Archive for the ‘Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It)’ Category

Building a Backyard Water Treatment Plant

Clean drinking water is critical to your survival, because without potable water you will die within a few days. I don’t intend to hammer away on this point, because everyone who visits this blog generally knows how important it is to have access to clean water, and this subject has been covered many times from […]

You Survived But Are You Dead Inside?

In last article I wrote about surviving combat and how I experienced it during my year in war. Today I write about the aftermath. Survival is not only hard on your body but can also kill you inside. So you survive but you are just empty shell. You all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress […]

The Reality of Combat

When SHTF nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I will have to do to survive, there was no training or simulations, through most of the stuff I was going for the first time in my life, and I was hoping it is only temporary situation, it is not going to […]

Three Typical Reactions to Survival Scenarios

Dealing with everyday problems when SHTF meant that you have to face whole new set of situations, from how to “take shower” with few liters of water to how to use pure violence when violence was not part of your life before. As I mentioned many times people used to find all kind of solutions […]

How to Help Kids Through Hard Times

The terrible shooting in US that put 27 people to death, mostly six and seven year old children made me write this post. There is much controversial stuff. Media outrage about gun laws instead more talk about media making people like the Aurora shooter to some kind of celebrity, that inspires other people to go […]

What Light and Darkness Meant for Us

I remember when all was over, and electricity came back in street. We managed to repair some installations and wires inside house and lights go on. We were quiet for couple of minutes staring at the light bulbs like some tribe from Amazon that sees light bulbs for a first time. And then one of […]