In a WROL (Without Rule of Law) situation, are you better off as a lone wolf prepper, a member of a prepper group or is there another option? This is a video response to HealthyPrepper’s YouTube video: “Preppers Survivalists: Lone Wolf vs Group Survival Approach after SHTF WROL – Pro’s and Con’s.” This is a much…
Civil Defense Planning: Tara Dodrill of The Inquisitr interviews Civil Defense Book Author Mike Mabee The Civil Defense Book – Prepping for a Suburban or Rural Community author Mike Mabee recently sat down with The Inquisitr to discuss the power grid, and the need to develop a neighborhood preparedness plan. Mike is very concerned about the…
Is Emergency Management in the U.S. – and in your community – prepared for a long-term loss of the electric grid? Here is FEMA’s definition of Emergency Management: it is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency Management protects communities by coordinating…
You really could not ask for better training videos on what WROL (Without Rule of Law) would look like in America than “Why Most Doomsday Preppers Will Die.” This is a series of videos by YouTube’s stankmouthcharlie. Mr. Stankmouth is not a prepper. But he describes what he believes (and I happen to agree) is…
Tara Dodrill interviews Prepping for a Suburban or Rural Community author Michael Mabee is this weeks’ Common Sense Prepping radio show. Mike is very concerned about the vulnerabilities of the power grid and what would happen in American should the fragile electrical system fail. Mabee does not focus on a particular cause of a grid…
Rick Austin, author of Secret Garden of Survival, interviews Michael Mabee on the Secrets of a Survivalist Radio Show. What is “Civil Defense” and why should you be involved? Since the Cavalry is NOT coming in a major nation-wide disaster, if you believe that individuals should be self-sufficient, shouldn’t your town or community be self-sufficient too?…
Steven Bucci: Disaster Preparedness and Response One Year After Hurricane Sandy. NOTE: One reason this video interests me is that we don’t appear to apply lessons learned from past disasters. If we are this unprepared for regional disasters. we are most certainly unprepared for a national catastrophe, such as a long term loss of the electric grid. Recorded Friday…
On October 30, 2013 Representative Trent Franks introduced a new bill: The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (or “CIPA”) (H.R. 3410 – read it here). The bill was co-sponsored by Representative Pete Sessions. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security. If the history of grid protection legislation is any indication, the bill may…
On May 22, 1998, President Bill Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive/NSC-63. The subject of the directive was “Critical Infrastructure Protection.” The directive’s goals were: No later than the year 2000, the United States shall have achieved an initial operating capability and no later than five years from today the United States shall have achieved and…
Individual preparedness and family preparedness alone are not going to save us in a long-term national catastrophe. Instead of focusing, as many “lone wolf” preppers do, solely on individual and family preparedness, wouldn’t we be better off to also focus on the survival of our town or village? Wouldn’t prepping be better played as a…
