WELCOME TO PREPARED Most people prepare after disaster strikes. Our goal is to prepare before it does. Every week you’ll receive different briefings items that will include some or all of the following: ✓ Practical preparedness lessons ✓ Printable field resources ✓ Real-world case studies ✓ A recommended piece of gear, a book, or a …
There’s a lot we take for granted.Clean waterWorking powerCell serviceAnd the idea that when we dial 911, help will come. But in the last few years, we’ve seen massive 911 outages, from Michigan to Alaska. Some lasted minutes. Others stretched into half a day. Whether it’s a cyberattack, a systems crash, or a local storm that …
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Today’s lesson…Ever wanted to jump from a building into a dumpster? I suppose I shouldn’t say “wanted”. I should probably say “needed”. Jumping from buildings into dumpsters isn’t just a movie thing. It’s a good skill to understand, because you never know when you might need it. There are a lot of perfectly good reasons …
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I could talk on and on all day about various prepping things or emergency situations. Literally, all day, pausing only to watch apocalyptic movies and TV shows for examples. Like THESE. I draw content from my own experiences, things I see happen around the world, and questions from you. Of those three, the best content source …
This is my current list of fave apocalypse movies and shows. It’s very likely to change in a year or even tomorrow as I see new and cool things. These aren’t in any particular order, because I like them all for different reasons. I’ll put my main reason for listing it with each item. Some …
***2022 UPDATE- Now is your chance to purchase a PDF copy of a book that Amazon deemed too dangerous to carry. This compendium used to be listed on Amazon, but was recently delisted because of a small document buried in the book about making Emergency Baby Food. When the Baby Formula Crisis occurred in 2022 …
Welcome to one in a series of many Rugged Dad of the Apocalypse Prepper Compendiums. This one focuses not only on prepper and emergency shelters, but building permanent shelter in austere conditions. *Shelters volume 1 was banned because it dealt with security issues in protecting and defending your shelter. As soon as a certain legal …
Welcome to one in a series of many Rugged Dad of the Apocalypse Prepper Compendiums. This one focuses on materials you might need to survive a chemical/biological/radiological incident. Here’s the versions of this book in order of importance: 1. Print. Yup, like a regular book you put on …
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As promised in the lists we provide for Get Home Bags, Bug Out Bags, and Off the Grid Bags, here are resources for many of those items. The items shown below are the ones I carry and believe in. If there’s an item on your list that is not shown below, it’s because anything will …
I’m a fan of the television show Under the Dome, although I’ve not read Stephen King’s book of the same title. It’s great because the installation of the dome was a great way to study the slow to rapid collapse from civilized society to chaos. It didn’t take long for the inner self to come out to …