I make it a point to make at least one winter camping trip every year. I'm not talking about taking the camper out. I'm talking about backpacking into the woods usually without a tent and setting up camp. This year I brought my son for his first winter camping trip and he did great! He complained and whined a little bit, but it was very cold. ...

If you spend much time outdoors, either dirt time or family camping, there's a good chance you've had an MRE. Of course the MRE was developed for the US military, but is now available to us civilians and we sell them like hotcakes. MRE's are so great because they have everything you need for food preparedness and more in one little approximately 1.5...

September 2005, I evacuated from my home in Beaumont because of Hurricane Rita. I boarded a school bus with several other people from all across my area. We rode in a caravan of school buses with 2,000 people and this is my personal experience that I went through during this time. We departed the school parking area and lined up until all the schoo...

I live in the FAR suburbs of Detroit. It was cornfields thirty years ago, but the suburbs have fully moved in. We have our ice storms and severe snow storms. We can be without power for 2 - 6 days at a time. We have a well, so when the power goes off, we have no water, no heat and no light. I have added a solar electric back up for light and a ge...

Yes, this is my fourth time to Marty Simon's wilderness survival school and my third time to study wild edible and medicinal plants. Of course Marty keeps picking on me and telling me that maybe I'll eventually learn something so I don't have to come back anymore. The great thing is that this sense of humor of Marty's is one reason I keep coming bac...

Thanks for your interest in Katrina survivors. We rode it out and then were airlifted from the balcony of our home after 6 days. Our neighbors stayed with us too because we didn't know how high the water was going to get. Anyway we learned first hand what worked and what didn't for us. Phones were not working, landlines stayed up longest, cell phon...