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Bug-In or Bug-Out in a Disaster
Homesteading and Getting Survival Ready
Survival Movies
Natural Disasters to Avoid
Survival Gear
Bug-In or Bug-Out in a Disaster
Deciding Whether to Bug-Out or Bug-In (Shelter In Place) May Be a Lifesaving Decision.
As I age, I appreciate the peace of mind from being prepared for unexpected events. Knowing that I have a head start on a survival plan (it always needs updating!) gives me the warm fuzzies. This is especially true for those of us in our senior years...
Bug In Checklist: The Essential Guide to Bugging In | Golden Survivalist
When you must leave everything behind, survival comes down to what you can carry. Every item in your bug-out bag needs to justify its weight. If it doesn’t serve multiple functions or directly contributes to keeping you alive, it’s just dead weight. ...
If You Could Only Pick One Bug-Out Bag Item, What’s the Ultimate Must-Have? - Golden Survivalist
After an emergency, you may need to survive on your own for several days. Being prepared means having your own food, water and other supplies to last for several days. A disaster supplies kit is a collection of basic items your household may need in ...
Build A Kit
Call FEMA!
Disaster Assistance
7 Reasons Why a Bug-Out Bag Alone Won’t Keep You Alive
Bug Out Bag List & Essentials
Disaster strikes, and you’ve got hours—maybe just minutes—to take action. Should you bug out, or should you shelter in place?
Shelter in Place vs. Bug Out Guide for 2024
Homesteading and Getting Survival Ready
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small-scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. I have lived ...original survivalists, building a log home, raising chickens for sale, a milk cow, and a goat, plus horses and dogs.
The world teeters on the edge of uncertainty. Natural disasters, economic collapse, and global pandemics loom on the horizon. You’ve decided to take control of your future by building a survival food stockpile. I’m right there with you!
17 Things to Do Before Building a Survival Food Stockpile
I’ve been involved in survival prepping or disaster/emergency support for much of my life in one way or another. In this post, I will be discussing how reaching the intermediate level in survival skills goes beyond the basics, like lighting a fire or...
Level Up Your Survival Skills To The Intermediate Stage: Beyond The Basics - Golden Survivalist
This post includes 12 months of survival pages and 12 tips! This makes mastering survival less overwhelming and allows you to gain knowledge for yourself and teach your family what to do in case of an emergency or SHTF situation. The order builds fou...
12 Months of Survival Prepper Challenges - Golden Survivalist
Imagine the freedom of living off-grid in your homestead.
Off Grid Home - Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself
Living in the Country on Your Homestead!
Homesteading | Simple Self Sufficient Off-Grid Living
This is Challenge #4, Mastering Self-Sufficiency Skills for DIY Dominance, for the 12 Months of Survival Prepper Challenges. This series is designed to help you master essential survival skills, one challenge at a time, building from foundational knowledge to advanced readiness.
As we senior preppers know, preparedness isn’t just about emergency gear or a stocked pantry. It’s about mastering self-sufficiency skills that let you adapt, create, and thrive. When grocery stores, utilities, or essential services fail, your ability to handle problems on your own becomes your greatest asset.
As we senior preppers know, preparedness isn’t just about emergency gear or a stocked pantry. It’s about mastering self-sufficiency skills that let you adapt, create, and thrive. When grocery stores, utilities, or essential services fail, your ability to handle problems on your own becomes your greatest asset.
DIY Dominance: Mastering Self-Sufficiency Skills - Golden Survivalist
Survival Movies
Survival Movies are great to watch and learn from.
Wanna be scared from natural or man-made causes? Watch these movies :)
100 Best Survival Movies (2000-2017)
These movies really hit home. Can you relate?
True Story Survival Movies
Top Survival movies to watch
Top Survival Movies You Missed – Shocking & Intense Stories!
Natural Disasters to Avoid
So many types of natural disasters we could accidentally encounter! Try to avoid.
The world’s a savage forge—nature slams with storms, quakes, and jaws, tech crumbles under hacks, and man turns feral with bombs and greed. Gators stalk, dams burst, and aliens buzz, testing your spine. There are links to posts that are done vignette...
Ultimate Disaster Survival Guide - Golden Survivalist
Pretty scary thought when anything electrical quits working from an EMP surge. This can come from sunspots.
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Following a Nuclear Detonation
Earthquakes strike without warning—one moment, the ground is solid, and the next, it’s a rolling wave tearing through everything you know. They can topple buildings, rupture gas lines, and trap you under rubble in seconds. No forecast, no mercy—just ...
How to Plan for an Earthquake: Your Survival Playbook
How to Plan for a Tsunami: Your Guide to Riding Out the Surge is a good post to supplement the Tsunami warnings in the US after massive earthquake in Russia on 7/30/25, now a volcano in east Russia on 7/31/25.
How to Plan for a Tsunami: Your Guide to Riding Out the Surge
Living in Florida most of my life, I have encountered hurricanes. Again, I’ve been lucky. I have lived in somewhat protected areas, so I haven’t experienced any huge disasters. Mostly, we have just had to pick up tree limbs, etc. I even built our new...
How to Plan for a Hurricane: Your Ultimate Survival Guide
A huge swath of bad weather, with many devastating tornadoes, just passed through the southern states. We were lucky. It passed just above us a bit to the north. We seem to be in a somewhat protected area, but with climate change making these natural...
How to Plan for a Tornado - Golden Survivalist
Wildfires are relentless predators—fast, ferocious, and fueled by wind and dry earth. They're scary SOBs. They can ignite with a single spark and devour miles of land in hours, leaving ash and chaos in their wake. Unlike hurricanes or tornadoes, wild...
How to Plan for a Wildfire: Your Blueprint for Survival - Golden Survivalist
Landslides are the earth’s silent assassins—tons of rock, mud, and debris sliding down slopes with little fanfare until they bury everything in their path. Triggered by rain, earthquakes, or human meddling, they can wipe out homes, roads, and lives i...
How to Plan for a Landslide: Your Strategy to Stand Firm - Golden Survivalist
Volcanoes are the earth’s pressure valves—when they blow, they spew lava, ash, and toxic gas with a fury that reshapes landscapes and chokes the unprepared. Eruptions can melt roads, bury towns, and turn day into night in hours.
How to Plan for a Volcanic Eruption: Your Guide to Defying the Inferno - Golden Survivalist
I had to evacuate an oncoming flood when Hurricane Dora hit Florida in 1964. We were renting a cabin next to the Suwannee River. The river was 20 feet below where our cabin was. Read this post to see what happened to me and my horse in the flood.
It was known that the Suwanee would flood. It did. The river rose 20 feet overnight and flooded all around, including Suwanee Springs, within walking distance. We had moved as much as we could up to another cabin on higher ground. I also had to move ...Read more.
It was known that the Suwanee would flood. It did. The river rose 20 feet overnight and flooded all around, including Suwanee Springs, within walking distance. We had moved as much as we could up to another cabin on higher ground. I also had to move ...Read more.
How to Plan for a Flood: Your Battle Plan to Stay Afloat - Golden Survivalist
I have self-capsized a small sailboat and a canoe to practice righting the boat while in the water. It was summer then, so the water wasn’t that cold. I have been on sailboats that heeled over enough that you felt like they were capsizing before they...
How to Plan for a Boat Capsizing: Your Manual to Stay Above Water - Golden Survivalist
The worst it got was when we had frozen rain, and a fire started in my son’s room. A cardboard toy box caught fire and went up the curtains. I grabbed a fire extinguisher and put it out. Otherwise, our house would have burned down with us in the cold...
How to Plan for a Blizzard: Your Fight Against the Freeze - Golden Survivalist
Droughts are silent stranglers—water dries up, crops wither, and dust chokes the air, stretching months into years. Fires flare, wells fail, and survival turns lean.
I have been in a drought, but not that totally dried everything up. Florida has had a couple of months in a row without rain, but we haven’t been as dry as some places. Droughts can lead to wildfires, so that’s not good.
I have been in a drought, but not that totally dried everything up. Florida has had a couple of months in a row without rain, but we haven’t been as dry as some places. Droughts can lead to wildfires, so that’s not good.
How to Plan for a Drought: Your Stand Against the Dry - Golden Survivalist
Every Summer, we have what feels like a heatwave in Florida. August can get to the high 90s and more. We have enough ocean winds to keep it from getting hotter, so it’s not like in Arizona, where it gets to the 100s.
I am mowing our 5 acres then. Mowing season starts in late March or sooner and goes to late October. I get wet in my pool, and my hair is in a wet ponytail that hangs down my back to cool me off. Keep the head cool!
I am mowing our 5 acres then. Mowing season starts in late March or sooner and goes to late October. I get wet in my pool, and my hair is in a wet ponytail that hangs down my back to cool me off. Keep the head cool!
How to Plan for a Heatwave: Your Shield Against the Blaze - Golden Survivalist
We have all experienced power outages. It’s inevitable. We have storms. We have generators, flashlights, and candles. The worst outages have been during and after hurricanes, lasting only a few days. I am lucky to live in Florida, where we don’t have...
How to Plan for a Power Outage: Your Edge in the Dark - Golden Survivalist
I lived through the 2020 Covid-19 aka coronavirus SARS COV-2 pandemic. I’m so glad I live in the country and away from a lot of people. We rarely went anywhere except for doctor appointments that weren’t via Telehealth. We wore masks, which was kinda...
I also did a lot of yard work and gardening. I wish I had been a member of Wealthy Affiliate then and had been making websites. I would have had a lot of time working on them and discussing survival issues related to pandemics.
I also did a lot of yard work and gardening. I wish I had been a member of Wealthy Affiliate then and had been making websites. I would have had a lot of time working on them and discussing survival issues related to pandemics.
How to Plan for a Pandemic: Your Armor Against the Plague - Golden Survivalist
I’m a fish. I love to swim, and I was a competitive swimmer in high school. However, a car accident left me with a crooked arm, which curtailed my swimming career. I’ve never seen a shark in the ocean near me, but I rarely go to the beach. We don’t h...
I rarely swim in the ocean or in too dark water where I can’t see. I’m chicken because I need to see below myself when in the water. I love to swim underwater. Florida boasts clear waters throughout and is home to numerous freshwater springs. We had ...
I rarely swim in the ocean or in too dark water where I can’t see. I’m chicken because I need to see below myself when in the water. I love to swim underwater. Florida boasts clear waters throughout and is home to numerous freshwater springs. We had ...
How to Plan for a Shark Attack: Your Bite Back in the Deep - Golden Survivalist
Survival Gear
We all need water. Clean, drinkable water. Don't get sick drinking unfiltered water, even if it looks clear. Get the straw and keep it on you. Just in case.
Survivor Filter | Water is Life!
Survival Is More Than Gear. Preparedness isn’t just about emergency gear or a stocked pantry. It’s about mastering self-sufficiency skills that let you adapt, create, and thrive. When grocery stores, utilities, or essential services fail, your abilit...
DIY Dominance: Mastering Self-Sufficiency Skills - Golden Survivalist