Preparedness gear is a market like any other, and the market knows that people buy it while frightened. That combination produces a lot of expensive boxes full of things you will never use. I have bought some of them. Learn…
Author: Beatrice Howell
There is a disaster that never makes the news. It happens after the main disaster, quietly, over months. The house is fine, the family is fine, and then you try to rebuild and you cannot prove who you are, what…
When I ask people why they have done nothing yet, the answer is almost always the same: in the moment they would not know what to do. That is a plan problem, and it takes about one hour to fix….
When people picture getting hurt in an earthquake, they picture the building coming down. That is the movie version. In Japan the boring, statistical reality is that most earthquake injuries come from things inside the room: bookcases, tall cabinets, televisions,…
If you do exactly two things after reading this, do these: put water away, and make sure you own a light that you can find in the dark. Everything else on this site is worth doing, but nothing else is…
安心. Two characters. The first one means safe. The second one means heart. Put them together and you get anshin, which usually gets translated as peace of mind, and in English that sounds soft. Vague. Like something a meditation app…