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…

Famine

Famine

Jul 12, 2011 | , , , ,

Famine — a severe short­age of food, as through crop fail­ure or over­pop­u­la­tion. (“famine.” Collins Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary — Com­plete & Unabridged 10th Edi­tion. Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers.) More than mere­ly a short­age or high­er prices, “famine” is the extreme low end of…

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Saturday Videos

Jul 9, 2011 |

Build a Home­made Berkey Water Fil­ter httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KExgPPfF2o Build­ing Wind Tur­bines to Cre­ate Elec­tric­i­ty httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9EEHFKEckM SHTF EMP Sce­nario A Les­son Learned Part 1 (Sce­nario) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JCXKNXy1qQ…

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Higher Standards

Higher Standards

Jul 5, 2011 | , , ,

Survivalists/preppers have nev­er been por­trayed well in the mod­ern media and enter­tain­ment fields.  At best, they are por­trayed in as a com­i­cal cliché like in the 1983 movie “The Sur­vivors” (Wal­ter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jer­ry Reed – very fun­ny actu­al­ly!). But most…

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HBO’s “Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip”

Jul 4, 2011 |

As I write this, it is get­ting lat­er in the evening on July 4th.  I pur­pose­ful­ly stayed in this evening to watch a spe­cial on HBO called “Cit­i­zen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip,” on HBO.  It is a spe­cial where the pro­duc­ers drove through all 50 states ask­ing ask­ing…

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