Disaster Clean-Up Nobody has ever walked into a house after a flood and said, “Wow, I can’t believe how clean everything is!” Disasters are much like small children. They are dirty, smelly, and rarely ever do they clean up after… Continue Reading
Signal for survival You’ve read numerous news stories about it but you never thought it would actually happen to you. Unfortunately, you zigged when you should have zagged and you’ve just realized you’ve walked by the same tree four… Continue Reading
Air travel is a problem area for preppers in many ways. Conglomerations of thousands of strangers in a big population center. The need to travel light. The uncertainty that whatever you do bring will arrive at the same destination as… Continue Reading
Christmas House Fire? No! Tis the season to say no to Christmas house fires. Unfortunately, house fires and holidays seem to go hand-in-hand together. Let’s not let all those carefully collected preps we have go up in smoke… Continue Reading
People are on the move for the holidays. Many of us are going by car. Congested travel and winter travel both have their own special problems. Is your car properly stocked, in case your trip doesn’t go completely as planned?… Continue Reading
There’s a lot of attention paid in prepper circles to the TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) event: The One Big Thing that changes our worlds forever. Well, we ought to pay some attention to those.… Continue Reading
Call them bug-out bags or get-home bags or whatever else you want; they’re important. These bags are stashes of preps that you can pick up and take off on a moment’s notice with whether you’re home or on the road.… Continue Reading
Weathering what storm, you ask? Doesn’t much matter. There’s always some storm in our futures. This isn’t as dramatic as a zombie apocalypse; but it’s one whale of a lot more likely, so it’s important to be ready. This post… Continue Reading
Chemical accidents. I work as a volunteer on our county’s emergency management committee, and the #1 thing we prep for is something I don’t hear anybody in the prepping community talking about… probably because it’s not sexy, doesn’t require guns… Continue Reading
You’re taking care of a child with a high fever. Or you and your family have been walking for hours in the heat, bugging out of a bad situation. Maybe you’re trapped at home by a major ice storm and… Continue Reading
Everybody has personal disasters. Accidents happen, bones break, jobs are lost, houses burn down, expensive mechanical devices fail, financial troubles escalate, we get sick, and loved ones pass away. Personal disasters… or personal Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF) moments… happen… Continue Reading
Some winter weather preps are pretty obvious. Heat, that doesn’t rely on electricity. Light, ditto. Food and water. Emergency supplies in the car, in case you get stuck out on the road. First aid. Warm clothes. Got those covered? Great!… Continue Reading
I was training for a long ride, so Salty had dropped me and my bike off with plans to pick us both up a hundred miles down the trail. I was about eighty miles down the trail and the sun… Continue Reading
We here at 3BY have been working on a series of ‘personal SHTF’ articles: Pieces about how to be prepared for the emergencies that come one family or person at a time. These preps are not usually extensive or expensive,… Continue Reading
Bombardiers love to see secondaries. They drop their bomb, it explodes, and a few seconds later there’s another set of explosions. Each of these is a secondary. The first problem has caused a chain reaction. The goal of this post… Continue Reading