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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…

While gathering information for this post I talked to a few people about what they would do with their animals in an emergency.  I got responses ranging from letting them go free to dispatching them before an evacuation to a 10 minute dissertation on why an emergency couldn’t possibly happen to them.  Ah … yeah. …

I haven’t reviewed a book on this blog yet, but I’ve just read one that I think everyone should read. It is called The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollon. It is an examination, or as the book says, the natural history of four meals. Fancy words aside, the book takes a deep look at several…

So, do you wonder if you will be able to do for yourself after disaster strikes?  Wondering how to aquire the skills you would need to fix a broken window after a storm?  How about patching the roof after a tornado?  Maybe an earthquake broke some plumbing in the basement.  Not very handy?  Need to…

Another African nation is in the news lately. Somalia is enduring what has been called the worst famine in a generation, and millions are at risk. Drought is the primary cause, although there are contributing factors. There is little likelihood that sufficient aid will reach those in need quickly enough and in sufficient quantity to…