Weather Emergency On The Road
All of us know what kinds of weather our home areas are likely to get, and the warning signs it’s coming. We have preps and plans to deal with those. (We do, right? If not, time to get on that.)… Continue Reading
Extreme Weather
Disaster Responder’s Prepping Lessons
New Orleans and surrounding areas were a complete mess in so many ways after Katrina; but they did have a lot of lessons preppers can learn from. My friend Doc was called into the disaster response early on and spent… Continue Reading
Using Prepping Skills In The Wild
I recently spent most of a vacation visiting some of America’s wild places. This trip took a friend (Doc) and I out of our comfort zones and out of range of quick assistance. It was a good model for some… Continue Reading
Stay Dry: Drying Clothes On The Road
Did you ever notice that on TV, the Survivor that somehow managed to erect a simple shelter in a howling rain the night before is magically in dry by morning? Does that match your camping experience? Not mine either. Wet… Continue Reading
Heat Injuries: Avoidance and Coping
Heat injury can easily and quickly turn you from a hard-working prepper into somebody who is entirely incapacitated or dead. It’s serious stuff, so let’s take a look at what it is and what it looks like. Salty and I… Continue Reading
Hook Echo: When Twisters This Way Came
I could sit there and do nothing. My friends were in danger as the radar showed the Hook Echo. Twisters had arrived in the land where the tall corn grows. The Hook Echo over Pella, IA A wicked set of… Continue Reading
Cooling Towels Tested As A Prep
Wouldn’t it be nifty to just drape a damp towel around your neck and have it effectively cool you down? Cooling towels require no electricity and can be re-used for a very long time. It sounds like a great idea… Continue Reading
Scotchgard: Prepper Gold
Scotchgard has been around for decades, but I have recently run across several folks who never heard of it, so I thought I should make all of my loyal readers, both of them, aware of this useful product. What is… Continue Reading
Normalcy Bias: Ignoring The Tornado Warning?
For those of us who live in tornado country there’s, one sound that we really don’t want to hear… the long continuous blast of a tornado siren. Everybody who lives in tornado country knows the sound I’m talking about. Pretty… Continue Reading
We prepped for it: Drought hits us in the Midwest
Some situations you prep for and hope they don’t come (I’m looking at YOU, major EMP!). Others situations you pretty much know are going to happen one year or another. Drought? It’s going to happen. Water collection for home use… Continue Reading
Three Considerations For Choosing Where To Establish A Bug Out Location (BOL)
Suppose you’ve bugged out. You’ve arrived at the chunk of land where you have decided to stay — maybe for a few days, maybe longer — and it’s time to set up a place to rest your head. You don’t… Continue Reading
Paranoid Prepper: My One Year Anniversary
Time flies when you are having fun, and I’ve been enjoying posting here on 3BY for a full year now, making this post my first anniversary post! When I first introduced myself here, it was as a person who had… Continue Reading
Spring is Flood Season: Are You Prepared?
Spring is Flood Season. Salty and I were driving home in a heavy rain. It was a ridge-top road, passing just barely downhill of one cornfield and uphill of the next. We drove into what looked to be only an… Continue Reading
Prepping Lessons To Learn From The Disaster In Puerto Rico
Lessons from Puerto Rico The destruction in Puerto Rico is an opportunity for all of us to learn a few lessons. Prior to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Puerto Rico’s largest problem was that the government had borrowed too much, and… Continue Reading
Preppers, Are You Ready.gov For A Disaster?
The US Government has a long history of responding to natural and man-made disasters, with varying degrees of success. We are going to examine the history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in a future article, today let’s take… Continue Reading