Urban Survival
SHTF Survival Q&A: A First-Hand Account of Long-Term SHTF Survival
One man’s first-hand account of living in a SHTF situation with his family during the Bosnia collapse of 1992.
5 Essential Pieces of Gear to Get You Comfortably through a Winter Power Outage
Around 3 years ago here in New England we had a pretty serious winter ice storm that knocked my power out for around a week and in many close-by areas they were without power for 2 weeks.
From that experience I realized I was woefully unprepared for winter.
Survival Sanitation: How to Deal with Human Waste
This is the second post in a three-part series on survival sanitation. In a SHTF situation, proper sanitation is of utmost importance if you want to keep your family from getting seriously sick. When you add to that a lack of medical facilities due to grid-down issues, staying healthy becomes even more crucial. In this series I [...]
Survival Sanitation: It all Begins with the Hands
This is the first post in a three-part series on survival sanitation. In a survival situation, proper sanitation is of utmost importance if you want to avoid your family getting seriously sick. If you add a lack of medical facilities due to grid-down issues, then staying healthy becomes even more crucial. In this series I discuss the [...]
Survival Sanitation
In a grid-down situation, if your toilet stops flushing and your local waste-disposal service shuts down, do you know how to deal with the buildup of waste and sewage? Improper (or a lack of) sanitation is one of the key contributors to hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout the world each year. Although most of these [...]
How to Make Homemade Chlorine Bleach
One of the main components that you’ll want to have around the house (or apartment) during a SHTF situation is chlorine bleach. Not only can it be used for cleaning water (although boiling is hands down more effective and healthier) it is excellent for keeping things sanitary. Unfortunately, the average shelf life of liquid bleach (being [...]
Converting a Lawn Mower Into a Generator
With Spring almost here, keep on the lookout for many of your neighbors clearing out their sheds and getting rid of their older lawn mowers in hopes of upgrading to newer models. I see them every year around this time lying in front of their houses, waiting for the trash man to come pick them up. [...]
A Primer on Situational Awareness
I thought it this article was a great compliment to a previous article I wrote entitled, The Color Code of Awareness: Developing a Combat Mindset. It’s a long one so be sure you’ve got time to sit down and digest it properly because it’s packed with some great information. The following article, A Primer on Situational [...]
Get-Home Bag
Imagine this, you’re 40 miles from home doing some errands in the city and the Big One has just hit. It cripples communication and power lines, halts public transportation, and has just left your car buried under a heaping pile of concrete. With the power down, your bug-out bag stuck in the car, and some [...]
Mr. Heater Big Buddy Review
For those looking for a great emergency heating source this winter, check out the Big Buddy Heater by Mr. Heater. To give you some background, my house is currently heated by a pellet stove. Even though it’s very efficient and heats the house nicely, the obvious issue is that it doesn’t work if there’s a power [...]
