The Interesting Road to Actually Bugging Out, Thoughts During a Mandatory Evacuation

by suburban | Sep 3, 2011 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, Gear, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival

Yes­ter­day, I received an email, and text mes­sage from the local emer­gency sys­tem I was signed up for.  The may­or of my town, and the coun­ty, I believe, insti­tut­ed a manda­to­ry evac­u­a­tion of homes due to flood­ing from the Pas­sa­ic Riv­er.  As I... Read more

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 Two Most Common Ways of Purifying Water Post Man Made or Natural Disaster

by suburban | Aug 26, 2011 | Preparedness, Water

Puri­fy­ing water in an urban or sub­ur­ban envi­ron­ment after a nat­ur­al or man-made dis­as­ter When dis­as­ter strikes, the first thing on most peo­ple’s minds is the well­be­ing of their loved ones and their own per­son­al safe­ty. Humans are pret­ty resource­ful... Read more