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Might You Need an Obstetrics Kit?
Back when my wife and I were pregnant with our first child, I went to all those natural childbirth classes. They gave me quite an education on what goes on during childbirth. I realized that armed with...
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Going Without Food
The basic survival Rule of Threes states that one can survive for: 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water 3 weeks without food. Wait–three weeks without food? Actually,...
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Dehydration and Rehydration
Several scenarios can lead to a dangerous state of dehydration: excessive sweating to do some combination of heat and/or physical activity, blood loss, shock, excessive alcohol consumption, disease,...
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Keyloggers: A Risk Assessment
What might happen to you if someone could learn all your passwords–if they could access all your bank accounts, your e-mail accounts, your electronic tax returns, and the like? What if they could view...
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Conceal Your Location: Use a Cutout Phone
From time to time operational security (OPSEC) may dictate that you conceal your physical location from someone with whom you speak on the telephone. For example, you may remain in contact with a...
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Understanding Chemical Hazards
An active rail line runs less than a block from our home. Six blocks the other way runs a major interstate highway. While it’s unlikely we’ll ever be directly affected by a hazardous chemical spill...
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Wildfire!
Although southern California is experiencing a drought this year, some rains over the past couple of months brought out the green on our hillsides. Last week my lawn was lush and green. Then local...
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TWAWKI
I have friends who are preparing for “TEOTWAWKI”—the end of the world as we know it. They are basically learning the skills and acquiring the supplies and gear needed to rebuild civilization. In the...
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Being Ready for Civil Unrest
Most of us have share a “normalcy bias” which tells us that things will pretty much keep on being the way they are now. We have a difficult time imagining looting and rioting on the streets of our...
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3 Ways to Win Your Family’s Participation
I have a wife who is supportive and involved in our family’s prepping. She’s interested in how we should respond to various possibilities, helps pick out some of our gear, and assigns a line item in...
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