Announcement Equipment
Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag - Book Give Away
Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag - Book Give Away
Ekim
2 min read #72 Hour Kits
27 articles tagged with this topic (Including both blog posts and archived content)
Equipment Personal Preparedness
Thoughts on refreshing a 72 hour kit
Thoughts on refreshing a 72 hour kit
Neybar
2 min read 
Reviews
Review: UVPaqlite and ToobLite Glow Sticks
Review: UVPaqlite and ToobLite Glow Sticks
Jayce
6 min read 
Family Preparedness Links
Emergency kits for young school age children
Emergency kits for young school age children
Ekim
2 min read 
Earthquake Family Preparedness
Post Japan Earthquake Notes
I'm posting in an email that was forwarded to me, second hand from the source. The email is from a lady who's family is currently stationed in Japan, and relates their experiences with the earthquake. What I like best in this is her own analysis on her preparedness level, and what she wishes she could do better.
Jayce
9 min read 
Medical Nuclear Attack Preparedness
Potassium Iodide (KI) and How to Protect Yourself From Radiation Poisoning
<a href="/images/uploads/2011/03/IMG_2430.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3568" title="IMG_2430" src="/images/uploads/2011/03/IMG_2430-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>With the current potential nuclear crisis in Japan, I have been inundated with questions about<a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2008/11/preparing-for-a-nuclear-attack-determining-your-scenario/"> Fallout Survival</a>, <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2008/11/preparing-for-a-nuclear-attack-some-background/">Nuclear Preparedness</a>,<a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2009/06/the-master-evacuation-kit-list"> General Preparedness</a> and Potassium Iodide among many other things. I realized that while a lot of these things are covered on Utah Preppers, Potassium Iodide is kind of glossed over. This post is my answer to all those questions and should be a definitive post on KI or Potassium Iodide. Please note: at this time, due to the crisis in Japan, KI is <strong><em>Sold Out </em></strong>pretty much everywhere.
Phil
4 min read 
Equipment How To
Starting a Fire with Steel Wool
<a href="/images/uploads/2011/02/fire.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3453" title="fire" src="/images/uploads/2011/02/fire-202x300.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="300" /></a>Continuing my<em><strong> Heat and Light Series</strong></em>, today we're going to look at an alternative way to start a fire - with Steel Wool and Batteries. Like I've said in previous posts in this series, this is probably something that every old Boy Scout and every long time Prepper already knows. The point of this series is to get back to basics and cover things that new Preppers will need to get up to speed on - and to remind some of you about the skills and knowledge you have that you may have forgotten. :)<!--more-->
Phil
3 min read 
Family Preparedness Fire
Making Fire Starting Wafer Candles
<a href="/images/uploads/2011/01/IMG_2315.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3379" title="IMG_2315" src="/images/uploads/2011/01/IMG_2315-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>The next project in my Light and Heat series is making Fire Starting Wafers out of reclaimed materials mostly available at home. These wafer candles don't have the same burn time (but it's plenty long enough to get a fire going) as the egg carton candles but they have a much smaller imprint. This project will again be familiar to most Boy Scouts and long term Preppers and Outdoorsmen. However, the purpose of this series is to get back to basics and review how to generate light and heat with common household projects.<!--nextpage-->As has been mentioned in the comments on the other posts in this series, you can use old candles or other wax sources instead of the new bars of paraffin I use in the demonstration.
Phil
3 min read 
Family Preparedness Fire
Making Fire Starting Candles
<a href="/images/uploads/2011/01/EggTinder.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3368" title="EggTinder" src="/images/uploads/2011/01/EggTinder-194x300.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="300" /></a>Continuing my series on Light and Heat, today I'm going to talk about making Fire Starting Candles. There are a variety of ways to do this, today we're going to cover using cardboard egg cartons and dryer lint or cotton balls. This particular project will likely already be familiar to experienced Preppers and Boy Scouts. This post is aimed at those new to prepping who have never been exposed to this kind of thing.
Phil
3 min read 
Equipment Shelter
Bug out/Camping/Utility Trailer
I've been wanting to get out camping more often, but I suspect like many have had trouble convincing my wife to give camping a try. For some reason, sleeping on the hard, cold ground doesn't appeal to her.
Ekim
4 min read 
Family Preparedness Lessons Learned
What we are doing this Spring
What we are doing this Spring
Ekim
9 min read 
Family Preparedness Food Storage
Losing your storage to disaster
Recently we had a reader 'Lonnie' write in with the following excellent question, that I've heard asked in other forms too;
Jayce
6 min read 
Group Buy TEOTWAWKI Survival
Preparedness Christmas: 25% off on Sanitation Preps
<img class="alignright" title="TioletBag 500x500" src="http://emergencyportabletoilets.com/images/uploads/2009/12/TioletBag-500x500-250x300.jpg" alt="TioletBag 500x500" width="250" height="300" />
Phil
2 min read Personal Preparedness Tools
Prepping for Work Disasters
We had an emergency at work today, involving a critical server that was not properly cared for by its department. Due to the severity of the situation, I was called in to help recover the server. I had to go pick up the server from the data center and bring it back to to office to work on it. It was important enough that my boss offered to let me take his car, a 2006 Cadillac CTS. I think he was a little surprised when I declined, in favor of driving my 1998 Corolla instead.<br /> <!--more--><br /> By any benchmark, his car is superior to mine in every way. It's faster, has a better sound system and is likely far more fun to drive. So why did I decline? I had two reasons. First, we were in what we all considered to be an emergency. This was no time to take a joyride in the boss's car. But more importantly, his car did not have my emergency tech kit. I didn't think I'd need it, because I was only planning to drive 15 minutes away, pick up a server, and drive 15 minutes back. Nothing was expected to go wrong, at least in the journey itself. But I didn't know what kinds of circumstances I would encounter in that journey. It was not the fear of the unknown that held me back; it was the expectation of the unknown.
TechHat
6 min read 
Food How To
Survival Food: How to Make Parched Corn
Corn - You can boil it, toast it, roast it, parch it, eat it raw, grill it, steam it, stew it, cream it, grind it, feed aCorn - You can boil it, toast it, roast it, parch it, eat it raw, grill it, steam it, stew it, cream it, grind it, feed animals with it or humans. You can eat it fresh, freeze it, can it, dry it, drink it or burn it in your vehicle. It's a diverse food that can serve a prepper well if they know what to do with it.nimals with it or humans. You can eat it fresh, freeze it, can it, dry it, drink it or burn it in your vehicle. It's a diverse food that can serve a prepper well if they know what to do with it.
Phil
4 min read 
TEOTWAWKI Survival
Making Better Char Cloth
When starting a flint and steel or striker type of fire, char cloth makes all the difference in being able to actually get the fire started or just making a bunch of sparks that never catch anything on fire. Char cloth (sometimes also called charred cloth) is one of those amazing mountain man items that is still very useful today. Char cloth is pieces of blackened fabric that easily catch a spark and burn similarly to the way steel wool burns--no big flame, but a nice ember burn that doesn't blow out once it's lit. The spark lights the char cloth and the char cloth is used to light the other tinder. I've been wanting to add char cloth to my fire kits and having used all my char cloth made by others, I decided to make a batch of my own.
Angela
5 min read 
Clothing Equipment
Emergency Preparedness Priorities
<strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2205" src="/images/uploads/2009/06/scenery-mountain.jpg" alt="mountain scenery" width="240" height="164" />Our physical needs prioritized - The Rule of 3's</strong>:
Royal
6 min read 
Clothing Equipment
Evacuation/Emergency Combat Readiness
Contrary to the belief of some, being a Prepper is NOT synonymous with being well armed and ready to protect yourself and your preps in a violent situation. However, this article is specifically about being prepared to defend yourself, your family and your preps if it comes down to it.
Phil
10 min read 
Family Preparedness Personal Preparedness
Evacuation Kits - 72 Hour Kits/BOBs/G.O.O.D. Bag Management
It seems that every time I inventory my preps I find things that are missing. It's usually something like that one time when my wife needed to send a couple water bottles to school and the easiest thing to grab was a couple out of a 72 Hour Kit, then we forgot to replace it.
Phil
4 min read 
Communication Equipment
Evacuation Preparedness List Review part 3
<img class="alignright" src="http://interwork.sdsu.edu/fire/photo_gallery/images/jgfire213021x011.jpg" alt="" width="334" height="197" />This is the fifth installment of the Evacuation Preparedness Kit Series. The first post, on <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Basics</a> is here, and the second post, which introduces the <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Master List</a> is here. The third post, and the <a href="../2009/06/evacuation-preparedness-categories/">first post on the list review is here</a>. This post will pick up where we previously left off in reviewing the categories on the Master List.
Phil
12 min read 
Books Clothing
Evacuation Preparedness List Review part 2
<img class="alignright" src="http://kalthoffonthefence.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ken-traffic-3.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="248" />This is the fourth installment of the Evacuation Preparedness Kit Series. The first post, on <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Basics</a> is here, and the second post, which introduces the <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Master List</a> is here. The third post, and the <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2009/06/evacuation-preparedness-categories/">first post on the list review is here</a>. This post will pick up where we previously left off in reviewing the categories on the Master List.<!--more-->
Phil
9 min read 
Family Preparedness Food
Evacuation Preparedness List Review part 1
<img class="alignright" src="http://www.phillysonline.com/lunch_counter/images/2006/08/03/houston_evacuation.jpg" alt="" width="246" height="344" />This is the third installment of the Evacuation Preparedness Kit Series. The first post, on Evac Prep Basics is here, and the second post, which introduces the Evac Prep Master List is here.
Phil
13 min read 
Family Preparedness How To
The Master Evacuation Kit List
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1882" title="evaclist" src="/images/uploads/2009/06/evaclist.jpg" alt="evaclist" width="380" height="152" />This is the second post in a series, the first post covers <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evacuation Preparedness basics and can be read here</a>.
Phil
4 min read 
Family Preparedness How To
Ready for Anything
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1817" title="ss27-hires-small" src="/images/uploads/2009/05/ss27-hires-small-277x291-custom.jpg" alt="ss27-hires-small" width="277" height="291" />
Phil
9 min read Preparedness Christmas
Preparedness Christmas: Stocking Stuffer Ideas
This will be the first of a couple themed posts around having a "Preparedness Christmas". With world and U.S. conditions being what they are, if you're like me the last thing you can stomach right now is the idea of spending a bunch of money on silly toys and other frivolous items that will be either lost or destroyed (and somewhat unappreciated) within a week or so of Christmas. Christmas gift giving is a great time to think about sharing the security and comfort of being prepared with the rest of your family.
Phil
3 min read