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Lessons from the Spring Shutdown and How to Survive a Second One
In March 2020, our lives were turned upside down overnight as nonessential stores, restaurants, and schools shut down due to COVID-19. Now, in the fall of 2020, businesses have reopened, restaurants have more capacity, and students are attending class in school. But will it last? No matter if you believe...
What Nobody Expects Is Usually the Worst
Post-Election Mayhem Could Be the Next “Black Swan” Event – Preppers Might Be the Only Ones Who Survive If you’ve never heard the term “black swan” event… listen up. A “black swan” event is something unexpected that takes observers completely by surprise. It comes from the ancient belief that all...
The Trapped Chilean Mine Workers are Proof a Survival Mindset Works
Ten years ago, the world was glued to their televisions watching the dramatic rescue of Chilean mine workers. This group of 33 men had been stuck 2,300 feet underground from August 5, 2010 to October 13, 2010 – they survived 69 days with limited resources and without access to the...
How to Leverage Social Media When Disaster Strikes
However you might feel about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Parler, and other platforms, social media is here to stay. Beyond staying in touch with your college friends and extended family members, it can be extremely valuable as a tool when disaster hits your area. For example, think about how social media… ...
What Little House on the Prairie Teaches Us about Preparedness
(Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Many of us remember sitting with our families for our weekly viewing of the classic television show Little House on the Prairie. Even if you didn’t grow up watching the beloved Michael Landon or reading the series of novels it was based on,...
Civil Unrest: A Glimpse Into 3 Current Situations and Applicable Lessons
With a consistently shifting and changing financial, political, and social landscape, civil discontent is going to be a continued reality in our world. In many democratic and non-democratic nations, the outcome is civil unrest and protest. As The Guardian shares, “The protests raging today and in the past months on...
When Governments Kill the Internet
Many people in the Western world consider internet access to be a fundamental right. Our ability to instantly communicate with our friends and family, access information, and generate income using internet connection is easily taken for granted here in the United States. However, our ability to access and connect to...
Ebola Spreads in Africa: What Americans Need to Know
Whether they are bacteria-based or viral, infectious diseases pose a threat to every human on earth. And once they become an epidemic, it’s not too long before they can become a global pandemic. The World Health Organization recently declared the Ebola outbreak in Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of...
Planned Power Outages: What You Need to Know
We’ve written a lot about the devastating outcomes of the recent California wildfires and the choking smoke those events created across many states. For example, there was a wildfire breakout in 2017 when trees hit PG&E power lines around the Napa area. It burned over 100,000 acres and 1,475 structures....
Living Through the Venezuelan Blackout: One Resident’s Account
Last week, we covered the devastating reality of life in Venezuela while the country suffered through the largest power outage in the country’s history (see that Survival Scout, Surviving Venezuela: Lessons From a Country in Chaos). Looters filled the streets, ATMs were down, and many citizens resorted to drinking polluted...
Surviving Venezuela: Lessons from a Country in Crisis
Imagine your power goes out indefinitely for a week. Maybe longer, with no end in sight. Now, imagine that happening to virtually everyone living in your country. While this may have been a mere nightmare in the past, this was the recent reality in Venezuela. Venezuela lost power around 5...
Gas Shortages: What Current and Past Crises Teach Us
The health of our economy is dependent on a variety of factors, one of which is transportation. And what resource do our transport systems primarily depend on? You guessed it...gasoline. When you stop to think about it, this is unsettling because our access to gas is dependent on additional factors...
