Your Ultimate Guide to Bugging Out: 8 – 10 Essential Locations
Recently I gave a presentation to a group of new to seasoned preppers, clearly in various stages of their preparedness journeys. For some in the presentation, each stage of understanding was a little overwhelming because there was so much to think about. For others, they had very specific questions about areas they had a specific […]
Guide to Planning a Safe Bug Out from the Suburbs to Your Bug Out Location
The concept of bugging out is one that I’ve clearly been familiar with, and I assume you are too… Many preppers like myself have fantasized that we would have to leave our home and hoof it, jump in the bug out vehicle, etc to our bug out location. Even during Hurricane Sandy, I sheltered in, and had no power for […]
The Official Warning from Department of Homeland Security, 6 Months or More Without Critical Utilities
Well, it’s finally happened, and you’ve probably already heard about it… The United States Government has officially, on paper, to the public said that our electrical grid, water supply, gas supply, and much more are in dire jeopardy of failing if our electrical grid is taken out by a natural or manmade disaster. If you are […]
Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, What I Am Doing To Prepare
How many times in the last several weeks have you heard about Ebola? Too many? Me too. Some may say I am crazy, some may say I am cautious, and some are walking around living in their bubble of life without a clue. It was only a few weeks ago, when I published a booklet for Ms. […]
Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part 1.5, OPSEC
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 chatting about the possibility of having to Bug Out. The […]
Hygiene In the Field, or Bug Out Hygiene
I’ve done a lot of camping this summer, and with the drought, you can imagine it was pretty hot out there. I can attest that it was. At our camp site we cut a lot of wood, and we used much of it for the camp fire. Those were hot days swinging an axe, and […]
Bug Out Threats, Traffic and Fuel, Part One
Living in NJ is an experience unto itself. Just ask any of my friends who live here that are transplants like me. It is certainly one of the most unique places I have ever been. People here just want to get from point A to point B when they are in the car. You would […]
The Modular Survival Kit, Cache Valley Prepper
The Modular Survival Kit is a fairly simple concept. And one that I know that the military is familiar with, but not one that I’ve heard get much attention in the prepping community. Once I had built up my kit, as any aspiring survivalist would do, I did a few practice bug-outs in the form […]
Who Would You Bug Out With?
A question on one of the boards I am on popped up, and I responded, which I rarely do these days. I’ve been kind of burned out of writing and been focusing on building more preps, losing some of my flab and getting into better shape, etc.… However, I thought this was in interesting question. […]
The 3rd Wave, Evacuation From A Disaster Location
Let me preface this article by acknowledging the source for the idea of this article comes from another peppers’ video. Unfortunately, it’s been a long time I’ve mulled over this topic and I don’t recall who exactly it was. With that out of the way, let’s get started. The subject of evacuation from a disaster […]