Day: September 23, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — September 23, 2025

On September 23, 1897, the first Frontier Days rodeo celebration was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — On this day in 1969, the American film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had its world premiere, and it became a western classic. It was especially noted for the pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the titular outlaws. — On September 23, 1779, During the American Revolution, in the midst of a naval engagement between the warships Bonhomme Richard and Serapis off the east coast of England, American commander John Paul Jones answered a call to surrender from his English counterpart …


Text Comms in a Post-Disaster World – Part 2, by J.M.

(Continued from Part 1.) Meshtastic provides native integration with GPS satellite data for location information. Many Meshtastic devices come with a hardware GPS receiver built in, and the Meshtastic app has the ability to share GPS data from a paired cell phone if it’s not built into the device. There is usually a shortcut in many Meshtastic devices for immediately sending your location information to other users in the event of an emergency. The Meshtastic phone app has the ability to download local copies of some maps so you can pinpoint other people’s locations. I realize that many people don’t …


SurvivalBlog’s News From The American Redoubt

This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies located in the American Redoubt region that are of interest to preppers and survivalists. Today, a bit of branding iron history.  (See the Montana section.) Idaho Idaho construction jobs grow while Washington faces decline. o  o  o Moscow school district uses taxpayer money – to sue taxpayers. o  o  o Flying the NEW Turbo Carbon Cub “UL” In Idaho. o  …