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If you’ve been watching the news this week, you’ll have seen stories about tornados, fires and floods. Devastating events, to be sure, but they are relatively short in duration and the effects are transient in their nature. They have devastating effects on the areas in which they occur, possibly fatal to some people. Yet in…

When the world goes quiet — no internet, no cell service, no official news — the prepared know where to turn: HF (High Frequency) and SW (Shortwave) radio. In any serious SHTF (Sh*t Hits The Fan) event, reliable information could mean the difference between survival and disaster. Let’s talk about how HF and SW radios…

Accidental fires in the home can occur for various reasons all throughout the year. However, the most prominent season for home fires is the winter. During the coldest season of the year people spend more time indoors, gas and electric bills rise to keep everyone warm, increasing the chances of human and mechanical error. As…

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. In…

I have found that milk is one of the toughest food items to store long term.  Yhere are a few options, but let’s face it, the taste is, well, shall we say aquiered.  First , and probably the easiest to store long term is instant powder.  If repackaged in an opaque, airtight container and protected…

This Week On Movie Monday The Colony Season 2 Episode 4 The Colony was a social experiment series that aired on television in 2008/2009.  One of my favorite pieces of prepper production, The Colony takes a group of volunteers and places them in a disaster scenario to see how they survive.  In season 2, the…