by Survival Blog | Oct 25, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Heat We have a super-efficient wood stove in our basement that can heat our entire cabin. We can vent heat into various parts of the house. We have two propane fireplaces that do not use any electricity. I put all...
by Survival Blog | Oct 24, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
On October 24, 1648, the Peace of Westphalia ended the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegram was sent via the telegraph in the United States, effectively...
by Survival Blog | Oct 24, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
Is TEOTWAWKI imminent? I do not know. But things are slipping toward it happening soon. Will it be a violent, giant crash, like one involving many cars on the turnpike, or will it be a quiet breakdown along the side of a deserted country road? For myself, at this...
by Survival Blog | Oct 23, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
On October 23, 1956, the Hungarian Revolution began with a massive demonstration in Budapest. JWR’s Comment: The days of trenchcoats and Tokarevs… Too bad that they didn’t have access to more effective ant–tank weapons, or they could have pushed the communists out of...
by Survival Blog | Oct 23, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
The very first handgun that I ever fired was a Ruger Single-Six chambered in .22 Long Rifle (“.22LR”). I was then in junior high school. Our church had a group for boys my age. The men who led that group took us on an outing one time in a nearby state forest area. One...
by Survival Blog | Oct 23, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
The following recipe for Pork In a Pot was sent to us by SurvivalBlog reader Richard T. Special note from Richard: “You will need a Lodge 3-quart combo cooker, or something similar. Any cast iron pot will work, but this pot has a handled flat lid that can serve as a...
by Survival Blog | Oct 22, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
On October 22, 1934, infamous criminal Charles (“Pretty Boy”) Floyd was fatally shot in a field near East Liverpool, Ohio, by FBI agents. On October 22, 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin, an inspector in the French army who encouraged the use of balloons for military...
by Survival Blog | Oct 22, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
What will be missing during the great reconstruction of America after TEOTWAWKI is the knowledge of how to do it. Those wonderful how-tos on YouTube will no longer be available unless people have electricity and they have systematically stored them as offline video...
by Survival Blog | Oct 21, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
On this day in 1805, a fleet of 33 ships (18 French and 15 Spanish) under Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve fought and was defeated by a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar (combat was waged west...
by Survival Blog | Oct 21, 2023 | SurvivalBlog.com
I’m going to cut right to the chase for once: You should write an articlru for SurvivalBlog because the prizes are great! In addition to that, you should write an article because everyone has a skill, or knowledge, or a viewpoint that would benefit the rest of us....
