As a former U.S. Army Ranger, Jeffrey McCaskill once taught survival skills to soldiers. Now, the 58-year-old North Vancouver resident leads the Ready to Thrive Survival School to help prepare civilians for urban and wilderness survival. “I’ve been in places abroad where the economy’s collapsed before my eyes. I know how people act. I know…

Members of the British prepping community, inspired by the USA survivalist movement, said that more than ever, people are willing to explore extreme survival in their country. At one time considered a small subculture that raised eyebrows for its perceived apocalyptic thinking, preppers told The Epoch Times how they and others are proactively preparing for…

A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an “almost apocalyptic feel to it.” “No one could move. It just shut the whole region down for two weeks. I wasn’t as prepared as I thought,” said Maddox, a burly man of 43 sporting a…