Why Rainwater Harvesting is a Good Idea For Emergency Preparedness

For centuries, collecting rainwater has been a practice that is crucial to the very survival of many rural villages and communities.  While at least for the moment, most of us don’t need to collect rainwater to survive, that might not always be the case.

As many of you know I’m really big into emergency preparedness and I spend a lot of my time either writing about prepping or prepping for a day that might come when I’ll need to survive on my wit’s and my emergency supplies.
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Watch The Colony TV Show – It’s Like Boot Camp For Doomsday!

The ColonyI love talking to anyone who will listen to me about prepping for emergencies and one thing that comes up a lot when I’m talking about this subject is that people don’t really believe that a doomsday event will bring out the worst in people.

They want to believe that good will always prevail and law and order will remain in place regardless of the nature of the disaster. That is until I give them examples of the type of behavior that I’m trying to explain to them like the looting and marauding that we saw a few years ago shortly after Katrina hit New Orleans.
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Emergency Preppers Shouldn’t Forget To Stock Up On Good Old Fashioned Paper Books

Stock Up On BooksIf you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably realized that we are becoming more and more dependent on electronic media and less and less dependent on good old fashion paper bound books. I know that nearly all of the books that I read are on my Barns & Noble nook eBook reader and my kids enjoy reading books on either their iPod Touch or iPad.

So just for a minute, let’s imagine that we weren’t able to use these devices for an extended period of time. Some may say that this is a farfetched fantasy that will never come to fruition but it’s really not that far out of the realm of possibilities. One of the biggest fears that preppers have is that a massive solar flare will cause a tremendous electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to hit the earth which will turn our electronic devices into nothing more than useless piles of metal and plastic.
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Prepare Yourself To Survive Doomsday By Learning “Old” Skills

Skills To Survive DoomsdayIf you’re interested in preparing for emergencies, one of the most important things you can do is develop skill sets that other people don’t have.

I’m not talking about learning how to repair computers or television sets here, I’m talking about getting back to basics and spending time learning skills that you can use during a major disaster or emergency when electricity and many of the other modern conveniences that we have become so accustomed to may not be available.
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What Does It Mean To Live Off The Grid?

Living Off The Grid GraphicFrom time to time, people ask me what it means to live off the grid and over the years as I’ve explained what it means to me, one thing that has become quite apparent is that living off grid means something different to many people.

Today I’d like to take a minute and offer my insight into this matter in hopes that it might be of use to some of the readers of BooneyLiving.com.

I’ll explain what it means to me and how my family interpreted living this lifestyle for over eight years.
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