Nov 06
We like to discuss possibilities, what if this and what if that. I’ll throw one at you right now: Power clicks off in your home or work, a virus has taken down the grid indefinitely (you just don’t know it yet). Let that play out for a minute in your mind and think about where …
Nov 03
I’m back to making Youtube videos, of the concise and informational variety. Please check this out and subscribe to the channel, share if you feel you need to. More great content to follow! The video below is not meant to be a recommendation vid, as in “you should get this for sure.” Rather, thought provoking …
Jan 08
I’ve always stated that it’s the high probability, low impact events that we should focus our time toward and power outages are something all of us face at one time or another. To be fair I do acknowledge in a long term grid down (weeks, months) situation I doubt keeping food cold in the fridge …
Nov 13
Layered home security doesn’t have to be complicated or even that expensive in order to be effective. Effectiveness to me means avoiding a single point of failure while maintaining the ability to keep situational awareness through various passive and active methods. I want to stress that what I’m about to share with you should be …
Oct 30
I have to admit, although we enjoy it we’ve never made bread before. We asked around and mostly the advice that we received involved just buying a bread maker and following the instructions. While not particularly in the mood to spend money on a bread maker and wanting to keep things a little more rustic …
Oct 23
Straight from another article I wrote, here is my definition of prepping: Obtaining information on and preparing for low probability / high impact events as well as high probability / low impact events while taking into consideration (and always improving upon) one’s resources and personal requirements in order to live a more stable and predictable …
Oct 08
Raise your hand if you’ve ever stayed in a short term rental (AirBnB or VRBO). I’ve stayed in a few myself and they are literally everywhere, including out here in the mountains or the country where others live. People cycle through these rentals trying to get a little taste of the outdoors and I’d suspect …
Oct 04
First things first, the hook. See a screenshot from the test I just ran on my phone a few minutes ago. Key points of this post: Starlink is very quick, almost laughably faster compared to other Satellite providers Starlink is super easy to set up and has been very reliable Starlink’s cost makes it crazy …
Sep 30
The Gray Man, an almost tired subject addressed countless times on various prepper blogs / youtube / whatever. I think I’ve even written about it a few times but lately I’ve been thinking about it so buckle up, here we go again. Before we get into attire let me ask you a question: You walk …
Sep 26
It was Tuesday last week and we were on a difficult jeep trail with no cellular service in the middle of nowhere. The trail was one we found by chance and it was rough and rocky, as such we aired down the tires and made a slow but steady go of it. We crossed a …
Sep 17
So you carry a handgun for self defense…perfect so do I. Let me ask you something: how many gunfights have you or your close friends been in over the last 10 years while here on US soil? The answer is probably none. Now let me pose another question to you: how many vehicle accidents have …
Sep 01
The idea of having a generator for T-SHTF is not a new one, I probably wrote my first article about them almost 10 years ago. Yet as technology changes the way we approach using generators should change. We now have generators that can run on dual fuel (gasoline / propane), very powerful inverter generators that …
Aug 31
Even out here in the mountains we need trash removal, after all who wants a bag full of leftovers steaming in the sun for weeks on end? Tuesday is our day and we have missed that day twice this year (and had our can stolen by a bear) and each time it was such a …
Aug 27
When I think back over the last 10 years I have to consider all the times it would have been entirely plausible to max out credit cards buying supplies, quit my job whilst hunkering down and waiting for the impending doom to manifest itself. If you go back and scan other doom type websites you’ll …
Aug 27
So you managed to get your family out of the city and followed the plan expertly, getting away from the mass carnage of SHTF and have been sitting in the wilderness quite cozy for a week. Your black and grey tanks are full and while you could simply dump them on the ground that would …
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