“One irrepressible lesson of history is that today’s paranoiac is sometimes tomorrow’s survivor.”
-David Shenk

I just found out that Slate has a Survivalist blog. I just read what looks like the latest post, about the CDCs pandemic plan, and was pleasantly surprised. It’s nice to see this kind of thinking from a blog on a mainstream publication. It does seem like there’s a general awakening toward the preparedness movement [...]

Here’s a link to a free disaster guide put out by the University of Florida. Basic information, but worth a read.

If you haven’t seen them already, there have been a few great lists posted recently at The Survival Mom. One of them is labeled as a list of survival skills for men to know in the case of a depression, but after reading it, I really think that women should know these skills, too – [...]