Michael Mabee, author of “The Civil Defense Book” blogs on critical infrastructure protection and threats, community preparedness and civil defense. Follow Mike’s blog for updates.
Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act (GRID Act) Reintroduced The GRID Act is back on the table. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act (GRID Act) in the both the House (H.R. 4298) and Senate (S. 2158) on March 26, 2014. “Unless we act now,…
Congress thinks we need a community preparedness “civil defense” plan for a long term electric grid outage. So why doesn’t your town have one? “Seven U.S. government departments and agencies have now concluded that if our national electric grid is not upgraded to ensure its continuity in the event of a massive solar event —…
Note: It is a great honor to present a guest post from my good friend Wellie, the Well-Prepared Witch! Be sure to follow her on Twitter and like her Facebook page (details below the post). This is really an excellent presentation for all of us, but new preppers should find it especially useful - if…
Listen to Michael Mabee on the Denise Simon Experience show on March 13, 2014. We discuss the vulnerability of the electric grid, civil defense and community preparedness. (Two hours) Click the player below to listen to the discussion on Denise Simon Experience:
The “recently leaked” manual on “FEMA internment camps” is neither recent, nor evidence of some conspiracy. Sigh… FEMA internment camps. Just Google “FM 3-39.40” and let the fun begin. According to “the internets,” apparently, President Obama is hatching an insidious plot to throw us into FEMA internment camps. This is another urban legend that has been going…
Book Review. Survivor Jane: Where There is no Cosmetic Counter: How Not to Look Like a Zombie - Even After the End of the World As You Know It. It’s about damn time we had a book from Survivor Jane. For those who do not know her, Jane is the creator of SurvivorJane.com which bills itself…
“Secret Garden of Survival” by Rick Austin is a book that fits squarely in the “must have” category for your preparedness library. Like many preppers, I have a ton of books in my library. Personally, I prefer having hardcopies of any I think are particularly useful. In a long term grid-down, having a hardcopy library will…
This is a response to some questions on community prepping posed on YouTube in response to my video: WROL: Lone wolf prepper? Prepper group? Is there another option? Here are the questions: Here is the response I posted on YouTube: A community prepping organization can be set up as a non-profit. It does not have the authority…
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…
I just registered my high capacity magazines in accordance with Connecticut Gun Laws. Now, by “high capacity” magazines, I’m not talking about just “assault rifle” (whatever that means) magazines. I just had to register my pistol magazines because they can hold more than the 10-round Connecticut maximum. I don’t want to be a felon, even…
