There was a book I read a while back called “The Knowledge,” that talked about everything that was involved in surviving through a true shit-hits-the-fan, collapse of civilization scenario. It didn’t change my mind from when I would watch The Walking Dead and I thought there is literally no reason I would want to try…

Perhaps you’re in an area that’s seeing more shortages than me, but is the supply chain really crashing? Apart from not being able to find tofu, the occasional sell out of toilet paper (which I will never be able to understand, it’s not like you get explosive diarrhea from this disease) and the sometimes limited pasta…

Although I am not a billionaire, I too keep a machete by my front door “just in case.” This is because there is a decorative palm tree growing just outside my front door. The fronds of palm trees grow and grow, and as they grow the lowest ones sag, so as time goes on they hang lower and lower. Every few months I’ll be…

Ever try to run a chainsaw with two year old gas? Nope, didn’t think so. I don’t know how long the preppers think they can maintain their pre-apocalypse lifestyle.

After Hurricane Katrina, someone in New Orleans said, “Society is only three missed meals away from anarchy.”

Unless you are going to lock down with any possible specialist you might need at some point in your life — like, say, an oncologist...and all of her attendant staff and equipment — you can only sequester yourself for so long. To say nothing of the everyday people who run society. How off the grid can a person…

Thank you. Even on a American Horror Story Apocalypse, the bunker with all the rich people started to run out of food and the other bunkers of rich people were found and overrun.

After spending a few months down the prepper rabbit hole a few years back, when “peak oil” had captured my attention, I emerged with one basic conclusion, which is pretty much the same one you reached here: unless you had obscene amounts of disposable income in order to stock up for months of mayhem, it’s kind of…