Our Own Tent City…A Big Change Coming

The rotten economy has hit our home just as it has your home. For the past five years I have posted, written newsletters, written articles, hosted a radio show and spoken to groups about preparing and living a self reliant life style. It has been a passion and a love. I have tried to help those who were struggling to prepare. Natural disasters have made me cry as I watched people suffer. I have tired to help readers...

Severe Weather in Unusual Places…More Tips for Preparing Your Home as a Shelter

Tornadoes in January are not unheard of but they are very rare. Tornado season doesn't normally begin until May. Heavy snow storms in Seattle and other parts of Washington are also rare but this  year they happened and people were not ready. the cities and counties were not ready either. We must take our family's safety and security into our own hands. Please don't think this can't happen to...

Making Your Home A Shelter…Gas prices…Preparedness Binders

  Just a quick note before we begin securing our home against disaster. Have you been aware of what is happening with gas prices? The price of gas is now at the highest point ever, this time of  the year. Experts, who were correct the past few years, now expect the price of gas to go up to $5.00 per gallon by summer. Now is the time to be looking at what we are doing  to get ready for another big hit...

Build an Emergency Kit Starting Today

Yes, these are the kits we used to call 72 hour kits. They were meant to be taken to a shelter or grabbed as you were evacuating to provide the necessities. Since witnessing the disasters over the past ten years it has become apparent that 72 hours just is not enough time for the government and relief agencies to meet the needs of disaster survivors. We must prepare to do that for ourselves for a minimum of 5 days...

Hurricane Irene…21 Questions to Ask Yourself to Prepare Today

Earthquakes on the east coast…unheard of ! For years people have told me the east coast is safe from earthquakes. I hope this helps put that notion to rest, yes earthquakes can happen, and have happened, on the east coast. More pressing today however is the hurricane barreling toward the east coast of the United States. Should hurricane Irene make landfall in Georgia as a CAT 3 it will be the first time in...