Recognizing the Sound of Gunfire: A Practical Guide for Businesses, Schools, and Citizens

by suburban | Sep 18, 2025 | Crime, Guns & Weapons, Man Made Disaster, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Situational Awareness

“I thought it was fire­crack­ers…” “Maybe a car back­fir­ing?” “It sound­ed like bal­loons pop­ping…” We’ve all heard these phras­es count­less times in news inter­views fol­low­ing trag­ic shoot­ings. There’s almost always that moment of denial, that split sec­ond... Read more

Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner

by ST | Nov 29, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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... Read more

Endless Fall – Part 5: Hell Comes To Frog Town

by ST | Nov 15, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Food, Government, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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... Read more

Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse

by Prepperjim | Nov 9, 2011 | Barter, Books, Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, first aid, Gold and Silver, Guns & Weapons, Health, Knives, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Psychology

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... Read more

It’s All About the Jobs

by Prepperjim | Nov 2, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, Prepping

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,... Read more

Suburban’s Updated Travel EDC

by suburban | Aug 25, 2011 | Crime, Fishing, Personal, Survival Gear, Weather

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... Read more