Emergency Preparedness Week

So today we had a little test of some of our preps. The utility company cut power in the neighborhood for maintenance between 8AM and 3PM. We learned a lot about what we had done right, and also what we had not done right. Here is a rundown of what we were able to test….

COME SEE US AT THE SURVIVAL EXPO AUGUST 8/9  SCOTIABANK CONFERENCE CENTER NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO BOOTH 29 Looking for some help for a few children by oldschool Looking for some help for a few children that are located in northern Ontario near the Nunavit boarder. They would like to be a part of Boy Scouts,…

Situational awareness is vital to preppers and for good reason. As preppers, we need to be aware of our surroundings to safely conduct our business as usual.We also need to be aware of threats. Threats can range from recognizing that a storm is coming, to noticing that a stranger is lingering in front of your house,…

There is an ugly feeling in the air, at least in financial circles. There is growing, if anecdotal evidence that we might be headed for some unsettling times. If so, there are things you need to be doing, but first let’s look at what’s going on in the world that has brought us (or at…

In Canada, as well as most other parts of the world, a great percentage of disaster situations are caused by weather.  Although most of us like to joke about the accuracy of the forecasters, Environment  Canada has made weather forecasting a reliable science. Weatheradio is a network of radio transmitters stretching from the Gulf of…

This Week On Movie Monday Wartime Farm is an eight part documentary program originally aired on BBC2 in 2012.  Historian Ruth Goodman along with archeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take over a farm in Hampshire, England.  The goal is to run the farm as it would have been during the second world war. By…