Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation using mainly simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods. Are you using the storage foods in your pantry? One piece of preparedness advice is that mossy old saying: “Store what you eat, and eat what you [...]

The beauty of the morning seemed to be an apology for the storm the night before. As I leafed through my journal, looking for dampness, I had to smile at the previous day’s entry. It would have to be extensively re-written!

    At some point, you may need to attract a rescuer’s attention. It would be in any situation, from being lost in the wilderness to being stuck on a rooftop during a flood. But when people are looking for you, though, you may be an insignificant object in a vast  space. One way to [...]

In a survival situation, be it urban or wilderness, your gear alone will not save you. YOU must save yourself.

Does a grainmill have a place in a survival kit? Would it be useful in a long term survival situation? I believe it does, and here is why.

Sign up for our Email Newsletter The Survival Template by John A. Heatherly How do you encapsulate a survivor’s mentality into a personalized model that can be duplicated and personalized? That’s what John A. Heatherly teaches in his new book “The Survival Template.” by Leon Pantenburg So you are in a SHTF (Sewage Hit The [...]

If you live in area where these storms occur, a realistic preparedness question should be: What do I do to get ready for a tornado?

By Peter Kummerfeldt I was driving to Soda Springs, Idaho, this past week to present a risk management program.  My wife was driving and at one point, we were following several other slower vehicles while waiting for a chance to pass, when an oncoming eighteen wheeler drifted toward the double yellow line before returning his [...]

Flash floods are the number one weather-related killer in the United States! Here are some of the things to look for if you know you are in an area that might have a flash flood! by Peter Kummerfeldt Most flash flooding is caused by slow-moving thunderstorms repeatedly moving over the same area, or heavy rains [...]

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disasters in Japan, local governments in Central Oregon are starting to take a hard look at their community preparedness plans. Here is a story that was published recently in the  April 25, 2011 Bend Bulletin: by Leon Pantenburg LA PINE (OR) — The potential for a massive [...]