Category: Bugging In

Fortify Your Home – Bugging In

Fortify Your Home – Bugging In So you’ve determined it is in your and your family’s best interests to bug in and hunker down.  Now you need to prep your home to do so. No home is fortified for survival purposes by your average builder! Unless you can do the plans and building yourself, your home …

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Hunker Down Prepping Or Bugging Out

Hunker Down Prepping Or Bugging Out There are lots of reasons to hunker down in place and not bug out during a crisis. Pandemic where you would be safer at home and away from everyone who might have been infected. Civil unrest where being out and about can be taking your life in your hands. …

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DIY No Welding Required Bike Trailer

DIY No Welding Required Bike Trailer There are crisis scenarios where your bug out vehicle could be or should be a bicycle If you need to move about quicker than you could walk and further than you could run then a bike would be a great option. If you need to maneuver around debris through …

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Ebola Riots Hasten the Spread

Ebola Riots Hasten the Spread Literally what the picture above depicts is the beginning of the end of West Point Liberia. These people think they are saving themselves and those who were quarantined from a government fraud. I can not speak to the honesty of the Liberian government and even if I could in this …

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Clever Gadgets For Your Survival Stash

Clever Gadgets For Your Survival Stash Admit it we all have a bit of Mr. Gadget in our heart of hearts! These clever gadgets are intended to make you safer and add to your ability to survive in a SHTF scenario. We advocate the knowledge of and ability to use, the primitive old ways . So that …

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Sheltering in Place for a Pandemic

Sheltering in Place for a Pandemic Update: The featured article was written during the ebola scare in the United States. Mercifully, the outbreak was contained and a pandemic avoided in this country. However, some other countries did not fair as well. A lot has been learned since about how the virus can be spread ie… it …

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Lessons Learned on Storing Food Wisely

Lessons Learned on Storing Food Wisely To past generations the fields, barns, gardens, and the woods were the food producers. Your own pantry or root cellar was the grocery store. How you stored what you gained from your production made the difference between your grocery store shelves being empty or unusable and being able to walk in and …

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Man Does Time for Water Collecting

Man Does Time for Water Collecting Water collecting laws in Oregon land a local man in jail for collecting too much rain water and water run off. He has been using the rain and run off to fill his own reservoirs on his privately owned property. Oregon officials insist that his massive water collecting efforts deny the near by city of …

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Hurricane Iselle

Hurricane Iselle As Hurricane Iselle approaches the Hawaiian Islands we urge our Hawaiian members to prepare for the worst while hoping for the best! . Many may have become complacent in their preparations because they may be young enough not to truly recall damage to their homes and perhaps even injury to friends and family from such …

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Raising Rabbits

Raising Rabbits Usually we think of chickens when we think of prepping with small animals. Chickens are duel use for both eggs and meat. But they do take longer to become usable than does the happy breeding rabbit. Bulk will be important when SHTF as your chickens will take awhile to build up to a …

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