Category: Disaster Planning

  • How to Turn Your Basement Into a Survival Shelter

    If you’re considering setting up a survival space in or around your home, don’t jump immediately to digging a hole in your yard and setting up an underground bunker. After all, a bunker might end up killing you. If your home has a basement or cellar, you may already have the foundations of a viable…

  • How to Protect Your Family During Civil Unrest

    How to Protect Your Family During Civil Unrest

    The start of this new decade has proven to be a tumultuous one. Between a global viral pandemic and worldwide protest and riots in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement, tensions and tempers are high. It doesn’t take much to turn a peaceful protest into a full-blown riot,…

  • Plywood to Protect Doors and Windows During Civil Unrest

    Plywood to Protect Doors and Windows During Civil Unrest

    I know that the guy in the video below (TheUrbanPrepper) lives in the Seattle area like I do, but I think he’s on the Seattle-side of the Puget Sound, so I can understand why he’s pre-cutting plywood sheets now to help protect his home considering how unruly it’s getting over there. In any case, for…

  • Home Fires: Prevention, Protection, Recovery, and More

    Home Fires: Prevention, Protection, Recovery, and More

    Fire eats and breathes, but it isn’t truly alive — and if you take away its fuel or oxygen, it will die. Fire also indiscriminately consumes everything in its path when it is set loose, including homes, businesses, animals and people.  Thankfully, you can take steps to protect your home from fire, whether the blaze…

  • 23 Must-Have Car Emergency Kit Supplies

    I certainly agree that most premade emergency kits, whether they be first aid kits or for your vehicle, are less than ideal. Do yourself a favor and go purchase quality items individually or, if possible, in bulk to save some money and split between multiple vehicles. Also, like he says in the video below, it’s…

  • Time to Form a Prepper Community?

    Time to Form a Prepper Community?

    I’ve been thinking about this more and more lately. After all, it seems the world is coming to an end with the seemingly never-ending pandemic and the more recent protests and riots. So, maybe it’s time to form a community of like-minded, prepared folks? No doubt, that’s easier said than done as most people simply…

  • Urban EDC Backpack

    Urban EDC Backpack

    I always enjoy finding out what others put together in their survival gear since it gives me the opportunity to consider items that I might not have included in my own bags. And, although he includes several items that I didn’t, such as a ResQMe Escape Tool, or the Amuvec 4-in-1 Multi Charging Cable and…

  • How to Prepare by Geographical Region

    How to Prepare by Geographical Region

    This was not the apocalypse we were expecting, but all things considered, it could be worse. While it might still be hard to get your hands on toilet paper and Lysol these days, that doesn’t mean you should neglect your survival prep, no matter where you live or how you’re impacted by the current crisis. …

  • Looking Back, How Prepared Were You?

    Looking Back, How Prepared Were You?

    Now that it seems some of the coronavirus restrictions are going to be lifted soon, I figured it would be a good time to look back and think about how prepared you and I were for what happened as I suspect this is just round one, but let’s hope and pray we’re done for a…