Who Would You Bug Out With?

by suburban | Jan 18, 2012 | Bug Out, Preparedness

A ques­tion on one of the boards I am on popped up, and I respond­ed, which I rarely do these days.  I’ve been kind of burned out of writ­ing and been focus­ing on build­ing more preps, los­ing some of my flab and get­ting into bet­ter shape, etc.…... Read more

The 3rd Wave, Evacuation From A Disaster Location

by ST | Nov 22, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Let me pref­ace this arti­cle by acknowl­edg­ing the source for the idea of this arti­cle comes from anoth­er pep­pers’ video. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it’s been a long time I’ve mulled over this top­ic and I don’t recall who exact­ly it was. With that out of the way, let’s... Read more

And Then There Was a Dinner Meeting

by suburban | Oct 31, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Cooking, Guns & Weapons, Personal, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Last week, I had din­ner with three oth­er prep­pers.  One was new, and the two oth­ers I have been in touch with for some time.  We all live in North­ern NJ, and are con­cerned with the econ­o­my, job growth, Bug­ging In, Bug­ging Out, etc.  The... Read more

Lessons Learned from Hurricane Floyd Employed in Hurricane Irene

by suburban | Oct 5, 2011 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival

This gen­er­ous post was con­tributed by Cameron Green, of Green Acad­e­my of Per­son­al Pro­tec­tion.  Cam has con­tributed sev­er­al oth­er posts, and I con­tin­ue to val­ue his help and con­tri­bu­tions.  Please vis­it his Web­site at GAPPNJ if you live... Read more

Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

by ST | Sep 20, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Guest Posts, Homesteading, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Survivalism

This arti­cle is a response to Suburban’s May 31st arti­cle “Think­ing About Buy­ing Rur­al Land for Your Bug Out Loca­tion”. A good arti­cle cer­tain­ly. I too have been look­ing into the pos­si­bil­i­ty of buy­ing some unde­vel­oped (“raw” as Sub­ur­ban puts it)... Read more

The $5.00 Tipping Point?

by ST | Sep 13, 2011 | Bug Out, Civil Unrest, General, Guest Posts, Money, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As of writ­ing this crude oil is still flow­ing in the Mid­dle East and through the Suez Canal (as well as oth­er prod­ucts) in spite of the chaos in Egypt. Will that last is the ques­tion. And yet even with the con­tin­u­a­tion of oil world prices for crude are... Read more