Rich Murphy
Any disaster carries with it the potential for causing damage to your home. While the damage isn’t always critical enough to require abandoning your home, many people do so anyway, more because they are not sure what to do about the damage, than anything else. But your home is your shelter, as well as holding …
Planning for a disaster is a complicated business. There are professionals who spend their whole careers doing this, working for government agencies at all levels or even for large corporations. For them, it is a full-time occupation. But you and I have to do this ourselves, in what time we have available to us, if …
Effective home defense is challenging, to say the least. The basic problem, as with any defensive situation, is that the attacker has the initiative. They get to choose the when, where and how of their attack. This leaves you with the unenviable job of having to develop a defense that covers just about any possibility. …
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One of the more serious problems that face us in the aftermath of any disaster is that of losing electricity. We use electric power for so much in life, that getting by without it is more than inconvenient; for some, it can be life-threatening. But if there is anything we can count on in the …
Generally speaking, when we talk about survival skills, the first thing we talk about is bushcraft skills, the skills that are necessary to survive in the wilderness. If the conversation expands outwards from there, we will usually move to talking about homesteading skills, as those are useful in a long-term survival situation, where we need …