Sucker Punched

by suburban | Dec 30, 2013 | Health, Preparedness

You’re going along in life.  Every­thing is going well.  Then *WHAM!!*  Some­thing small, sil­ly yet dev­as­tat­ing hap­pens that knocks the wind out of your sails. So it was for me the week before Thanks­giv­ing this year. The Mon­day the week before... Read more

Homemade Electrolyte Replacements (Homemade Gatorade)

by suburban | Mar 25, 2013 | DIY, Health, Hydraton, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water

My girl­friend’s dog has been sick the past cou­ple of days.  Dehy­drat­ed, lethar­gic, etc.   This got me think­ing when I was doing sev­er­al search­es online for how to ade­quate­ly keep him hydrat­ed.  By doing sev­er­al Google search­es I... Read more

Hygiene In the Field, or Bug Out Hygiene

by suburban | Sep 6, 2012 | Bug Out, Health, Hygiene

I’ve done a lot of camp­ing this sum­mer, and with the drought, you can imag­ine it was pret­ty hot out there.  I can attest that it was.  At our camp site we cut a lot of wood, and we used much of it for the camp fire.  Those were hot days swing­ing an... Read more

Hydration for Children, by ShaneTheNurse

by suburban | Nov 14, 2011 | first aid, Health, Hydraton, Medical, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water

One of the com­mon mis­takes that peo­ple make is to treat a dehy­drat­ed child in the same man­ner as a dehy­drat­ed adult. For a child that is severe­ly dehy­drat­ed this will most like­ly mean death. I have been an ER nurse since the 1990’s and I can­not tell you... Read more

Hydration for Adults, by ShaneTheNurse

by suburban | Nov 10, 2011 | first aid, Health, Hydraton, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water

We have all heard the phrase “hydrate or die.” unfor­tu­nate­ly most Amer­i­cans fail to heed this advice.  When I was work­ing the Ari­zona desert I noticed an increase in the inci­dence of pul­monary embolisms. So I did a small study and found that every... 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