One of the basic survival skills you must have in your prepper’s bag of tricks is knowing how to defend yourself with your bare hands, i.e. to throw a punch. Wh...
Each downpour brings with it the risk of disease. Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses are common during and after hurricanes, aside from injuries and dea...
Among all fires and incendiary disasters, wildfires are potentially the most deadly. A house fire is localized and so is a building fire. Although flames may oc...
Hot Spot Healing: How to Treat Minor Burns
Fire is a double-edged sword. While it’s necessary for survival, it can also injure or kill you in a flash. With t...
You wake in the night and hear shouting outside. The room is thick with darkness—all the lights are off. Something’s wrong. You assume it’s a power outage and g...
I love storms and I love to be outside, but when I watched the formation of Hurricane Katrina from my television, far away in California, it was one of the rare...
Imagine it. A day like any other: outside it’s blue and sunny, nothing out of the ordinary. All of a sudden, clouds begin to form in the sky—puffy, white ones a...
Going out on the open sea offers its share of risks, such as getting shipwrecked or thrown overboard without anyone else witnessing your predicament. Apart from...
Lightning cracked open the sky to the south and a strange series of dry winds tumbled in from the north. The sky turned green and wet, storms followed the wind,...
Our planet has been described by NASA’s planetary explorers as the Goldilocks planet. Our solitary “blue dot” is just the right distance away from the sun—not t...
