Book Review: “Holding Your Ground”
I just finished reading “Holding Your Ground; Preparing For Defense If It All Falls Apart” by Joe Nobody. The author uses a pen name as he is still an active security consultant and wishes to remain...
View ArticleWhich Natural Disasters Are The Most Deadly?
The answer might surprise you. This article considers the deadliest of each type of natural disaster, in the last 100 years, from 1912 to 2011 inclusive. The reason that we should look back to...
View ArticleSome interesting TEOTWAWKI blog posts
Here at Prep-Blog, we emphasize prepping for a wide range of disasters, common and uncommon, which might affect our lives short-term, long-term, or somewhere in-between. It makes good sense to prepare...
View ArticleThe Dangers Of Electromagnetic Pulse
Here at Prep-Blog we try to focus on emergency preparedness for the most likely disaster scenarios you are likely to face. Generally, things like earthquakes, hurricanes, bad storms, localized civil...
View ArticlePreppers beware: Debunking the Mayan Doomsday
The Mayan calendar system is complex. They had two different ways of reckoning a year, and the complex interaction between those two years results in longer calendar cycles. Some historical background...
View ArticleThe Most Common Argument against Prepping
Every prepper website, including Prep-Blog, is full of advice and commentary on preparing for a wide range of disasters, from hurricanes and earthquakes, to severe economic downturns, to some version...
View ArticleRare but Severe Disaster Scenarios
It is useful to prepare for less severe disasters, as these tend to be more common: power outages, hurricanes, snow storms, economic downturns, and anything else that might present a relatively limited...
View ArticleThe Origin of the term TEOTWAWKI
There are two ways to consider the origin of TEOTWAWKI, as an acronym and as the phrase it signifies: The End of the World as We Know It. I did a little amateur research on Google Books (advanced book...
View ArticleCould North Korea Be Developing An EMP Weapon?
Is it possible that new developments in North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs could be putting them closer to having the ability to launch an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack on the...
View ArticleSurvival Bunkers
Recently I saw a show called Extreme Survival Bunkers on TV that got me to thinking. The show detailed several different people and their plans for building bunkers to ride out any mass casualty or...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Most Likely TEOTWAWKI Scenarios
These are not “end of the world” scenarios, but rather “The End Of The World As We Know It” scenarios. A TEOTWAWKI event does not involve the extinction or near-extinction of humanity. Instead, it...
View ArticleThe Hot Zone: TEOTWAWKI narrowly averted
The Hot Zone is a book published quite a few years ago. But it has particular relevance to prepping and the threat of a severe epidemic in today’s world. The book is non-fiction. It tells the story of...
View Article5 Least Likely TEOTWAWKI Scenarios
In a previous post, I discussed The Top 5 Most Likely TEOTWAWKI Scenarios. But this prepping and survival blog post is about the LEAST likely extreme SHTF scenarios. The list is merely my opinion, so...
View ArticleSupervolcanoes: much worse than regular volcanoes
In my previous post, I discussed the effects of a volcanic eruption: local as well as global effects. The main global effect, from a large eruption, is a cooling of the weather, especially in northern...
View ArticleUpdate on Current Impending Disasters
Apart from pure speculation as to the most likely SHTF scenarios, there is some basis for proposing that certain disasters are approaching fruition. This prepping and survival blog post is a quick...
View ArticleWill You Survive the Next Pandemic?
I know what you’re thinking. If this is an article on how to survive the NEXT pandemic, when was the last pandemic? Was it the outbreak of Spanish flu in the early 20th century that killed tens of...
View ArticleThe Militarization of Law Enforcement
Over at Bruce Schneier’s security blog, he reviews a book called Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko [available at Amazon]. At both federal and state...
View Article7 Possible TEOTWAWKI Scenarios
Most preppers are familiar with the concept: TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). This term refers to an event so catastrophic in its effects that society is thoroughly changed for a long...
View ArticleWhy You Should Worry About Ebola
I’m reading a number of comments and articles saying that you don’t need to worry about Ebola in the U.S. Here’s one particularly obnoxious commentary, in the form of a flow chart. But it’s more than...
View ArticleEbola Cases DOUBLING every month
According to the World Health Organization: June 4th 2014: “The cumulative number of cases and deaths attributable to EVD in Guinea is now 328 (laboratory confirmed 193, probable 80, and suspected 55)...
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