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• Balancing OPSEC and Resilient Communities
  Welcome to this week’s Urban Survival Newsletter, brought to you by the SurviveInPlace.com Preparedness Course…designed to help you create a plan to survive wherever you spend the majority of your time, even if that happens to be a non-ideal location. Many people who have been watching “Doomsday Preppers” on National Geographic are wondering why in the heck […]
• Review of Episode 3 of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo
  Episode 3 of Doomsday Preppers had an interesting twist to it…NGC said that they’d examined cultures from around the globe and that Doomsday Preppers was a part of their “ongoing look at American outliers.” Outliers? Really? I guess it’s crazy, in hurricane country to prepare for hurricanes, in blizzard country to prepare for blizzards, in […]
• Preparing for Hand Sanitizer Resistant Viruses
  This week, I was reminded about the importance of being able to self-support after a breakdown in the supply chain from a completely unexpected source…the cruise lines. You see, hundreds of passengers on two cruise ships (one had outbreaks on 2 cruises in a row) contracted a norovirus that caused extreme “digestive system distress”. This […]
• Review of Episode 2 of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo
  Episode 2 of Doomsday Preppers featured 4 more preppers, starting with David Sarti from Nashville, TN. David’s main concern is electromagnetic pulses. David does a regular preparedness video at http://www.youtube.com/user/dsarti1?feature=watch David has enough grain for 1 year for 7 people and, interestingly enough, he uses hand warmers as oxygen absorbers. […]
• Review of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo Channel Episode 1
  In the first episode, Doomsday Preppers interviews 3 preppers. First up, Paul and Gloria Range from Floresville, TX. They’re retired and are full-time preppers, spending up to 50 hours per week. Some notables: -They’ve got 50,000 pounds of food -Their house is made out of 9 40 foot long steel shipping containers -In the show, […]