Summer is Gone and Winter is On The Way

Chainsaw-Logs (320x240)

Well, that time of year is here again.  Summer is over, fall has arrived, and winter is on its way.  In our neck of the woods that doesn’t usually include snowfall measured in feet, but we’re pretty well guaranteed a few nice storms.  In fact, the winter storm survival scenario I wrote about was based [...]

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Survival Scenario: Winter Storm

Don't get caught in this snowstorm!

Picture with me the following scenario. You sit down to watch the 6 o’clock news, and catch the weather man telling everyone in a lead story that a severe arctic storm is bearing down on your area, and you can expect to get several feet of snow over the next three days, with potential ice [...]

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What Do You Mean, We’re Out Of Toilet Paper?

A Life Essential

Guys, you’ve heard it before.  “Honey, we’re out of toilet paper.”  When you hear that today you can just run down to the store and save the day, hero that you are.  You may not be so lucky down the road.  This isn’t just for toilet paper though … other non food items are pretty [...]

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Too Many Mouths to Feed and Not Enough Food

Buckets of Food

So if you remember the Rule of Threes, you know that it’s time to talk about food now that we have water sorta covered.  When you say food storage, most people picture 50 lb bags of rice and buckets of wheat stored in the corner of the garage, and boxes of freeze dried food on [...]

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Move over Steve Martin, Hello Rule of Threes!

Move over, Three Amigos!

Everyone knows that you need oxygen, water, food, shelter, and so on to survive.  We all get that at a gut level.  What many folks don’t realize is that there’s a pretty simple way to triage those things.  It’s often referred to as the Rule of Threes. The rule is simple: You can survive for [...]

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