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Blackout Box Guide: Essential Power and Lighting Supplies

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Blackout Box Guide: Essential Power and Lighting Supplies

A blackout box should focus on power sources and lighting to keep you safe and functional during power outages. Here's a detailed list of items to include:
1. Portable Power Supplies
Portable Battery Ba...
Posted in Blackout Checklist, Power Outage, prepping

Power Outage Prepping

by Superesse Staff

Power Outage Prepping

Here's the basic summary, store supplies and take necessary actions in-order-to meet electrical needs for extended outage periods.

 

When a suspected power outage occurs; check your breakers, nearby street lights, and neighborhood to determine if an isolated issue is impacting only your house or if the outage is out of your control. Contact utility provider, acquire as to cause and expected restoration time (sign up for alerts through your REP, TDSP, EDU, or TDU). Unplug sensitive electronics. 

Follow below courses of actions (COAs) and preparedness steps. As you prepare/ react to each time-framed category, all sup...

Posted in Blackout Checklist, Grid Down, Power Outage, Prepping

Food Readiness - Longterm storage and prepping

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Food Readiness - Longterm storage and prepping

Cycle stored foods into your meals. Rotate in new shelf stable foods to replace what you've eaten. Spend an extra $5 every grocery trip to go towards sustainability (i.e. 2 cans of spam and a bag of rice). 1. Know the shel...
Posted in Food, Food stocks, food storage, gardening, homestead, prepping, SHTF

Tourniquet Staging and Preparedness for Trauma

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Tourniquet Staging and Preparedness for Trauma

Keep a tourniquet (TQ) easily accessible and always stage one on-body when carrying a firearm. Stage it for quick application. This means; attached it (ankle, hip, fanny pack, etc) ony your person in the same place each time your wear it so it increases "muscle memory" allowing you to grab it and deploy with little complex thought (because when a TQ is needed there will already be much to process).
Posted in First-Aid, Prepping, Tourniquet, Trauma Response

Rainwater Harvesting - Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions by state.

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Rainwater Harvesting - Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions by state.

This is a composition of laws, regulations, and restrictions on citizens' ability to collect and store rainwater for gardening, irrigation, and consumption. A state by state guide.
Posted in prepping, rainwater collection, Rainwater Harvesting, self-sufficiency

Financial Prepping

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Financial Prepping

Money and Prepping go hand in hand. Financial Prepping is a topic rarely discussed yet a challenge we all face daily. 

Personal economic hardship, the preparation for a Life Altering Event (EMP, hurricane, civil unrest), and banking disruptions, represent the three reasons why finances should be considered as part of your overall preparedness plan. 

Why plan now? 

1. Unexpected vehicle repairs
2. Sudden medical expenses
3. Collapse of banking system
4. Civil Unrest and National State of Emergency
5. Job loss, death in family, birth of child
6. Government or Private seizure/freezing of funds

Posted in Banking Collapse, Financial Prepping, Government Overreach, Money, Planning, Preparedness, Prepping

The Six Tenets of Survival for Preppers

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The Six Tenets of Survival for Preppers

The Pyramid of Survival may only be Water, Food, Shelter but when you incorporate the Prepping Mindset we add the support of three other aspects. These are Hygiene, Communications, and Security. A visual representation can help you prioritize your prepping so that when a Life Altering Event (LAE) occurs, survival will be simplified.
Posted in 6 Tenents of Survival for Preppers, Prepping, Survival

Understanding the difference between Bugout and Get Home Bags.

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Understanding the difference between Bugout and Get Home Bags.

Clearly, you could literally have 5 bags prepared and stored in various locations. One at work, in the car, etc but instead use a modular system that incorporates supplies from various Loadouts. For most of us, it's not financially feasible to have multiple fully loaded packs. Make your bags work together. If it's not possible to have a multiple packs,  we suggest you create at least a Get H...
Posted in Bugout Bag, Bugout Bag Checklist, Bugout Vehicle, Get Home Bag, INCH Bag, Prepping, Survival Gear

Trash Can Root Cellar - a prepping idea for self sufficiency

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Trash Can Root Cellar - a prepping idea for self sufficiency

A root cellar can prolong the life of your vegetables and a trash can style model is cheap and easy to do. You'll need a metal trash can with lid, pinestraw, ca...
Posted in fruits and vegetables, homesteading, offgrid, prepping, root cellar

Financial Prepping for a Mugging and Pickpocket while Traveling

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Financial Prepping for a Mugging and Pickpocket while Traveling

If you're traveling abroad (or just out of town) how would you survive an event where your ID, credit/debit cards, money, keys, etc where all lost ...
Posted in finance, overseas tactics, prepping, traveling, urban survival

Hypermiling for Bugout Vehicles

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Hypermiling for Bugout Vehicles

Hypermiling as a bugout technique during vehicle egress to a BOL, scavenge runs, and scout operations. In short it's a method to increase your MPG ...
Posted in bugout MPG calculator, bugout vehicle, fuel storage, Hypermiling, prepping

Prepping OPSEC

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Prepping OPSEC

Prepping is what will set you apart when SHTF. You'll be the one able to thrive but only if you keep your pre-SHTF prepping routine to yourself.  O...
Posted in Doomsday Preppers, OPSEC, PII, prepping