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 about the pros and cons of being an urban … [Read more...]
13 Things You Can Scavenge From Cars After The SHTF
Cars are everywhere. If you're anywhere near a city when the SHTF, you'll come across thousands of them. And if the disaster is severe enough, many of these vehicles will be abandoned. Why does this matter? Because there are many survival items you can scavenge from abandoned vehicles. Some people will object to … [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 fact of the matter is, most wilderness … [Read more...]
Urban Navigation: Escape and Evasion
Today I want to share another video by Black Scout Survival. In this video he talks about how to avoid getting trapped or lost in the middle of the city during a disaster. This video is just one in a whole series of videos called Urban Survival/Escape and Evasion. You can watch the full video below. … [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 people seem to wear today. In other words, … [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: medical, shelter, nourishment, … [Read more...]
6 Street Smart Skills You Need In An Urban Disaster
You don't need to be a full-blown survivalist to make it through an urban disaster. While vast stockpiles of food, water, and other supplies would indeed be quite beneficial, skills trump stuff every time. Whether you're concerned about civil unrest, power outages, or a pandemic, here are six skills you should learn as … [Read more...]
Urban Survival Concepts Video
I found another excellent video on urban survival by Black Scout Survival. In this video he covers some important urban survival concepts that everyone living in the city should know. Your top priorities in an urban survival scenario are slightly different from what they would be in a wilderness survival scenario. … [Read more...]
How to Make an Urban Survival Kit
Black Scout Survival made an awesome video about the kind of items you should carry with you at all times if you live in the city. There are many great urban survival kits that you can keep at work or in your car, but you can't carry everything with you everywhere you go. There are two solutions: 1. Learn skills … [Read more...]
5 Awesome Urban Survival Books You Should Read
There are hundreds of great books about prepping and survival, but you should take your location into account when buying them. Although every area of preparedness is important, people in the country and people in the city need to focus on different things. For example, while country people might want to focus more … [Read more...]
SHTF City Survival
Today I want to share a video series called "SHTF City Survival" by TheBrooklynPrepper. In the first video he talks about his plan to get around the city and retrieve family members from school and workplaces after a disaster. He also covers his mode of transportation and explains his get home bag. In the second … [Read more...]
19 Random Urban Survival Tips
I'd like to share some random urban survival tips. These survival tips are mostly things I came up with off the top of my head. Some of them are tips that didn't fit in with any of the posts I've made so far, but they're all important. 1. Buy some lighters There's a plethora of information on ways to start fires … [Read more...]
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