Articles on how to prepare yourself, your family, your house and your livestock for disasters and emergencies of all sizes. This isn’t the same as actually surviving them; this is about getting ready for them and, in many cases, avoiding them altogether!
Some of my favorite memories are from camping trips. I’ve been lucky enough to hike in Yellowstone, Monongahela, Rocky Mountain National Park, Acadia and many parks and forests around my home region of Eastern Ohio. The pictures I’ve taken don’t do justice to the experiences I’ve had, experiences of freedom, self-reliance, community, and even fear. […]
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Preparing for disasters and critical situations has its benefits. Preparedness gives you the benefit of knowing what to do, and that knowledge increases your chances of survival. Panic during a crisis is your enemy, and it can be fatal. If you prepare in advance, it reduces your panic level, and you can more quickly react
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This is a grim topic, for me, but imagine that day has finally come. Perhaps it’s signaled by a bright flash that wakes you early in the morning, or the economic demise of an entire planet splashes across your TV screen, coupled with the slow painful ache of another, yet much greater depression that hits
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Many people just automatically assume that hoarders and preppers are the same. With the creation of new television series such as TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive and Hoarders, the difference between them has become an interesting subject. Generally, when most people think of someone stockpiling, they usually put everyone in the same category. And that category
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If you’re like me and you love a great survival story, here are a few works of fiction that are enjoyable to read as well as enlightening and educational. A good survival story needs to have several elements in order to be considered one of the best… It has to be engaging and really draw
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So here’s the big question… how do you become a skilled prepper or homesteader without everybody thinking you’re nuts? Preppers and survivalists are widely regarded as extremists, but there are ways to become prepared without ridicule. One has to find a way to incorporate these skills into their daily lives. When it comes to hobbies, it
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Like mom always bellowed at us kids growing up: “There’s no time like the present to get things done”. The best way to begin prepping is to just begin. Any one of us can realize that after a calamity happens is not the best time, “for getting your act together”. So I decided to lay out
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Every prepper knows that the one thing you can count on during a natural disaster or post-SHTF situation is panicked crowds which result in unpredictable chaos, violence, and injury. There will be a myriad of events that could happen that you might not be ready to handle. If you’re putting together your bug out bag
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If you currently reside in a senior retirement community and worry about the state of affairs in our country and across the world, there is hope. One thing you can do to make sure that you and those around you are ready is to start getting prepared. Just because you’re getting older and may have
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We all have them loved ones, be they family or close friends, who just don’t get prepping. They are reliant on the system and the infrastructure that is in place and they simply do not believe that any of it is vulnerable, that any of it could fail. If you go to them and talk
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