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Survival Lessons We Can Glean From Castaway
Tom Hanks featured in the movie Castaway Since the time that humans began building and sailing ships, the premise of being stranded on a deserted island has been used in many epic survival stories. We laughed at Gilligan’s Island. That was being stranded in luxury! One story from recent popular...
7 Survival Strategies to Teach Kids
As an adult reader of this blog, you likely have the skills and knowledge to protect yourself and your family in the event of an emergency. That’s great. But would your kids or grandkids be okay if they had to handle an emergency situation without you? The reality is that...
2 Keys to Summer Fun: How to Prepare
2 Keys to Summer Fun: How to Prepare Each Memorial Day, we honor our fallen heroes. This national holiday is also the start of the summer travel season. With that in mind, we thought we’d share a few brief tips with you all. If you're planning on getting away for...
When the Government Shuts Off the Water
Imagine your local government telling you that the pipes in your home will no longer deliver water in a few months. That’s the reality for the nearly half a million residents of Cape Town, South Africa. How did this happen? Despite one of the world’s strictest water management policies, it...
Best Tips to Prepare for Off Grid Living
HOW TO SURVIVEIN A WORLD GONE MAD Before we dive into today's helpful hints, I wanted to talk about what it truly means to live off the grid (OTG). At its simplest, OTG living means self-sufficiency without reliance on public utilities. This means that you technically can live off the...
Is Your Plan Water-Contamination Proof?
As the well-known survivalist Rule of Threes states, we can only survive three days without safe water. In comparison, we can survive three weeks without food. As Grant explained last week, water is the foundation for taking care of our other survival needs. It's certainly difficult to cook or prepare...
Life-Giving and Deadly: How to Prepare for Water Contamination
Water everywhere, but not a safe drop to drink. It's something many of us take for granted - that the water we drink is safe and clean. Not safe for me, my family - false security However, many people overlook the potential dangers of water contamination. It could happen during...
Looks Like the Power Will Be Out... For Years
Electricity is something we take for granted. Most of us have even experienced power outages and lived through them (even slept through them). Yet, there lurks a deeper, darker threat that goes far beyond a simple outage. I'm talking about something that could kill 90 percent of Americans within a...
Chaos Brewing? Don't Wait for the World to Boil Over
When in wait and see mode... Have you ever got that feeling that you might be dreaming, even though you know you are fully awake? Or perhaps it's the world that is sleeping, and we're just waiting for it to "snap out of it." That's the feeling I have this...
1 in a Billion - A Chance Not Worth the Risk
1 in a billion. What's in your tap water? If that's your chance of winning the lottery, you might say you have low odds of winning. But if you're talking about certain contaminants in drinking water, 1 part in a billion can be all it takes to seriously affect your...
The 2 Essentials Needed for Summer Travel
Each Memorial Day, we honor our fallen heroes. This national holiday is also the start of the summer travel season. If you're planning on getting away for a little summer fun - whether near or far - you'll want to read on. See, it's very important to take the preparedness...
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor? You might recognize the line - it’s from a sea shanty tune sung on old military vessels by the crew as they worked. So, what do you do with a drunken sailor? One of the proposed solutions of the song is to...
