Five Portable Solar Chargers

Emergency Preparedness

Now that the sun is reliably shining, harness that energy for your devices and emergency gear. Here’s a list of the top 5 solar chargers

July 21, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

We all look up at the sky every day. But how many of us know what the clouds can tell us about weather? If you’re

July 17, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

To make a really good fire starter you only need a little bit of time and two ingredients…petroleum jelly and cotton balls. Well, we tried

July 7, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

I grew up in Florida, where we were all told to prepare for hurricane season. June through September, and sometimes but rarely in May, people

June 9, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

All serious preppers and even people who aren’t preppers at all have heard of the Global Seed Vault. This is an underground vault located on

May 26, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

If you’re like me, you like to have a back-up and then a back-up back-up. Every method of starting fires has their pros and cons.

May 5, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

Power outages are normal. If you live in colder climates, you may have experienced an ice storm, or a hurricane in warmer climates, that knocked

April 21, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

Here in the Pacific Northwest Spring is just around the corner. We keep getting glimpses of the sun but not a whole day of sunshine

April 1, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

I’ve known about Ron Hood and his survival videos for a while. But I have to tell the truth…I had never watched any of the

March 18, 2017

Emergency Preparedness

OK, you might not be in the actual DESERT when there’s an emergency situation. But around my parts, the Pacific Northwest, it’s common to go

March 11, 2017