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.

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How to Build a 30-Day Emergency Food Supply…Fast

If you don’t have a food supply waiting in your pantry, now is the time to focus on creating an emergency stockpile quickly.

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How to Build a Prepper’s Medical Emergency Kit on a Budget

Many of the prepackaged kits have a great variation of items, but they may be lacking on some of the critical components previously mentioned, and this is why it often the most cost-effective strategy to build your own.

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How to Build a Simple and Affordable Methane Digester

It’s scalable, leaves no waste, creates fuel, and re-fertilizes the soil. If you’re looking for self sufficiency, I can’t think of anything that would be more helpful.

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How to Build a Sturdy Freestanding House out of Sandbags

What most folks don’t know is that sandbags can be used to build for more than just temporary structures. With a little more time, resources, and elbow grease, they can form long lasting freestanding buildings.

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How to Build a Winter Home Emergency Kit

There’s a lot that goes into a winter home emergency kit and while you probably have many of these supplies around in one form or another, having them together and ready for a winter disaster is vital to getting through a disaster in the freezing cold successfully.

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How to Cook The Cheapest Cuts of Meat

The lid is put on and the whole thing goes into a cold oven. It’s important that the heat builds up slowly so as not to cause the meat to contract, to shrink too quickly because that’s what makes it tough.

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How to Create a Safe Room in Your House or Apartment

Safe rooms aren’t just for the rich and famous. Even the most humble home or apartment can have on a place to which vulnerable family members can retreat if they are under threat.

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How to Dehydrate Foods for Long Term Storage

For centuries, dehydrating food was seen as a survival necessity and is the safest, most affordable way to preserve foods for long-term storage.

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How to Escape a Sinking Vehicle

No one wants this to happen, but when your life is on the line – know how to escape a sinking vehicle.

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How to Escape a Submerged Car

One of the most dangerous survival situations to find yourself in is trapped inside a vehicle that has plunged into water.

How to Escape a Totalitarian Detention Camp

When you are a prisoner under military occupation or under the rule of a totalitarian dictatorship there are harsh realities of life you must quickly learn. One of those being how to escape.

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How To Escape Unseen and Cover Your Tracks in Winter

In a post-SHTF world, all bets are off. The world you would find yourself in is unpredictable at best. So what would you do if you were taken captive? Your only option would be to find a way to escape.

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