Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

by suburban | Sep 1, 2010 | Bug In, Cooking, Energy, Gear, Light, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Stoves, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Weather

Well, the end of August is com­ing, and the weath­er is start­ing to change a bit; evenings are get­ting cool­er, and days are start­ing to get a bit short­er.  This to me is a clear sign of a few things.  One, some of my Bug Out Bag con­tents need to be... Read more

Worth Watching — Docudrama on Pandemics

by suburban | Jul 15, 2010 | Bug In, Health, Pandemic, Preparedness

This is a docu­d­ra­ma I came across that I believe could be a real­is­tic sit­u­a­tion and could cre­ate a bug in sit­u­a­tion for fam­i­lies to try to keep from con­tract­ing a dis­ease. Read more

Bugging In? Think About Comfort Foods Too.

by suburban | Jun 28, 2010 | Barter, Bug In, Preparedness, Psychology

I met a prep­per about a month or so ago, and we were dis­cussing our preps, what we thought we would need based on fam­i­ly, sit­u­a­tion, etc.  He men­tioned to me that he pur­chas­es com­fort foods that he would nor­mal­ly pick up at the gro­cery store.... Read more

My Thoughts on the Rule of Threes in the Suburbs and a SHTF Situation

by suburban | Jun 25, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness

Today, I want­ed to dis­cuss the Rule of 3’s, but not the stan­dard Rule of 3’s.  These are my addi­tions to the Rule of 3’s that I see as mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in decid­ing to pre­serve your­self in a SHTF in the sub­urbs or an urban set­ting… Any... Read more

Water Storage as an Apartment Dweller

by suburban | Jun 21, 2010 | Bug In, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water

As every­one knows you can only live three days with­out water.  Per­son­al­ly, I can’t fath­om not hav­ing any­thing to drink in a 24 hour peri­od.  How­ev­er, here is how I store potable water in my apart­ment for any SHTF sit­u­a­tion.  When I first... Read more