The Obsolete Three-Day Kit For as long as I can remember, the recommendation from official emergency preparedness types, e.g. DHS, Red Cross, was to have a kit with three days of emergency supplies for your whole family. The logic behind… Continue Reading
Hygiene One of the keys to good health is simple cleanliness. In our modern world hygiene is taken for granted, though I consider it one of my basic supply categories. We all bathe and care for our teeth, or at… Continue Reading
Backup. It’s probably one of the most ignored preps against “everyday” SHTF disaster moments, and frankly there’s no excuse for electronics owners to not back up their equipment. None. I get it, backup is totally un-fun! It’s true, setting up… Continue Reading
Spice and I spent the day watering our fruit tree orchard at The Place “hillbilly style”… which is to say using a cheap but effective method from the back of our rusty-but-trusty 20-year-old 4X4 pickup. Orchard care, hillbilly style First,… Continue Reading
Clean, drinkable, temperature controlled water at the turn of a tap gets my vote for the greatest invention of human civilization, and the biggest driver of improvement in human health. If its delivery fails though, its critical that preppers have… Continue Reading
Caracas is a bustling city, stocked with high-rises, art centers, universities, zoos, and beautiful parks. It has also, through a period of astounding government mismanagement, become unable to provide water to its residents. All across Venuzuela, citizens who can afford… Continue Reading
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
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
Having all waste water whisked effortlessly away is one of the great under-rated luxuries of modern life. That luxury might not be there in an emergency, and/or at the bug-out location (BOL). What’s the next best thing? Handling gray water… Continue Reading
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
The 3rd of The Rule of 3’s is 3 Days – that’s how long a human can go without water. Finding a short term water solution is a super easy and super cheap prep, but probably the most important for… Continue Reading
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
The USA and several parts of the world are being ravaged by the H3N2 virus, a particularly nasty version of the seasonal flu that has reached epidemic proportions in many areas. We are starting to see articles in the prepper… Continue Reading
You Can Prepare Anywhere By now you may have realized there is a prepper myth that I just don’t agree with. The idea is that urban centers, and perhaps other locales, are simply impossible to survive in if SHTF. I… Continue Reading
I just got back from a hiking trip in the mountains, and wanted to share my experiences: The good to encourage their use and the bad to save you from learning the Hard Way. A prepper win (or six) and… Continue Reading