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Every day awareness grows of the real-world threat of an EMP attack or a solar coronal mass ejection. In either one of these scenarios, the damage to the electrical grid ...

Preparing for a long-term economic crisis is about more than ensuring you’ve got your food stocks and a way to protect yourself at home. Major economic downturns in history, such ...

In scenarios where public order has broken down, such as government collapse, national EMP strikes, natural disasters, rebellion, and others, looting frequently occurs. Looting can start immediately, or it can ...

It’s comforting to assume that government agencies on a federal, state and local level will swoop in to provide aid and assistance in a time of natural or manmade disasters. ...

Self-sufficiency is starting to become a necessity for more and more people. As the cost of living is increasing all over the U.S., switching to an off-grid lifestyle could become ...

If you own a backup generator or even think of buying one… this may be the most important thing you read this year. The vulnerability of our grid has become ...

Preppers are ingenious people, and we can provide a lot of things for ourselves. Food? We can grow, hunt or forage it. Water? We might drill a well, set up ...

OPSEC is an important part of prepping. None of us want people showing up at our door, after a disaster strikes, expecting us to feed and take care of them. ...

Why should we be so focused on preparing for 2024? Over the last couple of years, many more people have come to recognize the value in preparing and getting ready ...

Have you ever wondered where everyone (or at least most people) will flee to when a major SHTF disaster strikes that forces people to evacuate? To be clear, not every ...

As we’ve seen over and over again the last few years, when a crisis hits crime follows close behind it. Whether it was looting in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...

One thing all good preppers do is keep an eye on the world situation. Being prepared for anything that happens is great; being prepared for anything that happens and having ...

The average American on the street is counting on FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), the government’s agency for responding to natural disasters to take care of them in the ...

In a country as vast and diverse as the United States, it's important to be aware of the potential dangers that can lurk in certain areas. While disaster can strike ...

What are the true powers of FEMA in an emergency? I have been writing about this for a long time and have parsed out some very important things. For us ...

When societies collapse life suddenly gets a lot more dangerous. There will be many risks to your life, from a whole range of sources. Fires won’t get put out. The ...

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by the endless lists of prepping supplies that seem to grow longer every day? It's time to take a step back and discover the ...

One of the most essential and yet undervalued skills of any prepper is consistency and discipline. Prepping can be a very overwhelming lifestyle because preppers have to dedicate themselves to ...

A disaster strikes in your city so severe that military, law enforcement, and major emergency response forces such as FEMA are deployed to handle the situation. But then, to your ...

Imagine this country without electricity. No, not in the 19th century, when everyone was used to hand-operated tools and industry ran on water and steam power; now, when we’re surrounded ...

Unless you have a fully stocked bug-out location and the means to make your way there in a post-apocalyptic landscape, bugging in is probably the path many of us take ...

What would you do if a major natural disaster, such as a tornado or a hurricane, swept through your town and was coming straight for your house? Or what would ...

After a disaster, be it natural or human-caused, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will likely be mobilized to offer aid to the survivors and assist in relocation and rebuilding ...

We all agree there are life-threatening situations that can catch us off guard. However, preparing for disaster in advance will save you and your family before the condition subsides or ...

For preppers trying to form a prepper group for mutual support when SHTF hits, finding like-minded individuals with whom you could start building a local network of preppers can be ...

Editor’s Note: Extracts of Dad’s Story (Eugene Telesor Maciejewski 1916 – 1998) from “A Lost Heritage” by D. Mariana Robinson © My father’s story is one of trial, fear, starvation, ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in 1979 for emergency management and civil defense. Since then, we have seen FEMA respond to countless disasters throughout the United States ...

Whenever we think about natural disasters, the subject of looting is not far behind. Looting does indeed occur in the wake of disasters, but the truth is, that it is ...

Constructing a bunker is a long and expensive process. However, the payoff is that you and your family can shelter inside and be protected from outside threats. The problem with ...

Recent events have made the possibility of a food crisis all that more real. Between the food shortages that happened during the second quarter of 2020 and the shortages of ...