One Suburban Apartment Preppers Plan

by suburban | Sep 4, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Tak­en from a sur­vival forum and copied to a word doc­u­ment late last year for my own review going for­ward: Now some peo­ple live in apart­ments like myself, I fig­ured we need­ed a thread for sug­ges­tions for folks like myself.  I’m pret­ty cre­ative and... Read more

Bugging In vs. Bugging Out at TheSurvivalPodcast.com

by suburban | Sep 2, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, But Out Bag, Preparedness

The title says it all.  I am not going to write a bunch about this.  Just lis­ten to the pod­cast: Episode-502- Bug­ging In vs. Bug­ging Out – Answer­ing with... Read more

Testing Your Bug Out Route(s), I Am Beginning To Do This

by suburban | Aug 30, 2010 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Bug Out Vehicle, suburban survival, Urban Survival

A cou­ple week­ends ago I test­ed a bug out route (via vehi­cle) to a point that inter­sects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three oth­er routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this inter­sec­tion point “Point B.” I want­ed to test the fol­low­ing:... Read more

Protecting Your Preps by Caching Some Along Your Bug Out Routes

by suburban | Aug 26, 2010 | Bug Out, Preparedness, Shelter, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Pro­tect­ing your preps (Secu­ri­ty) is one of the basic five basic sur­vival pri­or­i­ties, and is usu­al­ly one of the last things we think about when it comes to prepa­ra­tions.  One way I have been look­ing at pro­tect­ing some of my preps, is to begin... Read more

Fortify Your Winter Camp if You Bug Out

by suburban | Aug 18, 2010 | Bug Out, Survivalism, Weather

So, I thought this was pret­ty cool, and some good advise.  In the event you have to bug out in the win­ter whether you start out on foot, or start out in a vehi­cle and then end up on foot in the win­ter with an ample lev­el of snow on the ground, you may end up... Read more

DIY — Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Aug 17, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Cooking, DIY, Preparedness, Stoves, Urban Survival

Instructa­bles .com has instruc­tions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc…  I am prob­a­bly going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hik­ing stove in my Bug Out... Read more