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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The Family Preparedness Guide to Surviving a Nuclear Disaster

Nuclear disasters are time sensitive. These are the immediate actions a family must take to survive when nuclear war presents itself.

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The Five Animals That Will Give Preppers A Run For Their Money

If there’s one thing we should take from all of this, it’s that the more things change the more they stay the same.

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The Five Worst Articles of Clothing to Wear in a Survival Situation

You should be aware of how these clothing options limit your success of getting through a disaster unscathed when things get rough.

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The Four Essential Steps to Rebuilding Civilization

At some point after the dust settles, we’re going to have to come out of our bunkers and start rebuilding the kind of civilization that we want our children to grow up in.

The G.O.O.D Survival Manuals: Every Family Should Have One

You may be ready to hunker down and go into survival mode. But what will happen if something happens to you? Are your children and dependents as prepared as you are?

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The Get Home Bag

30% of your life is spent away from home. Do you have what you need to get back if the SHTF?

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The Government Sets These Cyanide Traps in Rural Areas. Here’s How to Avoid Them

Though it does successfully kill thousands of predators that threaten livestock, the M44 also frequently kills animals that aren’t intended for the trap.

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The Great Defender: You’ll Want This By Your Side When It Hits the Fan

Simply put, things can to hell in a hand basket very quickly following a disaster. The widespread breakdown of the social order leads to looting in disaster prone areas which leads to the importance of being able to defend one’s home, family and their preps during a disaster breakdown.

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The Green Beret’s Winter Survival Training Guide

Have you ever considered what you will do if you have to bug out in winter? Being exposed to the elements puts you and your family at risk and it is paramount to be ready for that scenario.

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The Heat is On: Drought Preparedness Indoors and Out

Over the next year, we are bound to experience the effects of these extreme drought-like conditions one way or another. Learn where you will see the effects the most and how to prepare your home inside and out.

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The Heat is On: How to Stay Cool without Air Conditioning

All across the country, the mercury is climbing…and staying there, way up at the top of the thermometer. But running an air conditioner at full blast to combat the heat can be very expensive, and for those of us on a budget, the resulting bill can be crippling.

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The Hidden Famine: Malnutrition and Obesity Side by Side

People who are obese and people who are underweight now exist in side by side in many countries, both of which are indicators for malnutrition.

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