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Societal chaos figures prominently in many potential crisis scenarios. Thus, at least in America, most self-respecting preparedness practitioners are legally armed.

Face it ... criminals and all manner of bad-guy types must think twice when there is real risk of running into the business end of a well-aimed firearm. Those types often are emboldened when the social structure breaks down, so it is i

If you're into crisis preparedness, you might know someone out there who lives for danger and societal demise. You know the type--they can bury their secret retr

Preparedness. What's it really about?

It's about having a backroom or storm cellar stocked with some emergency supplies IN CASE something happens in our area that makes it difficult to rely on others to continue to supply us with our everyday needs.

It means being suitably equipped to not only consume our emergency supplies, but also to some e

The human being is the most versatile creature God put on this planet...at least in our minds. Our Minds...our greatest comfort (for most) and tool.

Early man figured stuff out. We have not lost that capability. In the context of preparedness, of survival, we need to capitalize on knowledge. And there are a lot of areas to gain knowledge in and about. But there are many things to be done. The first is to determine what you really want to do. Conduct a self-assessment of your skills, ab

Survival preparedness is not only a method to get you past those lean days to come, but a lifestyle and choice. I often wonder what people will do when there is no more power grid, when no water comes out of the faucet when they turn the handle, when their year of survival supplies are gone....

Have they planned for those times? Are they prepared to plant a subsistance garden and start that adventure before supplies are gone forever? Are they ready to start this ole world over and what

This is part three of my series on 21st-century fallout shelters. Please read the first two installments before reading this post since there is a bit of a storyline that has taken shape. Part 1: Welcome to My Underground Bunker; Part 2: How to Hide a Fallout Shelter in the Middle of Suburbia. And

This is part two of my expose' on the growing, underground problem of bunker dependency in suburban America. See the previous shocking confession, "Welcome to My Underground Bunker." If you haven't read that first installment in this series, I'd suggest you do so, because this posting dovetails with

Today, I'm going to depart from the comfortable cadence of encouraging common-sense crisis-preparedness.

In fact, I'm going to completely throw the camo tarp off the blast door to my underground bunker and invite you in for a friendly little visit.

Why do we prepare for potential trouble? Of course many of us feel a pull ... the survival instinct ... to squirrel away a cache of material for down times.

Beyond such an obvious answer, however--if we scratch away at the surface of that explanation, one can start to wonder about deeper motivations, rationale, and the "best-laid plans of mice and men."