The impact of a disaster takes a toll on everything, but the biggest issues for most is power and communication. When you are stuck without power, your phone’s battery trickles away, eventually leaving you without a means to communicate with family...

Let’s just avert our gaze from modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look back at how folks 150 years ago did it. The SHTF we all prep for it’s what they called daily life. Our forefathers lost knowledge must be kept alive by all means...

With increased activity in testing of nuclear devices, North Korea is one step closer to making good on its threat to nuke some portion of the USA or its territories.  It is still not an imminent threat since North Korea apparently lacks the...

Should significant parts of the electrical power infrastructure be lost for any substantial period of time, the Commission believes that the consequences are likely to be catastrophic, and many people may ultimately die for lack of the basic...

In a perfect world, one would like to think that when disaster strikes, people would rush to help and support each other through it. And while people certainly will, such catastrophes unfortunately sometimes bring out the worst in many people as...