Using Offline AI for Family Preparedness and Mutual Assistance Groups to Thrive
Using Offline AI for Family Preparedness and Mutual Assistance Groups to Thrive When you think about preparedness, you probably picture things like you’re stockpiling food, storing water, shooting, hunting, or learning basic first aid. You may have even gone a step further by setting up solar power, planning evacuation routes, or creating emergency communication systems […]
Why Understanding Cyber Attacks Is Important For Your Survival
No one knows when or when or where the next cyberattack will occur, but it’s important to be prepared for them just in case. Due to the Ukraine invasion by Vladimir Putin and the Russian army, there is a LOT of talk on the news about potential cyber threats to large and medium-sized businesses, as […]
15 Thoughts About The Coronavirus COVID-19
Well, if it is one thing I can honestly say, is that I never thought I would be writing about an actual pandemic that I might be in the middle of, in any stage of its process. When I first heard about Coronavirus prior to the COVID-19 strain being identified as different from traditional Coronavirus, […]
Character Matters, Quick Thoughts About Shelter With in a SHTF
In considering to form a survival group or just simply who you would allow sheltering with you in an SHTF/WROL emergency there are many articles, videos, books, etc that discuss the type of people to seek for inclusion in such a group: A mechanic, a doctor/nurse/EMT, a farmer, a carpenter, a tactical person, etc etc […]
New Orleans City Tour. Artifacts of Katrina, 10 Years Later
Hey everyone. This weekend I am in New Orleans for the very first time for a work conference. I am fortunate enough to have my significant other with me to enjoy the weekend with. We’re having a good time. Dinner, & a couple drinks on Bourbon Street, etc. Yesterday we took a city tour. It […]
Review of “Without Rule of Law, Advanced Skills to Help You Survive: Hide, Evade, Scavenge, and Infiltrate”
This review is probably months overdue. I’ve had “Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive” for months. It also took me a couple months to get through because I picked it up just every now and then to read it when I had a spare moment. To be sure I did not […]
I Am “SO” Out of Touch
It’s true… I spent the weekend with a friend in AZ close to Fort Hauchuca. Sierra Vista, AZ to be exact. This is a friend I met when we were in the 6th grade in middle school. We’ve known each other for about 27 years. One of my oldest friends. Now, to give you some color, […]
Saturday Videos
2 Activists Not Sure on Communist Solution httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JICDKUrKPjE SHTF CREW TAG httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsoWzV9LgR0 The Day of Darkness Came httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_6BKxk5Pg Surviving Hypothermic Conditions httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTkAM2_Kvw Live, Laugh, Prepare… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGO7jAfMIg WROL Spring Development httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jz0m3HFjgs
‘Suburban’s” Take on Sharing Your Gear, Supplies, and Food With Others
Over the past couple of weeks a reader and someone I correspond with via email wrote a couple of posts for the blog that have had some good comments associated with them regarding ethics and gear. You can find them here if you have not read them: The Case for Non-lethal Defense Share and Share […]
Understanding Everyone In the City Will Be a Refugee Post SHTF
Not often spoken of, I think in the survivalist or prepper circle, is how to avoid becoming a refugee post SHTF. We talk a lot about prepping, we talk a lot about bugging out or bugging in, but we never really talk about the situation where we do find ourselves shut off from our gear […]