Hurricane Irene: A Preppers’ Postmortem

by ST | Sep 1, 2011 | Bug In, General, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

The storm has come and gone. Your expe­ri­ences all depends on where you were at the time. Some places by me got hit hard (and are still with­out pow­er as I write this). Oth­ers like my imme­di­ate area got away pret­ty clean­ly (unless you were right on a canal).... Read more

Hurricane Irene, What I Missed, What I Didn’t, and What I Learned.

by suburban | Aug 31, 2011 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Weather

Admit­ted­ly, I missed the “cen­ter” of Hur­ri­cane Irene. Rather, I missed the heart of the storm. I made my way west to Penn­syl­va­nia, not to bug out, but to a good friends bach­e­lor par­ty.  The upside is that I was going to be west of Irene.  The... Read more

Hurricane Irene: Observations From The Front Line (Proud To Be A Prepper!)

by ST | Aug 30, 2011 | Bug In, Guest Posts, Preparedness, suburban survival

As of writ­ing this Hur­ri­cane Irene is fore­cast to hit Long Island start­ing mid-day tomor­row (Sat­ur­day) and last through at least Sun­day evening.  I’m writ­ing and queu­ing this for post­ing on Fri­day since I don’t know if I’ll have pow­er or inter­net... Read more

Gear Review — Duracell Powerpack 600

by suburban | Aug 29, 2011 | Bug In, Energy, Gear, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I recent­ly pur­chased the Dura­cell Pow­er­pack 600 (This now actu­al­ly links to a new but sim­i­lar prod­uct).  It’s pow­ered by a recharge­able 28AH bat­tery and pro­vides up to 600 watts of AC pow­er. This device is pri­mar­i­ly designed as and for... Read more

The Dirty Bomb Diaries

by suburban | Jul 25, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I want­ed to share this with you.  The series was men­tioned to me by a friend that is also a prep­per.  It seems it came out in 2009, but thought it rel­e­vant as many urban and sub­ur­ban prep­pers I know are wor­ried about dirty bombs, espe­cial­ly in NYC... Read more

10 Things You Can Do Right Now To Become a Better Prepper or Get Started

by suburban | May 26, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, But Out Bag, first aid, Gardening, Gear, Preparedness

Trav­el­ing again this week and short on time, but want­ed to put some­thing togeth­er for you… I was going over ways in my head to help me re-align some goals and thought I would share a few of them with you…  These are in no par­tic­u­lar oder Plant a gar­den,... Read more