Month: November 2026

Preparedness Notes — November 3, 2026 

Today is election day. Please get out and vote. I know that our votes don’t mean a lot in some instances, but in many mid-term races they still do. (For example, pro-gun candidate Brandon Herrera is running for Congress in Texas’s 23rd District.) Also, please pray for smaller and more responsible government. – JWR — Soon after last Tuesday’s blog was posted, I heard that Walter Koenig passed away. He will be missed. Ironically, he long outlived Anton Yelchin, who also played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the much more recent Star Trek movies. (Yelchin was accidentally crushed to death at …


Will You Survive?, by Single Farmer

The short answer is maybe. To increase your possibilities of survival, read this article. As we were reviewing our food storage and other supplies, my Mom made an interesting observation which resulted in a conversation about why many people won’t survive and a potential solution. My mother is our chief logistician–meaning that she plans and coordinates the purchasing and storage of our food and other supplies. Most women are the logisticians for their family with sometimes over 90 percent of the food purchasing done by women. When our truck or a semi-truck needs to be unloaded, the men in my …


Recipe of the Week:

The following recipe for Hamburger A L’Italienne is from Good Housekeeping’s Book of Good Meals.  This 1927-copyrighted  book (now in public domain) is one of the 11 books that I paid to have professionally scanned that will be added to the extensive library of bonus books included with the SurvivalBlog 2027 Edition waterproof archive USB sticks. (Available for ordering in mid-January, 2027.) Ingredients 2 peeled onions 1 cupful salad oil 1 pound hamburg steak 2 cupfuls stewed tomatoes 1 cupful grated cheese 1 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful pepper 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 cupful egg noodles Directions Brown the onions, …


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic is a map that shows States with a smaller population (in brown) than Los Angeles metropolitan area. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable.     — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. I can of …


Economics & Investing Media of the Week

In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest Binance hacked: Bitcoin exchange hit by ‘biggest crypto hack in history’ – $5bn. Binance hack: Investigators in a ‘cat and mouse game’ to recover $6.3 billion in stolen funds. Precious metals prices rebounded on Monday (November 1, 2026.) Gold was up 1.96% to $3,967.70, and Silver up  3.31% to $51.56. Mapped: Where Data Centers Have Raised Power Prices the Most. Published by the WSJ last Thursday (19/29): Alphabet Sheds Half a Trillion in …


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, even more AI predictions. AI Safety Leader Says AI Will Kill Us All in the Next 10 Years Over at YahooTech: An AI safety leader says he stopped …


SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. Pictured above is world travel adventurer Karl Bushby. — First up, in The New York Times: After 28 Years Walking Across the Globe, He’s Almost Home. A brief excerpt: “Earlier this month, he swam across the English Channel, arriving in his home country after spending half his life away. His trek began in southern …


SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week

REDOUBT NEWS LINKS This weekly column features media 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. Idaho: Amazon Prime Air drone delivery launches in Nampa. Montana: Friday-night Eureka shooting leaves 2 injured, 2 dead including a deputy. Ambition Strikes: Finishing The Roof on our Abandoned Mansion. Inside Idaho’s Yankum Ropes: New Burley facility fuels off-roading growth. Wyoming Game and Fish speaks on “unusual” wildlife roaming in 2026. 3 dead after helicopters collide midair in Oregon. Montana Public Service Commission to take …


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 …


JWR’s Meme Of The Week:

The latest meme created by JWR:   Meme Text: Sarah Connor Says: I Tried To Warn You 35 Years Ago, But Now You’re Using AI and You’re Thinking: “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.


Editors’ Quote:

“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment…” – Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat