The Emergency Travel Communications Kit

by suburban | Mar 21, 2023 | Communications, Gear, Man Made Disaster, Mutual Assistance Group, Natural Disaster, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Travel, Urban Survival

So, busi­ness trav­el seems to be a thing again.  I’m not thrilled about it.  After stay­ing home for two years, and spend­ing it with my nuclear fam­i­ly, I real­ly don’t want to get back on a plane to trav­el for busi­ness.  I’d rather work from home,... Read more

Summer’s Here, Work, Future Plans, and Prepping

by suburban | Jun 25, 2013 | Bug Out Vehicle, Gardening, General, Pandemic

Well, sum­mer is offi­cial­ly upon us.  When it came it came with heat and humid­i­ty.  With that there are sup­posed to be severe thun­der storms all week here in NJ.  I’m get­ting used to the rain, and am going to start call­ing New Jer­sey, “New... Read more

The Get Home Bag for the Girlfriend and Her Impending Education

by suburban | Feb 12, 2013 | Bug Out, But Out Bag, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As I men­tioned in a pre­vi­ous post, I was con­cerned about mak­ing sure my girl­friend was pre­pared for an emer­gency, pri­mar­i­ly to get to my domi­cile in the event of an impend­ing or hap­pen­ing dis­as­trous sit­u­a­tion.  I hope to make sure... Read more

I Forgot My EDC…

by suburban | Feb 12, 2012 | EDC, Gear

Well, I am in Flori­da on busi­ness. I’m here for a week. Maybe longer. I’m hap­py to be here, because it seems win­ter has final­ly met with the North­east. How­ev­er, I feel naked. I left my trav­el EDC kit in my my GHB acci­den­tal­ly, in the trunk of my car. All I... Read more

Prepper Evangelical

by Prepperjim | Sep 5, 2011 | EDC, Personal, Preparedness

I read ST’s post from last week and start­ed think­ing about how to con­vert peo­ple to our pre­pared­ness mind­set. To be frank, I think it is almost impos­si­ble to change peo­ple’s ideas on just about any sub­ject. Their opin­ions have been formed over... Read more