National Traffic System – A Good Resource to Know!

by ST | Jan 3, 2012 | Civil Unrest, Economy, General, Guest Posts, Preparedness

No, this isn’t about dri­ving or get­ting from A to B. The Nation­al Traf­fic Sys­tem (NTS) is a net­work of ama­teur radio oper­a­tors around the coun­try (there is sim­i­lar oper­a­tions inter­na­tion­al­ly but with dif­fer­ent rules) that in times of emer­gen­cies... Read more

The SHTF Is Here – Hurray (NOT!!)

by ST | Dec 27, 2011 | Economy, General, Guest Posts, Politics

That title caught your atten­tion for sure! But believe it or not, there are peo­ple out there who actu­al­ly want and hope for a mas­sive, nation­al SHTF event! You can see it in the way many peo­ple on a large num­ber of prep­per sites write or the videos they... Read more

Of Leadership, Reliability, Responsibility — and Preparedness

by ST | Dec 20, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Self Reliance

Real­i­ty check: Some peo­ple are just more pre­pared for events of life than oth­ers. “Events” can be any­thing from a per­son­al emer­gency to an unex­pect­ed home expense to a fam­i­ly emer­gency to a nat­ur­al dis­as­ter to some­thing good like a great job or... Read more

Accelerating the Purchase of Preps

by suburban | Apr 18, 2011 | Food, General, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Ide­al­ly, you replace one can of some­thing with two cans of that same some­thing when you use it and you are rotat­ing your preps.  Late­ly, I have been a bit lazy think­ing I have had enough, but I real­ly do not, and if you read Fri­day’s post, clear­ly my... Read more

Blog Down and Explaination

by suburban | Apr 10, 2011 | General

I received sev­er­al emails over the past day ask­ing why the blog was down…  Well, it seems the Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog was under what is called a Denial of Ser­vice attack or some­thing not unlike that, slow­ing the serv­er down dra­mat­i­cal­ly.... Read more