BoatPack – put a boat on top of your car
Meet the Earl Backcountry Survival Tablet
Building your own tools, post-SHTF
Urban Evac: Considering Prybars versus Lockpicks
Guest post: Top Emergency Food Supplies for You to Stock At Home
Reminder: test your backup power generators
Backpacker Magazine October 2012: The Survival Issue
Mophie JuicePack Powerstation Pro – Ruggedized external power for your iDevices
2012 US severe drought season leads to higher food prices?
It’s not unusual to see portable storage units on the roofs of cars or trucks. We’ve also seen canoes and small boats on those roofs. BoatPack looks like a great implementation of a hybrid idea — enough space for your goods AND a boat, too.
Tablet computers are all the rage nowadays, and the prices are dropping all the time, too. Keeping your entire survival library on a small, paperback-sized tablet is an attractive proposition — if you discount the short battery life, fragile build and lack of waterproofing.
A lot of what we discuss here at Survival Today involves preparation — all the things that we should do before any disaster happens. We should also learn as much as we can about what to do in case the disaster situation is prolonged.
Our sister site Urban Evac has an interesting question: in an urban survival scenario, do you use a prybar or a lockpick?
With the recent Superstorm Sandy, a lot of people were unfortunately caught without sufficient food supplies at home. Our Guest Writer Agnes Jimenez shares a timely reminder on the types of food we should stock at home.
It’s well and good to have an emergency backup power generator on standby, but do you know if your generator is working? There are about 12 million backup power generators today in the US. And yet, many fail due to lack of maintenance.
