RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive by: Les Stroud Summary: Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive has a good selection of different ideas and options for meeting your basic needs in a variety of survival situations.
This is the companion podcast to our article Preparedness and Survival Gifts – Holiday Shopping Ideas 2012. We discuss fourteen different gift ideas under $100 for the person who is interested in preparedness, survival or a similar hobby.
Verne Kopytoff’s article on The Importance of Disaster Plans highlights the reactive nature of people and business to disaster preparedness. One Florida hospital decided to start making plans for the likely disasters in their area: “In 2004 we had what we called the hurricane trifecta—Charlie, Francis, and Jeanne,” says Robert Goodman, disaster recovery coordinator for Florida Hospital. “The hurricanes got our management’s attention.” The take home message should be that it took not one or...
Lauren Kirchner’s article from this morning makes the point that there is a growing industry to support the increasing number of people who are interested in some flavor of preparedness, survivalism or prepping. She focuses much of her writing on the marketing of food storage and we agreed with some of her opinions in our own article last month. In short, the overzealous marketing of long term storage foods is often ridiculous and much of...
Laura King published an article earlier today about her experiences in a recent course that is supposed to train the participants on how to survive in the aftermath of a disaster. They covered topics such as bug out bags, supplies and security. The class sounds like it would be a fun, except for the caffeine deprivation, and the author seems to have gotten a lot out of the experience. The quote from her article that...
The goal of this podcast is to give you a solid overview of some of the main things you should know about steel when shopping for a new knife. We’ll give you an overview of these different factors and see that the steel used, heat treatment and blade design all really work together to affect how a knife blade performs.
Corn Muffins on the Grill Corn Muffins on the grill are chili’s best friend.
Bre McAdam’s recent article is focused on a woman in her area, Tammy Brooks, who is moving towards a more self-sufficient lifestyle. She quotes Ms. Brooks as saying “It’s great to have a storage room full of this, that and the other thing, but if you have no idea how to do it yourself, you’re lost.” This could not be more true. There is no point to just collecting up a garage full of military...
