by Bob | May 20, 2019 | Survival
This is the first of a series of posts on Monday about survival. Task One: Mild: Get two cases of bottled water for each person in your household. By Deb: If you’re like me, you don’t buy books about surviving things. Why? Probably because you think that...
by Bob | May 6, 2019 | Survival
Many people flail about when they think about what they might need to do in order to prepare for natural and man-made disasters. There’s a lot of information out there and its overwhelming. What I learned when studying this topic was that too many manuals and...
by Bob | May 3, 2019 | Survival
There are two aspects to this– how far you want to go. And how much your spouse will let you put in there. To the left is my beast, which is loaded with enough gear to live off of for a couple of weeks. Of course, my wife never drives it and tries not to look in...
by Bob | Apr 30, 2019 | Survival
While water is more important than food, it is also more readily available than food. What do you need to know? Do you know what expiration dates mean? How much food you should have and what kind? What happens to you when you begin to starve? How long can you last?...
by Bob | Apr 12, 2019 | Survival
Yes, the Pinkertons. When I saw the image with the pink paintballs in the NY Times article, I thought it was some kind of joke; I didn’t think of the Pinkerton Agency. I didn’t even know it still existed. So I didn’t read the article until last...
by Bob | Mar 13, 2019 | Survival
At 11:57 PM on 12 March 1928 and then cascading into 13 March, the St. Francis Dam, north of Los Angeles, failed. Designed by William Mulholland, the man who was hailed for bringing water to the City of Angels, there is another dam, designed exactly the same, still in...
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