by Survival Blog | Jan 31, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
Nothing beats stepping into our toasty cabin on a subzero day to a nice, warm wood stove. Having had experience with all types of heat and fuels, wood beats all! As soon as friends come in, they stand right in front of the stove to warm up. The dogs fight over who...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 30, 2024 | 4 Patriots
With the recent arctic blast of cold air still fresh in our minds, keeping something cold doesn’t feel like much of a challenge. That unwelcome polar vortex covered nearly the entire country and resulted in ridiculously low temperatures for over a week. But now that...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 30, 2024 | 4 Patriots
With the seemingly unending winter storms continuing to pelt most of the nation, power outages are inevitable. In fact, millions of Americans have already lost power this winter. Due to blizzards, heavy rainfall, and tornadoes. There is plenty of winter weather to...
by Survival Blog | Jan 30, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
On January 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson became the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and...
by Survival Blog | Jan 30, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
When in doubt, do the OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. In other words, see what’s going on, understand how it relates to your situation, figure out what to do, then do it. But what happens when you can’t do your OODA loop because you can’t properly see what’s...
by Survival Blog | Jan 29, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
On January 29, 1964, the British film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a landmark Cold War farce directed by Stanley Kubrick, was released in theatres. On this day in 1845 Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was published. Today is the...
by Survival Blog | Jan 29, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
After a search lasting more than three years, I recently settled on a deer rifle to replace the Remington 742 in .30-06 that I inherited from my Father. The old 742 is still a dandy gun, and I have passed it along to my brother-in-law for continued use. But as the...
by Survival Blog | Jan 29, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
Introductory note from JWR: I just received this update letter: “I wanted to write to the readers of SurvivalBlog about the search for a family to live on our family farm. The opportunity is still open. Many areas in the United States are deteriorating, but our...
by Survival Blog | Jan 29, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
The following simple recipe for Chicken & Rice with Golden Sauce is from Good HouseKeeping’s Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries (253 pages, copyright 1925, now in public domain). That is one of the 11 new bonus books included in the new 2005-2023...
by Survival Blog | Jan 29, 2024 | SurvivalBlog.com
Our graphic of the week is an interesting annotated satellite photo montage of city lights. This NASA graphic has circulated on Reddit. It shows that 80% of the US population lives east of the annotated yellow line. This adds credence to my long-standing advice to...
