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

Carbines, Shotguns, Rifles, and The New Prepper, Part Two, Contributed by Cameron Green of GAPPNJ.COM

by suburban | Sep 29, 2011 | Guns & Weapons, Preparedness

This is the sec­ond install­ment in a series of papers to edu­cate the new prep­per about what weapons they should have on hand.  I’m approach­ing this from a SHTF sce­nario, and while I’m not advo­cat­ing using any firearm in an offen­sive man­ner, I stress that... 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

Hurricane Irene, What I Missed, What I Didn’t, and What I Learned.

by suburban | Aug 31, 2011 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Weather

Admit­ted­ly, I missed the “cen­ter” of Hur­ri­cane Irene. Rather, I missed the heart of the storm. I made my way west to Penn­syl­va­nia, not to bug out, but to a good friends bach­e­lor par­ty.  The upside is that I was going to be west of Irene.  The... Read more

A Review of “Dirt-Cheap Survival Retreat, One Man’s Solution” by M.D. Creekmore

by suburban | Jul 13, 2011 | Books, Bug Out Location

So, I final­ly had time to sit down and read M.D. Creek­more’s book, “Dirt-Cheap Sur­vival Retreat, One Man’s Solu­tion.”  I’ve actu­al­ly had the book for some­time, but have been so busy just have not had the time to read it.  The book itself is... Read more