Create some (unusual) bike storage in the main triangle of your bike, using straps.
Or, use a more traditional means of extra bike storage, like a basket or carry bags. Also remember that you should have your Bug-Out bag on your back as well.
It’s a good idea to have a two-wheeled bug-out option in addition to a car, truck, motorcycle, walking, etc… You never know what the situation will be like.
Have multiple options ready.
Just Delete Me is a directory of links for deleting your accounts from a variety of websites and services, along with indications of how difficult it is to delete yourself from those places (ranging from easy to impossible). It’s a little alarming just how many sites make it impossible to delete your account.
With recent scandals of government tracking, who isn’t thinking about how much of their own life is stored up on some data collection server somewhere.
This is a great resource if you’re trying to figure out which web technologies you are going to erase yourself from and go totally OFF THE GRID.
Picture this: A building inspection officer shows up at your office and wants to know about your emergency plans—evacuation, fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, and the like. What do you tell him? Would everyone in the office be able to explain where those things were and how to use them?
Well, if you don’t know the answers to those questions, perhaps it’s time to find out.
As with other types of emergency preparedness, preparedness at the office constitutes having an emergency evacuation/lockdown plan and being prepared with emergency supplies. Office personnel should be educated on how to implement these plans and know where to find the emergency supplies and how to use them, if possible.
Evacuation plan
Know where the exit is to your office building? Good—that’s a start, but “mass stampede to the door” does not constitute a very thorough evacuation plan. Even if you are a very small company in a tiny office, it’s a good idea to think through procedures for what you would do in case of emergency. After the attacks on 9/11, an estimated 13,000 to 15,000 people successfully evacuated the World Trade Centers, and it is thought that this can be attributed to improved evacuation plans after the 1993 fire. Don’t wait for the aftermath of an emergency to get prepared—while your evacuation plan may not be to such a large scale, you should know at the very least who should go to what exit in order t get everyone out quickly and safely and how to shut off gas, water, and electricity.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides a step-by-step guide (www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3088.pdf) on how to develop an emergency action plan for your workplace. According to the OSHA, not every business is required to have a plan, but emergencies can strike regardless of whether you’re required to have a plan or not, so every business would do well to have a plan to protect its personnel.
Emergency supplies
Basic office emergency supplies include a first-aid kit, a fire extinguisher, and a defibrillator, along with other supplies specific to your workplace (such as an eyewash station if you work with harmful chemicals, for instance). It’s also a good idea to be prepared for long-term emergency situations where employees may be trapped in the workspace for an extended period of time—Year Zero Survival Gear provides a full range of emergency kits that include food, lighting, hygiene supplies and more to sustain groups of people in these kinds of situations.
Unfortunately, emergencies don’t wait until after 5:00 to strike. Employ good preparedness principles and have peace of mind at home, at work, and at play.
And not only food, but other essential items too, like water, fuel, wood, first aid, paper goods, candles, solar panels, batteries, seeds for next year, etc…
Think in bulk, add items from your local supermarket, several types of flour, basmati rice, short grain rice, couscous, quinoa, black beans, kidney beans, lima beans, pinto beans, chopped tomatoes, yeast, salt, sugar, spices and herbs, dried peppers and onions, masa, cornmeal, powdered milk, vinegar, coffee, and more.
Here are some of our favorite bulk long-term food storage buckets:
120 Serving Milk Bucket
120 Serving Wise Fruit Buckets
Millennium Energy Bars
And don’t forget to add some fire-starter materials, in case of long term utilities outage.
Every fall we get the urge to store away provisions for the coming winter. Having supplies on hand is the way to survive when you live in inclimate weather zones. So do like the squirrels and add to your winter stash of food.
Whether you’re and avid outdoorsman, hiker, camper or just planning for the downfall of the modern world, these are 6 must learn traps and snares if you ever get stuck in the woods:
Practice each one, so that when the time comes and you need to use one you’ll be ready. Small-game snares can be made from the interior strands of parachute cord, braided strands of sinew, or fishing line. [source]
Use a hockey stick (or an old-fashioned regular stick) to loop sanitized milk jugs through. Sling over shoulders and you’ve enough drinking water to last your hut over a week!
Most likely a desperate and futile gesture, but pop the back of your cell phone case off and hide a twenty spot in there, just in case.
Just because the world ended doesn’t mean you have to stop playing Candy Crush. Get detailed instructions here.
Once you exhaust Grandma’s supply of scented candles, try your nephew’s crayons before cobbling together a beekeeper suit.
Troy used an old A/C casing, duct tape, and gardening gloves, but feel free to get creative!
Shoes are a precious commodity in the wasteland of America so keep them in good condition with these step-by-step instructions.
Just because the world is in chaos, doesn’t mean your tools have to be.
Because no matter how hungry you are, they’ll never taste as good as Cool Ranch.
Created with 10 feet of the versatile rope using this cobra stitch, the colors can also serve to show which gang you owe allegiance too.
A few cuts with a pair of scissors (or a knife if society has degraded far enough that scissors are a precious luxury) and you’ve got an Earth friendly rope holder.
Once you’ve set the bone, use these instructions to hold it in place until it heals.
Forget bottle caps! With its infinite uses, duct tape is the new currency.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it’s a power play making you dictator for life.
While not as good as gloves or just staying inside until spring, baby oil adds a thin layer of protection from the elements to keep you from chafing while foraging for supplies.
Speaking of spring, use brown sugar, yeast, hot water, and an empty two-liter to make a tempting mosquito deathtrap. Instructions here!
Mosquitos aren’t the only summer threat. An old mechanical pencil and some fishing line or thick thread can safely remove them. Not today, Lyme disease!
Requiring more finesse than the toothpick canon but tremendously more effective. Follow the tutorial here and then make some dowel rod arrows to attach them too.
Using this guide to turn bicycle parts, a rubber hose, and a few odds and ends into a safeguard for your turf.
Get the hell out of Dodge, literally. Using PVC pipe, wooden rods, and empty milk cartons, sail off into the wild blue yonder using these step-by-step instructions.
While you float west, where surely everything is better and not a toxic wasteland (right?), snap off the end of a pop top and loop some thread through the hook for a fast fishing lure.
