The Woburn Water Contamination EpidemicHow Undetected Toxic Pollutants Ailed a Community and What We Can Do to Ensure a Similar Situation Never Happens Again Water is one of the single most important elements for survival. Without...
5 Hurricane Preparedness Lessons from HistoryCarolinas Face Flooding After Hurricane Florence Lumbers Through States (Photo by U.S. Air Force via Getty Images) As Hurricane Florence made landfall on the east coast of the United States, we’...
The Science Behind Solar Flares and the GridWhen you hear the term “natural disaster,” phenomenon such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes may be the first things to come to mind. However, natural disasters originating beyond our Ea...
Survival Lessons We Can Glean From CastawayTom 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 stor...
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918: Using History to Protect Our FutureIt's been a little over a century since the 1918 influenza pandemic--one of the deadliest viral outbreaks in history. As we see again and again, history has a way of repeating itself. We're watc...
Money Prepping: How to Protect Yourself from Fiat Currency DisastersLet’s start with a little bit of history before we tie this all together with today and something to prepare for. Almost a half-century ago now, the American dollar was on the gold standard. Th...
7 Survival Strategies to Teach KidsAs 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...
What’s Sheepdog Preparedness? A Deep LookTHOUGHTS ON SHEEPDOG PREPAREDNESS There’s a philosophy that gets talked about a lot in the preparedness community called the “sheepdog approach.” It comes from an analogy that describes humans...
Rolling Brownouts Are Back as Emergency Plans Kick InWe call them natural disasters. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, etc. Mother nature cooks ‘em up and tosses ‘em at us. We either get out of the way or get sucked into their destruction. But wildf...
Personal Hardship PreparednessPersonal Hardship Preparedness Whenever we ask people “what” they’re preparing for, the responses tend to be the scarier things. Natural disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, torn...
5 Things Flying Taught Me About PreparednessOvercoming Fear Several years ago, I decided that I wanted to learn how to fly. My motivation was simple. Flying scared the heck out of me. I travelled so much for business that I had gained pl...
Survival Fishing Part 3: Reading the WaterSurvival Fishing Part 3: Reading the Water Welcome to our third installment of My Patriot Supply’s survival fishing series. Today, we are going to discuss a very particular and valuable skill. I...
