Are you planning to buy rural land to homestead? Or perhaps you already own some land and you’re trying to figure out how to best use it. The USDA maintains soil maps that rate parcels of US land to let you know how good they are for gardening. While it’s a free resource, it’s slow
Russian hackers exploited the USAID Microsoft email system—the same folks behind the recent SolarWinds hack. Welcome to the new world of near constant hacking exploits. Speaking of… a major global meat supplier has been hacked. Factories have been shuttered in multiple locations around the globe, and some facilities and worker shifts in US plants may
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently published a pamphlet offering shelter-in-place advice for several preparedness scenarios: active shooters, chemical hazards, earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, nuclear events, pandemics, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and winter storms. They also offer tips for different dwellings, like individual homes, mobile homes, and apartment buildings. It’s written for a broad and very-unprepared audience,
Biden plans to double emergency spending to help with natural disasters. The Administration also plans to work with NASA to help forecast extreme weather events and climate change impacts more granularly. The Administration hopes that spending and planning more proactively will ultimately help cut the costs of after-the-fact disaster response. There’s been a large volcanic
Drought conditions in the Western US are still severe, more severe than they’ve been in quite a while, and we’re keeping ears to the rail on impacts on water sources—things aren’t sounding too good. The Western US can be quickly repleted by atmospheric rivers of rain, but there aren’t any on the immediate horizon: Ammunition
If you find yourself in a situation where you need to drink wild water to survive, you want to treat that water so that contamination doesn’t make you sick. Bacteria and protozoa, such as giardia and cryptosporidium, are the common threats that can make you violently ill at the worst time. Yet the common advice
The Supreme Court says law enforcement may not enter your home and confiscate your guns without a warrant. The semiconductor shortage continues to “chip” away at the automotive industry. Forgive the pun. I couldn’t resist: More concerningly, farm equipment manufacturers are also feeling the chip squeeze. Farmers are subsequently having trouble getting the equipment they
One of the ultimate goals of any prepper is to find preps that integrate seamlessly into daily life. It’s one thing to buy a product, put it on a shelf, and wait until a major emergency. But the real magic is when you get value in daily life and an emergency without missing a beat
Demands are up, supplies are down, shortages are everywhere, and the US economy is revving fast. We’re hoping for transient inflation, here. The imbalance between supply, demand, and rising prices is putting pressure on businesses. Some business owners find themselves panic buying business supplies–it’s not just individuals panic-buying anymore. Companies are doing it to fulfill
We can thank the factory farming system for the plethora of food available on grocery store shelves, but its downsides are now well documented: animal cruelty, carbon emissions, contaminated food, and topsoil erosion, among others. Unfortunately, there’s a number of anti-farming proposals that are well-intended — who doesn’t want to reduce animal abuse or cut
Operation has been restored to most of the Colonial gas pipeline, but hundreds to thousands of gas stations are still out of gas in the 17 states that rely on the pipeline. Colonial Pipeline ultimately paid $5 million in ransom to regain control of their systems. In a bizarre twist, the hackers claim they didn’t
Another day, another cyber attack. This attack shut down one of the major fuel pipelines in the United States, with hackers holding it for ransom, sparking panic buying and gasoline shortages throughout the southeast. This comes on the heels of another recent attack in the US southeast where hackers cranked up levels of the fatal
There’s been a large ransomware attack on the Colonial gas pipeline that runs from Texas to New Jersey–one of the largest gas pipelines in the US. People from multiple states are reporting gas shortages at the pump. The cyber-attack is extremely serious and is preventing use of the pipeline. President Biden has declared an emergency
A Federal Judge has vacated the eviction moratorium. The DOJ is planning to appeal the ruling: BREAKING: Federal judge vacates the CDC's temporary nationwide ban on evictions. Ruling comes as landlords seek to throw tens of thousands of cash-strapped renters from their homes amid the pandemic pic.twitter.com/AbKard4tlH — John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) May 5, 2021 Montana
The world has become too dependent on GPS, sometimes in surprising ways that have more to do with precise timekeeping than simple location. So it’s helpful to understand what kinds of threats can affect GPS, and how long that system would continue to work for people on the ground in a collapse situation (eg. The
