Survivalist Wedding Registry Ideas?

Hello all. As some of you know, I'm getting married in a couple months, and I'm very excited about it. I have always liked being prepared, so as I'm putting together my wedding registry, I'm finding that there isn't a great deal of things I need. I'm marrying somebody who has similar priorities to my own, and I'm curious if anybody has any suggestions for survivalist-type items that we should add to our wishlist/registry.

We already have listed basic cleaning tools (squeeze mop, regular…

Survivalist Wedding Registry Ideas?

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Recent 4-day power outage-lessons learned: backup power, light at night, landline phone

I live in rural Northeast Nebraska, and just came out of a four-day winter storm. Not a lot of snow, but very "heavy" wet stuff that weighted-down trees and accumulated on power lines. Accompanied by 50-60 mph wind gusts over almost two days. Cold temperatures. I was without power for a full four days. Massive outages all around my area.

Wanted to share my recent experience, because it gave me some good insights on the subjects of preps and opsec.

Some lessons learned:

1) The…

Recent 4-day power outage-lessons learned: backup power, light at night, landline phone

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You know you’re from Arizona when…

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM ARIZONA WHEN. . .
1. You can say Hohokam and no one thinks you're making it up.
2.You no longer associate rivers or bridges with water.
3.You know that a "swamp cooler" is not a happy hour drink.
4.You can contemplate a high temperature of 120 degrees as "not all that bad, after all it's a dry heat."
5.You know that you can make sun tea outside faster than instant tea in your microwave.
6.You have to run your air conditioner in the middle of winter so that you can use…

You know you're from Arizona when…

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