Category: Disaster Planning / EDC
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The Complete Pet Prepper’s Guide: Keeping Your Dogs and Cats Alive When Everything Else Falls Apart
A catastrophe strikes. The stores are stripped of supplies, and the aid response is slow. With the power off, you may not have access to water or a way to refrigerate items. Once disaster arrives, preparing is no longer a thought in the back of your mind. The choices you made yesterday affect your pets…
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Who Will Be the Bankers After SHTF?
I read an interesting forum discussion recently that asked a question I hadn’t considered much: who will the bankers be in a post-SHTF society? The original poster wondered if banking would even exist after a collapse, and if so, who would fill that role. It’s a thought-provoking question that gets at something important about how…
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How Preppers Can Use Festive Downtime for Essential Practice Sessions
The holidays are one of the best times to test your readiness for a grid failure. During these months, life slows down enough for you and your family to practice your skills and evaluate your supplies before a real emergency. Why the Holiday Break Is the Perfect Time for a Blackout Drill During the holidays,…
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What’s Really Going On With The Power Grid?
I’ve been concerned about the state of our power grid for years, but the recent solar flare scare (and this discussion on EMP effects) got me to thinking about it even more. The sad truth is that our power grid is quite vulnerable to many problems, including severe weather, domestic terrorism, and cyberattacks. The following…
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Apparently, Modern Society Almost Ended Last Week
I’d imagine you’ve heard or seen the Northern Lights last week. I wasn’t aware of them until day two when my mother showed me some beautiful photos of the lights from the night before, which were taken from very nearby by my in-laws the first night. But even that anomaly didn’t register as a problem…
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Farming, Off-Grid Supply Chain Issues Inbound?
I never know what to make of these kinds of warnings. On the one hand, it feeds into my fear-based beliefs that the world is always teetering on the brink of utter collapse. (This is likely WHY I’m a prepper.) On the other hand, the world hasn’t collapse yet no matter what people say out…
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The 5 Survival Items They Take First When SHTF
Believe it or not, firearms aren’t at the top of the list. In fact, I was surprised by his rankings and probably disagree on the top spot. But it’s still another warning that even if you have supplies you’re still vulnerable BECAUSE there are so many unprepared and desperate people out there. I also found…
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20 WW2 Survival Foods You’d Never Eat?
I just read through this article (it’s really a slideshow) of twenty WWII-era foods that civilians ate due to shortages and rationing. Several of the foods sounded horrible, while more than a few seemed perfectly fine, possibly even preferable. How desperate would you be, and what would you eat if you had to? The slideshow…
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2 Critical Reasons to Worry About AI as a Prepper
I know that AI gets a bad rap at times, and maybe for good reason, but from what I can tell it’s only a fancy search engine. It doesn’t actually “think” like we’re all worried about. At least, not yet. I’ve played around with it on occasion and I’m both mystified and dumbfounded by the…