from Canadian Prepper:
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One Man Found The Infamous “Carpet Trails” In Florida That Lead To Enormous Homeless Encampments Way Back In The Woods
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
If you are still able to afford a decent home, you should consider yourself to be incredibly blessed, because vast numbers of Americans do not have a permanent place to live at this point. Homelessness in the United States is at the highest level ever recorded, and it has been growing at the fastest pace ever recorded. The homeless encampments that have been popping up all over our major cities have been making lots of headlines in recent years, but many of the homeless live and die in very isolated places far from public view. What I am about to share with you should deeply sadden all of us.
SELCO: “The Majority Will Die in SHTF Trying to Record It on Their Phones”
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
It is more and more each day about fascinating the fools and muzzling the intelligent.
“Fools” are fascinated with shiny and irrelevant stuff, sports, gambling, games, TV shows, irrelevant political discussions, following the “influencers,” and stuff that in general, gives them feeling about how their life is good or how they have influence over the things, or how they even can decide something. How they are supposed to be important, how they “matter.”
The Bugout Trailer (BOT)
by Tunnel Rabbit, Survival Blog:
This Bug Out Trailer (BOT) as it is presented here is intended to be a concept rather than a set of building plans. This is a low-cost structure that only requires only common tools and materials. The photos provided can say more than I could describe in a multi-part article.
The BOT can be a single-purpose utility or a multi-purpose platform that is lightweight and inexpensive to build. In essence, it is a modern version of the horse-drawn wagon trailers used beginning around the 1860’s that became the modern RV. It is an example, of what the Marine Corps advocates: That we should improvise, adapt, and overcome a problem in the best way we can with what we have, and where we are located. At its heart, it requires a can-do attitude that allows us to use our ingenuity.
Cyber Attacks & Grid Down – Be Ready!
from ZeeeMedia:
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21 Essential Stockpile Items to Get NOW
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
Here’s another great video loaded with basics from my friend Brian Duff at Mind4Survival. He’s putting out some great stuff on his YouTube channel, which you can follow here. Today he talks about 21 essential stockpile items you should load up on now, if you don’t have them already.
This video is about having the right preps. It lists 21 items that are essential for stockpiling. Obviously, you can’t list every single prep needed in an eight-minute video but this is an excellent overview that covers many aspects of personal preparedness.
Kevin Newton – Surviving the New World Order Off-the-Grid
from mariazeee:
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Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years
by Brandon Smith, Alt Market:
In 2020 at the onset of the covid pandemic scare and right before the lockdowns I’ll never forget going on a grocery run on a Friday afternoon only to find near empty roads and near empty stores. The few other people shopping had a glassy stare in their eyes, like they were dazed or shell-shocked. For me and those I know that prep, it was just another day; for those that hadn’t prepped it was a nightmare of uncertainty.
In Montana we didn’t pay much heed to the lockdowns after the first month. In three months everything was basically back to normal except for the mask mandates which most people ignored. With more data available on the virus it was clear that the chance of death was greatly exaggerated. What scared us far more was the pervasive talk of vaccine passports in 2021. The proposed state and federal restrictions on people that refused to take the jab were familiar – This was the beginning of full blown tyranny unless we stood firm.
European Newspaper Says Citizens Better Get Used To Not Having Electricity All The Time
by Nick Pope, Watts Up With That:
One of the biggest newspapers in the Netherlands is warning its readers that Dutch citizens should get accustomed to the notion that electricity will not always be available to them in the future.
NRC, one of the largest papers in the country, published a lengthy piece on June 14 warning that the Netherlands’ green transition is driving up electricity demand more quickly than needed supporting infrastructure can be built, a situation that will likely lead to grid reliability issues if the status quo is maintained over the coming years. The authors describe how a transition away from affordable, reliable and conventional energy resources and toward green energy generation — like solar and wind — is teaming up with growing demand attributable to the country’s push to electrify industry and other parts of everyday life could overwhelm the country’s power system.
Weather the Storm with Backup Power – Part 3
by E.R., Survival Blog:
(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.)
INVERTERS
Most of us are interested in running a few 120 volt AC appliances. The fridge, the furnace, the shallow well pump – standard AC devices that we want to keep alive during a power outage. For these we will require what is known as an inverter. Inverters take DC battery power and invert it into standard 120 volt AC household power.
Inverters are available in all shapes and sizes these days. You can get off-shore-manufactured modified sine wave inverters that plug into the cigarette lighter plug in your car, rather cheaply. These might even be enough to charge your phone, or laptop computer. The rule of thumb is that these devices produce about half of what they consume. For example, if your cigarette lighter plug is fused at 15 amps at 12 volts DC, the inverter can be expected to produce a little less than 1 amp at 120 volts AC.
Weather the Storm with Backup Power – Part 2
by Sarah Latimer, Survival Blog:
(Continued from Part 1.)
CHARGING OVERVIEW
At a high level, the stages of charging a battery include: bulk, absorption, and float. On batteries that have been discharged deeply, there is also an equalization charge required.
Bulk charging demands high current. Absorption charging requires less current but a slightly elevated voltage. Float is your trickle charge which has low current at about one volt above the stasis voltage of a charged battery.
How to Survive a Summer Power Outage
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
Sometimes people think that a summer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage.
However, a summer power outage carries its own set of problems. Foremost are heat-related illnesses and the higher potential of spoilage for your food. Even if you aren’t convinced that hardcore preparedness is for you, it would still be difficult to argue against the possibility of a disaster that takes out the power for a couple of weeks. Basic emergency preparedness is important for everyone
