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Basic Survival Kit-Water     This is the first of the Basic Survival Kit (BSK) series After 3 days you will die without water, this is an undeniable fact. Water is one of the things that we take for granted in our society. Don't believe me? Walk into any convenience store and glance at the refrigerator. Yet despite these this, when a disaster situation occurs, many are surprised at how quickly […]

Basic Disaster Supplies Kit Here is the next piece in my series of personalized preparation. When you go to Ready.gov they give you a pretty decent idea of what you need. The problem is that they give you 0 guidance on where to get it. So what people will do is to go the internet and look up the first link on google. Here at the Brief, my goal is […]

The recent hurricanes and flooding leads me to re-post this article from a few years ago on food preparation. Food, we all love it, myself especially. Let us take a moment, if you are reading this in the United States, to remind ourselves that we are truly fortunate to live in a country where so much food is so readily available. That being said, we are in are one crisis […]