preparedness

As some may know my family recently was faced with potentially having to evacuate from my town due to a forest fire. Luckily this did not occur...

So far I have chronicled here on various forums: 1. Getting my Woodsheds full for the Winter..... 2 Replacing the Cabin Inverter Battery...

As Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath still continues, it is a perfect opportunity to start conversations on being prepared. Disaster often wake people...

Ran across this today quite by accident... HURRICANE KATRINA The driving theme of this seems to be HYST (Have Your 'Stuff' Together) The page...

Never go anywhere without a knife. Even when I travel, I am often willing to check a bag to have a knife with me. And by knife, I mean an edc...

With 2017 half way over, I revisited the goals I set for myself and am very happy with all that I have checked off my to-do list. My biggest goal...

At about this time last night the power to my house came back on after a four hour outage caused by a pole mounted transformer that blew out (with...

The great Cascadia earthquake’s being called the worst natural disaster to hit North America, and it hasn’t happened yet. Geologists say it’s...

It went up to 110 in LA on Saturday, and when it hit around 100 degrees, the power went out here for about 12 hours for 140,000 customers...

So you are preparing to survive the SHTF, or what have you. When do you relax and sit on the beach to relax. When do you have enough, when do...

A very nice read on Katrina Listening to Katrina HURRICANE KATRINA On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina became the largest natural disaster...

I found this article and it is really well written. The lone-wolf survival scenario is really something from the movies but in the end, we all...

First let me say that this site, and a couple of others pertaining to news, gunsmithing and NFA stuff are the only places I frequent on the...

[IMG] So today I was working on updating food storage containers and doing some vacuum pack on new stores. I cracked a case that was older and...

Meet ‘The Most Armed Man In America’ And His Insane Arsenal [IMG] The video starts innocuously enough. A bearded gentleman waddles into a room...

I don’t believe it is as pervasive as certain people may believe, but there is a notion among some in the liberty movement that with Donald Trump...

*** Sorry for the tardiness of the post. I was up until the wee hours of the morning Thursday/Friday and actually slept in today. Yes, it's...

[IMG] [IMG] Personal Liberty Poll Exercise your right to vote. Political unrest and unrelenting elitists efforts to aggravate tensions between...

[IMG] I was almost home from a long day at work, when the emergency broadcast noise went off on the radio. In frustration I turned my radio to...

[IMG] [IMG] Hollywood and mainstream news media elitists have long smeared preppers as unreasonably paranoid right wingers whose minds are crowded...

[IMG] Mexican authorities are currently dealing with mass riots and looting after the government was forced to remove fuel price controls,...

The intent of this post is more philosophical than I usually write but I got to thinking yesterday...not always a good thing! My wife and...

[ATTACH] Contest- Your Prep of the Week 12/7- 12/13 We would like to gift someone a $25 Amazon Gift card. Contest rules: Post a pic or tell us...

As the year comes to a close, we have all learned some nuggets of knowledge and done a little more each day, to be better prepared for what may...

[IMG] It had been too long since I'd last had a fire. The next morning the smell of wood-smoke on my shirt stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t...

Do you ever wonder whether your home security system or “Beware of Dog” sign actually keeps burglars away? We did too. So KGW's investigative...

Hurricane Matthew ripped through last week doing lots of wind damage but even more flood damage. I worked at the TV station for most of the event...

So I am in a dilemma and thought I would come to the tribe for suggestions. I have lot's of food, water, ammo and gear, so the thread is not...

Quick, fire off three things you need to fix to be better prepared. Some of us need more food, others arms and ammo, some need better skills in...