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GETTING OUT OF DODGE  

No matter how good of a safe haven your home is, your prepping should include a plan to quickly “bug out” (Get out of Dodge/ GOOD). This is because a number of after effects of an EVENT could negatively affect

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How to Build a Battery Bank

The battery bank is the most important component of your off-grid powering system (See How to Build an Off-Grid Power Source). Once the sun goes down, the battery bank will provide electricity throughout the night if built correctly. The trick to

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How to Build an Off-Grid Power Source

Building an off-grid power source for your home or “Bug Out” location is not as difficult as you may think. Having power can drastically improve the quality of life during a long or short term power outage. After losing all

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Survival Events and Responses

This is a general guideline I came up with to help my prepping. While you may have a specific event in mind to prep for, such as tornados, there are others that can affect you. They can be minor, such

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3 Winter Emergency Essentials For Your Home

Unless you prepare for common winter emergencies like power outages, heating system breakdowns, and structural damage, you might suddenly find yourself one day facing a cold and miserable experience. The following three essentials can make life a lot better during

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Urban Survival For Alternate Power

The Seven Sisters of Urban Survival (Part V) You need some kind of power for: 1. Light2. Cooking3. Heat4. Refrigeration5. Communications LIGHTThis is a must when the power goes out. If you can afford them, the plug-in type flashlights that

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Surviving Lighting Bolts, Train Wrecks, and Disasters

Even an average person with no interest in survival or prepping could probably list for you at least five different types of disasters, mostly natural ones. Yet, when you sit down to plan for emergency events and how to prepare

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7 Essential Items in your Emergency Survival Kit

Emergencies need immediate attention. Yes, they won’t wait for you to get prepared. You should be primed to deal with such sudden, usually unexpected occurrence. Are you? Well, you can be, by including the following 7 essentials items to your

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Making a Survival Lamp using Olive Oil

In this day and age, people believe that they cannot survive without technology! Well, the majority of the human race has lived without technology. Henceforth, you can too! When Thomas Edison invited the lightbulb, the world got a whole lot

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When the Fault Breaks (Book Review)

When The Fault Breaks by Xavier Bruehler is a post-apocalypse book predicated by the rupture of the Cascadia Fault. It is about the stories and lives of survivors of the Mega Quake in a world of chaos and mayhem. It is

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