Day: August 2, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Saturday — August 2, 2025

On August 2, 1909, the US Mint issued the first Lincoln penny coin. — And on August 2, 1972, Gold hit a record $70 per Troy ounce in London. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present Part 2 of the first entry for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value), A Peak Refuel “Wasatch Pack” variety of 60 servings of premium freeze-dried breakfasts and dinners in individual meal …


Memoirs of a Disaster Survivor – Part 2, by AppComms

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Remember power sources. In 1993, I did not have a generator. Batteries and their accessibility were my power source. As mentioned earlier, batteries for radios, light sources, and even appliances are a necessity. Not to mention an emotional boost for your family and friends. Rotate batteries. You need fresh batteries in your supplies, and of all the necessary sizes. Friends, don’t forget to look out for your neighbors. They may be better prepared than you are, or not, but a friendly knock on the door and a simple question about their needs …


Editors’ Prepping Progress

To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year.  We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, …