Typhoon Bopha (locally known in the Philippines as Bagyong Pablo) is the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, making a landfall with wind speeds of up to 210 kilometers (130 miles) an hour. Despite the preparations done by several agencies, it didn’t stop the super typhoon from causing floods and landslides that brought [...]
The U.S. east coast is bracing itself for Sandy – a huge category one hurricane that has been dubbed “Frankenstorm” given its proximity to Halloween. The National Weather forecast for the storm has announced its estimated time of landfall somewhere between the east and northeastern coast by late Monday or early Tuesday. Its winds [...]
Why Emergency Preparedness Is Big News, And Getting Bigger – Something To Share We know most of you are pretty up to date with why food storage is important, but we also know you have plenty of friends that are not – this blog post is aimed at being something that you can easily [...]
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL’S NEW SERIES DOOMSDAY PREPPERS GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH THOSE STOCKPILING FOR SURVIVAL 2012 APOCALYPSE; NUCLEAR WINTER; SUPER-VIRUS PANDEMIC; NATURALDISASTERS; FINANCIAL COLLAPSE – THESE PREPPERS HAVE A PLAN TO OUTLAST AND OUTLIVE IN ANY SCENARIO Following a year when the daily news cycle has been dominated by financial instability, government coups [...]
A Quick History and Summary of American Doomsday Preppers Disaster preparedness in the US has been practiced as early as the 1960’s, though many were known to have cited the Great Depression, following the stock market crash of 1929 as a reason to be prepared, and during the 60’s and 70’s, there was a [...]
The UK may be officially in drought, but the heavy rain over the past few days has caused some problems around the country. There are news reports of flash flooding in towns and villages across Cumbria, with one village suffering flooded homes and a collapsed bridge into centre as well as a fractured gas main. [...]
Hello all, Here is something we came across the other day that we thought would be worth flagging. Some incredibly bright engineers have invented 24 hour concrete shelters for use in crisis situations, while still at university. You can find out more by clicking on the image below – very impressive stuff and hurrah for [...]
Whenever I talk about emergency preparedness, food storage or 72hr kits, people often laugh and ask me why I would bother with it as nothing bad ever really happens here in the UK. Unfortunately, history tells a different story and there is a Wikipedia page which lists all of the natural disasters in the UK, [...]
Continuing with the clean water theme from our last post, the Emergency Food Storage team have been discussing how lucky we are in the developed world to have almost unrestricted access to fresh clean water at the turn of a tap, and how crazy people can get if the water is switched off for just [...]
1. Creative Shelters From the inflatable dome theatre (shown) to 1000 seater blow up theatres – check out what the markets of camping and events planning are bringing to the table for effective disaster relief. [Link] 2. HTI HydroPacks Capri Sun for Disaster Relief - The HTI HydroPack is like an empty Capri Sun pouch with [...]
