Essential skills for urban prepping: How to prepare for emergencies in a city environment

08/20/2024 / By HRS Editors

Like preppers in rural areas, urban preppers also take measures to ensure that they are ready for different emergencies. Aside from learning prepping and survival skills, urban preppers stock up on supplies before power outages or evacuation situations. (h/t to TheAtomicBear.com)

Here are some tips that can help urban preppers prepare before SHTF.

Learn how to navigate your city

As a city prepper, you should know how to navigate your city. You can do this by learning about the different neighborhoods in your area and knowing which areas to avoid.

Study maps and learn how to use a compass as you familiarize yourself with the city’s layout. Take the time to learn about the city’s infrastructure and find where key resources are located. Doing this makes it easier to navigate your city when disaster strikes.

If you’re worried about scenarios like a nuclear threat, find the nearest public underground facilities and buildings where you can hide with your family. (Related: Essential gear for SHTF situations: Choosing the right equipment for survival.)

Finalize an emergency plan for evacuating the city

Before disaster strikes, you must have a plan to evacuate the urban area and head to your bug-out location.

When finalizing your emergency preparedness plan, map out different routes to safety and identify safe locations to go to outside of the urban area if you do not have a set bug-out location. Make sure you also have a plan for how to get transportation out of the main roads if needed. If possible, prepare a bug-out vehicle so you can travel safely after SHTF.

Bugging out is not a decision that is made lightly. This is why you should finalize your plans, prepare an evacuation route and gather supplies before an emergency requires your whole family to bug out.

Your plans should include:

Arranging your evacuation ahead of time.
Planning a checklist of supplies and preparing bug-out bags.
Gathering important documents and making copies of things like birth and marriage certificates, passports, driver’s licenses and social security cards.

Prepare bug-out bags

City preppers should also be prepared to bug out at any moment. One easy way to do this is by preparing a bug-out bag with supplies like food, water and a first aid kit.

Here are some things to include in your bug-out bags:

Clothing
Compass and maps for navigation
Emergency blankets
Firestarting kit
Food and water, enough to last for several days
First aid kit
Flashlight and extra batteries
Money to buy more supplies
Radio for monitoring the news
Self-defense weapons (where allowed)

With these items in your bug-out bag, you can improve your chances of surviving an emergency in an urban setting.

Fortify your home if you plan to bug in

If you plan on bugging in, you should make sure your home is fortified against intruders, trespassers and other dangers. Fortify all possible entry points like doors and windows. Stock up on supplies and make sure you can defend the house and your family if needed.

Stock up on supplies

If it’s better to bug in during an emergency, your family will have a better chance of surviving if you have supplies like food and water. Make sure you have enough food and supplies like clean drinking water and non-perishable food items.

You will also need other items such as clothes and medicines. Before SHTF, do not advertise that you have an emergency stockpile. This can help protect your family from looters when disaster strikes.

Where to get lab-verified food supplies for your stockpile

The Health Ranger Store is here to help you prepare for different survival scenarios in the city. That’s why we’re proud to introduce a variety of supplies for your prepping needs.

You’ll need a cup of joe even after SHTF and the Health Ranger Store is thrilled to bring you our specialty Fair Trade coffee in a convenient and easy-to-prepare format.

With a much longer shelf life than regular coffee, Health Ranger Select Organic Freeze-Dried Instant Coffee delivers a bold and exquisite flavor of medium roast coffee that you can enjoy immediately. Just add hot water, stir and your instant coffee is ready to drink.

Health Ranger Select Organic Freeze-Dried Instant Coffee is processed using organic coffee beans and is carefully freeze-dried to preserve optimal taste, aroma and nutrient content.

It is also certified Kosher, organic and Fair Trade. It is gluten-free, BSE/TSE-free and has been extensively lab-tested for glyphosate, heavy metals and microbes.

Don’t forget your veggies when stockpiling food for your prepping needs.

Get the most out of shelf-stable broccoli with our laboratory-verified Health Ranger Select Organic Freeze-Dried Broccoli. This popular green vegetable is loaded with a unique mixture of nutrients and organic compounds that nourish the body.

You should also make sure you get enough protein after SHTF.

We offer Mega Bucket Organic Pinto Beans that contain delicious pinto beans which can be consumed in many forms. They’re packed with protein (a cup of boiled pinto beans has 15 grams of lean protein), fiber, iron, magnesium and vitamin B6.

Rich in nutrients but low in fat, pinto beans nourish you but contain no empty calories.

You can trust that Mega Bucket Organic Pinto Beans from the Health Ranger Store are thoroughly lab-tested for glyphosate, heavy metals and microbes.

Mega Bucket Organic Pinto Beans are USDA-organic Kosher-certified. They are also vegan, non-GMO, gluten-free, laboratory-verified and China-free.

Visit Preparedness.news for more tips on urban prepping and survival. You can also check out Health Ranger Store and Brighteon Store for cleaner food supplies for your prepping needs.

Click on this link to learn how to make peppermint mocha protein coffee using Fair Trade Organic Freeze-Dried Instant Coffee.

You can also watch the clip below for a video tutorial for a peppermint mocha protein coffee.

This video is from the Health Ranger Store channel on Brighteon.com.