Category: Disaster Planning

The sky is turning greenish and the air feels supercharged, making your hair stand on end. The birds have stopped singing — an unnatural, eerie silence follows a long night of screaming wind, foreshadowing the approach of a tornado unlike anything you’ve ever witnessed. Are you ready for it? 30 Ways to Prepare for a…

Have you been paying attention to the trail derailment fiasco in Ohio? I’d only heard about it maybe a week ago now, but it’s been going on since early February, and it sounds like no place I’d want to be right now, if ever. How about the Chinese spy balloons or whatever they are? Apparently,…

Economic collapse, a nuclear attack and a Category 5 hurricane threaten your family. When these SHTF situations arise, you need a reliable vehicle to make your getaway as smooth as possible, considering the circumstances. The last thing you’ll want is a blown tire or a dead battery! Whether your rig is a year old or…

I’d imagine you’ve seen some of the numbers lately. Inflation is up several percentage points according to the “official” numbers. But then I see statistics like: Even those don’t seem right. I won’t harp on the price of eggs, but I’d say they’re double or triple what they’ve traditionally been. So, yeah, I don’t trust…

Sadly, it seems at least sixty people perished due to the harsh winter storm over the holidays. Hopefully, you and yours made it through without much trouble like we did. I figured that now would be a good time to analyze our preparedness just in case something like this hits again over the next few…

I don’t pay attention to nearly any YouTuber preppers these days, but one that I recently began listening to again is SouthernPrepper1. He’s been prepping for decades and has had a YouTube channel for a long time. The man is level-headed, kind, and clearly knows what he’s doing. Aside from his many preparedness videos, he’s…

As disasters like wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and more seem to be happening more often, families must take extra precautions to prepare. However, emergency preparedness for a family of four will likely look much different than prep with a multigenerational household. Multigenerational living has become increasingly popular in recent years due to rising costs, with 59.7…

Over the weekend, I took time to watch an hour-long presentation at GridDownPowerUp.com. It’s narrated by Dennis Quaid, and details all the ways our aging power grid is vulnerable to natural disasters, terrorism, cyberattack, EMP, and more. Although I probably knew most of the information presented, I was glad to watch the entire documentary because…