In a world where the unexpected can strike at any moment, a growing number of people are taking the concept of preparedness to heart. Preppers, as they're known, have a knack for collecting items that ...

A Doomsday prepper has shared survival tips for World War III — including having a 90-day food supply and investing in communication gear. Derrick James, 50, who hails from rural Maine, started ...

NatGeo’s Doomsday Preppers may seem batpoop crazy to you, but post-Sandy, and in light of warnings that calamity may become more common, what can we learn from these extreme practitioners of paranoid ...

The second that you decide that a global catastrophe is on the horizon (or what’s left of the horizon after the global catastrophe) and you need to ready yourself for an emergency, you must ...

When people talk about getting ready for disaster, two groups always come up — preppers and survivalists. At first glance, they seem alike: both value self-reliance and readiness when life takes a ...

In tech circles, gearing up for the apocalypse was a cliché. Now it’s a credential. Why is disaster prep so appealing to techies? Perhaps there is something about getting everything you have overnight ...

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Preppers who were stockpiling supplies for end-of-the-world scenarios when Obama was president have relaxed under Trump, and aren't buying as much.