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One aspect of an emergency a lot of folks rarely consider is the storage of food and water, or even how long they can be safely stored. If an emergency were to occur right this minute, how safe are the canned goods you have in the cupboard? Or, how long could you drink the bottled water you have in the basement? How safe is your food and water supply, or do you even have one? With today’s uncertain political world, it might be to all of our advantages to have at least a two week supply of food and water on hand. For most of us, we could live for two weeks on what is in the freezer, cupboard, or the fridge, but in some homes it might result in a more limited food intake.
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Who will You Be After It Happens

Humans are amazing beings. We are all unique in our appearance, how our minds work, the skills that we’re naturally good at, our personalities, how we learn, and what tasks bring us happiness.

Awhile back, I was driving home from spending a couple nights out in the woods practicing survival skills. Dr. Dean Edell was on the radio and happened to be the most interesting thing on the dial. I don’t know much about him…whether he’s generally on the mark or if he’s out in left field.

That particular day, he was talking about hunter/gatherers and farmers/gardeners, how different their personalities are, and how differently they’re built. He talked about how the activity of hunting rewarded people who had a heightened sense of awareness of their surroundings and does not reward people who are able to go on auto-pilot and “zone out.” This is good not only for spotting movement of prey, but also for detecting nearby predators. It also rewards people willing to explore different areas and take physical risks. Read the rest of this entry »

Food Storage-How It is Done

Food storage has become so overcomplicated that unless you are an expert in sorting fact from fiction the whole concept has become paralytic. Over the last 40 years we have intermingled fallacies and folklore with divine principles. Funny, we just cannot figure out why it doesn’t all hum like a finely tuned machine. Many have gotten rich off of selling their ideas and wisdom to the masses even when it is contrary to common sense. As each new idea is marketed and each new fad is introduced the masses become more and more confused. If in life’s journey there were a dozen different well spoken “experts” screaming and pointing in different directions offering me safe passage for a toll I would be confused too.
Allow me to simplify the process of creating an in home food supply and nutritional security for your family that does not come from the peddler on the street corner. A divine plan will be peaceful, clear, and precise.
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Talking to Loved Ones About  Disaster Preparedness

Welcome to this week’s JcConsulting.com Newsletter.

 I thought I’d cover a couple of ways to talk with reluctant loved ones about preparedness.

Once you realize how important and urgent it is to prepare your family for disasters, getting loved ones on board can be one of the most frustrating and heart wrenching parts of the process.  Whether it is getting someone in your own house to "see the light" or getting a friend or loved one to take threats seriously, this can cause almost as much stress as the disasters you’re trying to prepare for. Read the rest of this entry »

Disaster Survival
The guide to creating your Disaster//Survival plan

After I’d been serious about preparedness and self reliance for a year or two, I realized that my buying, training, and planning had been based on whatever was the most exciting or urgent to me at the time. I’d go through a gun phase, then a food phase, then a natural medicine phase, but I didn’t have anything to combine it all together. Read the rest of this entry »

Good Old Days

Do you remember the good old days — maybe three years or so ago?
Back then, in that halcyon past of 2008, you could worry about the future “just” in terms of Peak Oil.
In the spring and summer of 2008, oil prices raced well over $100 per barrel, toward an eventual high of $147. The rising price for oil fit the then-prevailing Peak Oil model. World crude oil output was fairly flat, due to geological and technical issues. Oil demand was rising, especially in the emerging markets — starting with China, but also in many other up-and-coming nations. Read the rest of this entry »