The First 24 Hours Based on the historical record, in the first 24 hours after attack or collapse, indigenous tribes would do many of the same things other cultures do.…

When modern medicine is out of reach, the knowledge of wild medicinal plants can mean the difference between life and death. Native American peoples survived for millennia using the healing…

Confrontations are ugly and messy and they don’t have a straightforward outcome. You won’t get any warnings or a “heads up” before your life is on the line. Regardless of…

When disaster looms – be it a sudden storm, pandemic lockdown, or grid failure – people rush out in a frenzy to snap up supplies. If you’ve ever arrived even…

The first thing that slaps you in the face when the grid goes dark and the last granola bar’s gone? Hunger. Not that kind of “I skipped breakfast” hunger either,…

You can have the best gear stacked high, water filters worth hundreds of dollars, and a bug-out bag packed with everything from freeze-dried meals to tactical knives, but if you…

In a survival scenario, you probably won’t get a second chance. When the power is down, when the streets are empty and when there’s smoke forming at the horizon at…

When modern antibiotics run out, Mother Nature’s remedies step up. Long before pharmacies, people survived with herbal and folk medicines to fight infection. To this day, many plants and natural…

Imagine a world where a simple cut or a sore throat could be a death sentence. In a long-term grid-down crisis or deep in the backcountry, you might not have…

Independence Day was very different for hundreds of families in central Texas this year. An area known as “The Hill Country,” and also by the more negative name “Texas Flood…