Bunker Bob 
When Resources are Scarce, Conservation is Critical During long term disruptions, whether the result of natural disasters or wars between nations, resources become scarce. The electrical grid could become compromised and supply chains could be obstructed. If we truly want to prepare ourselves for SHTF events, then it’s important that we make the most of … Read more
What’s Real Anymore? Ninety percent of the world’s data was generated in the last two years. That’s an insane fact! Internet searches, news publications, text messages, phone calls, social media posts, and millions of other types of content are produced every single second. With all of this content out in the world, competition for … Read more
A Renewed Arms Race The US recently withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which was an arms control agreement between the US and Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) that had been in place for over 30 years. Both the US and Soviet Union had abolished intermediate-range ballistic missiles, thereby ending the Cold War arms … Read more
Unexpected Tsunamis In December of 2018, a tsunami killed over 2,000 people along the beaches of Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia. The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake that occurred off the island’s shore. Sulawesi’s seismic and tidal detection systems registered the earthquake, but significantly understated the size of the tsunami that would follow. The … Read more
The Great Depression: The Beginning of Prepping Prepping, at its core, is a means of protecting yourself and your family from the hardship that follows a disastrous event. One of the earliest events that inspired people to become better prepared was the Great Depression. Millions of people were left impoverished and quickly learned just how … Read more
Introducing Jim Cobb Jim Cobb has been an active prepper for over 30 years. He’s a prolific writer, having written Prepper’s Long-Term Survival Guide, Prepper’s Home Defense, and The Prepper’s Complete Book of Disaster Readiness, to name a few. Jim manages Survival Weekly, a website where he shares preparedness advice and will soon offer online classes. I was … Read more
What are Black Swan Events? In the 19th century, John Stuart Mill described seemingly impossible events that may one day be proven true as Black Swans events. In the Western world, all swans were thought to be white until, in 1697, a dutch explorer spotted black swans on the shore of the Swan River in … Read more
From Addicted to Advantaged: SHTF Coffee Guide Coffee is one of the few constants in many of our lives. We need that jolt in the morning to take on the day and our afternoon cup helps us combat post-lunch drowsiness. Our routine caffeine fix may seem necessary now, but many will be forced to break … Read more
Worse than Expected Recent headlines revealed that the impacts of climate change are even worse than initially expected. It comes as no surprise to me that researchers’ climate change models were wrong. Anticipating weather events is difficult enough, but attempting to predict the speed, scale, and effects of such a dynamic and complex phenomenon as … Read more
Unprecedented Events Another year is behind us, but what a year it was! 2018 brought us many unprecedented events, many of which involved the tech industry, geopolitical tensions, and the economy. We listened to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, provide testimony regarding a foreign government using a technology platform to influence our presidential election. While I’ve … Read more