With real-life doomsday scenarios like mega-tsunamis and nuclear meltdown making headlines, companies marketing survival shelters have seen a spike in interest in recent months. A few days ago, CNN Money ran an article on a new type of “economy class” doomsday bunker for thrifty folks who still want to hedge ...

The following guest post is by M.D. Creekmore of The Survivalist Blog dot Net. According to the National Grid Plc more than 29,727 homes and businesses were without power as a result of recent snowstorms that recently blanketed the U.S. East Coast. Power outages are nothing new and thousands of ...

The following article is the third in a five-part series, Beyond the Emergency Fund. Previous posts discussed ways to store water for emergencies, and how to store food long term. It’s hard for most Americans to imagine what a full economic collapse may look like. Unfortunately, many other countries are ...

This is the second article in a five-part series on preparing your household, “Beyond the Emergency Fund.” For five consecutive Mondays, we’ll look at a variety of preparedness methods such as food and water storage, alternative power sources and ways to prepare for specific types of ...

This article is the first in a five-part series on preparing your household “Beyond the Emergency Fund.” For five consecutive Mondays, we’ll look at a variety of preparedness methods such as food and water storage, alternative power sources and ways to prepare for specific types of household emergencies. On the scale ...

Today’s post is a few hours late thanks to a household emergency. Over the weekend our home’s central air conditioner died. It happened late Friday night. By early morning Saturday it was 86 degrees inside our house. Opening windows would have done little good as Saturday’s temperatures were expected to ...

For a variety of reasons, many families choose to stockpile food. Common reasons for stockpiling food include disaster preparedness, power outages, religious reasons, or in case of financial downturns. If you are considering starting your own food stockpile, you might be wondering exactly how to get started as there ...

Imagine the following scenario. You are awakened in the middle of the night by the jolt of a powerful earthquake. Your house is leveled, but thankfully you and your family are uninjured. However, the roads are impassable, your utilities have been cut off, and many of your neighbors were injured ...