By Daisy Luther Like a lot of frequent travelers, I’d been itching to get back on the road after months of lockdown. A couple of months ago, I drove from the east coast to the west coast and ended up in Mexico, where I rented…
By Ice Age Farmer From grain elevators in Iowa, to sugar silos in New Orleans, to food warehouses in Essex, to grain reserves in Beirut — the world’s food supply chain is strangely going up in flames. With farm labor running from COVID-19 tests, meat…
By Tyler Durden Food banks were already under stress before Hurricane Laura devastated parts of southern Louisiana last week. Many of these charities were providing meal assistance to hungry families affected by the virus-induced downturn in the economy. Now they must provide meals for people…
By Toby Cowern The 7 Pillars of Urban Preparedness is an introductory course that Selco and I teach. This is a foundational module that we refer to often because so much is built from these seven pillars. Selco and I created this framework to hang…
By Tess Pennington In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, supply shortages have plagued the country. It’s not just toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and seeds we are talking about. It’s more than that and some believe this is another telltale sign that we are living…
By Will Ryan Prepping for your withdrawal from mainstream society comes with a steep learning curve. A small mistake could leave you in a pinch when you least expect it, leading to costly repairs or, worse, the end of your remote hideaway. You need to…
By Daisy Luther In northern regions of an unstable country, a battle broke out yesterday in the streets of a small city. Meanwhile, in the southeastern corridor, protesters continue to clash over control of a monument, and in the Northeast, rebels have been battling local…
By Terry Trahan I have been kind of struggling in what to name this new series of articles, trying to find the right tone. This does fall under the USE&E (Urban Survival, Escape & Evasion) title quite a lot of my material falls under. But…
By Daisy Luther A lot of folks make preparedness and survival way too complicated. Sometimes applying principles from another arena can work to make things a little easier. I was writing up some essential business skills for a group of budding entrepreneurs and it occurred…
By Selco Begovic The competition for the worst prepping advice out there is pretty sharp. It’s been going on for many years and has a tendency to get even more ridiculous as time goes on. One reason is that a lot of the advice is…
By Daisy Luther The lockdown that recently took place due to the pandemic was like a practice run for a bigger SHTF event. Many of our prepper theories played out and were accurate, while others weren’t as realistic as we thought beforehand. People who weren’t…
By Mayukh Saha While horror and post-apocalyptic movies are mostly fiction, they can have significant effects on our real lives. A recent study has shown that people who enjoy movies from the two genres cope better, physically and mentally, during pandemics. A renowned psychologist, Coltan…
By Selco Begovic I often say that survival is about being ahead of other folks around you. If I want to “complicate” that definition a bit I would say that survival is also keeping the ability to cope with everyday tasks, stay alive, and still…
By Tyler Durden As we’ve detailed on more than one occasion, and not limited to a certain part of the country, people are fleeing major cities for rural communities due to virus pandemic and social unrest. Feeling insecure, even after the great migration out of…
By Daisy Luther Lots of folks have mentioned that their grocery stores never fully restocked after the rush on food and supplies back at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. And with the current news stories about spiking COVID numbers, it may not be long…
By Michael Snyder It has been on my heart to write this article for a few days, but I knew that it wouldn’t be easy to write. 2020 has already been one of the worst years in modern U.S. history, and it looks like the…
By Sara Tipton Tropical storm Cristobal is threatening Gulf communities and could grow to become a hurricane late this weekend. Those who live on the Gulf Coast and near where the storm is threatening are not taking any chances. One source in Houston, Texas is…
By Tess Pennington Living through a pandemic was not on anyone’s radar a few months ago. Sadly, when the world shut down, it caused our economy to shut down with it. Unemployment has skyrocketed and it’s safe to say we are all concerned about what…
By Selco Begovic Watching how the pandemic stuff worked here around me in the Balkan countries was something like re-learning about prepping, and actually it was a good class (unless you were sick, got fired or similar). Rough times from the pandemic here are pretty…
By Mac Slavo In the aftermath of the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has impoverished millions and destroyed the supply chains all around the world, Americans are at least taking some responsibility. Many are now taking to self-reliance, as they’ve realized the government…
