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

Who Will Help me Eat My Bread?

by ST | Oct 4, 2011 | Barter, Food, General, Guest Posts, Money, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism

There is an old children’s sto­ry about some­one who asks “Who will help me make my bread?” No one helps. No one helps plant the wheat, har­vest the wheat, mill the wheat, make the dough, or bake it. But at the end when it is asked who will help eat the bread... Read more

Promises To Keep : Your New Post-SHFT Credit Card

by ST | Sep 27, 2011 | Barter, Guest Posts, Money, Survivalism

There is no hon­or among thieves. But, thank­ful­ly, most peo­ple aren’t thieves. Even in a SHTF sce­nario, with some excep­tion (e.g. Kat­ri­na), most peo­ple do behave well. For the most part. Liv­ing in or near a big city it can be hard to under­stand that a... 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

Rant About the Main Stream Media, Post Hurricane Irene. Following a Post from Modern Survival Blog

by suburban | Sep 2, 2011 | Personal, Survivalism

This post is prob­a­bly more of a rant, and you will want to read the post over at Mod­ern Sur­vival Blog about Hur­ri­cane Irene: Main-Stream Slams Hur­ri­cane IRENE Prep­pers. Hon­est­ly, I am fired up.  How is it pos­si­ble the main stream... Read more

Benefits of CERT Training

by Mr-Jones | Aug 5, 2011 | CERT, Personal, Preparedness, suburban survival, Survivalism

I live in a com­mu­ni­ty of less than 10,000 peo­ple in rur­al Cache Val­ley on the ID/UT bor­der with vol­un­teer fire and ambu­lance ser­vice.  It’s been 8 months now since I joined my local Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team.  Since then: I have... Read more