Author: denob

Late again. I’m extraordinarily busy these days, and I’m getting tardy updating this. I have good intentions to post every Sunday, but we know what’s paved with those… Anyway, since we’re talking about time. let’s talk about time. In most survival blogs, you’ll see people talk about loading up and bugging out. Rarely do you…

Dorothy certainly had plenty to worry about as she began her stroll down the yellow brick road.  Much the same way we live our lives on a day to day basis, there are dangers that can jump out of the woods at us at any time.  Given recent events, no one can now deny that…

… and all it’s craziness Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da Remember that Discovery Channel commercial? Well, if you want to love all the craziness, now is the time, especially if you live in the Eastern U.S. Not only did they get a fairly strong earthquake last week, they are also dealing with Hurricane Irene clawing its…

Tornado Issued at 6:59 PM Wednesday 24 August 2011 Importance: High Recommended Action Recommended Actions: Emergency Management Ontario recommends that persons in the area described above IMMEDIATELY shelter. Everyone in this area should immediately move indoors, and away from doors and windows, preferably into a basement area if that is possible. Do not pick up…

This may not apply to all Canadians, but for those in Ontario and anywhere east, please pay attention.Hurricane season is now in high gear.  The first major storm, Irene, is expected to reach cat.4 in the next 24 hours and seems to be poised to skim up the eastern coast of the US towards Boston. …

I’m not sure exactly what day it was, but something told me that the time to kick the preps into high gear had arrived.  Maybe it was the “back to school” specials. Perhaps corn on the cob season began.  Maybe even that it was a little less bright out at my 5:30 AM alarm clock…

“May you live in interesting times’ is how a supposedly ancient Chinese proverb (or curse) goes. It means that the most interesting period of history are often those we’d least like to live through. But many of the ‘dreamers’ in survival and preparedness think that the interesting times are those that they yearn for, an…

Sometimes it seems so simple & easy.  On top of posting here on the Canadian Preppers Network, I am a regular poster on the forum site as well.  Add to that a prepper blog of my own and a weekly podcast on the Prepper Podcast Radio Network, and I think that I contribute my fair…

Well, wasn’t that an interesting week? Major drops on stocks across the world, a downgrade of the US bond rating from AAA to AA+, and the continued debt crisis in Europe. Is it the end of everything? Is the shit hitting the fan? Should we bug out now? Not hardly. By and large, the crises…

You may have been hearing about all the solar flares & geomagnetic storms & all that jargon lately, but where does one get this info and just what does it all mean? Well, here is a link to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html Now for the what does it mean…here is a link to…