A Safe Room For Your Home

by suburban | Oct 26, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I am not real­ly sure this is going to apply to those of us who live in apart­ments.  How­ev­er, I may touch on that in this post. Much of what we dis­cuss, or I write, rather, revolves around bug­ging out.  As men­tioned in a pre­vi­ous post, I was going to... Read more

Do You Have Bug In Plans For The Workplace?

by suburban | Oct 21, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness, Shelter, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Have any of you thought about hav­ing to bug in at your work­place.  Most of the time I think about bug­ging out with my Get Home Bag and don’t real­ly think too much about what might hap­pen if I have to stay in an office for a few days, or longer.  A few... Read more

Bugging In and Bugging Out Podcasts at Chip Monk

by suburban | Sep 26, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out

Last week the Chip Monk Fam­i­ly Sur­vival Pod­cast had two pod­casts on bug­ging in and bug­ging out.  Thought I would share them here: Bug­ging Out:  http://chipmonk.podbean.com/2010/09/20/episode-62-buggin-out/ Some inter­est­ing con­cepts in his thoughts... Read more

How Do You Classify a SHTF Event?

by suburban | Sep 22, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I tend to think a lot when I have a lit­tle down time.  I was on the plane for work this week and it hit me, that I am not sure h0w I would clas­si­fy what type of an event and how severe it was before I were going to bug out or bug in.  The more thought I... Read more

Looking Into Solar Backup

by suburban | Sep 16, 2010 | Bug In, Energy, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

So, I have been look­ing into solar back­up sys­tems for sev­er­al low volt­age pieces of equip­ment.  I’ve been look­ing into this now for prob­a­bly about a year.  Of course, I’ve done noth­ing about it part­ly due to cost, and part­ly due to the fact that... Read more

Another Place To Consider for Preps or Last Minute Preps

by suburban | Sep 14, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

It’s Sun­day morn­ing, or it was Sun­day morn­ing, I should say.  I was sit­ting at Star­bucks for the first time in a cou­ple of months, sip­ping on a cof­fee try­ing to read a book, when a cou­ple of old­er women sat down next to me, and start­ed yap­ping and... Read more