I received a preview copy of the first episode of Doomsday Preppers airing on Tuesday, February 7th. I only saw one of the shows from the last season, and posted about it here. This premier episode that I took a peek at has the same format as last season’s. Each prepper featured has a different philosophy. The first couple had a large home made out of shipping containers and had years of food and water stored away, living a near […]
This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Many moons ago, before I became the Apartment Prepper, I had an early Monday morning mishap. I was preparing breakfast for the family, getting ready for work and getting the kids rounded up for school. Yes, I was multi-tasking, something I highly recommend against doing, but that is for another post. The night before, I had gone to a Pampered Chef party (I got some free stuff) and I was going to try […]
We had a rain storm a few days ago which caused some flooding and a number of accidents on the roadways. I delayed driving in to work, as I heard on the traffic report that a major freeway was shut down, and even the alternate routes were congested. I was waiting until the storm abated before venturing out. In the meantime, I thought I could get some work done by checking my work email remotely. Just as I logged on, […]
After all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales activity, it seems there was a lot of optimism about people being willing to open their pocketbooks and spend their money. There was such a frenzy of crazed shopping, akin to “running of the bulls” that mobs were running rampant and people got hurt trying snag “hot deals.” In the next day or so, the media was joyfully reporting that sales records were topped as a record number of shoppers opened […]
I am currently in the middle of reading Lights Out about how some families and their neighborhood cope with the aftermath of an EMP attack. I’ll save the main discussion of the book for after I finish it, but the book has got me thinking about the neighbors around me, and what would they be like in the event of a large scale disaster. I had previously posted about my “Un-Neighborly Neighbors” in a previous article. I will give you […]
Last night I had a jolting reminder about preparedness. On the previous day, we restocked our water and toilet paper storage, so I felt comfortable we were keeping up with replenishing supplies as they run low. For dinner, we went out to eat at one of those “hole in the wall” neighborhood restaurants, a place we’ve eaten at a hundred times before. It is usually pretty good. This time, the dining experience didn’t turn out so well. Before going to […]
One of the fascinating stories that came out of the recent East Coast earthquake was how the animals in the National Zoo in Washington seemed to sense danger. Five to ten seconds before the actual earthquake hit, orangutans and gorillas interrupted their foraging and ran to shelter; some shrieked, or raced to higher ground. Flamingos huddled together; even snakes started writhing wildly. Zookeepers could tell the animals reacted several seconds before anyone started feeling the shaking. Animals have a sixth […]
Just when the news seemed to be settling down from the recent stock market roller coaster, the ground started rolling in a couple of areas that hardly ever experience earthquakes: Colorado had a 5.3 magnitude quake on Monday night, then soon after, on Tuesday morning, the East Coast had a 5.9 quake centered around Virginia. DC Josh of Metro Survival blog experienced the quake and posted about it. See “Washington D.C. Earthquake” Adding to the worries was the epicenter of […]
We are having a spectacular thunderstorm as I write this. A flash of lighting, followed by a loud thunderclap… Then the lights flickered, I heard a loud ZAP! and my computer turned off. My heart raced in a panic, as I envisioned my hard drive getting fried from the huge power surge that just happened. I have a surge protector but somehow it failed me. A few more angry beeps came out of my CPU. I restarted my computer and […]
I was chatting with the owner of our neighborhood pizza restaurant last night when he switched subjects and told me he was fearful of the the future of his business. We are not close friends, he knows me as the regular customer who normally orders the same pizza special with coupons. He said he no longer sees his lunch and dinner time regulars and orders from company catered lunches have all but disappeared. He is now barely breaking even. But […]
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