(Via: Active Response Training) Building a Bug Out or Get Home Bag CASH STASH: Squirreling Away Money for Tough Times A Checklist For the Prepared Citizen Supply Chain Disruptions Natural Disaster Preparedness Lessons Learned – Swift | Silent | Deadly Working Through a Major Disaster: Helene Is It Too Late To Start…
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America Left Behind
The Aftermath of Hurricane Helene: Americans Left Behind In the wake of Hurricane Helene, many communities across the United States faced flooding, loss of power, a lack of food and water, and of course limited monetary and logistical support in order to see that Americans received the aid they so desperately need. To make it…
The FEMA Cycle
FEMA: Wash, Rinse, Spin, Repeat The Brunswick Landing apartments in Maine sparked controversy earlier this year when it was discovered that homeless migrants in the area were getting the opportunity to live in the units rent-free for up to two years. Migrants living in the apartments shared that not only is the rent-free, the utilities…
Thank God for the Redneck Air Force!
Special ops vets form ‘Redneck Air Force’ to ferry aid into NC mountains after feds come up short: ‘Who’s FEMA?’ SWANNANOA, North Carolina — Hundreds of special operations personnel in North Carolina have formed their own homegrown rescue and supply operation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene after they grew tired of waiting for…
Prepatude
Prepatude “It was a different world back then and Gen X kids, who were pretty free-range.” Prepping is a subject that has been near and dear to my heart since I was a kid. The Wilder family would frequently go on long hikes and snowmobile trips into the backcountry. Likewise, we’d go hunting…
FUSA Bulletin: In NC Residents are the First Responders
In mountainous North Carolina, Residents are the First Responders after Hurricane Helene During 12 years as a National Guard member in New York, Tom Ford worked on relief missions to hurricane-hit communities, including when Sandy pummeled the New York area in 2012. But he’s never seen anything as bad as the impact of Hurricane…
Eight Observations On The “Several Unfolding Crises” We’re Seeing
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…
“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.
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…