‘Suburban’s” Take on Sharing Your Gear, Supplies, and Food With Others

by suburban | Feb 7, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Food, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Over the past cou­ple of weeks a read­er and some­one I cor­re­spond with via email wrote a cou­ple of posts for the blog that have had some good com­ments asso­ci­at­ed with them regard­ing ethics and gear.  You can find them here if you have not read them: The... Read more

Understanding Everyone In the City Will Be a Refugee Post SHTF

by suburban | Feb 3, 2011 | Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Not often spo­ken of, I think in the sur­vival­ist or prep­per cir­cle, is how to avoid becom­ing a refugee post SHTF. We talk a lot about prep­ping, we talk a lot about bug­ging out or bug­ging in, but we nev­er real­ly talk about the sit­u­a­tion where we do find... Read more

Wow, What a Week. A few Updates, a Passed Up Savage, and More…

by suburban | Jan 13, 2011 | Economy, Guns & Weapons, Les Stroud, Physical Fitness, Preparedness

Well, what a week it has been.  The crazy news, the weath­er here in the north­east, work is crazy, and the week­end is going to be about catch­ing up and be just as nuts.  Cur­rent­ly, I am in the process of read­ing a book by Scott B. Williams called... Read more

What Are Your 2011 Preparedness Goals?

by suburban | Dec 31, 2010 | Preparedness, Survivalism

What are some of you 2011 Pre­pared­ness goals?  Here are some of mine in no par­tic­u­lar order: Add an addi­tion­al three months of food stor­age to my preps, Take at least two tac­ti­cal shoot­ing cours­es, Con­tin­ue teach­ing what I learn when I can, Take... Read more

Yesterday’s Mild TEOTWAWKI Moment at the Grocery Store

by suburban | Dec 27, 2010 | General, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

It was­n’t real­ly a TEOTWAWKI moment, but offered an inter­est­ing glimpse of what might be.  Per­haps, the ghost of Christ­mas future. There is a major snow­storm on the way to the north­east.  It is the first one of the sea­son and the weath­er chan­nels,... Read more