Urban Survival Archives

Survival items for your car

October 15, 2010 Rural Prepper Urban Survival

My wife and I went home for lunch, turned on the TV, and there was this lady who was talking about items everyone should keep in their car. 1 thing she listed was a digital tire pressure gauge. She went on to talk about how nobody uses those $1 stem pressure gauges. About this time, I started thinking “lady, do you even own a car or truck?” 1 thing about those old style stem tire gauges compared to a newer digital one – the battery will never go dead. Usually, when I put something in my truck or my wifes SUV, it might stay in there for months before its used.

1. Hand crank cell phone charger – one of the big drawbacks to modern technology, they require power. Cells phones make calling people easy, but the phone has to be charged. This is where a hand crank cell phone charger comes in – it makes sure you have a working phone when you need it.

Random Ramblings

Collecting Rain Water Urban Survival Tip

September 10, 2010July 5, 2018 Rural Prepper 0 Comments collecting rain water, harvesting rain water, rain water, Urban Survival, urban survival tips

In an urban survival situation, safe drinking water might be a little difficult to come by.

Disaster Preparedness

Urban Survival and Safe Drinking Water

January 21, 2010July 11, 2018 Rural Prepper 0 Comments safe drinking water, Urban Survival, water storage

Over the past few weeks I have been putting a lot of thought into the availability of safe drinking water in an urban survival situation. Its not enough to have access to “water”, when its not safe to drink.

Its common knowledge that people require food, water and shelter to live. From those three points it breaks down into sub categories. Such as what kind of food, what kind of shelter and what kind of water.

I have decided to break my water preps into 3 simple phases based on the amount of safe drinking water you have access to – short term, mid term, long term.

Short term – this is your bottled water. Regardless if its 1 pint plastic bottles, or 55 gallon drums, this is your short term solution.

Homesteading

Home Grown Onions Are One Of The Easiest Crops To Grow

June 19, 2009April 10, 2018 Rural Prepper 0 Comments home garden, home grown food, home grown onions, onions, prepsteading, root crops, Urban Survival

Home grown onions are an easy item to grow. Even for those gardeners that have a black thumb and kill everything they touch, onions should still be able to live through the touch of death.

The way onions grow, they have several shoots that come off the main root. These shoots develop sugars, which then go into the bulb and help the bulb grow. When the shoots start to die, that is a sign that the sugars are going into the root ball.

When stored properly, most onion root balls can be stored through the winter. In early spring some types of onions will start developing shoots, which is a sign that they should be planted.