A dedicated cooking/boiling kit is one of the first things experts recommend adding to your go-bag once you’ve got the basics covered. Because a good go-bag is designed to support one person for a few days as you change locations — you’re not trying to live out of it indefinitely, nor are you trying to
Today we’re launching the preview video and 50%-off preorders for the upcoming course on water preparedness and survival — get it for $24 instead of $49 when released in a few weeks (with money-back guarantee if you don’t like it!) Similar in-person lessons cost hundreds of dollars, require travel and field time, and still won’t
Here are some free resources for neighborhood crime statistics—but don’t let the notifications get you rattled. Crime-information overload could be an anxiety-inducing time sink. It’s best to put the data in perspective. Shipping container bottlenecks are causing irregularities in supply and logistical headaches. In general, the shipping industry has been more robust throughout the pandemic
William S. Forschten’s post-apocalyptic novel, One Second After, famously describes a post-apocalyptic world of clogged roadways and stranded motorists, as all the continent’s cars are instantly stopped by a single blast from a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). All cars, that is, except one — the protagonist’s 1959 Edsel, a car so old it didn’t have
Smart sentiment of the day: When billionaires start growing potatoes, it’s time to pay attention to what’s happening. The folks with the big bucks are eyeing investment in hard assets. Citibank thinks Bitcoin could have some breakout growth in the next year. Food insecurity is a growing problem in the US. Global food insecurity has
Tension is rising between the US and Iran. The US Government pulled out of a nuclear deal with Iran that limited Iran’s production of enriched uranium in 2018. Trump reportedly queried senior advisors last week about targeting Iran’s main nuclear site. There is some speculation that the lame duck Administration will plan a strike against
BaoFeng radios like the UV-5R and BF-F8HP are some of the most popular ham radios in the world. They can be found for as little as $25, and sometimes even cheaper in bulk. Their price and features make them mainstays in bug out bags and on plate carriers around the world. They’re often derided by
Prepping was recently considered an eccentric pastime. The folks at NatGeo link modern day prepping back to the Cold War. I’ve always considered it simple self-sufficiency, myself, and saw these commonsense practices as a legacy of the American expansion west from the first big cities. In any case, it’s increasingly mainstream. Bloomberg has a rosy
Char cloth is a source of tinder that has been around for over 500 years. This dark, carbonized material can easily catch a spark or small flame, and lets you grow that into a big enough flame to light the larger pieces that make up the foundation of our fire (i.e. the kindling). You create
There are over 51.7 million global cases. The world has gained 3.9 million cases since last week, and case growth continues to increase. There have been nearly 1.3 million deaths. There are over 10.5 million cases in the US, and the US gained nearly 1 million cases in a single week. There have been over
If you’ve been on the internet for a minute, you’ve no doubt seen the famous Bear Grylls meme. But long before the British Army SAS veteran guzzled his way to meme glory in a now-infamous episode of his “reality” TV survival show, drinking your own pee was a classic metonym for desperation in prepper/survivalist folklore.
Monday morning brought the sweet, sweet news that Pfizer’s RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine has turned out to be extremely effective in its Phase 3 trial. While the news itself has been all over social media and has resulted in an instant 5% jump in the stock market, much of the press coverage has actually been not
I’ve spent the last few months testing the Turtleback Expedition trailer after buying it new in the summer of 2020. Besides reviewing just this specific Turtleback trailer for our daily-life offroading and camping adventures, we also used it as a general proxy to test whether this category of RV makes sense for prepping. We’ve logged
When it’s dark and the power goes out, you hopefully have some flashlights or lanterns handy (or at least a smartphone, which usually has a flashlight built-in). But what if you need more light sources than you have in your emergency kit? Or, what if you’re like one of our editors in a recent outage,
The world has over 49 million cases. The world has added over 4 million cases since last Thursday. Case growth is climbing precipitously. There have been over 1.2 million deaths in total. The US has nearly 10 million cases. Over 240,000 Americans have died—over 1,000 in the last 24 hours. The US has gained over
