My name is Jason, or to my survival dojo students, Sensei. I decided to start this blog to provide other like minded people with survival techniques that I have learned or will learn on my journey for knowledge. The one thing this blog is not for is the nut job conspiracy freaks that plague the survival community. I am not anti-government by any means, I am anti-politician and anti-democrat.
I have always been survival minded and have always believed in being prepared for what is to come, but I was non-practicing, other than buying guns and stocking up on ammo. I got into a hobby called Geocaching which is a high tech treasure hunting game using GPS devices to hide and locate hidden caches. This game got me out and off my computer and I started hiking and trekking into rural/forest type terrains and I quickly got drawn into being prepared for whatever nature threw at me during these outings. This need to be prepared hit me even harder when we moved away from Houston, TX and to Cloudcroft, NM. Cloudcroft is 9000 feet up on a mountain top in thick forest terrain that quickly changes to desert terrain as you trek to lower elevations onto the desert basin where White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB (Home of the F-117 Stealth Fighters and F-22 Raptors) reside. On this mountain you have bears, mountain lions, elk and many animals that can cause you great harm or even death if not prepared for them. Wilderness survival was the beginning stage of my preparedness adventure.
We decided to move back to Houston, TX (my home town) due to the lack of computer related jobs in this part of the country. Unfortunately this move was 2 weeks before Hurricane Ike was to hit and put my survival skills to the test. I had prepared for mountain and forest survival but these tactics did no good against a hurricane, panicking civilians, 100 miles of bumper to bumper traffic, lack of food, water and fuel and no real bug-out or even a bug-in location prepared.
If not for a relative that had a grandparent up above Huntsville, TX, I would have had to dig in where I was at and be totally unprepared for it. It was a good thing I did flee the city as the house I was living at in Seabrook, TX was totally flooded with severe roof damage making it unlivable. Water, sewage and electricity was out in this area for weeks and mandatory curfews were in affect and looters were out in full force doing what they do best, being criminals.
I spent the next year obsessed with this new area of survival. This is when I stumbled onto TheSurvivalPodcast.com daily podcast. On my hourly drive to and from work as a Linux System Administrator, I would listen to Jack Spearco do his hour long podcast on survival. Just when I had thought I had all my survival bases covered, he swooped in to proved me wrong. Everything from political to economic survival to rural living and natural living, he had it all. I suggest that all of you head over there and subscribe to his daily podcast and even join his forums. You will learn more than you ever wanted to about surviving what is going to come.
Thanks to Jack Spearco, I have refocused my goals from digging in here at my Houston home to investing in silver bullion and eventually moving out to the rural parts of the country and starting a micro-farm that is fully self sustained by wind generators, solar panels and a deep water well. I want to be totally self sufficient by the time the shit hits the fan so to speak. Even if that day never comes, it will be an amazing experience to be totally self sufficient and rely on no one but myself and my family.
This site will be a great way for me to focus on what I learn, what I need to still learn and help me with my future goals, as well as help my readers learn from my knowledge. So subscribe via rss or email and keep coming back to see what I come up with.
Sincerely,
Jason
