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Snow and cold weather sweeps across the Unite States and not everyone is prepared. Plus updates on Hurricane Helene damage and FEMA claims.

Pete makes suggests for prepping-related gifts this year, from stocking-stuffers to mid-priced and more expensive gifts.

The media seems to have embarked on a rush of nuclear war fearmongering, predicting Putin will attack the U.S. before Christmas.

We add surge and lighting protection to our solar power system and home to protect our appliances and other electronic equipment.

Don't get carried away in the post-Trump election glow. It's not all unicorns and rainbows in D.C. Use this time to regroup and re-evaluate.

My prepper friend Karl visits from the city and brings a truck full of goodies, both the kind that hum and the kind that go bang.

Now that we have resolved the big problems that affected us post-Helene, we are able to tackle some of the smaller ones.

While rural areas are safer than most urban areas, there are criminals who prey on empty or isolated country homes. A good security system can help deter them.

Iran appears to be planning a larger attack on Israel, one it says "will surpass all expectations." Will this be much ado about nothing or lead to a worst-case scenario?

Thanks to friends and helpful volunteers, we made huge strides cleaning up the homestead and getting a little closer to "normal" post Helene,

It's been five weeks since Hurricane Helene roared ashore and dumped somewhere up to 30 inches of rain on the Appalachians. We still aren't over it, but we're moving on.

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...

Pete was unconvinced that the effects of Hurricane Helene would reach us as anything worse than a normal heavy storm. He was wrong.

Exploding pagers, two-way radios, kamikaze drones, home-made missiles and rockets, and even missiles have been all over the news in the past week. What does it all mean?

The weeks between Election Day and the inauguration are likely are likely to be fraught with danger, but there are dangers afterwards as well.

LARP stands for live action role playing. Some consider it a joke, but its a good way to practices some skills you might need after the SHTF.

Gold hit record highs last week, driven largely by demand for the metal considered a safe haven. Demand is high because of fears of a global war and fears of a financial crisis.

A sunny month of August shows us how much power we can produce and the resulting utility bill blows us away.