Gathering water is a must in any survival situation, but you don’t always have a guarantee that the water is drinkable. This is why it is always indicated to gather water that doesn’t require purification. If you manage to do so, you will save time, fuel and energy. Natural water sources are all around us and we must learn how to make good use of them.
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Prepare Yourself – Prepping Starts With You!
Prepare yourself for the worst and you may live to tell the story. In any disaster scenario, your main task is to stay alive. If you manage to do this, you will be able to take care of the others. Prepping starts with you. Knowing your limits, assessing your emotions and thoughts is a necessary stage of every emergency preparedness plan.
Arid Edibles As Survival Food
Wild edibles are a precious source of food when you find yourself lacking the resources to survive in an unknown environment. Since nature doesn’t always play in your favor, you could be wandering on unfamiliar grounds like the desert. In the United States, some major areas are deserts, and although it might not be a favorable environment to thrive in, the desert can provide arid edibles that will help you to push forward.
The Ups And Downs Of An Off-Grid Life
An off-grid life is a goal for many of us and being self-sufficient is what prepping is all about. However, the adjustments to an off-grid life may be difficult for some people. If they don’t get used to the routine they will bounce back on the grid. In this article, you will read about the confessions of a family that has been living off the grid since 2001. It provides a big picture of what you should expect if you want an off-grid life.
Get Home Bag Essentials You Should Have
You are at work and you are trying to beat the clock. Is just one of those days when nothing seems out of the ordinary. Suddenly you hear sirens in the distance and the power goes out. You try to use the cell phone but the line is busy, it’s no use. You know that a disaster is coming your way and you need to get out of there. You have to get home although you are many miles away from your family. However, you have a solution to get to them. Your get home bag.
Eating Ants Helped Australian Man To Survive For 6 Days
A 62 year old man who got lost in the Australian desert after chasing a camel, managed to survive for 6 days only by eating ants. This is an amazing survival story of human determination.
Ten Household Items To Use In An Emergency
When it comes to survival, improvising efficient solutions from everyday items can save the day. There are useful tools all around you, and you need to be able and recognize them. The following household items can be found in most North American homes, and they will come in handy during an emergency.
How To Form A Survival Group
We live in an uncertain world and with each passing day, more and more people decide to become survivalists and preppers. Unfortunately, the path that most of these people chose is the path of the lone wolf. Although many aspects of preparedness tend to focus on the individual, history showed us that a united force is stronger. Such formation has more chances of survival than a single individual.
Emergency Bunker – What You Need To Know
If you are part of the preparedness and survival communities, you might as well have plans to have a second home. The difference is that we want something that protects us from the threats of today’s world. Something like a bug out location or even better, an emergency bunker. If an emergency bunker is on your to-do list, the following are the things you need to consider.
15 Essential Tips For Surviving In The Wilderness
Surviving in the wilderness is far more difficult than most people expect. Movies and television often portray outdoor survival as something that can be handled with minimal preparation, but the reality is far less forgiving. Even experienced campers, hikers, and hunters can suddenly find themselves in serious danger when weather changes, navigation fails, or an injury occurs far from help.
A Prepper’s Will To Push Forward
Will, in my opinion, is strong determination from deep within a person. That’s exactly what you need to survive and thrive during a catastrophe. The way I see it we are preppers and survivalists because we gather and store things for a future that we believe could be a worst case scenario, but we also study, train, practice, learn, and go the extra mile so that we can survive and thrive during that possible worst case scenario.
Home Defense at it’s Finest
Hey you preppers out there in la la land! I thought we would cover home defense for normal people, people that don’t have the money to purchase a preowned missile silo or build a bunker from scratch.
Disaster strikes – What Do You Need To Do?
Once disaster strikes, every decision you make will have an effect on whether you survive or not. Making the right call will keep you and your loved ones alive. Failing to take immediate action and not using all the information you have, will drastically lower your chances of survival. When disaster strikes, you have to be ready and you have to know what to do.