Endless Fall – Part 5: Hell Comes To Frog Town
Note: The following is the fifth installment of a series that represents a first-hand chronicle of a fictional economic collapse in the United States. This series is to be viewed as only one possible scenario. April 2 – 165 days after Black Swan Day My Dearest Children – Spring has sprung. Unfortunately the warmer […]
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Floyd Employed in Hurricane Irene
This generous post was contributed by Cameron Green, of Green Academy of Personal Protection. Cam has contributed several other posts, and I continue to value his help and contributions. Please visit his Website at GAPPNJ if you live in the NY, NJ or PA area, and are looking for certification for CCWs, or learning how […]
The $5.00 Tipping Point?
As of writing this crude oil is still flowing in the Middle East and through the Suez Canal (as well as other products) in spite of the chaos in Egypt. Will that last is the question. And yet even with the continuation of oil world prices for crude are rising as is gasoline at the […]
Repacking Some Core Preps for Portability, Ease of Use, Care Packaging, and Rotation
We talk an awful lot about how to rotate your canned, jarred, and other preps for freshness. We also talk a lot about storage, how to store, what to store, etc. Yesterday, I undertook a small job of repacking some of my “basic” preps. What are some of my most basic preps. Well, rice and […]
Hurricane Irene: A Preppers’ Postmortem
The storm has come and gone. Your experiences all depends on where you were at the time. Some places by me got hit hard (and are still without power as I write this). Others like my immediate area got away pretty cleanly (unless you were right on a canal). Even house by house was different. […]
Hurricane Irene: Observations From The Front Line (Proud To Be A Prepper!)
As of writing this Hurricane Irene is forecast to hit Long Island starting mid-day tomorrow (Saturday) and last through at least Sunday evening. I’m writing and queuing this for posting on Friday since I don’t know if I’ll have power or internet when it comes. Opinion various but the main two forecasts show the storm […]
Saturday Videos
Custom Kydex by Campfire Talk httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BEGMjwBbs The Yankee Prepper Interview httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klEWwShWFFE Urban vs. Suburban Survival httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEY8N-M_Uw “Navigating The Nutnfancy Project” by Nutnfancy httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPHr97OZ9U Home Security Upgrades Zmodo 8 Camera Surveillance System httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uh7HwoWUkU Survivalist Review of 20 Years After (2008) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VwPFChKI8 Bug out bag questions and answers – typical forum thread httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPGZ_RLz3zM How To Build An […]
Benefits of CERT Training
I live in a community of less than 10,000 people in rural Cache Valley on the ID/UT border with volunteer fire and ambulance service. It’s been 8 months now since I joined my local Community Emergency Response Team. Since then: I have completed CERT level I training (Taught by my city’s FD battalion commander) and […]
The Bug Out Trailer or The Camping Trailer
Recently, I read a post over at Scott William’s, Bug-Out Survival blog called 4×4 Tent Trailers for Hauling Your Stuff Off Road. Without going into great detail, I have looked at these before with great interest, primarily because I drive an SUV. There are a couple different manufacturers of “survival trailers.” that would allow you to […]
Would YOU be a shelter? (Remembering Anne Frank)
Everyone loves a scapegoat. Throughout history whenever something terrible happens either for reasons too complex for the common person to grasp or just the culmination of many other events people as a whole try to seek out someone, some group of people, to blame for the problem. Rarely do they see themselves as a cause […]