Category: Disaster Planning
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Apartment and Condo Prepping Book Now Only $0.99 on Amazon Kindle
My latest book, Prepping Strategies For Condos, Apartments, and Duplex Living: How to Prepare for Emergencies with Limited Space, is currently only $0.99 on Amazon Kindle for this week only! Inside this book I’ll show you how you can prepare yourself and your family with very little effort, minimal time, and sometimes for free… even in a small…
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Get Home Bag Real World Examples
Understanding the purpose behind a “get home bag” or “bug out bag” will help you decide what to include and why. In this video, SensiblePrepper emphasizes the reasons why you should have such a bag ready at all times with several worthwhile examples. He also briefly discusses items to include–medical items and self defense–especially the…
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Bleeding Control Kit
SkinnyMedic (his handle on YouTube) has created a reasonably priced bleeding control kit with the expectation that this could be used by teenagers or middle school kids to stop a severe bleeding event with some training, of course. In this video he includes both demonstrations of children using the kit as well as a run-through of…
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7 Shocking Truths About Living Without Electricity
Electricity helps to keep us cool (and warm), cook our food, light up the darkness, wash our clothes and dishes, and keeps our most nutritious foods from spoiling, to name a handful of amazing uses. The following is an honest look at how truly important electricity is to our modern lives and dives deep into…
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Boxes and Bungee Cords as Earthquake Proofing?
Lately, I’ve been thinking about earthquakes again, mostly because I’ve run into various YouTube videos and whatnot talking about the “Big One” to hit the west coast, but not the one you’re thinking of to hit California… the Cascadia Event to hit the Pacific Northwest where I live. To be honest, if that one ever…
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Roadside Emergency Kit Review by Survival Hax
I was recently sent this Roadside Emergency Kit by Survival Hax for review. It’s all nicely contained within this handy bag: Most items are further protected inside plastic bags which is nice and all items are easily returned to the bag after removal. Now, the first thing I went looking for, believe it or not,…
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FREE: The Complete Pet Safety Action Plan Book, 5 Days Only
If you’ll recall, about two weeks ago I mentioned that I was looking for Kindle book review team members because I’m now writing Amazon Kindle books. That process has been going great and I must say “thank you” again to those who have taken the time to help out. As a result, my first book,…
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Prepping Your Wardrobe for Survival
Let’s play a game! When I say “prepping,” what is the first thing that comes to your mind? What about “survival?” My guess is that most of you immediately thought of food, water, or other survival gear. And those are great answers. We can’t live long without food and water. But if you had an…
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15 Things You Don’t Actually Need To Survive Disasters
Last week I’d heard about a story of three family members who died during Hurricane Irma because they ran a generator inside their home. Although I couldn’t find more details, I did find this article about the incident. Sadly, such a tragedy was entirely preventable by understanding what carbon monoxide (CO) is, how it can…