Eight Observations On The “Several Unfolding Crises” We’re Seeing The massive disaster stemming from Hurricane Helene continues to teach us some invaluable lessons not only about preparedness but about the preparedness community. I’m watching the vice presidential debate as I write this, where the first question to the candidates referenced “several unfolding crises” going…
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“We’re It”
In the pantheon of WW2 Movies, Fury is not that good of a movie, but for our purposes here today, I want to discuss a theme many fellow martial citizens can relate to: Self-Sufficiency and the realization that you cannot depend on any form of Government or “Higher Chain-of-Command” for you, your team or…
How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia
How Helene Affected The People Of Appalachia This is why we need to Always be Training, Caching, Stockpiling and Preparing for the WORST.
Hurricane Helene And The Value of Cash
Hurricane Helene And The Value of Cash The prepper conventional wisdom is that you should get out of cash and put your money in precious metals and crypto. Let’s talk about why that’s not the best strategy. We’re getting a lesson this weekend in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. One Twitter user summed up the…
PSA: Driving During a Flood is Dumb!
Fox Weatherman Saves Woman Stuck in Car from Floodwaters Typically I would say It never ceases to amaze me, but at my age now, the sheer stupidity of people I have taken as a GIVEN in Life. Every time it floods there are always at least half a dozen people that die because for…
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Emergency Winter Heating
Dyna-Glo WK24BK 23,800 BTU Indoor Kerosene Convection Heater, Black Having an emergency heat source that is not reliant on electricity is MANDATORY going forward. I bought three of these for the house as an emergency heating source and as a way to re-enforce my other means of heating. *Note: Currently Kerosene is outrageously expensive….
NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies
NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies, potential grid impacts Almost two years after Winter Storm Elliott forced the largest recorded manual load shed in the history of the Eastern interconnection, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Friday it “remains concerned about maintaining sufficient natural gas supplies to address extreme winter conditions.” NERC’s…
NATO Poking the Bear is Not Going to End Well for FUSA
All Because NATO Wants To Expand While the mob is being entertained by two court jesters in a rigged “political debate” the U.S. Military has been green lit to assist Ukrainian Armed Forces in striking into Russia Proper with Drone Strikes on Moscow. If I were you, I would be thinking less about…
Herbal Explorations: Lemon Balm
H/T Kensho Homestead Herbal Explorations: Lemon Balm I’m adding another from Gavin’s Newsletter to the Herbal Explorations pages—the very popular Lemon Balm. Gavin does such a thorough job of covering it and I’m excited to start working with it more. I grow it, like mint, mostly for the bees, but like mint, I don’t use it nearly…