National Traffic System – A Good Resource to Know!

by ST | Jan 3, 2012 | Civil Unrest, Economy, General, Guest Posts, Preparedness

No, this isn’t about dri­ving or get­ting from A to B. The Nation­al Traf­fic Sys­tem (NTS) is a net­work of ama­teur radio oper­a­tors around the coun­try (there is sim­i­lar oper­a­tions inter­na­tion­al­ly but with dif­fer­ent rules) that in times of emer­gen­cies... Read more

The SHTF Is Here – Hurray (NOT!!)

by ST | Dec 27, 2011 | Economy, General, Guest Posts, Politics

That title caught your atten­tion for sure! But believe it or not, there are peo­ple out there who actu­al­ly want and hope for a mas­sive, nation­al SHTF event! You can see it in the way many peo­ple on a large num­ber of prep­per sites write or the videos they... Read more

Of Leadership, Reliability, Responsibility — and Preparedness

by ST | Dec 20, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Self Reliance

Real­i­ty check: Some peo­ple are just more pre­pared for events of life than oth­ers. “Events” can be any­thing from a per­son­al emer­gency to an unex­pect­ed home expense to a fam­i­ly emer­gency to a nat­ur­al dis­as­ter to some­thing good like a great job or... Read more

2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

2011 was a pret­ty good year farm­ing wise at home. For an urban (I do con­sid­er myself urban) back­yard con­tain­er farm we did pret­ty good. And more impor­tant­ly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Start­ing out we added sev­er­al new con­tain­ers to our... Read more

Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner (Alternate Ending)

by ST | Dec 6, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Guns & Weapons, 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 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