The topic of a recent Prepper Zoom Meetup was: “If you had 30 minutes notice to bug out, what would you take?” I said, my Quick Camper Kit as emergency mobile shelter. A few of the attendees wanted to see…
Bug-Out Vehicle: Improvising A Camper
Category: SHTF
Baking Bread Using (only) Wheat Berries
If you baked a loaf of bread using ONLY your fresh-ground wheat berries, what would you get?
Bug Out to the Woods for 40 Years: Lessons from the Lykov Family
When a man named Karp Lykov decided that the S had Hit The Fan, he took his family and bugged out to the woods. They stayed out there, undetected, for over 40 years! Their experience has relevant lessons for preppers…
Did Coronavirus create thousands of new preppers?
The experience of seeing their grocery store shelves stripped bare may have been the “Katrina Moment” for thousands of people, starting some of them on the road to preparedness. A quick survey of websites selling freeze-dried meals shows that they’ve…
Will people turn savage if society falters?
Some people think it is a foregone conclusion that many of their fellow citizens will turn savage if the constraints of “normal” society falter. Will shortages and confinement turn us into brutes? Is our basic human nature so wanton that…
Empty Shelves & Crowd-Think
Over the last week, especially, masses of people have descended on local stores like Biblical locust plagues, stripping shelves bare. Is such Hoarding Fever rational? The dynamics are murky but the solution is clear: don’t let The Fever get you. …
Bug Out Bag Solar Kit
Imagine that you’re on foot with your BOB on your back. The trip takes longer than expected and you are still miles from anyplace. Your phone finally dies, your radio goes silent, and your flashlight is getting dim. Many…
Beyond the Generator: Small-scale Solar:
A gas generator is a great preparedness upgrade, but they have their limitations (i.e. fuel). A small-scale solar setup can help counter that limitation. This post explores how you can level up your preps. A gas generator helps keep life…
Gear Test 3.0: Minimalism
This third test of our Bug Out Bags focused on minimalism. What if we were bugging out on foot on a multi-day trek? Having our bags as light as practical would be important. Minimalist gear is lighter but how does…
What About The Poor, post-SHTF: Solutions from the 1800s
After the Mad Max, kill-or-be-killed, zombie apocalypse phase of SHTF has passed, the survivors will not emerge equal. There will be the new “rich” (the preppers) and the new “poor” – those who survived with little or nothing. With the…