You can begin to take steps to prepare your community for this type of disaster by starting with your home. Ensuring that you have the necessary preparations in place will help you diffuse the element of surprise these disasters tend to have.
Preparedness
Is your home prepared for life’s emergencies? A disaster of any kind rarely stops with the initial event and has the capacity to last days or longer. Because of this, it is important to have a well-rounded approach to your preparedness efforts. Our research-based resources on emergency scenarios, emergency checklists, and disaster scenarios offer family-based preparedness advice to create a multi-layered approach so your family can be prepared for anything! Learn more about survival food, potable water, safety and security issues, how to live in an off-grid environment with alternative power and how to get your pet prepared for emergencies.
Are You Ready? How To Survive Falling Through Ice
Every year, people die from falling through ice they thought was safe to cross. In near-frozen water, you have exactly 10 minutes to get out of the ice water before your muscles become too cold to function. Know these preventative measures and how to survive if you find yourself in this type of emergency.
Ask Tess: Are military personnel who were vaccinated against the plague protected from the airborne strain of the plague?
A reader asks if service members who were administered vaccinations from various plagues protected against the resent transmission of airborne pneumonic plague. Read more to find out the answer and how to protect yourself.
Ax-Manship: Tips for Splitting Long Logs for Firewood
It’s cold and you need firewood back at base camp. That standing dead oak tree 200 yards from your shelter will provide you with enough BTU’s for heat and cooking on this frigid weekend. What’s the best strategy to get the fuel back to camp?
Back to School on a Budget
Back to school time means there won’t be any more daily cries of, “I’m booooooored!” It means the end of […]
Backyard Bushcraft Skills: No Wilderness Required
Your journey to self-reliance starts in your own backyard!
Basic Emergency Trauma Supply Considerations From a Green Beret
These are some of the medical emergency basics you’ll need for an aid bag for your family/team. We outlined some of the categories of medical training that you will need to cover to well round your abilities.
Bass and Bluegill : Two SHTF Protein Sources You Haven’t Considered
Use this time to hone your skills and learn the habits of these two common pan fish. It can benefit you in the long run and add to your survivability for when it hits the fan.
Be Nutrition Ready and Store Super Foods
Being nutrition ready means storing the right types of foods that will benefit you in the long run. Storing super foods will help your body prevent disease and long term degenerative ailments such as most cancers. Ironincally, most super foods are some of our favorite foods, so stocking up on them for an emergency food supply should be a no brainer.
Be Prepared! 20 Must-Read Articles to Get Started Prepping
Whether you’re new to prepping or need a refresher course in prepping, these essential Ready Nutrition articles that have been the most helpful in getting people on the preparedness track.
Best Gun For Women – Some Things To Consider
Women consider different things than men when we shop for clothes, shoes, pets, cars, houses…and guns. We’re just built different. So, what should a woman consider when gun shopping for the first time?
Better than Bleach: Use Calcium Hypochlorite to Disinfect Water
Did you know that bleach has a shelf life of months? Many preppers who are planning to use their bleach to treat water may be in for a surprise when the bleach is not as effective as orginally believed. Here is an alternative to bleach that has a shelf life of 20 years!