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How to Communicate in SHTF
When the cell towers go dark, your phone is a paperweight. A handheld radio and pre-arranged frequencies keep your family connected. Pick your gear, practice now, and know your channels before the grid drops.
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Power Down? Household Appliances You Can Re-create Off the Grid
Your refrigerator dies the moment the power does. A buried cooler makes a working root cellar, two nested clay pots become a desert fridge, and a bucket with a plunger washes clothes. These are not theories. They work.
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Batteries
Solar panels are useless without somewhere to store the power. Deep-cycle batteries hold what you generate, and a properly built bank keeps your lights on after sundown. Skip the car batteries. They are not made for this.
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Creating Your Own Family Emergency Plan
A family emergency plan beats a pile of gear every time. Grab a binder, write down who to call and where to meet, then drill it until your kids can run it in their sleep.
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The Family Car needs a Bug Out Bag, too!
Time to feel proud, go ahead and pat yourself on the back. The stockpile of food and water are set, plenty to last more than week. The house is stocked and ready for sheltering everyone in place. The whole family all gathered together in the living room last Saturday, backpacks in hand and provis...
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Making a Mini Bug Out Bag for Your Kids’ School Backpack
Most preppers with families know how important it is to make sure your children are prepared. Every member in your family should have a bug out bag, preferably one that will cover at least 72 hours in a survival situation. But what happens when your kid is at school and separated from you and the...
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6 Steps to Turn a Backyard Camping Trip into a Kid’s Survival Course
Everyone loves a backyard camping trip, it’s great fun for everyone, but it’s also a great opportunity for learning. It is a fun way to teach your kids the basics of self-reliance, without them realizing they are learning anything because they’ll be having so much fun. Start with ground rules tha...
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Prepping for Beginners, Where You Should Start.
You don't need a bunker to start prepping. Cover the three things your body won't survive without: shelter, clean water, and food. Master those before you buy a single gadget.
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Earthquakes: Prepping to Survive the Aftermath Part I
Events like the recent Nepalese 7.8 earthquake, while a world away for people in the U.S., nonetheless make many of us sit up and take notice, especially for those living in quake-prone regions. The “Big One” has long been predicted to hit for so long the thought of it is more a running joke than...
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The 10 Best Starter Herbs for your Medicinal Garden
Picture this, you suddenly find yourself in the third week of a widespread disaster, your daughter has a sore throat with a slight fever, your son has just burned his hand on the stove, your husband is complaining about stomach aches and even though she hasn’t said anything you can tell grandma’s...
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Top 5 Survival Hacks
In a perfect world when a disaster happens you would have everything needed to survive. Of course, in a perfect world disaster and catastrophes would obligingly never happen. Yet having to contend with those frequent bad things that befall us at the most inconvenient times is a consequence of liv...
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Top 5 Bug-Out Mistakes to Avoid
Anyone who has lived through a disaster of any type knows the roller coaster of emotions and stress such a situation causes. Those circumstances, if nothing else, do not need additional burdens piled on by mistakes made in the heat of the moment or from simply being unprepared. Avoiding common mi...