22, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Let me pref­ace this arti­cle by acknowl­edg­ing the source for the idea of this arti­cle comes from anoth­er pep­pers’ video. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it’s been a long time I’ve mulled over this top­ic and I don’t recall who exact­ly it was. With that out of the way, let’s... Read more

Bug Out Trigger Criteria

by Mr-Jones | Jul 29, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, But Out Bag, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This is a guest post by a new con­tribut­ing Author Mr-Jones.  Mr-Jones and I know each oth­er pri­mar­i­ly from Face­book, and some of the same forums, and have become fast friends, online.  I have asked him to con­tribute when he can, and I great­ly... Read more