Prepper or Consumer Poser? That is the Question.

by suburban | Oct 3, 2011 | Personal, Prepping

It’s been a rough cou­ple of weeks with work. In fact, work has become increas­ing­ly busy. It was the end of the quar­ter and a race to get cus­tomer con­tracts closed up, sig­na­tures, etc. For those that don’t know, I work for a soft­ware com­pa­ny in sales. It can... 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

CERT Training Completed

by Prepperjim | Jul 6, 2011 | first aid, Health, Jobs, Politics, Self Reliance, suburban survival

I recent­ly com­plet­ed my Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team (CERT) train­ing. First some back­ground and then an eval­u­a­tion from a prep­per per­spec­tive. CERT’s were formed in the wake of the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks via exec­u­tive order. The train­ing... Read more

Saturday Videos

by suburban | Jun 25, 2011 | General

The Day the Dol­lar Died Indi­vid­ual First Aid Kit — A Must Have in a SHTF The ABC’s of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Going to the Field, Hygiene, Part II Going to the Field, Hygiene, Part III, Bar­gain... Read more

A Look Back At a Katrina Experience… An Expereinced Prepper Tells All

by suburban | Jun 17, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

It should be not­ed, that this was sent to me by a friend yes­ter­day.  I did not write this, and nei­ther did he, rather it comes from a prep­per who evac­u­at­ed LA and post­ed this sto­ry in a forum (www.zombiehunters.org).  It is... Read more