The Bugout Bag

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So, now it’s official (pending President Bush’s signature)–officials can’t take away legal firearms from law-abiding citizens during states of emergency the way they did in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Looters, you have been warned.

Welcome to the September 27, 2006 edition of Carnival of Preparedness & Survival.
This is our first Carnival! There aren’t many articles, because I didn’t get the word out soon enough to give writers time to submit their work. I plan to do better next time!
Please take a few minutes to check out the submissions for […]

Ok, this is just really dumb.
Go read it for yourself.
And note the addition of the Equipped.org blog to the blogroll.

Announcing the Blog Carnival of Preparedness & Survival!
What’s a Blog Carnival?
It’s a specific kind of blog community. It collects links pointing to blog posts on a particular topic. It’s a great way to keep an eye on what’s going on around the topic, and to find interesting writers you wouldn’t likely have found otherwise.

When you subscribe to the free newsletter, you also get access to the new download library!
It’s not much of a library at the moment, but as time goes on, it will contain checklists, hotsheets, a variety of books, etc.

Last week, I got around to doing something I should have done a long time ago.
A friend of a friend went on a hunting trip in Colorado, and went “missing.”

According to The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
A report by the United Nation’s Terrorism Prevention Branch, leaked to the press four months before 9/11, indicated that 130 terrorist groups were capable of developing a homemade atomic bomb if they obtained highly enriched uranium (HEU) or plutonium left over from the Cold War. [9] More recently, […]

Well, the truck is due in one week, and we’re not anywhere near ready. On days like today, it seems like what we need is a good fire to clean out all the clutter that has accumulated over the past 20 years—-at least it would make room for the clutter we’re going to collect over […]

I’ve just finished reading Deep Survival, Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, an excellent book by Laurence Gonzales. I want to do a more thorough review,

I’ve been interested in survival, disaster preparedness and self-sufficiency as long as I can remember. Now, an impending move is creating a situation where I’ll need to actually live these interests, instead of just playing at them.
Our new home is in the shadow of Mt. St. Helens, and conceivably within the danger zone if Mt. […]