Prepping

If you had 12 to 48 hours advanced warning for a disaster struck, what steps would you take to finalize your preps and get ready to survive?

A view from ground zero a month after Helene hit the Appalachians. There's still lots of damage, physical as well as emotional.

Living off the beaten track has pluses and minuses. It has definitely slowed our recovery, but we think the benefits outweigh the downside.

A hurricane is far from the last threat we'll face in 2024 and the years to come. Some of the trouble may require guns to combat it.

The other night at dinner, my phone chimed. It was a message saying grid power had been restored. After confirming this was the case,...

Gold hits another record, causing the Krugerrand Pete bought prior to Y2K to be worth ten times what he paid for it.

Donations pour into the areas hit hard by Hurricane Helene, but some of us have a hard time accepting help.

To get an idea of what things look like in the valley between mountains after Helene, take a look at the video in this post.

18 days after Hurricane Helene, some forward progress is being made here on the homestead and in our broader area.

Hello friends and readers.  Apologies for the absence. I have been told that NASA released a nighttime image of the Eastern U.S. before Hurricane Helene...