Tag: preparedness
6 Essential Maps to Store Before an EMP
The US Army maintains a complex known as the National Training Center (NTC) in Fort Irwin, California. There are a number of other "National...
A Strange Thing That Might Save Your Life in A Nuclear...
Surviving a nuclear attack means preparing yourself ahead of time and shielding yourself from radioactive radiation for weeks after the bombs go off –...
How to Can Water for Emergencies
While it is important to know how to generate or obtain clean water in an emergency situation, canning water is often ignored. Not that...
Is it Safe to Drink Old Stored Water?
What happens when you put enough water back to get your family through an emergency and it's been sitting for a while? Was that...
How To Make Survival Lamps With Used Cooking Oil and Mason...
Being prepared means providing fallback solutions that can help to provide you with essentials when the standard methods fail. When law and order breaks...
How To: Survival Knots [With Videos]
Survival can easily depend on the strength of a knot. A climber, a sailor, a diver with a lifeline, all live and die by...
11 Best Military Surplus Items Under $20
In some cases, military gear can be an exceptional choice for prepping or survival and often, this gear is not all that expensive. Even...
5 Ways To Survive With Only a Lighter
Perhaps the single most important resource in a survival situation for someone to have is a lighter. While some might argue that a lighter...
13 Shelters That You Can Build With A Military Poncho
Today I'll show you 13 ways to make your poncho a shelter.
Every shelter you are about to see has its own strengths: some will...
My Famine Food Storage Menu
Keeping food in the pantry for their families to eat can be a real burden for a lot of people these days. At that...