Category: Shelter

Urban Vs Rural After SHTF

Urban Vs Rural After SHTF

Urban Vs Rural After SHTF If you live in the city should you stay put or head out to a woodland area after a SHTF event? What about if you live in a rural area, should you bug out to the city where there are more people and a better likelihood of finding help? If …

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Prepping Your Shelter For Chemicals or Radiation

Prepping Your Shelter For Chemicals or Radiation This is very important information if you are bugging in or there is a flash attack. This could save you and your family’s life. Radiation and chemicals are killers immediately and over the longer term. Until you can evacuate safely you will need to shelter in place. Pre-cut plastic to …

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Shingles & Siding From Soda or Beer Cans

Shingles & Siding From Soda or Beer Cans A unique and very useful way to recycle and reuse aluminum cans. In the featured article, they are using the aluminum shingles on a chicken coop but with the proper insulation and installation they could be a viable alternative for other purposes. Personally If you have an …

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Tent Cot Details

Tent Cot Details Elevated sleeping platform keeps you high and dry and away from the bugs and snakes Heavy duty 210D tent and rain fly is designed to handle most wet weather conditions Versatile design allows you to use your tent cot as a lounge, a chair and a flat cot as well Designed to …

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Cheap Effective Tips To Keep Your Home Safe

Cheap Effective Tips To Keep Your Home Safe   Even if you can’t purchase an expensive home alarm system you can still keep out those that would burglarize your home! It doesn’t even require an ugly scary barbed wire fence! Sometimes just being practical and using some easy inexpensive little tricks can keep the undesired …

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DIY Root Cellar and Storm Shelter

DIY Root Cellar and Storm Shelter Having a root cellar on the property is an awesome advantage for storing the years harvest or your preps. That it doubles as a storm shelter is just awesome! This is a really nifty design that is doable by just about everyone and can be done with lots of …

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DIY EarthBag Roundhouse

DIY EarthBag Roundhouse Roundhouses are perhaps the simplest, fastest, easiest earth bag structure to build. The other key advantage of earth bag is cost. Owen Geiger has been designing and building these natural earthbag alternative homes for years.  Low cost and economically easy to maintain they could be the ideal off grid and with some small …

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Literally Building a Dirt Cheap House

Literally Building a Dirt Cheap House These homes won’t pass muster with most countries building codes and laws. But after a SHTF scenario if it is a long term event your home may be gone, confiscated, or so damaged it’s unlivable. A house structure built with the materials around you literally including dirt is fair game for temporary housing while …

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Sleep Warm Camping Tips

Sleep Warm Camping Tips Hypothermia is a quick and silent killer. Don’t let this be what gets you when you are trying to survive… Staying warm while camping or bugging out may just be the most obvious thing you think you could do.. but its actually not that easy to do! Not only will you rest better …

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Poncho Survival Shelter Configurations

Poncho Survival Shelter Configurations Wet weather gear is an essential for any outdoor outing. Certainly a part of  every Survival Kit and Bug Out Bag is a good quality Poncho. There is nothing more miserable and dangerous than getting soaked by rain.  Not only good for keeping just yourself dry, it can become a shelter that protects yourself and your gear. …

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