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Five Minute Bug Out at Survival Spot Blog

Today, I came across a video at the Survival Spot Blog entitled “Five Minute Bug Out.”  You can check out the video below. I may actually try this exercise in the coming week or two.  I may set up a poll as to what type of scenario to be in.  The poll will let you […]

Testing Your Bug Out Route(s), I Am Beginning To Do This

A couple weekends ago I tested a bug out route (via vehicle) to a point that intersects with a spot where I can branch off into two or three other routes to get to my BOL. We’ll call this intersection point “Point B.” I wanted to test the following: Viability of the route Normal traffic […]

Protecting Your Preps by Caching Some Along Your Bug Out Routes

Protecting your preps (Security) is one of the basic five basic survival priorities, and is usually one of the last things we think about when it comes to preparations.  One way I have been looking at protecting some of my preps, is to begin caching them along my Bug Out routes… The reason for this […]

Fortify Your Winter Camp if You Bug Out

So, I thought this was pretty cool, and some good advise.  In the event you have to bug out in the winter whether you start out on foot, or start out in a vehicle and then end up on foot in the winter with an ample level of snow on the ground, you may end […]

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Survival – Over at Survival Spot Blog

I read the Survival Spot Blog, almost daily.  Partially, because I read through so much stuff, he generally peppers his blog with videos that make for a nice change.  Today, he had a post, entitled “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Survival.”  I think it should be titled “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nuclear […]

The Focus of Suburban Survival Blog and, if the SHTF

I am writing this post, because, it is probably something I should have written several months ago when I started writing a daily blog on my thoughts about suburban survival.  I really started getting concerned about what was going on in the world when I saw little progress in Afghanistan and Iraq.  I am just as […]

Changes to the Suburban Survival Blog

Well, you no doubt have noticed a change in scenery here at the Suburban Survival Blog.  I have updated the look and feel, several images, as well as the widget that allows people to post to social media sites to allow others to benefit from what I post here.  This theme also allows me more […]

Know Nothing? Buy a Book…

It’s no secret that most people in the suburbs here in NJ get out of bed at 5:00 / 5:30 a.m., shower, and saunter their way to the train, bus, or car to commute their way to work every day.  Most days it can take 30 – 120 minutes depending on the traffic here to […]