Prepping, Moving, and Lots of Stuff. Protecting Your OPSEC

by suburban | Sep 19, 2015 | Bug In, Food Storage, Gear, Personal, Preparedness, Prepping, Survival Gear

Well, after many years in the 1 — 1/2 bed­room apart­ment in North­ern NJ, Ms. Prep­per and I recent­ly moved in togeth­er, and into a new home.  Any­one that has accu­mu­lat­ed any amount of stuff, knows that the mere act of pack­ing your stuff and mov­ing... Read more

Dogs as prepper companions

by Cameron | Apr 20, 2015 | Bug In, Bug Out, Food Storage, Gear, General, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

In our mod­ern world, prep­pers need to be con­cerned with guns, ammu­ni­tion, food, gaso­line, med­ical sup­plies… the list goes on and its daunt­ing.  But don’t for­get about the fam­i­ly pets. An often over­looked and very help­ful resource to your preps is a... Read more

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

Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, What I Am Doing To Prepare

by suburban | Oct 27, 2014 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

How many times in the last sev­er­al weeks have you heard about Ebo­la?  Too many?  Me too.  Some may say I am crazy, some may say I am cau­tious, and some are walk­ing around liv­ing in their bub­ble of life with­out a clue. It was only a few weeks... Read more

My Guerrilla Berkey Water Filter Project in 20 Minutes or Less

by suburban | Jul 13, 2013 | Bug In, Preparedness, Water

As far as I am con­cerned, this project has been well over­due.  Espe­cial­ly in the wakes of both hur­ri­canes Irene and Sandy.  With hur­ri­cane sea­son just bare­ly upon us, and the loss of pow­er, etc. last year, I thought it was time to pre­pare a bit... Read more

Hurricane Sandy, a Review, by a Contributing Author from Long Island

by suburban | Nov 13, 2012 | Bug In, Gear, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

A con­tribut­ing writer to the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog, and lives on Long Island hit hard by Hur­ri­cane Sandy.  I’ve asked him for his post mortem recount of the hur­ri­cane, what worked and what did not work for him dur­ing the storm, pow­er out­age, and... Read more