Advanced Home Defense During Riots / Looting

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Jan 072012
 

For everyday life, you probably don’t want to turn your house into a crazy looking fortress. However, if looting or riots happen, you should know some simple techniques that will make your house look unappealing for the crazies.

While some blogs advise you to through a bunch of trash outside to make it look like your home was already ransacked, that is no guarantee that some stragglers might not want to pick over your house again.

Other believe the old fashioned “Looters will be shot” threat spray painted on the garage is the best idea.  While that is more effective, It also has the unfortunate side effect of advertising to everyone that you have guns.  While that is a given in most areas of the South, that is not always the case.  Sometimes you don’t want burglars to know which houses they can stake out and break into for guns when you are not home.

A very effective way to discourage anyone from breaking into your home is with something called a “Prepper’s Welcome Mat.”  This is simply a large board with nails sticking up that you fasten to the porch outside your front door.  It will make it impossible for someone to just walk right up to your door and kick it in.

The Prepper’s Welcome Mat is great because, unlike a great door barricade, it doesn’t just make it difficult to kick in the door; it makes it almost impossible for them to even try.

You can also fix your windows the same way so that nobody is going to choose your house when they can just keep on moving and loot somewhere else that is easier.

Now, some will say that these techniques will not stop a determined mob.  That is true.  A mob that is determined to get in can get in.  However, by slowing them down, you give yourself more time to give them a case of acute lead poisoning.

 

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Self Defense When It Counts in 2012

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Jan 012012
 

We talk about “prepping” to ensure that we are ready for the tough economic times ahead. We cover water, food, home defense, emergency power.

http://simpleselfdefensetechniques.com

Pepper Spray is Great.... If You Have Time to Get it Out...

Let’s talk about personal self-defense.

We expect crime to be increasing dramatically in 2012 as the economic situation becomes more desperate. Desperate people do desperate things and the fact the we have record unemployment and 45 million Americans on food stamps means that there are more desperate people than ever before.

Whether you are a man or a woman, there will come a time when you are facing an assault, whether you know it or not. Sometimes, the would-be attacker doesn’t attack because someone else walks by or you look up at just the right time or you just don’t present an opportune target. Good situational awareness stops many attacks before they start.

The best self defense is something that you have with you at all times – knowledge.  Instead of a bunch of cool marital arts moves, the thing you need to do is master a couple simple self defense techniques  that you practice and turn into reflexes.

To check out some great self defense tips from a former prison inmate who teaches what he learned the hard way, you can go to http://simpleSelfDefenseTechniques.com.

 

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Water: What To Do When Your Tap Runs Dry

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Dec 282011
 

A power grid failure will have a secondary impact that most people don’t even realize; their water will stop flowing within hours.  The electricity that powers the pumps that fill the water towers with water (the purification of which was reliant on electricity) doesn’t have an instantaneous impact on our water faucets.  As long as there is water in the towers higher than our sink, we’ll have water flowing.

Once the towers are emptied in a few hours, depending upon the pumping capacity of the municipality, the faucets are dry. Then you are pitted against all the other victims of the crisis lining up at the grocery stores, hoping they can sell off their bottled water even though their cash registers don’t work without power.

Step 1:) Immediately fill your bathtub and available water containers once the power runs out.

Step 2) Once the power stops, you can obtain another 30 or 40 gallons of clean water by draining your hot water heater (ensure you turn the heat OFF first if it is gas heat and still on).

Step 3) The remaining water in your home’s pipes can be accessed from the lowest spigot in the house once you open the faucet at the highest point in the house.

If you have done the smallest amount of preparation ahead of time and read about what to do next, then you’ll have a couple of items on hand to be able to last indefinitely, provided there is a river, creek or retention pond nearby.
You can learn more details from a good urban survival manual like the one available from survive2day.com.

 

 

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Post Christmas Prepping – Money Saving Urban Survival Technique

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Dec 252011
 

The days after Christmas are a great time for saving money on some great prep items. No, we’re not talking about wrapping paper and Chia Pets – but some things that you will really appreciate for saving money when the SHTF, or even if it nothing hits the fan.

Warning:  These tips are not the “macho-guy” gun tips you may be expecting, but they are very valuable.

1) Food Prepper Opportunities

After the holidays, the price goes down on two nutritional powerhouses: canned pumpkin and canned yams (sweet potatoes).   The canned pumpkin is very versatile for your food storage – take a can or cake mix and make cupcakes with just the mix and the canned  pumpkin.  The taste is the same as if you had used oil and eggs, but the result is healthier and there may come a time when sourcing fresh eggs may be impossible.  Try this asap and you’ll be surprised that the taste is the same.

As far as the canned yams go, they are very rich in beta carotene and if you visit http://www.sweetpotato.org/recipes you will find ways of utilizing  your inexpensive post-Christmas deal.  Save money and eat healthy.  Double win.

2) Power Outage Prep

When the power grid goes down you will need to light your house.  With either a backup generator or a solar system, you will want to get as much light for as little power as possible.  LED ropelights from the Christmas aisle are a great way of saving money on electricity right now, but even moreso when the chips are down.  While you can buy multi-colored rope lights, they may be a bit annoying for everyday use, so fortunately there are white lights as well.

Walk the aisles right after Christmas and use your imagination and you may find yourself saving a lot of money on things that will help you be even more prepared for the tough times ahead.

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Urban Survival First Aid Kits – Mistakes to Avoid

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Dec 212011
 

So you know that you should have the whole “first aid” thing covered, but you’re not a medic and you figure that the thing to do is pick up a ready-made first aid kit at one of the Emergency Supply websites or even at Wal-mart. Problem solved, right? WRONG!

urban survival techniques first aid kit

A Typical Store Bought Solution

You are just a tiny bit more prepared than you were before that purchase, and you gave yourself a false sense of security. That is NOT an urban survival technique that you want to employ.

You have no idea what is in that first aid kit and when the time comes and you find out that the “150 piece kit” contains 85 bandaids and stuff you don’t even know how to use, it will be too late.

How to Go About Covering Your First Aid Kit Needs:

First of all, you cover the bases of who is in your family or immediate group of loved ones. Are their children or senior citizens or both? What are the top 5 reasons that they go to the medicine cabinet now – coughs, scrapes, hemorrhoids? Start from there.

Next, look at the various areas / types of illnesses that you might expect and get some medications for each:

  • Gastrointestinal / Stomach Upset
  • Cuts
  • Burns
  • Eye injuries (saline solution for eye irrigation is good)

Finally, look at what is more likely to happen in an SHTF scenario than right now. Probably sprains and bad cuts if you are “making do” and fixing things you normally wouldn’t have to.

If you add in a decent supply of your prescription medications, then you have a good start.

More information on First Aid and other aspects of urban survival when the SHTF can be found in Survive2day’s Urban Survival Guide. It’s practical and a great way to start or complement your preps.

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Practical Urban Survival Techniques You Can Utilize TODAY

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Dec 192011
 

If you thinking that Urban Survival Techniques are all about what to do after the “S” Hits the Fan, you are thinking the wrong way.
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First off, urban survival techniques that you don’t practice and master before a SHTF scenario won’t do you as much good as the ones that you have already put into practice. That’s not to say that you can employ today every single urban survival technique that will be needed then. But the most important ones require a good deal of advanced planning and proficiency.

Second, urban survival techniques are not all about guns and self defense, as some of the more radical Preppers tend to think. Most are very boring, mundane everyday skills that you need just to make ends meet. That means that using these techniques could be saving you money right now, which will accelerate your ability to afford even more preparations for the tough times ahead.

Some great examples of urban survival techniques that you should be employing well before any major economic collapse happens are gardening, canning, alternative methods of cooking, and food storage. In the next days we will look at each of these urban survival techniques more closely in order to give you a good start towards the proficiency that will make all difference for you in the future.

A great way to think about your skill sets is to categorize them according to the priorities of life. Water, Food, Medical Attention/First Aid, Personal Safety and Communications are the big areas of urban survival techniques.

Benjamin Franklin had a system of looking at personal character traits he wanted to develop. If, for instance there were just four of them, he would spend a week on each one and feel great that at the end of the year he would have spent a total of 13 weeks developing his character in each area. This is very good counsel right now, considering what we have coming.

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Food Riots in America Coming in 2012?

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Dec 172011
 

When Americans think of food riots, they think of starving poor people in distant Third World countries, not their local neighborhood grocery store. However, there are several scenarios that could make Food Riots in America in 2012
a very real possibility.

Foot Riots in America

Black Friday Shoppers - Imagine Them Fighting for Food

First, the most probable scenario that will get us to the tipping point is when the Global Financial Crisis Hits America. The collapse of the Eurozone will have very real and immediate effects on the US banking system, as so much of the European debt is held by American banks. With the housing crisis in the US and mortgage foreclosures skyrocketing, there is only so much that the banks can absorb.

When the Federal Reserve decides to print even more money to bail out the banks, the ugly reality of hyperinflation emerges.  Hyperinflation means that more than just higher prices. With Food Prices Rising Even Faster in 2012 the government food stamps that over 40 million Americans rely on will buy less and less.

In a hyperinflationary environment, stores become reluctant to sell out of their stock, as they know that tomorrow the prices may be higher and it might be difficult to afford to restock their shelves. This means that Food Shortages begin, as vendors start to limit what they will part with each day.

As available supply starts to dwindle and prices rise and food stamps purchase less, then peoples’ pantries are depleted and things get ugly at the grocery stores really fast.

Think of crazed Black Friday shoppers fighting over gifts and imagine how they’ll act when it is food and basic necessities.

The time to prepare by learning Urban Survival Techniques is right now.

You can check out a great urban survival manual that will quickly teach you all the basics Here.

Just remember, an ounce of prevention….

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Why Water is the Most Important (and Overlooked) Prep for Urban / Suburban Dwellers

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Dec 152011
 

Water Treatment Facility

It is inconceivable to most Americans that they wouldn’t always have plenty of water.  We are very spoiled when it comes to an abundance of clean, safe drinking water coming out of the tap.  But what would happen if the water stopped flowing? Never going to happen, you say?

How the Water Could Stop Flowing Just Three Days from Now

The Human Factor:

The water treatment facilities of small to medium sized cities are run by a surprisingly few number of people.  A major flu pandemic that takes out two or more engineers or technicians could easily cripple a water department, resulting in water that is not up to safety standards, or the inability to repair a breakdown in equipment.

The Power Grid:

If the power grid were to fail for any length of time, due to an EMP attack or a solar flare, most municipal water departments would be out of operation, along with other communications and emergency networks that rely on electricity and complex electronics monitoring equipment.  A weather related power grid failure is not as bad, as many municipalities have either redundant electrical feeds to their plants or generators with fuel for a couple days (a remnant of preparations from the Y2K scare and also purchased with some funding from the Homeland Security preparations since 9/11).

The Supply Chain:

Civil unrest, such as that brought about by tens of millions of Americans not getting their food stamps or widespread bank failures, can disrupt the flow of trucking across choke points in major urban areas.  With the “just in time” concepts of having less inventory on hand coupled with more frequent deliveries, municipal water departments are vulnerable to running out of treatment chemicals if the Supply Chain is interrupted.

The problem with our water supply is that it is so good right now that it is inconceivable that the day could come when we don’t have it coming out of the tap.  But as you can see, the factors of people, power and supplies can make for a water supply that is vulnerable if life as we know it undergoes any changes.

For now, we hope that major weather events, economic disasters and power grid failures are not going to happen.  But as they say “hope is not a plan” and it is much better to have a specific plan to acquire water and make it clean and safe on your own in case the unthinkable happens.  Without water for a couple of days, the thin veneer of “civility” will be stripped away and chaos will ensue.

Since we can’t live more than a couple of days without water, learning the basics of water procurement and purification should be at the top of your list of urban survival techniques to acquire.

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What to Look For in an Urban Survival Manual

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Dec 152011
 

First of all, there is no single urban survival manual that will adequately cover everything you need to know to get by in the coming Great Depression or in an SHTF scenario.  You would need an entire library, or at least one very good book to deal with each of the specific areas and urban survival techniques needed.

That being said, let’s take a look at three considerations for choosing an Urban Survival Manual for a good start, or for one to give to someone beginning as a prepper to help them understand the enormity of the task at hand. A good Urban Survival Manual should be:

  1. Manageable.  The perfect urban survival manual should not be so thick that it dwarfs an encyclopedia.  That is just not practical for a Get Home Bag, nor is it a book that anyone is likely to read cover to cover.
  2. Authoritative.  It should not just give information about what to do, but explain the “why’s” and reference specific events and situations that have informed the knowledge presented.
  3. Conversational. The manual should be written in an easy, conversational style instead of talking over everyone’s head in jargon or be written at the Graduate School level.  It should be an easy read, not one that makes you exhausted after a few pages.
  4. Illustrated. Pictures are worth a thousand words and are great for teaching, as well as breaking up the page and making the book more manageable.
  5. Practical.  There should be specific actions that you can take right away based on the instruction in the manual.

After you read a good book that discusses Urban Survival Techniques , you should want to feel like you will read it again and also read the sources cited in the Bibliography.  The best Urban Survival Manual will whet your appetite for acquiring more knowledge and testing out the things you have learned.

While it is not the only good Urban Survival Manual on the market, the guide published by Survive2day is a great start and is affordable. The title is When the Last Bubble Bursts: Survival Without the Tinfoil Hat.  It’s a great start, as it covers all the basic urban survival techniques that will be needed, to some degree or another, in the rough times ahead.

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First Things First – Why and What?

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Dec 132011
 

Urban Survival Techniques is a site dedicated to helping regular people to be prepared for natural disasters, economic collapse or terror strikes.  This is a great resource for information on:

  • What to do if the power goes out
  • How to cope with a disruption in the food supply chain
  • Steps to take to safeguard your family during periods of civil unrest
  • How to manage as the Recession worsens and we enter another Great Depresssion

You will find posts on all of these topics and more, as well as videos that you can use to help prepare yourself and your family for the tough times that lie ahead. You can also find a wealth of information about Urban Survival Techniques in the book When the Last Bubble Bursts: Survival without the Tinfoil Hat available: HERE.

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