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Health
Epidemic, an outbreak of a deadly disease, it’s the plot of a multitude of post-apocalyptic science fiction movie. It’s the catalyst for the zombie apocalypse craze splashed across TV and the movies. The scenario is one of the most fearful, a microscopic, virtually invisible invader killing every...
Food & Water
Until I relocated to a small city in rural California I never even conceived of people raising chickens for themselves. Moving boxes into my little house that first day, I remember hearing the rustling of ruffled feathers and warbling coos of a chicken coop out of sight behind my neighbor’s hedge...
Skills
Gold, gold, gold… that lustrous beauty of all the precious metals, the one whose allure has defined wealth for centuries and has driven men and women to the ends of the earth with hopes of uncovering even the smallest of nuggets, it now serves as the perceived foundation for an economy birthed fr...
Safety
So much of what we see in the media are bungled government responses to disasters. Look no further than Hurricane Katrina to instill an utter lack of confidence in the government to supply any support to the public during a disaster. Ronald Reagan’s famous nine most terrifying words quote, “I’m f...
Safety
Those with an attentive ear to the tracks listening for the approach of the next economic crisis, the financial rumblings from Russia are growing loud enough for most to hear. With the devaluation of the ruble (down 50% against the Dollar this year), the drop in oil prices (not good for an econom...
Food & Water
As preppers, we tend to set our own path, do our own thing and when it comes to our stockpile of sustenance, finding what we need rarely follows a straight route. The search for food that will last is a challenge. But be honest, we like that way, because when everything is eventually located thos...
Safety
Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, Californian earthquakes, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, for many of us those disasters seem far away, so far away it is difficult to imagine such disasters happening close to home. While a great many of us live where the threat of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsuna...
Skills
Financial security during and after a disaster resides just beyond sustainable survival on anyone’s list of concerns. Once you’re confident you and your family have stocked enough supplies and resources to survive for a time on your own, the next issue to address is how to plan for when community...
Health
Around the house we have our regular daily medications, ibuprofen or aspirin for that backache or joint that’s been acting up, cough syrup for the all-to-frequent cold the kids bring home from school, the occasional band-aids for the same rambunctious children and those much-depended-on antihista...
Gear
While the other checklists you’ve found here on US Preppers have been geared more towards sheltering-in-place, this one is specifically tailored to your needs in the event staying put is not in your best interests. Many of the essentials of food and water are the same when it comes to daily requi...
Food & Water
Water, above all else, is the most vital of the emergency essentials. A relatively healthy person can go upwards of 8 weeks without food but that same person, not subjected to weather extremes or above average physical exertion, will last only 3 to 5 days without water. Most of us grew up with th...
Food & Water
As many of you know, water is the most important emergency essential but food finishes at a very close second. The average person can last, at most, 8 weeks without food as long as they have water. But who wants to? And in an emergency situation how could you possibly function without regular, al...