Tag: Preparedness

Get Your Apartment Ready for Hurricane Season

Get Your Apartment Ready for Hurricane Season Especially along the coast real estate is at a premium and many of you live in an apartment. Just because you don’t own the property you live on doesn’t change the fact that this is your home. Your family’s safety isn’t any less important than that of a …

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Is Your Nightstand Prepped?

Is Your Nightstand Prepped?

Is Your Nightstand Prepped? While we sleep we are our most vulnerable. We take a number of precautions for these very reasons. We lock the doors and often the windows, many have alarm systems set at night with a panic button near the bed. It’s a fact that we must sleep. But we can do …

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Technology During Disaster

Technology During Disaster

Technology During Disaster Many people assume that the word “prepper” is equivalent to saying not technology orientated. That equation isn’t actually correct. Yes, prepper’s do learn to do things the old way so that if technology isn’t available due to a disaster their quality of life will not suffer a total collapse. But we do understand that …

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50 Mistakes to Learn From – Updated

50 Mistakes to Learn From- Updated

50 Mistakes to Learn From- Updated In the last few years the methods of preparing have changed. Most governments are encouraging their citizens to have a 72 hour bags, helpful to our cause. But the chances of a disaster that lasts much longer than 72 hours has jumped from a possibility to be aware of …

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50 Outdoor Survival Tips and Tricks

50 Outdoor Survival Tips and Tricks

50 Outdoor Survival Tips and Tricks The majority of us are wise enough to know that bugging out into the great outdoors, shouldn’t be our plan A in a time of crisis. We know much more about how to handle things and survive off grid in our own homes then in the wild. However, as …

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911 Hacks, How They Can Affect You

911 Hacks, How They Can Affect You

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 911 Hacks, How They Can Affect You The Dallas 911 system was hacked in April 2017. Sounding alarms and tying up phone lines all over the city. You may think it was a pretty crappy thing to do but it doesn’t affect you. You don’t live in Dallas or …

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Know US Official Disaster Procedures Before the SHTF

Know US Official Disaster Procedures Before the SHTF

Know US Official Disaster Procedures Before the SHTF Knowing what to expect when disaster strikes gives you a survival edge. The government already has a timeline in place to deal with a disaster. You should as well. The two forces that will most effect how you will fare during and after a crisis scenario are …

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International Search and Rescue Advisory Group Search and Rescue Markings

International Search and Rescue Advisory Group Search and Rescue Markings

International Search and Rescue Advisory Group Search and Rescue Markings On television or in real time most of us have seen markings on buildings and walls after a disaster. If you are in the United States FEMA markings may be more familiar. See them and their meanings here >>>FEMA Search and Rescue Markings-Why You Should …

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30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud

30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud

30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud You really can’t turn on a survival-based television program without hearing the name Les Stroud. In some circles he is called the king of bush craft and surviving in the wild. So, who better to provide us with survival tips? See 30 survival tips at the link below from Les …

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Will You Turn Away Family? Friends? Neighbors?

Will You Turn Away Family? Friends? Neighbors?

Will You Turn Away Family? Friends? Neighbors? There are a number of preppers who think they know the answer to that question. Some say absolutely if they were foolish enough not to prepare then too bad, my responsibility is to my family already behind that door. They will turn away everyone without a second thought. …

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