Category: Disaster Planning / EDC

My wife drives me crazy at times. I know, I know, that’s just the way marriage is at times and, to be honest, we get along marvelously most of the time… except when it comes to a few critical aspects of my incessant need to be ready and her slightly less lax attitude about such…

As Americans, most of us spend dozens of hours each week in our vehicles, from going to work, shopping for groceries, driving the kids to school or practices, occasional road trips, and whatever else we find the need to do. It only makes sense that we should ensure our vehicles are as prepared for an…

Yeah, I do, I’m sitting pretty, there’s canned goods and bags of staples bucket’d, i have the major area’s covered, food, water, med’s, oh yeah, I’m sitting pretty. There’s enough you say for 90 days to see you through, 0r 6 months, or gee i have a year’s supply laid up, so when the emergency…

Yesterday was like any other day expect for the fact that I woke up to brown, sputtering water… yuk! It actually started out clear yet sputtering (like we’d lost water pressure) and then turned funny colors which was an obvious indication not to use it. Certainly, I wasn’t worried as we had plenty of water…

As I’ve just finished (I hope) making layout changes here, I figured I would try to explain how things have changed and what to expect in the future. Before that, however, I want to re-iterate what my view for this site has always been, and that is to provide YOU with the most interesting, relevant,…

I thought I was done with OPSEC last week, covering the basics that everyone likes to talk about, including lighting concerns, noise concerns, and smell concerns, but then I got to thinking, there’s more to it than that. As obvious as it might seem, there are quite a few activities that we do on a…