This article is for preppers and non-preppers, and I want to start it with a grim statement: If you live in a major metropolitan area, your chances of survival are relatively low in a large scale disaster scenario. Do you think I'm exaggerating? If you live in a city but … [Read more...]
Urban Survival Skills From Three Perspectives
I found an article with a great overview of urban survival skills. What makes it interesting is that it looks at urban survival from three different perspectives: The Stockpiler, The MacGyver, and The Survivalist. For example, when it comes to food: the stockpiler needs to … [Read more...]
How To Become The Gray Man
If you're living in the city during a disaster, the last thing you want to do is draw attention to yourself. Whether it's a short-term disaster like a hurricane or a long-term disaster like an economic crisis, you can expect crime to be very high. Police will be stretched to the … [Read more...]
How and Why to Pick a Lock
Most people don't like to think about this, but during a disaster, there are many moral gray areas. Obviously stealing is wrong, but what if you're doing it to save someone's life? For example, what if your child has an infection and desperately needs antibiotics, but the only … [Read more...]
10+ Urban Survival Tips You Should Learn
Happy New Year, everyone! Let's kick it off with a series of videos full of urban survival tips. This series was created by Reality Survival. When I first discovered it there were only 10 videos, but since then he's added 3 more videos in just a few weeks (as of this writing). … [Read more...]
Urban Preppers vs Rural Preppers
If you haven't already, you should subscribe to Canadian Prepper on Youtube. Go ahead, I'll wait. Every week he makes several high-quality videos covering all aspects of preparedness, especially physical and mental preparedness. Plus some gear reviews. In this video he talks … [Read more...]
7 Urban Survival Mistakes That Could Get You Killed
A while back I wrote about 9 urban survival skills that could save your life. Not having these skills could literally get you killed, but there are many urban survival mistakes that could also get you killed. Here are seven: 1. Bragging About Your Preps - Sometimes this is … [Read more...]
8 Wilderness Survival Skills You Can Use For Urban Survival
When city dwellers hear the words “wilderness skills”, they usually ignore them--even if they’re preppers. They tend to think something like, "This doesn’t really apply to me because I live in the city. I’ll never need to start a bow drill, anyway... I have 3 lighters!" The … [Read more...]
3 Great Knives For Urban Survivalists
Although people living in the country are usually a lot safer during major disasters, many of us have no choice but to continue living in the city. If we're unable to make it out of the city before disaster strikes, we'll be facing a very different set of challenges than what we … [Read more...]
5 Ways To Enhance Your Situational Awareness
If you spend much time at all perusing various survival and prepper forums, you’ll no doubt run across the term, “situational awareness.” When I give talks and lead workshops, I like to use the analogy of situational awareness being akin to taking off the blinders that so many … [Read more...]
5 Urban Survival Tips To Keep You Alive
Today I want to share a post from what I think is the best website centered around bug out bags: TheBugOutBagGuide.com. In this post, author Chris Ruiz shares 5 urban survival tips that could very well save your life. These tips are the result of a brainstorming session by … [Read more...]
Urban Survival Emergency Kit
I haven't posted any videos about survival kits in a while, and this is a pretty good one. Stefan Verstappen put together an urban survival kit that will sustain one person alone in the city for about 3 days. I really like his approach. He breaks it down into five categories: … [Read more...]
