Pandemic Thoughts, and How’s Your NBC & Quarantine Gear?

by suburban | Mar 23, 2012 | Pandemic, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As I spend time writ­ing this post, I am on a plane watch­ing the film Con­ti­gion. If you have not seen it, it’s a film about a pan­dem­ic that start­ed and begins to be wide­ly spread by those trav­el­ing. As the film pro­gress­es, it is found that the pan­dem­ic is... Read more

BTB Part 2 — Food

by Prepperjim | Mar 14, 2012 | Preparedness

Last week, I dis­cussed water stor­age and what I my prepa­ra­tions are in this area. This post will dis­cuss my food stor­age preps and how I approach the issue. This is a much more com­plex sub­ject because every­one eats dif­fer­ent food and... Read more

Back to the Basics

by Prepperjim | Mar 7, 2012 | Preparedness, Water, Weather

I’ve been prep­ping for about 18 months now and have kind of lost the spark that dri­ves me to keep going. I real­ly have not done any­thing for the past two months oth­er than lis­ten to The Sur­vival Pod­cast and some oth­er “small” projects (sub­ject of future... Read more

Was “Doomsday Preppers” Necessary?

by suburban | Mar 4, 2012 | Prepping

I watched it.  I saved them on my DVR, and watched them.  You watched them.  We watched them.  We cri­tiqued each prep­per based on what we have and know.  Admit it.  You secret­ly did.  I know I did.  As the sce­nario was laid... Read more

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

by ST | Jan 31, 2012 | Civil Unrest, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, Psychology, Self Reliance

(Note: This arti­cle is both a stand-alone piece as well as a response to the arti­cle “Who would you bug out with?” that appeared recent­ly on this site.) ”If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when?” – Rab­bi Hil­lel (Jew­ish schol­ar &... Read more