10 Survival Lessons from Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, this October as a Category 2, and plenty of folks along the Panhandle figured they’d handled worse. A lot of them had ridden out Sally in 2020, so another Category 2 didn’t seem worth losing much sleep over. But Florida counted six dead once the wind died down, and only two of those deaths came from the storm itself. The other four happened in the days that followed, while people were cleaning up, running generators and trying to keep up with medical treatment.

Of course, TV never shows that part, because the news crews pack up and leave right around the time the real trouble starts. That’s why the stories coming out of Pensacola, Milton and Jay this month are worth your time, since they carry lessons the usual storm checklist skips. Some of them can keep your house standing, and a few might keep you alive the next time a storm comes up the Gulf.

10. A Jug of Old Bleach Can Leave Your Water Unsafe

Boil notices spread fast after landfall, and they still covered seven counties days later. The list ran from Escambia to Washington. In Jay, residents were told to add 8 drops of plain household bleach to each gallon of water. Then they had to let it sit for 30 minutes before drinking it.

But that number assumes regular 6% bleach, and plenty of jugs on store shelves now hold 8.25%. According to the EPA, the stronger kind only needs 6 drops per gallon. Bleach also loses strength the longer it sits. So a jug that’s been under your sink for over a year may be too weak to kill anything.

Luckily, there’s a simple way to protect the cleanest water in your house before trouble starts. FEMA advises shutting off the main water valve if contamination is reported in your area. And if you do it as the storm hits, the dirty water stays out of your pipes. That way, the 40 or 50 gallons in your water heater stay safe to drink, and you can get them out through the drain valve at the bottom.

Still, 40 or 50 gallons won’t last long if the boil notice drags on for a week or more. Folks used to clean muddy water with the one-pot homemade filter long before anyone sold bleach by the jug, and you can put one together yourself before the next storm hits. That way, you keep drinking clean water even after the heater tank runs dry.  

9. Wet Drywall Starts Growing Mold Within Two Days

Isaias brought plenty of water along with the wind. Parts of southern Alabama flooded, and near Tiger Point, a driver found his truck overturned in a flooded parking lot the morning after landfall. Water that gets into a house does its worst damage after it drains, because the CDC says mold can start growing within 24 to 48 hours. 

Drying it out with fans rarely works on soaked walls, since drywall and insulation act like a sponge. So restoration crews make what’s called a flood cut, slicing the drywall at least a foot above the waterline and pulling out everything below it. Soaked fiberglass insulation goes too, because it holds water against the studs for weeks. 

Before you close those walls back up, check the 3 hidden spots mold grows behind a flooded wall. Otherwise, it can work its way back through the fresh paint by spring. And if you do find mold on the studs, the EPA says to scrub it off with detergent and water. After that, the wood needs to dry out completely, and a cheap moisture meter tells you when it’s ready. Restoration crews usually wait until the studs read below about 15% before they hang new drywall. 

8. A Badly Secured Tarp Can Leave You Without a Roof Again 

Isaias tore the roofs off homes all over the Panhandle, and some families lost their shelter overnight. In East Milton, an apartment building lost its entire roof. In Milton, one family ended up living under a tarp because they had nowhere else to go.

But a tarp only keeps you dry if it’s secured properly. Many people simply nail the tarp straight to the roof, and those nails tear through the plastic as soon as the wind picks up. That’s why roofers roll each edge of the tarp around a 2×4 board and screw the board into the roof. They also stretch the tarp over the top of the roof, so rainwater can’t run underneath it.

Even so, climbing onto a damaged roof is dangerous. According to the CDC, falls are among the most common injuries during hurricane cleanup, and wet shingles are very slippery. So if the roof is still wet or the wind is still strong, it’s safer to wait another day before you go up there.

Once the tarp is in place, take photos of the damage and keep the receipts for the boards, screws and tarp. Your insurance policy expects you to prevent further damage to your home, and insurers usually reimburse reasonable costs like these.

7. Fire Crews Stop Responding During the Worst of a Hurricane

While people in Pensacola were hunkered down riding out Isaias, one home on Peacock Drive went up in flames moments before the hurricane reached its peak. A man was trapped inside, and a police officer got him out. But help was slow to arrive because emergency services stopped for a few hours, and a neighbor said it took a while for crews to reach the scene and put the fire out. Both the officer and the man ended up being treated for smoke inhalation.

That delay is normal during a hurricane, since many departments pull their trucks off the road once sustained winds get too strong. So for those few hours, you’re on your own if a fire starts in your house. That’s why a fire extinguisher belongs in the room where you ride out the storm, and not only in the kitchen. Make sure you check that the needle on the gauge sits in the green zone before hurricane season starts.

Candles cause trouble too, and a few simple habits lower the risk of a fire you’d have to fight on your own:

• Use battery lanterns and flashlights instead of candles, because a gust through a broken window can knock a candle over in seconds. Better yet, if you put together this simple homemade device before hurricane season, you’ll get through those dark hours much more easily and without an open flame in the house.
• If you’ve boarded up your windows, decide ahead of time which door you’d use to get out. A fallen tree can block one exit, so you want a second option already in mind.
• Stay low if smoke starts filling the room, because the cleaner air sits close to the floor. A closed-up house fills with smoke much faster than you’d expect.
• Keep a pair of shoes and a flashlight next to where you sleep during the storm. That way, broken glass and debris won’t slow you down if you have to get out in the dark.

6. A Bent Sapling Under a Fallen Tree Can Break Your Jaw

Trees caused much of the chaos after Isaias. In Alabama’s Houston County, every road was closed by early Saturday because of downed trees and power lines, and across Florida, Guard units cleared more than 1,700 miles of blocked roads. Lots of homeowners grabbed a chainsaw that week, and the biggest danger hides where few expect it. 

Loggers call it a spring pole, which is a sapling or limb pinned and bent under a fallen trunk. Cut it straight through, and it can whip loose hard enough to break bones or knock a man out cold. The safe way is a series of shallow cuts on the inside of the bend, letting the tension bleed off a little at a time. 

So any bent limb under load gets treated like a loaded spring, and the cut always comes from the side you’re not standing on.

Forecast map showing Hurricane Isaias’ path from the Caribbean toward the U.S. East Coast, with expected locations and arrival times.

5. A Downed Line Can Electrify the Ground Around It

Power lines came down all over the region, and they don’t need to touch you to kill you. A live wire on wet ground sends current spreading outward in rings, and the voltage drops with every foot. So a normal walking stride can put one foot at a higher voltage than the other, and the current runs up one leg and down the other. Utility workers call this step potential, and many utilities recommend staying at least 35 feet away from any downed line.

If a line lands on your car, staying inside is the safest move until help arrives. Fire changes that, and then the trick is jumping clear without touching the car and the ground at the same time. From there, you shuffle away with your feet together and never let them separate.

4. A Generator in the Garage Can Kill You in Your Sleep

After Isaias knocked out power across the Panhandle, a Florida man died from carbon monoxide while running a generator in his closed garage. CO has no smell or color, so people usually pass out before they realize anything is wrong.

That’s why your generator belongs outside, at least 20 feet from the house, with the exhaust pointing away from windows and doors. You also want a battery-powered CO alarm near every bedroom, since the plug-in kind dies with the power.

3. Rattling Windows Give You Seconds, Not Minutes

At the Portofino Island Resort on Pensacola Beach, dozens of windows blew in during Isaias. Ron Renner and his wife fled their master bedroom when the windows started rattling, and less than two minutes later the glass blew in. So before the storm hits, pick a room with no windows, like an interior bathroom, closet or hallway, and ride it out there. 

Then get that room ready ahead of time. Drag a mattress or a couple of heavy blankets in there, and keep sturdy shoes on your feet, because broken glass can cover the floors in seconds. It also helps to close all the interior doors in the house, since that slows down the wind if a window does give way.

You can also forget two old myths that still get passed around. Cracking a window to “equalize pressure” is dangerous, and NOAA says it only lets wind and rain inside faster. Masking tape on the glass doesn’t help either, and it can actually make the shards bigger. 

If you want to set up your home properly before the next storm, you can learn how to turn one room into a safe shelter and ride out the worst of it without running through the house in the dark.

2. A Small Cut in Floodwater Can Turn Deadly

Floodwater on the Gulf Coast carries something most people never think about. Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that lives in warm brackish water, gets into open cuts and can destroy flesh within days. Florida saw a sharp rise in cases after Hurricane Ian in 2022, and older folks, along with anyone with diabetes or liver trouble, face the highest risk.

So wading into storm water with a scratch on your shin is a real gamble, and rubber boots plus waterproof bandages make a big difference during cleanup. If a wound turns red and the redness spreads fast, or it swells up and blisters after floodwater exposure, you need an emergency room right away. The CDC also advises a tetanus booster for dirty wounds if your last shot was more than five years ago. 

Small scrapes are a different story, though, and you can close them up fast with the stop-bleeding powder folks made at home long before modern medicine came along:

That kind of knowledge matters when the clinics in town stay closed for days after a storm. 

1. Medical Plans Need a Backup for the Backup

Two Florida deaths after Isaias had nothing to do with wind or water, because they came from disruptions to medical treatment. Dialysis patients usually need treatment three times a week, and a clinic without power or clean water simply closes. That’s why the Kidney Community Emergency Response program publishes a 3-day emergency diet that cuts potassium and fluid, so patients can safely stretch the time between missed sessions. Oxygen users face a similar risk, since FPL says its medical priority list doesn’t guarantee faster power restoration, so extra cylinders matter more than any registration.

And if your pills start running low while the pharmacy stays closed, find out how to manage your meds through a long blackout before you cut any doses on your own, because halving heart or blood pressure pills can backfire badly.

Your Home Can Keep You Alive Through the Next Disaster 

Even if you don’t live anywhere near the Gulf, the lessons from Isaias still apply to you. Winter blackouts, wildfires, tornadoes, floods and brutal heat waves can hit any corner of America, and they rarely give you much warning. 

But getting ready doesn’t take a big budget or a new house. Small tweaks to the home you already have can raise your odds of making it through, so you can turn your house into a survival fortress in just a few steps. 

You’ll find everything you need inside this hurricane survival guide, including:

• A tactical bug-in plan built around your age, climate, location, family members, medical conditions and pets. 
• Specific advice for each disaster that could hit you, from hurricanes to martial law and social unrest.
• How to build a one-year stockpile fast, with real food instead of MREs and emergency kits. 
• 5 ways to keep food from spoiling without a fridge, including methods early pioneers relied on. 
• How to keep your family clean and germ-free with little or no water, because garbage and human waste spread disease fast once the taps run dry. 
• How to protect your home from both natural disasters and home invasions. 
• How to bug in safely even if you live in an apartment.
• A one-hour inspection that tells you whether your gear still works and your food hasn’t spoiled. 

The next disaster won’t wait until you feel ready, and the stores empty out within hours once the warnings start. So the best time to prepare is while the power is still on and the shelves are still full. Take the first step today, before the next storm, blackout or flood reaches your door, so your family stays safe at home while everyone else scrambles. 

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Disaster Survivors Are Still Waiting for Billions in Federal Aid. Could You Survive Without It?

Nearly two years after the Los Angeles wildfires, and well over a year after a tornado tore through St. Louis and floods hit Texas Hill Country, survivors are still waiting for long-term federal recovery money. Officials estimate more than $10 billion is needed in Los Angeles County and St. Louis alone.

For preppers, the lesson is blunt. Your 72-hour kit gets you through the first few days, but rebuilding a life can take years, and the help many people count on may arrive late, arrive small, or not arrive at all.

What Is Holding Up the Money

According to a Guardian analysis published October 19, survivors of all three 2025 disasters are still waiting on long-term recovery funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program, known as CDBG-DR. The last disaster to receive these funds was Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida in October 2024.

CDBG-DR is the big rebuilding fund. It helps homeowners rebuild and helps towns repair roads, water systems and public buildings. But the program has no standing pot of money, so Congress has to approve funding disaster by disaster, which has caused long waits before.

Los Angeles is now setting records. LAist reported in August that L.A. fire survivors had waited longer than any other disaster survivors for long-term federal help, passing the roughly 500 days Maui fire survivors waited. Officials there pointed to deep partisan divides and repeated government shutdowns, and lawmakers from both parties have pressed Congress to include disaster money in funding bills.

What FEMA Covers, and What It Does Not

Many people assume FEMA will make them whole after a disaster. It is not designed to.

FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program does help with temporary housing, repairs and other urgent needs. But according to FEMA’s latest Federal Register notice, financial assistance is capped at $44,800 for housing and $44,800 for other needs per household for a single disaster.

Most survivors get far less than the cap. A Congressional Research Service analysis found the average FEMA individual award was $3,446 over roughly two decades of data, and tornado survivors averaged under $3,000. That might cover a few weeks of motel stays and groceries, not a new roof.

Insurance Has Gaps Too

Insurance is the first line of defense, but many survivors discover too late what their policy does not cover. One St. Louis tornado survivor told the Guardian that his insurance covered almost nothing.

In Los Angeles, LAist reported that fire survivors face average gaps of $200,000 to $500,000 to rebuild, even with insurance. Rising construction costs, new building codes and underinsured homes all widen the gap.

Flooding is the biggest blind spot. Standard homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage, and the Colorado Division of Insurance notes that a flood policy typically has a 30-day waiting period and that about a quarter of flood claims come from outside high-risk areas. You cannot buy it when the river is already rising.

Why a 72-Hour Kit Is Only the Beginning

Emergency kits are built for the first days: water, food, light, first aid. Recovery is a different problem, and it is mostly a money and paperwork problem.

After the storm passes, families face hotel bills, replacement clothing and tools, missed work, deductibles, debris removal, and months of rent or a mortgage on a home they cannot live in. That is where many households run out of road.

How to Build Financial Disaster Readiness

Build a Real Emergency Fund

Aim for at least three to six months of essential expenses in an account you can reach quickly. If that feels out of reach, start with enough to cover your insurance deductible and one month of temporary housing.

Keep a small stash of cash at home as well. When power and internet are down, card readers and ATMs often stop working.

Review Your Insurance Before You Need It

Read your policy now, not after the disaster. Check whether you have replacement-cost coverage, how much additional living expense coverage you have, and whether your dwelling limit would actually cover rebuilding at today’s prices.

Ask your agent about flood and earthquake coverage, which most standard policies exclude. Renters should carry renters insurance, which is usually inexpensive and covers belongings and temporary housing.

Protect Your Paperwork

Without documents, every claim and aid application slows down. Keep copies of IDs, deeds, insurance policies, bank information and medical records in a fireproof and waterproof document safe, with digital copies on an encrypted USB drive in your go-bag.

Walk through your home once a year and record a video of every room, closet and garage shelf. That inventory can be the difference between a fast claim and a fight.

Plan Where You Would Live

Recovery can mean months away from home. Talk with relatives or friends outside your area about where you could stay, and know your policy’s limits on living expenses before you need them.

Strengthen the House You Have

The cheapest disaster is the one that does less damage. Clearing brush around a house in fire country, adding hurricane straps in storm country, and moving valuables off the floor in flood country all reduce what you will need to rebuild.

The Bottom Line

The 2025 survivors are a hard reminder that disaster recovery is measured in years, and that federal help can be slow, limited and caught up in politics. Prepare for the storm, but also prepare for the long, expensive road after it.

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Nationwide Emergency Alert Test Set for November 17: What Every American Should Know, and Why Your Phone Will Stay Silent

On Tuesday, November 17, radios and TVs across the country will interrupt normal programming with the familiar harsh tones of an emergency alert. Do not panic. It is a scheduled nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS), run by FEMA in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission.

For preppers, the test is more than a curiosity. It is a reminder of how Americans actually get warned in a disaster, and a good deadline to check that your own backup communications work.

When and How the Test Will Happen

According to Radio World’s report on the FCC announcement, FEMA will send the test at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time through its Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. That is 1:20 p.m. Central, 12:20 p.m. Mountain, and 11:20 a.m. Pacific.

Radio and TV broadcasters, cable systems, satellite radio and TV providers, and wireline video services will all relay the message. It will go out in English and Spanish, and it will say:

“This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 2:20 to 2:50 hours ET. This is only a test. No action is required by the public.”

If severe weather or a real emergency gets in the way, the backup date is Wednesday, December 3.

Why Your Phone Will Not Buzz This Time

Many people remember the 2023 test, when nearly every cell phone in the country shrieked at once. This year is different.

Radio Ink notes that this is a narrower test than 2023’s, which paired the broadcast test with a Wireless Emergency Alerts test to cell phones. This time only the broadcast Emergency Alert System is being tested, and FEMA’s own FAQ confirms phones will not receive a test alert.

That detail matters. If your phone stays quiet on November 17, nothing is wrong with it, and you should not expect a phone alert to tell you the test is happening.

Why the Government Runs These Tests

The Emergency Alert System is the channel the President can use to address the nation in a national emergency. It is also how state and local officials push urgent warnings onto radio and TV.

Federal law requires FEMA to test the system nationwide at least once every three years. This will be the first nationwide test since October 2023, and it helps FEMA and the FCC find technical weak spots before the system is needed for real. Every participating broadcaster has to file reports with the FCC afterward on how the test went.

Why Preppers Should Care

A nationwide test is a reminder that official warnings travel through infrastructure: broadcast towers, cable systems, cell networks and the power grid. In a real disaster, any of those links can fail.

It also exposes a common blind spot. Plenty of households no longer own a radio at all, and many people only watch streaming services that may not carry EAS alerts the way broadcast and cable TV do. If the power is out and your phone is dead, you could miss the warnings that matter most.

Get a Radio That Does Not Need the Grid

Every home should have at least one battery-powered or hand-crank radio. A model like the Midland ER310 emergency crank radio runs on batteries, solar, or a hand crank, and doubles as a flashlight and phone charger.

Pair it with a dedicated NOAA Weather Radio with alert function. NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts official National Weather Service warnings and forecasts 24 hours a day, and alert-capable models can sound an alarm even when the radio is on standby.

Know What Your Phone Will and Will Not Tell You

Wireless Emergency Alerts are useful, but they do not cover every hazard. The National Weather Service’s list of warnings it sends to phones includes tornado, hurricane, storm surge and the most dangerous flash flood warnings, but not every advisory and lesser warning.

Sign up for your county or city emergency text and email alerts as an extra layer. They often carry local information, such as shelter openings or boil-water notices, that national systems never will.

Keep Power for Your Communications

A radio is only useful if it works when you need it. Stock fresh batteries or a set of rechargeable AA batteries, and keep a charged power bank for your phone.

Our guide to rechargeable batteries for preppers covers how to keep radios, lights and small electronics running when the grid goes down.

Use November 17 as Your Own Drill

Treat the test as a household drill. Before 2:20 p.m. Eastern, put fresh batteries in your emergency radio, tune it to a local station, and listen for the alert.

Check your NOAA radio’s alert settings and county code, test your hand crank and solar panel, and make sure everyone at home knows where the radio is kept. If anything fails, you will find out on a quiet Tuesday afternoon instead of in the middle of a storm.

Finally, use the moment to review your family communication plan. Agree on an out-of-area contact, a meeting place if you are separated, and how you will get information if the power and cell networks are both down.

The Bottom Line

The November 17 test is routine, and no action is required. But it is a timely reminder that the warning system only works if you can receive it. Make sure your household has at least one way to hear an emergency alert that does not depend on the grid or a cell tower.

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How to Survive These 7 Lethal Encounters

Nobody gets into trouble on a day they were expecting trouble. It happens on a Tuesday, out mowing the back corner of the yard, or pulling into the same gas station you’ve used for twenty years. And the animals have gotten bolder, too. Bears that used to stay up on the ridge now come down for the garbage cans, and the hogs have spread so far past Texas that folks in Tennessee are losing gardens to them.

What gets people hurt isn’t the hog or the bear or the man at the window, though. It’s standing there doing the math while the seconds that counted went by. Nobody plans on freezing up, but your brain has nothing to grab onto when it’s never once thought the thing through.

Waiting on help doesn’t fix that either, not out where a lot of us live. A deputy might be twenty minutes away and covering half the county by himself on a Sunday, and the ambulance is no quicker. But a charging boar settles things in well under a minute, and so does a man with a gun.

So it comes down to you.

7. Get Off the Ground When Feral Hogs Charge

The USDA counts roughly six million feral hogs in this country, and they’ve pushed well past Texas into the Southeast and the lower Midwest. Most will run from you, though a sow with piglets or a wounded boar can come straight in without a sound. A big boar slashes upward with tusks that land right at thigh level, and that’s where the main artery in your leg sits.

Back in November 2019 feral hogs killed a caregiver outside the Anahuac, Texas, home where she’d arrived for work before sunrise. Hogs are still out feeding at that hour, which puts the danger well beyond hunters pushing through thick brush.

They can’t climb, so your move is getting up on something, a truck bed or a low limb or a fence rail. Three or four feet of height usually ends the attack, since the hog loses its angle on your legs. Getting back on your feet fast matters just as much if you go down, because hogs do their worst work on a person lying flat.

Anybody who keeps a garden or a feed shed should pay attention to the ground around it. Hogs root at night and come back to the same spot, meaning the torn-up dirt you walked past yesterday tells you something will be out there tomorrow.

A tusk wound to the thigh can drain a grown man in minutes, and an ambulance won’t reach a back pasture that fast. Out there, it falls on you to learn to stop a deep bleed yourself and keep the steps fresh enough to follow with shaking hands. Plus, the one bleeding might be the person standing beside you, with you as the only help around. In case you’re wondering where to learn it, this must-have first aid book makes a smart addition to what you already know. After all, it walks you through wounds you’d have to treat far from any hospital, which is where a hog tends to find you.

6. Get Inside Fast After Stirring Up Yellowjackets

Stinging insects killed 788 Americans between 2011 and 2021, which works out to roughly 72 deaths a year by the CDC’s count. Even so, the real number may run higher, because some sting deaths get misdiagnosed as heart attacks or sunstroke. 

Yellowjackets nest underground, so a mower wheel or a weed eater can rip one open before you see a single bug. Unlike honeybees, each one can sting over and over, and enough stings at once can kill a person with no allergy at all.

Your best move is to drop everything and run for a truck cab or a house, pulling your shirt up over your face as you go. Jumping into a pond feels smart, but the swarm hovers over the water and waits for you to come up for air.

Once you’re clear, watch the person closely for the next half hour. A hoarse voice or trouble breathing means the throat is swelling shut, and only an epinephrine shot buys time until help arrives.

5. Stand Still and Turn Sideways When a Loose Dog Comes at You

Dogs bite about 4.5 million Americans a year, and over 800,000 of those need a doctor. That makes a loose dog far more likely to put you in an emergency room than anything with tusks or claws. And it happens in subdivisions as often as on country roads, usually because a gate was left open.

Running is the worst thing you can do, since it switches the dog from guarding to chasing. Stand still instead, turn sideways, keep your hands down, and don’t look it in the eye. Most dogs are only running you off their property, so once you quit pressing in they lose interest.

But there are more moves that decide how an attack like this ends, and most folks have never been shown a single one of them. Read the 7 rules of surviving a dog attack, so you know exactly what to do instead of trying to remember it with a dog coming at you.

4. Know Your Way Out Before the Shooting Starts

On December 29, 2019, a gunman stood up during communion at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, and opened fire with a shotgun. He killed two parishioners before a 71-year-old volunteer on the church security team, Jack Wilson, dropped him with one shot about six seconds in.

FBI research found that a large share of these attacks are over inside five minutes, often before police reach the building. And response times run longer in rural counties, where a deputy may be covering a hundred square miles alone on a Sunday morning. So the whole thing tends to be settled before help can do anything about it, which is why the useful work happens beforehand.

• Find two ways out when you walk in. Count the kitchen door and the back hallway most people never notice, not just the front door you came through.
• Sit where you can see the entrance. Any old soldier does it without thinking about it.
• Run first. Away from the sound and out through the exit you already spotted, with your purse or jacket left on the chair.
• If you can’t get out, get behind something solid. Concrete, masonry, an engine block. Drywall and car doors stop nothing.
• Lock or barricade, then silence your phone. A ring at the wrong moment gives away a room full of people.
• Fighting is the last resort. It works when several people commit at the same moment, and thrown chairs and fire extinguishers followed by a group grabbing the arms have ended attacks before police arrived.
• Hands empty and in plain sight when officers arrive. In those first seconds they have no idea who the shooter is.

3. Keep Your Wheels Rolling If a Mob Surrounds Your Car

On April 29, 1992, a truck driver named Reginald Denny drove into the intersection of Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles as the riots spread. He slowed to a stop while the crowd closed in, and moments later he was dragged out of his cab and beaten nearly to death. News helicopters carried the whole thing live, and he survived only because neighbors watching at home ran over and drove him to the hospital.

The lesson out of that afternoon is that your car protects you only as long as it keeps moving. Roll forward slow and steady at about walking speed in a crowd that’s turning violent, as most people will step aside for a vehicle that doesn’t stop.

Windows up and doors locked matter here, and your hand stays off the horn, because honking and revving pull the crowd’s anger straight onto you. Never speed up into people, though, given that a frightened driver who hits someone can face charges after surviving the mob.

Reading the street ahead of you beats all of it. A crowd gathering or traffic stalled for no clear reason is your signal to turn around early and take a second route, which is reason enough to know two ways home from anywhere you drive regularly.

On foot you want the edges of a crowd, moving with its flow toward a side street where you can slip away. Protests and street closures have become common enough in American cities that plenty of drivers have found themselves in one by accident, simply taking the route they take every day.

2. Figure Out Which Bear You’re Facing Before You Fight

Fur color tells you almost nothing, seeing as black bears often come in brown and cinnamon shades. A grizzly gives itself away with the muscle hump over its shoulders and its short rounded ears, while a black bear has taller ears and a straighter nose. That difference decides everything, since the right move against one will get you killed by the other.

• Don’t run from either one. You can’t outrun a bear, and running turns you into something worth chasing.
• With a grizzly, go flat. They attack because you startled them, so once you stop being a threat the attack usually stops too. Stomach down, hands behind your neck, legs spread, pack left on.
• Stay down until it’s well gone. Getting up early brings it straight back.
• With a black bear, don’t play dead. One that comes at you isn’t defending cubs or a carcass, so lying down just makes it easy. Make yourself loud and big, and aim for the nose if it makes contact.
• Spray handles both. A 2008 Alaska study found it stopped aggressive bears about nine times out of ten. Wait until it closes to roughly 30 feet and aim a little low, letting the cloud rise into its face.

And this isn’t trail-only advice anymore. Black bears have moved into suburbs across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, and the Carolinas over the past twenty years, pulled in by bird feeders and garbage cans. So the encounter happens in driveways as often as it does in the backcountry.

But rangers say the hikers who get hurt usually knew all of this already. What they missed was the #1 golden rule of coming out of a bear encounter alive. And it’s the one thing you have to settle before you ever see the bear, because there’s no working it out once it’s standing there. See what it is.

1. Never Let a Carjacking Turn Into a Kidnapping 

Carjackings have nearly doubled since 2018, and about one in four victims gets hurt. Nearly 6 in 10 involve an armed offender, with a firearm in 38% of them. What surprises people is the location, since more of these happen at or near the victim’s own home than anywhere else. That’s your driveway, your curb, the spot you park every night. So the thing to avoid isn’t the theft, it’s standing there with a hand on your door while somebody else decides how this goes. 

A carjacker won’t chase a car rolling down the highway, so he waits for the moments you’re boxed in or looking the other way. Pumping gas and leaning into the back seat to buckle in a child are exactly when you’re easiest to grab. 

So here’s what keeps those moments from turning into a dangerous situation:

• Leave a gap at every light. Enough to see where the rear tires of the car ahead meet the pavement, so you can swing out and drive off if somebody walks up on your window.
• Lock the doors while you drive. It costs you nothing, even in a town you’ve lived in for forty years.
• Don’t get out for a bump-and-rob. A tap on your bumper on a dark road is often the setup. Stay inside with the hazards on, wave the other driver to follow you to a lit gas station, and call 911.
• Give up the truck once a gun is out. An insurance check replaces a truck and nothing replaces you. A child in the back seat is the one exception, and then you say out loud that you’re getting them out first.
• Learn how to break a grip at your own door. A stranger with a hand on you is the moment it stops being about the vehicle. Here’s what to do if a stranger tries to pull you into a vehicle.
• Know how to get out of a car that won’t open. Child locks, a jammed door after a wreck, a thief who locks you in. This shows you how to escape a vehicle when the doors won’t unlock, and the trick is simpler than you’d expect.
• Know the trunk, too. Newer cars have a glow-in-the-dark release, but plenty of trucks and older sedans never got one. So it’s worth knowing how to get out of a trunk without a built-in release, before you’re the one in there.
• And zip ties. They take about two seconds to beat once somebody has shown you the motion. You can see how to break out of zip ties here.

Why It’s Important to Have Your Answer Ready 

Anybody who’s served knows that training exists so the body moves before the brain catches up. Each of these encounters rewards the person who settled the question ahead of time, whether that means climbing onto a truck bed or keeping the wheels turning through a crowd. Walk through all seven in your head next time you’re sitting out on the porch, then talk them over with your family, especially the grandkids who’ve never had reason to think about any of it.

And none of this is a big-city problem you get to ignore. Carjackings have nearly doubled since 2018, hogs have pushed into more than thirty states, and bears now come down for garbage cans in neighborhoods that never saw one. So a trip to the store really can turn into something you have to handle on your own.

Which is where dark psychology turns out to be one of the most useful things you can learn. It’s how you read somebody closing in on you before his hands ever move, how you talk your way out of a situation that’s already going bad, and how you keep from being the one picked out of a crowd in the first place.

Read this now, while you’ve got a quiet afternoon to do it in

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Oil Tops $110 as U.S. Pulls Diplomats From Saudi Arabia: What Americans Should Prepare for If Fuel Prices Keep Climbing

Oil prices pushed higher again on Thursday, October 22, after a new wave of Houthi attacks inside Saudi Arabia led Washington to order some American diplomats and their families out of the kingdom. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed back above $110 a barrel.

For most Americans, the headline matters less than what follows it: higher prices at the pump, more expensive diesel moving the goods on store shelves, and a costly heating season for millions of homes. Here is what happened, what the government’s own forecasters expect, and the practical steps worth taking now.

What Happened This Week

According to Reuters reporting from October 22, Brent futures rose $1.29 to $110.11 a barrel in early trading, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate gained 97 cents to $98.12. The move came after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis struck targets in Saudi Arabia, including a civilian airport in Dammam where one person was killed and eight wounded, and an oil field where a drone attack killed two.

The State Department ordered some diplomats and family members to leave U.S. missions in Saudi Arabia, and officials told Reuters that families would also be withdrawn from several other missions in the region. Shipping is under pressure too, with Kpler data showing at least 18 attacks on vessels over the past two weeks.

Reuters also reported that the Department of Energy is offering to loan up to nearly a third of the one-million-barrel U.S. emergency heating oil reserve. The goal is to ease prices that have surged on diesel shortages tied to the wars involving Iran and Ukraine.

Why This Hits American Households

This is not a one-day spike. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s October Short-Term Energy Outlook reports that U.S. retail gasoline averaged $4.35 a gallon in September and diesel averaged $6.29. Brent briefly reached $131 in mid-September after attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline cut off a key route around the Strait of Hormuz.

The EIA expects Brent to average about $105 a barrel through the end of 2026. It does forecast prices easing next year as Middle East exports recover, but it warns that continued conflict will likely bring more short-term volatility than its forecast shows.

In plain terms, the official outlook is elevated prices now and gradually lower prices later, with real risk of sudden jumps along the way. That is exactly the kind of environment where a little preparation pays off.

Diesel Is the Pressure Point

Diesel is where the squeeze is tightest. The EIA says East Coast distillate inventories, which include diesel and heating oil, were 32% below their five-year seasonal average in September, and it expects them to stay roughly 20% to 30% below normal through the winter.

Diesel moves nearly everything Americans buy, from groceries to building materials to medical supplies. When diesel stays expensive, those costs tend to show up in prices at the store over the following weeks and months.

Heating Oil Homes Face the Biggest Bills

The EIA expects households that heat mainly with oil to face heating oil prices more than 30% higher than last winter, with total spending up about 21% thanks to a forecast milder winter in the Northeast. About 3% of U.S. households heat with oil, mostly in New England and the Mid-Atlantic.

There is some good news for others. The same outlook expects homes heating with natural gas or propane, roughly half of all U.S. households, to spend less than last winter, while electric-heat homes should spend slightly more.

What to Prepare For If Prices Keep Rising

None of this calls for panic. It calls for the same steady, practical preparation that serves you in any disruption, focused on five areas where fuel prices hit hardest.

1. Store Fuel Safely, Not Desperately

When prices climb, some people start filling every container they own. That is how garages burn down. Mississippi State University’s safety guidance says to store gasoline only in approved fuel containers, in a well-ventilated detached shed or garage, never in the living area of a house.

The same guidance says to fill containers only about 95% full to leave room for expansion, keep them out of direct sunlight, and set them on the ground when filling at the pump to prevent static sparks. Never fill a can in a truck bed or car trunk.

Use proper 5-gallon approved gas cans and treat stored fuel with a stabilizer like STA-BIL Storage or PRI-G the day you buy it. Store only what you will rotate through your vehicles or equipment, and check your local fire code limits; our guide on what to know before stockpiling fuel covers shelf life and rotation for every common fuel.

2. Get Your Vehicles Ready and Stretch Every Gallon

The cheapest gallon is the one you do not burn. FuelEconomy.gov reports that aggressive driving can cut gas mileage by roughly 15% to 30% at highway speeds and 10% to 40% in stop-and-go traffic, and that mileage usually drops quickly above 50 mph.

Combine errands into one trip, remove roof racks and heavy cargo you are not using, keep tires properly inflated, and do not let the engine idle needlessly. A digital tire pressure gauge in the glovebox makes the habit easy.

Keep your tank at least half full from now through winter, so a sudden price jump or local shortage does not leave you stranded. NHTSA’s winter driving checklist also recommends having a mechanic check your battery and charging system, and keeping jumper cables, blankets, water, food and a phone charger in the vehicle.

3. Build Backup Power the Safe Way

High fuel prices often travel with grid stress and storm outages, so backup power matters. If you rely on a generator, follow the CPSC’s rule to run portable generators outside only, at least 20 feet from the house, with the exhaust pointed away from doors and windows. Opening doors or windows does not make indoor or garage use safe.

If you are shopping for a generator, look for models with automatic carbon monoxide shutoff, such as the Champion inverter generators with CO Shield. Put a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm on every floor and outside sleeping areas.

Fuel-free options deserve a hard look when gasoline is expensive. A portable power station paired with a folding solar panel can keep phones, lights, radios and medical devices running without a drop of fuel, and our guide to rechargeable batteries for preppers shows how to keep small electronics powered off-grid.

And never warm up or charge things in a running car inside a garage. The CDC warns never to run a car or truck inside an attached garage, even with the door open.

4. Get Ahead of Heating Costs

If you heat with oil or propane, call your supplier now. Ask about budget payment plans, price caps, or filling your tank before peak winter demand, and get on any automatic delivery list if supply gets tight later.

Tighten up the house before the cold sets in. Inexpensive window insulation film kits, door draft stoppers, and weatherstripping can cut drafts noticeably, and closing off unused rooms lets you heat less space.

If you lean on space heaters to save on central heat, follow U.S. Fire Administration guidance to keep them at least three feet from anything that can burn and plug them directly into the wall, not an extension cord or power strip. Never use an oven, grill, or camp stove to heat your home.

If bills become a real hardship, the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps eligible households with heating bills, shutoff prevention, and weatherization. You can find where to apply through EnergyHelp.us or the National Energy Assistance Referral line at 1-866-674-6327, and LIHEAP never charges a fee for benefits.

5. Reduce Your Supply-Chain Exposure

When diesel stays high, the cost of moving freight eventually lands on the price tag. Preppers who already keep a rotating pantry are largely insulated from this; everyone else can start now.

Build a few weeks of the shelf-stable food your family actually eats, and buy steadily on your normal trips rather than in one panic run. Refill prescriptions on time, keep a modest cushion of everyday essentials like toiletries and pet food, and rotate everything so nothing expires.

Think about what in your household depends on fuel at all: commuting, deliveries, heating, cooking, and medical equipment. Each one is a place where a backup plan or a small reserve buys you breathing room if prices or supplies get worse.

What Not to Do

Do not store gasoline in milk jugs, water bottles, or any unapproved container, and do not keep it inside the house or an attached living space. Do not run generators, grills, or camp heaters indoors, in a garage, or on an enclosed porch.

Do not top off cans in your trunk or truck bed, and do not hoard more fuel than you can safely store and rotate. In past shortages, panic buying created most of the empty pumps, and improvised storage caused many of the fires.

The Bottom Line

Brent above $110, U.S. diplomats leaving Saudi Arabia, and diesel inventories running well below normal are warning lights, not a reason to panic. The EIA still expects prices to ease next year, but it also expects volatility while the conflict continues.

Use the time you have. Store a sensible amount of fuel safely, get your vehicles and backup power in order, lock in your heating plan, and keep a rotating pantry, so that if prices keep climbing, your household is ready for it.

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Worse Than Flock Cameras

There’s a company out there that sells governments a way to break into security cameras. Once inside, its customers can watch the live feed as it happens. Worse, they can go back into recorded footage and change it, and the edited video shows no sign that anyone touched it. That company is called Toka, and a former Israeli prime minister helped start it. And according to Toka, its customers are the US government and its closest allies. They aren’t keeping any of this secret, either, because it’s spelled out right on their own website.

For two years now, folks have grumbled about Flock cameras reading plates at every intersection, and God knows they had good reason. Even so, a Flock camera only records where your car has been. Toka’s tools can reach into recordings like that and rewrite them, so next to Toka, Flock is the least of your problems.

The Same Investor Is Behind Flock Cameras Too 

Flock Safety is the name you most probably already know, with cameras in thousands of American towns logging plates and vehicles.

Andreessen Horowitz led Flock’s $275 million funding round in March 2025, and that round valued the company at $7.5 billion. But the same firm also invested in Toka. 

Toka was co-founded in 2018 by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former IDF cyber chief Yaron Rosen, and it keeps offices in Tel Aviv and Washington. The company sells only to governments.

On its homepage, it uses the term “frictionless surveillance,” which it describes as watching a target with almost no physical access or equipment.

That sounds harmless enough on the page. But what reporters found underneath is not. 

Camera Footage Is No Longer Proof Of Anything

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz ran an investigation and found that Toka sells technology that lets clients find security cameras or webcams in a chosen area, break into them, and watch the live feed. So far, that is ordinary spyware, and plenty of companies sell something like it.

But the next part is different. 

The same technology can reportedly alter footage that was already recorded, not just the live video, and it leaves no trace. So a recording from last month can be edited today, and the file still looks clean. Reporting described systems that let footage be downloaded, edited, and uploaded again with no sign that changes were made. A guard watching his monitor could be looking at a normal feed that was swapped out without him knowing. 

Software can now change what a camera saw in ways the human eye will never catch, and that same kind of technology keeps creeping into the systems that run our power grid. That’s why we must learn how to survive when AI takes down the grid – this knowledge puts you ahead of a threat that plenty of Americans still treat like science fiction. 

We treat video as evidence in this country. It clears people in court, and it convicts them too. So a tool that rewrites that record changes what everyone believes happened. And you could not argue your side, since the file itself would back up the lie.

Your Cameras Could Be Mapping Your House For Someone Else

Most of the coverage focuses on street cameras and government buildings. But the reach goes further than that. Toka’s tech can tap into web-connected cameras at intersections, parking lots, malls, hotels, airports, and even homes. It uses internet-connected sensors, including webcams and car media systems, to locate cameras inside a given area. On top of that, the company has shown interest in targeting devices through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

That lands closer to home than any plate reader. Plenty of preppers have a doorbell camera out front and another one over the driveway. Those cameras show your vehicles and your delivery schedule. They also show the hours nobody is home. An indoor camera gives away more, since it shows your floor plan and where you keep anything worth taking. A few days of that footage tells a stranger your routine better than your neighbors know it.

Worse, a camera that can be edited can be used against you. Imagine footage that shows your truck somewhere you never went. You would have a hard time arguing, because the file would carry no sign of tampering.

Of course, you can’t stop Toka from editing a file on some faraway server. But its tools find cameras by reading the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals around them, and you can turn that same trick around in your own home. Since any camera watching you has to send its signal somewhere, you’ll catch most of them once you learn the 6 ways to spot a camera that’s spying on you inside the house and even under the hood of your car. 

This Software Hides Where Other Spyware Gets Caught

You may remember the noise around Pegasus, the phone spyware that turned up on journalists’ devices. Researchers caught Pegasus because it left marks behind, and Intellexa’s Predator worked the same way. Experts could examine a phone and find the fingerprints.

Toka’s software works differently, and technical documents reviewed by a hacker hired by Haaretz showed it leaves no digital traces on the devices it hacks. Those documents also indicate it does not show up on the list of users of the cameras it targets.

So there is nothing to find, and nothing to prove. The victim never learns anything happened. 

That matters for how news travels now. A video crosses the country in an afternoon, and people believe what they see with their own eyes. So a manipulated clip of a riot or a shooting would do real damage before anyone checked it. And checking it might not even work, since the usual forensic tools hunt for traces that this tool does not leave.

Nobody Can Promise These Tools Stay In Friendly Hands

Toka has an answer for all of this. A spokesperson told Haaretz that its only clients are the US and its closest allies, and that it does not sell to private clients or individuals. The company also said it runs an annual review guided by international measures of corruption, rule of law, and civil liberties. Its activities are overseen by the Israeli Defense Ministry. 

Take that at face value if you want. But history gives us a reason not to. The NSA built a hacking tool called EternalBlue, and in 2017 it leaked. Criminals used it to build the WannaCry ransomware, and hospitals across Britain went dark along with businesses in dozens of countries. So a government-only weapon stayed government-only right up until the day it did not.

Then again, even perfect security would only cover the tool itself. Approved client lists change with administrations, and an agency that can edit footage today will still be able to edit it under whoever comes next. In a grid-down stretch or a real crisis, when nobody is filing paperwork and oversight gets thin, those promises mean nothing.

Signs Your Camera System Has Been Taken Over

You will not get an alert when something like this happens, so the warning signs show up in small places instead. Go through this list once a month and you will catch most of what can be caught.

• A gap in the timestamps. Footage that jumps from 2:14 to 2:19 with no reason is the most common sign of a cut.
• Camera activity when you were asleep. Most systems keep a log of who logged in and when. An entry at 3 a.m. that nobody in your house can explain deserves a closer look.
• A camera that goes offline on its own. Short dropouts happen with bad Wi-Fi, but a camera that drops at the same hour every few days is worth asking about.
• File sizes that look wrong. A ten-minute clip that takes up far less space than your other ten-minute clips may have been re-encoded somewhere else.
• Settings you never changed. Resolution dropped, motion alerts switched off, or storage shortened from thirty days to two.
• A device on your router you cannot name. Log into the router now and then and read the list of what is connected, then block anything you do not recognize.

Then again, spotting a break-in after the fact only tells you the damage is already done. So the #1 trick to lock hackers out of your cameras is worth more than any monthly check, because it stops most of these warning signs before they ever show up. 

Keep Your Recordings Somewhere Safe

Spotting a problem is only half the job, though, since the real protection comes from making your footage harder to reach in the first place. You do not need to rip out your cameras over this either, because a camera that records locally is still worth having.

• Record to local storage. An SD card or a hard drive in your house beats a cloud account, and a drive sitting in your closet cannot be reached from the street.
• Copy the important clips off. Anything involving a trespasser, an accident, or a dispute goes onto a USB stick that same week, and that copy is your proof if the original ever changes.
• Change the default password on every camera. Most of them ship with something like admin and 1234, and those defaults are published online for anyone to look up.
• Put the cameras on their own Wi-Fi network. Most routers let you run a guest network, so keep the cameras there and your phones and computers on the main one.
• Turn off remote viewing if you never use it. That feature opens a door into your system from anywhere in the world, and most folks check their cameras from the couch anyway.
• Point indoor cameras at doors, not at your supplies. A hallway shot covers the entry without showing a stranger your pantry shelves or your safe.
• Unplug what you are not using. An old tablet propped in a window or a baby monitor nobody needs is one more way in.

Then again, there are situations where none of these checks help you. For example, Porch pirates don’t care about your camera, and some of them have walked up masked, looked straight into the lens, taken what they came for and were never caught. A few didn’t stop at packages either, since what they carried off was personal paperwork, and a thief like that has no reason to delete the footage at all. So for that kind of visitor, the #1 trick to keep porch pirates away does the job your camera can’t. It comes down to cayenne pepper and a box, though you’ll want to learn how it’s set up before you try it on your own porch. 

How to Feel Safe in a World Without Privacy

I’ve spent a long time digging into stories like this one, and my goal has always been to show folks the truth about the gadgets we bring into our homes. Every camera and smart device we buy makes life a little easier, but it also opens a window that someone else can look through. And as the Toka story shows, the people looking through it are sometimes the same ones who are supposed to protect your privacy.

I believe you have every right to know how easily that kind of power gets abused.

You may feel that none of this applies to you, because you’ve never done anything to catch a government’s eye. Even so, these cameras don’t pick and choose who they watch. They sweep up whole streets and neighborhoods, so a regular family can end up as collateral damage in somebody else’s case without ever knowing why. For that reason alone, it makes sense to learn how to protect yourself now, while things are still fairly calm.

And that calm may not last much longer. My biggest worry is that right now, three dangerous forces are coming together at the same time. If I am right, every household in the country could face burglaries, assaults and riots, and in the worst case, the destruction of a civil war.

If it ever comes to that, nobody will help you, and you’ll be living much like guerrilla fighters, the small bands of ordinary people who have held out against far stronger armies throughout history. Guerrilla fighters know how to stay unnoticed and how to defend a home with very little, yet most Americans rarely pick up those skills living day to day. You’ll get a much clearer picture once you understand their survival strategy and the guerrilla tactics that can help your family stop being vulnerable.

The video below walks you through what’s coming, so take a few minutes to watch it when you have the time:

With that knowledge on your side, you’ll be far better prepared to keep yourself and your family safe at home when trouble finally shows up.

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