It is gratifying to see that there are now so many SurvivalBlog readers all over the planet. [1] Our readership growth in Europe [2] has been phenomenal. I do have one question: Why is there now a 30-to-299 SurvivalBlog reader cluster way out in Siberia, just north of the Mongolian border? [3] It looks too far east to be the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam), but it is apparently somewhere on the Trans-Siberian railway route. Perhaps just some bored knob-turners at a far-flung Russian SIGINT [4] site? Oh well, I guess that I should just be content that there are so many SurvivalBlog dots on the map, and an stop wondering about who all these people are. (Update: This morning, several readers suggested that these are actually American SurvivalBlog site visits, via a The Onion Router (TOR) node in Irkutsk.)
Thanks for continuing to spread the word about SurvivalBlog! Links to SurvivalBlog in your personal web page and/or in your e-mail footer [5] would be greatly appreciated.
The first post today is a piece from archives, for the benefit of our many new readers. This was originally posted in September of 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina: