‘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 […]
Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Four
Okay, in part four Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival, today we talk about a list of skills that we may think are important for you, your friends, and team to know in a short or long term survival situation. As I scour the Internet for lists of essential skills to pick and choose from, […]
Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Three
Yesterday, I finished up the post by illustrating the old west. Wouldn’t it be great to roll up on a small town that is isolated from the rest of society, is self sufficient, has a great agricultural community, steel mill, power plant, honest people with good skills, etc. Good luck. No such place that I […]
Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Two
Did you give some thought yesterday to who your friends are and what skills they have? Are they doctors, lawyers, blacksmith, veterinarian, pharmacist, construction workers, etc? How about yourself? What skills do you have? What skills can you teach, barter, or sell if had to? Let’s look at several more primitive skills. Do you have […]
Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part One
Is it inevitable; A disaster of catastrophic proportion that changes everyone’s living situation going forward for good? Is living post disaster just an unforeseen reality that many of us have not experienced yet? Look at Haiti just over a year ago. Look at Australia with flooding that has destroyed homes and lives. One thing is […]
What Your 2010 Survival Interests Were
It is really more than a Top 10 List. It started out that way, but I thought it would be interesting to share some of the top categories, pages, and downloads viewed and searched for on the Suburban Survival Blog in 2010. All lists are in order of popularity with the most popular being #1 […]
Yesterday’s Mild TEOTWAWKI Moment at the Grocery Store
It wasn’t really a TEOTWAWKI moment, but offered an interesting glimpse of what might be. Perhaps, the ghost of Christmas future. There is a major snowstorm on the way to the northeast. It is the first one of the season and the weather channels, news channels, and everyone is predicting 12 – 18 or so […]
Link to Blog Talk Radio Session
So, for those of you who did not hear it last night I rambled on for about 45 minutes on Prepper Podcast Radio with host Ed Corcoran the publisher of Complete Survivalist magazine. Here is the link if you are interested in hearing it. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think: […]
Form/Join a Survivalist or Prepper Group or Lone Wolf it?
I joined the Northern NJ Preparedness Meetup because I was interested in survival preparedness. I think that society, especially in the suburbs, socially frown on prepping and preparedness in general. Almost everyone I have met that is a prepper in New Jersey has prepared for disaster very quietly. Including myself. For me to join a […]