Canadian Preppers Network

Equipment is only one part of surviving when help is unavailable

The power has been out for several days. You are tired, your household is under pressure, and every trip outside takes more planning than it used to. While bringing supplies home, someone approaches aggressively. Your hands are occupied. Your footing is poor. The equipment you trusted is somewhere you cannot imm...

Build a sleeping system before the furnace stops

At three in the morning, the house is quiet in a way it should not be. No furnace fan. No refrigerator hum. The power has been out since supper, the temperature is still falling, and the extra blanket that seemed adequate at bedtime no longer feels like much of a plan.

You can put another log into a functioning wood stov...

When every litre has to come home by hand

Carrying water becomes a daily survival task when the taps run dry. Your stored water is running low, but there is a usable collection point half a kilometre away. You have containers and a treatment system. On paper, the plan still works.

Then you pick up the first full twenty-litre can.

The water alone weighs ...

Packaging, shelf life and freezing tolerance belong in the same plan.

Your pantry is stocked. There are bags of rice on the bottom shelf, tins of meat beside the soup, jars from the garden and a few buckets of emergency food in the garage.

Then the heat stops.

During a prolonged Canadian winter outage, the room you protect first may be the room where people slee...

A shared refuge only works when people can live in it.

You agreed to take in another family. You counted the food, checked the water and assigned the work. Three weeks later, someone is sleeping beside the kitchen, nobody can change clothes privately, and every trip to the toilet wakes half the house.

The argument starts over a lantern. The real problem is the living a...