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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I 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. 
If 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.
If 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. 
From 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.