Suburbansurvival Blog

Survivalism & Disaster Preparedness

Resources and Commentary on Prepping in Suburbia

After a year or so of the site being down, we’re slow­ly relaunch­ing it with all the old con­tent, and writ­ing new con­tent. It’s been well over a year since I’ve done any prep­ping, and recent­ly start­ed again. Updates over the last 18 months are, Ms. Prep­per is now Mrs. Prep­per, and there’s the addi­tion of Baby Prep­per, too… I feel like it’s all new again, and I’m learn­ing from scratch…

Solar Oven Fail

Solar Oven Fail

This week­end I had an “epic fail” (as the kids say) with my new solar cook­er. I tried to make a sim­ple dish, Arroz con Pol­lo (chick­en with rice), but did not get past 100F. Why? The sun! As it turns out, Sat­ur­day morn­ing and after­noon was the time moth­er nature chose…

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Saturday Videos

Met­al ship­ping con­tain­ers used for a sur­vival retreat. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53gBoINp2TE SHTF LONG TERM FOOD STORAGE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4EO5110PE Pre­view of Gar­den­ing with­out Water­ing…

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A Quick Update…

Hey guys, sor­ry there has­n’t been a ton of new con­tent late­ly.  I have been swamped at work and have not had the time northe mind-share to put forth new blog posts late­ly.  Once the month is over things should slow a lit­tle and I should be avle to resume a reg­u­lar…

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Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

This arti­cle is a response to Suburban’s May 31st arti­cle “Think­ing About Buy­ing Rur­al Land for Your Bug Out Loca­tion”. A good arti­cle cer­tain­ly. I too have been look­ing into the pos­si­bil­i­ty of buy­ing some unde­vel­oped (“raw” as Sub­ur­ban puts it) land, both as a BOL

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September is National Preparedness Month

Our gov­ern­ment has des­ig­nat­ed Sep­tem­ber as “Nation­al Pre­pared­ness Month”. This con­trasts with the FBI’s pro­fil­ing prep­pers as poten­tial ter­ror­ists. I imag­ine the mes­sage is “be pre­pared”, but don’t be too pre­pared. We still want you depen­dent upon the gov­ern­ment, so…

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