Breaking: A Wuhan Update Before we jump into the lighter stuff, two quick notes. First the daily numbers: Cases: 69,266 Deaths: 1,670 Cases are up almost 86% from a week ago; deaths are up 105.6% – more than doubling. Second is a follow-up to the research paper we posted Saturday, (previous post) showing an …
OK, suppose the worst happens: the lights go out – the Internet has been attacked – but where you live, dedicated worker are getting the power on a couple of hours per day. You have been able to scrape-by – supplementing some wholly inadequate stored foods with a few fresh veggies from your quickly-planted garden. …
Had an interesting reader note come in: Basically asked if I could please do an article on communications (for the SHTF scenarios) that would be simple and no “diode this” and “Morse that…” Yup, guilty as charged. Why, if I got a dollar for everytime someone said “Ask George what time it is and he’s …
Since we’ve been writing about “UrbanSurvival” long before any of the “Johnny-come-lately’s” on the web (starting in ’98), our views on what’s “adequate prepping” have moderated a bit, over time. Here are the simplest, cheapest, and best ways we can think of to increase your personal preparedness in 2020. Spend $10-bucks a person on bottled …
Life in the city is grand. Everything convenient, all services close-at-hand. Yet there’s something special about holidays in the woods… Let’s start with the food part. Since there are only two of us this time around, we’re not doing a big meal for Christmas. Honestly, it looks like a toss-up between a couple of slabs …
An economic Depression is on the way. We don’t like to think about it, because it’s much easier to listen of the “ siren song” of politicians. It’s our great human “power of denial” that just won’t let us think anything bad can ever happen to us. Prepping, a movement this site helped “found” when …
We had our first good-sized storm come through Texas earlier this week and it brought to mind a laundry-list of winter storm items that we do as a matter of course. Life in the woods, and all that… If you’re new to home ownership (617-thousand homes were sold in the USA last year), here’s a …
No doubt, one of my favorite readers well scream at me about my twisted-up understanding of “digital assets” but for those paying attention, the discussion is worth having. There are, in Ure’s judgment, two distinct classes of “digital assets.” The kind that are “offline” and the kind that require “online” to work. I’ve studied the …