Reactuate

I haven’t written a survival entry in while, but I’ve had one percolating in my cortex of a while now. And today I discovered a new blog Paratus that inspired me to take a few minutes and write it out.

When most people think about survivalism or preparedness, they think of crazy gun nuts preparing for [...]

Been a long time since I wrote anything survival related. But I ran into this post by a former Marine in medical school about a fanny pack first aid kit and a trunk trauma first aid kit. Interesting and important stuff.

This piece estimates how long power would stay on if everyone turned into zombies.

I’ve often wondered this. Catastrophic loss of life is a common what if in science fiction. Think Omega Man, The Stand and others. You don’t have to turn into zombies.

Back August of 2003 I posted about the contents of my Bug Out Bag. Today Kim du Toit posted some of his bug out stuff.

It was a reminder to me that we need to check out the bag and make sure things are up to date. It also reminded me that things have changed [...]

You know every so often I get the urge to throw out the rat race and move to a little farm and live the “simple” life. Of course I know enough about farming to know it isn’t simple. So I stay in the 9 to 5 grind.

But some people do it. They didn’t become [...]

Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit fame had an article about disaster preparedness and some interesting followup emails.

One of the followup emails said he had a 2 flashlights, food and water on the subway. I’d like to know what he carried it in. But I did buy one of those key chain LCD lights(looks a little different [...]

Here’s the promised entry on our BOB.

First when creating a BOB you have to think what you are likely to use it for. Almost by definition a BOB is for the times you may have to leave your house because of some danger there. It is to get you through till you get somewhere else [...]