Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

by suburban | Sep 1, 2010 | Bug In, Cooking, Energy, Gear, Light, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Stoves, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Weather

Well, the end of August is com­ing, and the weath­er is start­ing to change a bit; evenings are get­ting cool­er, and days are start­ing to get a bit short­er.  This to me is a clear sign of a few things.  One, some of my Bug Out Bag con­tents need to be... Read more

What Are We Talking Here, Man Made Disasters or Natural Disasters?

by suburban | Sep 1, 2010 | Personal, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Weather

Well, while I am semi watch­ing a lit­tle TV this evening, I fig­ured I would bring up a top­ic that I sel­dom dis­cuss.  Nat­ur­al dis­as­ters.  In the past cou­ple years, nat­ur­al dis­as­ters have been front and cen­ter to every­one, par­tial­ly due to... Read more

Les Stroud — Living Off the Grid Video

by suburban | Aug 31, 2010 | Bug Out Location, Les Stroud, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Many of you have no doubt seen this video in the past.  It is the one hour doc­u­men­tary that Les Stroud record­ed about buy­ing a piece of prop­er­ty and liv­ing off the grid poten­tial­ly sim­pli­fy­ing life.  That, how­ev­er is not the rea­son I am... 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

States of Awareness, Jeff Cooper’s “Cooper Codes”

by suburban | Aug 25, 2010 | Preparedness, Psychology, suburban survival, Urban Survival

This was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on 05/2004 by some­one else, some­where else, and I copied and past­ed it to a word doc­u­ment for my own per­son­al ref­er­ence.  It goes into the states of aware­ness that I think all sub­ur­ban­ites should be aware of when... Read more