Preparedness Notes for Thursday — September 26, 2019

On September 26, 1908 an ad for the Edison Phonograph first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 84  of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The author is just 13 years old. I think he did a commendable job, for his age. By his advanced vocabulary and writing style, I suspect that he is home-schooled. The more than $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include: First Prize: A $3,000 gift certificate towards a Sol-Ark Solar Generator from Veteran owned Portable Solar LLC. The only EMP Hardened Solar Generator System …




My Budget Possibles Bag, by Liber T.Y.

I have a couple of provisos before beginning. First off, I have a different definition of a “budget” that most people because I’m 13 years old and I don’t yet have a job. Due to that, not everything contained herein is of the highest quality or fits in with the “Two is one, one is none, and three is just enough.” philosophy. One of the things that I believe is that it’s better to have something rather than nothing. I am compelled to note that my inspiration for this bag was the chapter The Escape Bag Blueprint written by Jason …




The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods:

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, we look at the significant drop in bird populations. Study Finds Hand Sanitizers Fail Against Flu Reader DSV sent us this: Study finds hand sanitizers fail against flu, CDC completely wrong. U.S., Canada …