Day: October 24, 2024

Preparedness Notes for Thursday — October 24, 2024

October 24, 1836: The earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts. Originally, these matches were made quite large — essentially a small torch. In England phosphorus matches were called “Congreves” after Sir William Congreve. But they went by the name loco foco in the United States. The Loco Focos became the name of a radical Democrat faction in the U.S. Congress. They earned that name because they brought some of the newly-invented loco foco matches with them to one of their meetings after hearing that their adversaries had plotted to disrupt the …


Hurricane Milton After Action Review – Part 2, by Soyez Ferme

(Continued from Part 1.) Five days prior to landfall Sunday it was time to check the gas in all vehicles and 5-gallon jugs. I had 15 gallons of ethanol free gas for equipment, and I needed to fill up three empty jugs of regular gas for vehicle and farm truck use. I also filled up my truck and my wife’s SUV. This was Sunday before the storm and before panic fuel buying began. My tractor and generator run on diesel. On Sunday I assessed that there was 70 gallons of diesel on hand and that would be enough for getting …


The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is 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. In today’s column, we look at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA an Even Bigger Disaster Than the Storms Themselves At American Thinker: FEMA an Even Bigger Disaster Than the …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“It tells me it’s a high priority. And the reason they have the First Amendment is because, you know, the countries people came from, if you spoke your mind, you’d be imprisoned or killed. That’s why you have it. That’s really important. And then the right to bear arms is also really important. That’s there to protect, you know… The Second Amendment is there to protect the First Amendment. As soon as the government can disarm the people, they can do anything they want. And we’ve seen this in one country after another. They take the guns away from the …