Natural Disasters

Independence Day was very different for hundreds of families in central Texas this year. An area known as “The Hill Country,” and also by

I sit here in my office, looking out through the window at a thunderstorm, right in the middle of a drought. Mother Nature likes

There’s nothing that says individual weather events don’t have to line up with overall weather patterns; and even if there were, Mother Nature probably

This last week saw the Kilauea volcano erupt in Hawaii. That’s not all that unusual an occurrence, as the Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in

The area I live in is currently under Level III water restrictions due to drought conditions. Officials are already planning to increase that to

Compared to some of our recent years, 2024 has seemed to be rather calm. We didn’t have a pandemic to worry about, there was

All too often, when people get snowed in, they’re snowed in without power, without heat, and possibly even without water.

Of all the things that we talk about in survival and all the priorities we talk about, we rarely, if ever, talk about our

Back in 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled over Southeast Houston, causing widespread flooding. At the time, I lived a few hundred miles away, well outside

You can plan the perfect picnic, but you can’t predict the weather. However, experts have enough information to foresee trends for next year.

Without a doubt, significant advancements in fire detection and suppression technologies have been made in the last decades, which have contributed to a steady

Regardless of one's political stance on global warming, it's undeniable that it is taking place right now, and it is impacting our daily lives.

There are always TEOTWAWKI survival scenarios that capture the survival community’s imagination. For a number of years that’s been an EMP, although back around

It is truly amazing how much force nature can muster to throw at our efforts at taming our planet. Hurricanes and other natural disasters

When people think about survival groups, they have all sorts of expectations and get their ideas from movies or TV shows. They want to