This is a subject I don’t really care to talk about but at the same time, I realize how necessary it is. For the 3rd part of our Rational Prepping series (see part 1 on Financial prepping here and part 2 on weather-related prepping here) we’re going to talk about how to be prepared for a chaos event such as a terrorist attack or looting and rioting in your city.

I realize it’s no fun to talk about events like this, but as we’ve seen in the last couple of years (Paris, San Bernadino, Ferguson Missouri riots and multiple other chaotic scenarios) chaos-related scenarios are becoming more and more common. And most of them happen with little-to-no warning. So without further ado, let’s talk about how we can rationally prepare for scenarios like this that may hit close to home.  Read more

If you’re joining us late, you might want to go back and read Rational Prepping Part 1: Financial before reading part two here. We’re talking in this series about the fallacy that prepping is only for the “crazies”. As my blogging pal Shannon, from Financially Blonde learned after going 10 days without electricity courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, prepping is for everyone. 

In the first part of this three-post series, we talked about prepping for financial disasters. Today, we’ll talk about prepping for weather-related disasters. Weather-related disasters can come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, windstorms, severe thunderstorms, etc – the list goes on and on. It might surprise you to know that it doesn’t take much of a serious weather disaster to leave you in a situation where you need to have preparation techniques and supplies in place. Read more