Hurricane Sandy, Five Days Without Power, Three Weeks Later, and the Gear That Made My Life Easier

by suburban | Nov 23, 2012 | Gear, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

This is my (Sub­ur­ban’s)  slight­ly over­due post­mortem of Hur­ri­cane Sandy.  It’s Thanks­giv­ing day as I write this, and I want to say thank you again to all of you, my read­ers, as well as a Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing to you and your fam­i­lies.  My... Read more

Survival is a Fools Game; I Want to Live by Jesse Mathewson

by suburban | Nov 20, 2012 | Preparedness, Survivalism

Jesse Math­ew­son is a con­tribut­ing author to the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival blog.  He is an indi­vid­ual who believes in Lib­er­ty, Non-Aggres­sion, Self-Defense, Self-Own­er­ship and a Free Mar­ket with­out state inter­fer­ence it is Jesse’s firm belief that... Read more

Hurricane Sandy, a Review, by a Contributing Author from Long Island

by suburban | Nov 13, 2012 | Bug In, Gear, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

A con­tribut­ing writer to the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog, and lives on Long Island hit hard by Hur­ri­cane Sandy.  I’ve asked him for his post mortem recount of the hur­ri­cane, what worked and what did not work for him dur­ing the storm, pow­er out­age, and... Read more

Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part 1.5, OPSEC

by suburban | Sep 16, 2012 | Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Preparedness

This is a sup­ple­ment to Bug Out Threats, Traf­fic and Fuel, Part One.  While trav­el­ing this week, it occurred to me I might have missed some­thing in the orig­i­nal post.  In fact it was brought to my atten­tion by a bud­dy of mine as we were... Read more

My Defensive AR Course with GAPPNJ

by suburban | Sep 10, 2012 | Guns & Weapons, Personal Security, Preparedness

“Oh man,” I thought as I forced myself out of bet this Sun­day morn­ing, I feel like I was hit by a small truck.  Wip­ing the sleep from my eyes, and pri­or to my first cup of cof­fee (as I write this it’s almost noon, and still need a first cup of cof­fee) I... Read more