"Prepping for Disaster"

This is part of an occasional series on Prepping for Disaster. In the wake of a disaster or uprising that upends normal life, your first considerations are food and shelter.…

How you decide to prepare for a natural disaster or post-apocalyptic scenario depends in large part on where you live. With 80 percent of the country’s population living in urban…

While stocking up on supplies and learning useful skills is an important part of prepping, that isn’t the be-all and end-all of survival preparation. There are plenty of intangibles that…

More and more Americans are taking seriously their need to prepare against natural disasters, terrorist attacks, or other emergency situations. But many of those people don’t undertake their preparations with…

Think of survival prepping like car insurance. You don’t expect to crash your car every time you get behind the wheel, yet paying insurance gives you the peace of mind…

This is part of an occasional series on Prepping for Disaster. Thomas Edison, the father of the light bulb, would not find our modern electricity grid unfamiliar. Which means that…

You’ve probably seen the shows — the ones where people are getting ready for some unimaginable apocalypse, when the you-know-what hits the fan and it all comes tumblin’ down. It…

Part II of an occasional series on Prepping for Disaster. Open the door to your kitchen cabinet. Take a good long look at the box of crackers that may save your life…

One thing that many preppers are good at is stocking up on gear. We can accumulate huge amounts of stuff, whether useful or not, and consider ourselves well prepared. But…

When it comes to prepping and survival, guns and food probably come at the top of the list, not necessarily in that order. In a really desperate scenario, most people…