Time for some more survival fiction. If you’ve been enjoying The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, this is the next installment. The Survivalist #4 is titled The Doomsayer.

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Welcome to Week 7 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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Pardon our dust, we’re moving to a new host.  Please bear with us while we get things right.

When it comes to “official” sources for emergency preparedness information, the more normal people see it, the better. The Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security is the single state agency responsible for the delivery of federal homeland security training, equipment funding and technical assistance. They have developed a website called Red Dirt Ready which is designed to inform and educate the public.
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Do you have a Get Home Bag? It’s essentially a Bug Out Bag, but it’s designed to keep with you rather than keep at home. This is a video by traumahawk1973. He walks us through the contents of his Get Home Bag (GHB). He uses a Mil-Com bag, which is much cheaper than the popular Maxpedition brand.
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It’s another Saturday! Welcome to Week 6 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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Our survival fiction search continues with the next installment of The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern.

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Once in a while, we show an interesting set of Every Day Carry (EDC) gear. This time around it’s from JTR357 at Bladeforums. Click on the photo for a bigger image.

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Every house should have at least a couple of fire extinguishers available. You never know when a fire could break out, and you want to be ready when it does. One of the places where fire could start is the kitchen. After all, you play with fire there just about every day.
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Superbowl weekend wasn’t so good for some people in the US. On Friday, the worst snowstorm in decades hit Washington D.C. and several states including – Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. More than a hundred thousand homes have lost electricity, and mobility is limited with airports shut down and public transport systems crippled.
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