The Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide is free through the 22nd. Given climate change and recent disasters, you know you need to be better
Pick up ten survival books and nine of them will tell you the same things about water, fire, shelter, and food. All of it correct.
I fact-check my nonfiction books every so often because things change. And this is a big change, but it makes sense. The old way to
Every situation is different, so this is a guideline, not a checklist you follow off a card. But the order matters, and most people get
Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong: Dump the Myths, Misconceptions, and Bad Advice You Believe, The math looks clean. Fat stores represent stored calories. Eat
Interspersed in Slow Fall are “Elsewhere” scenarios where I present what is happening during a slow collapse of civilization. This is one: SOMEWHERE IN NEBRASKA
Excerpted from You’re Doing It Wrong: Dump the Myths, Misconceptions and Bad Advice You Believe This is one of my pet peeves. In Against All
In my newest book, Slow Fall, I have excerpts titled “Elsewhere” with vignettes from various places as civilization collapses. One is a couple in Manhattan.
The first book in a new series, Slow Fall, publishes on Thursday. It’s about the collapse of civilization in the most terrifying way: slowly and
A short but important post: 53% of people do not have a three-day supply of water, thus: 2 cases of bottled water per person in
When you’re trying to get something for the person who has everything, do they have the critical gear they need in case of an emergency?
This book makes a Stephen King novel read like a romcom The title is a hint: Nuclear War: A Scenario. By Annie Jacobsen. Thoroughly researched,
I’d mentioned this before. That the unexpected will occur. As we hunker down here, I have an unexpected medical emergency. I never had surgery for
When I was updating The Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide I read a lot of action reports and interviewed people who’d survived disasters, whether
Most have heard of the Donner Party and we immediately think of the most notorious aspect: the cannibalism. But when I began researching the event
My review of the material available on being reasonably prepared for man-made and natural disasters uncovered a plethora of confusing and often contradictory information. It’s
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was
After years of studying accidents and disaster, I came to the conclusion that almost every one involving people required seven things to go wrong. The
Wildfires are a very nasty natural disaster– not that any of them are good. They are deadly, move fast and are unpredictable. We had one
Part of Stuff Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure, currently free on Kindle, is defining what a delusion event is and how it pays
We know its in order to smell leaks, but what happened that someone realized this needed to be done? A terrible disaster. Unfortunately, that is
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
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
The first thing we did when we were assigned a mission in Special Forces was an Area Study. We examined WHERE the mission would occur
We have so many things on our phones, we often don’t focus on them. iPhones come with an App that is easily ignored but can
Like, really know? I remember when we had letters at the start of phone numbers in New York City, but we also used tin cans
Foreword by Bob’s Wife to The Procastinator’s Survival Guide: Deb: If you’re like me, you don’t buy books about surviving things. Why? Probably because you
was the St. Francis Dam failure in California. What’s interesting is that there is still a dam of the exact same design in Los Angeles.
