Cash Is King in a disaster. Really? In first world countries in the early 21st century, cash has been largely phased out by credit and debit cards. That’s fine for everyday needs, but if the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF)… Continue Reading
Biohazards – What are they? Biohazards are infectious agents. Both poisons and biohazards can kill, but poisons don’t multiply or develop nifty (for them) tricks to cause their own spread. Biohazards do both. When you think about the risk of… Continue Reading
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
I briefly referred to Chinese holdings of US Treasury securities in my post on Economic Collapse. Since that time the administration has begun negotiations with China over trade. These negotiations are likely to go on for some time, but that… Continue Reading
Cables and gas lines run in a lot of places you might not expect, and preppers (along with everybody else) need to know where services cross our properties. Maybe your neighborhood’s gotten rough and you feel a need for a… Continue Reading
Needs are not mechanisms. Both of the photos below show men who had a need to breathe while under water. The men in the first photo (heroes all!) who had that need did not have the mechanism, and perished. The… Continue Reading
It was a dark and stormy night. Some loser drunk had collided with a power pole and left its debris in the road. Salty and I hit at highway speed a cable that was stretched across the road. The front… Continue Reading
In some ways humans are unique among living things; but when we get scared enough those special things bolt off into a hole somewhere and we’re left with responses common to many animals. This is what physiologists call the sympathetic… Continue Reading
Prepping can seem an impossibly difficult task. The ultimate goal, after all, would be able to deal with anything life sends your way. It’s like trying to eat a whole elephant! So how do you start? Anything is better than… Continue Reading
“The North Korean foreign minister’s recent warning of a possible atmospheric nuclear test over the Pacific ocean should be heeded, a senior Pyongyang official has told CNN.” From <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/26/north-korea-threat-test-hydrogen-bomb-pacific> The Guardian has several articles that chronicle the recent DPRK nuclear… Continue Reading
Let’s examine solar storms. The week this article was written we had a Sun Spot that caused massive solar eruptions. The “Sun has gone wrong and scientists don’t know why” the headlines read. Let’s take a look at the sun… Continue Reading