Reader C.D.V. kindly sent me a map of the most rural counties in the U.S., compiled by Purdue University. This map is a great tool to help in selecting retreat locales. By the way, you can right-click to zoom in on the map. Do you notice a correlation with my designated American Redoubt states? Interesting. (And BTW, here is the source page and there is an accompanying Rural-Metropolitan Levels map, and here is the key for the second map. And it is also interesting to correlate that data with the Frontier designation of some counties.
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The folks at Safecastle are now providing a free hardcover copy of my new book “Survivors” with qualifying purchases of Mountain House three-can packages. They are also including a free Aurora Firestarter. I may be biased, but that sounds like a great deal, to me!
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Meanwhile, Ready Made Resources is also having a 25% off sale on Mountain House foods (from Monday through Wednesday) and offering a free copy of “Survivors” when you order two cases Mountain House foods. Note that this offer can be multiplied — i.e. you will receive five copies of the novel if you order 10 cases of Mountain House foods.
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G.P. sent this: TEOTWAWKI: The perfect solar storm. (A nice succinct piece by Travis Kelly, a newspaper writer in in Grand Junction, Colorado.)
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Pierre M. spotted this: As Prisoner Exchange Begins, Los Angeles County Officials Predict Doom
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Methinks that the “Just Us” Department has found their convenient scapegoat: New Fast and Furious docs released by White House. (Thanks to K.A.F. for the link.) Oh, BTW, some have surmised that the entire BATFE might be disbanded. But I’m afraid that is just wishful thinking. I suspect that there will be some grandstanding and organizational shuffling. But inevitably this rogue agency will simply be re-named and the same agents will be sent out to continue trampling our right to keep and bear arms.