JWR’s post on the Survival Blog: A Practical, Full Spectrum Suburban Survival Plan

by suburban | May 9, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survivalism

Here is a great article/blog post from James Wes­ley Rawles called A Prac­ti­cal, Full Spec­trum Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Plan. (This blog post is no longer avail­able on survivalblog.com. Read more

The homeless as survivalists

by suburban | Apr 27, 2010 | General, Survivalism

I was in NYC yes­ter­day, as I often am. As I was walk­ing to the hotel to vis­it a friend that was in town, I saw sev­er­al home­less peo­ple as I usu­al­ly do near Port Author­i­ty. Today, how­ev­er, I took par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to them, not­ed what they were... Read more

Bugging in or being prepared to go nowhere fast.

by suburban | Apr 23, 2010 | Energy, Food, Preparedness, Shelter, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Water

So along the way over the past cou­ple of months of cre­at­ing prepa­ra­tions for tragedy and bug­ging out to a fall­back point, I real­ized that I am unpre­pared if I am here, and there is a weath­er or oth­er issue.  What am I going to do if some­thing as... Read more

Taking Action on and Executing Being Prepared…

by suburban | Jun 13, 2009 | Energy, Food, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, Survival Gear, Survivalism

Tonight after clean­ing my guns, relax­ing a lit­tle bit, and hav­ing some din­ner, I got on one of the sur­vival forums that I am a mem­ber of.  I was look­ing up gar­den­ing infor­ma­tion and found quite a few resources, down­loaded some docs, and came across... Read more

In the beginning; my first look at being a Prepper. I am clearly a neophyte…

by suburban | Jun 6, 2009 | General, Personal, Preparedness, Survivalism

Inter­est­ing­ly, while work­ing in Mid­town Man­hat­tan for an Inter­net com­pa­ny in ear­ly 2009 I began to have the over­whelm­ing feel­ing that I was too con­nect­ed.  Too in touch with tech­nol­o­gy, and that I was miss­ing some­thing in my life.  It... Read more