Some posts may contain affiliate links. Make an Emergency Communication Plan With Your Loved Ones One of the most frustrating parts of a localized disaster or a SHTF event that doesn’t directly involve you is not being able to contact friends, family or other loved ones to either tell them you are alright or to …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. FEMA Search and Rescue Markings-Why You Should Know What They Mean In the aftermath of most large disasters you will see unusual markings and symbols spray painted on the buildings within the perimeter of the damaged area. These are FEMA or another urban search and rescue organization’s informational markers. They …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Replacing Documents Lost in a Disaster We all plan to take our important documents with us should we have to bug out. This is especially important if you are not a citizen of the country that we are in at the time of a disaster. However, time and circumstance don’t always …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Modern Bunker Design For Family of 6 or Connect for Community Back during the days of the cold war, bunkers were a luxury item based on very limited variety of cookie cutter plans and dug into the home owner’s back yard. These bunkers were top notch 1950’s design and usually were made to house a family …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Downloadable U.S. Marine Corp Winter Survival Handbook The fact is seasons change. No matter when a major SHTF event happens knowing how to survive the winter that is certain to come in most parts of the world and honestly is becoming harsher and harsher in normally warm weather locations …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. What to Have in Your Earthquake Bag and How to Avoid Common Quake Mistakes Experts having been warning us for several years now that the west coast of the United States is well overdue a major earthquake. I currently do reside on the west coast and do have concerns. The …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. How to Carry Fire: The Apache Match An Apache match can be a real lifesaver in a bug out situation, especially one that involves bad weather or few fire making materials available to you. Once you have the original flame going you definitely under those circumstances don’t want to …
Build a Get Home Bag Why build a get home bag when you already have a bug out bag? Too many folks think they are the same thing but they are for different purposes. Unless you are retired or work from home odds are very high that you will not be at home when a …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Saving Your Pet When Disaster Strikes Infographic It’s not just you when you have a pet! Prepare for them too. See a how to infographic enlarged for easy reading below This is an aggregated site. Please be aware some of the sites we link to could have pop …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. What Should be in Your Emergency Binder Many preppers keep an emergency binder of ‘how to‘s’ and articles that they feel will assist them in the time of an emergency. The featured article is a different kind of emergency binder. The one we are most likely to forget or not think …
