Supplies Archives

The Beginner’s Guide to Blackouts

Here are some supplies you’ll need for a blackout along with a brief overview of the actions you’ll want to take.

The Salvation Army is a great source for a wide variety of things, especially if you’re looking for prepping items and emergency supplies.

Medications are often overlooked when people build their bug out bags, but they could make or break your bug out plan.

After the collapse of civilization, you may need to scavenge for supplies. To do that, you’ll need to build a scavenger toolkit.

An EMP survival kit is a Faraday cage with electronic items that you might need after an electromagnetic pulse knocks out the grid.

Access to clean or running water may be limited during a disaster, so it’s important to build a sanitation kit just in case.

Here are some items you want to avoid stockpiling, mostly because they will go bad, but also because they aren’t going to help you survive.

If the grid goes down, GPS and online maps might be unavailable. In case that happens, keep these paper maps on hand.

If you’re pregnant or have a newborn, you’ll need to pack some extra emergency items in order to ride out a major disaster.

Fatwood is derived from certain softwood trees which are more flammable the other trees, making fatwood great for tinder and kindling.