NOTE: My blog about Doomsday Preppers touched a lot of nerves in the prepper community. When I apologized, I offered space for preppers to describe who they are, what they do and how they do it. This ...

The r/preppers subreddit — a community of people obsessed with emergency preparedness — has been around since 2010. Unfortunately, due to the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather ...

A prepper shared their honest tips after revamping their backup power system following a multi-day outage in the middle of winter. They explained that the loss of power lasted for a lot longer than ...

Many preppers have an origin story, when they realized the world was a more fragile and unpredictable place than they had thought, and that any help they might have assumed was on its way wasn’t.

Hurricanes and blizzards are petty trifles compared with the weather phenomenon that troubles apocalypse preppers: They’re worried about a giant electromagnetic storm wiping out all technology. It’s ...

As many as 3.7 million Americans are classified as preppers or survivalists. Being a “doomsday prepper” is not easy — or cheap. These people prepare for different disasters for different reasons. Most ...