Inside a church on 189th Street, the New York City Preppers Network gathers for its monthly meeting. About two dozen men and women sit on plastic chairs facing a whiteboard. Jason Charles, a ...

Prepper Jason Charles sits in his Harlem apartment, alongside a stack of his emergency preparedness supplies on March 5, 2018 in Harlem, New York. As the number of global coronavirus cases continues ...

TOLEDO — Curt La Haise has put up with plenty of razzing from friends over the years, friends who have called him paranoid for stockpiling an eight-month supply of food in his basement and having ...

Emergency Services Director Jerry VeHaun has led Buncombe County’s disaster preparedness and response for 43 years. Photo by Virginia Daffron Preppers — those who focus on preparing themselves and ...

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 ...

What exactly is a prepper? It’s anyone who anticipates a calamity resulting in some degree of social collapse, and makes plans—or prepares—to survive independently. Behind that definition lies a gamut ...

Editor’s Note: Arianna LaPenne is a documentary filmmaker from New York City who has directed Emmy-nominated, and Peabody and Edward R. Murrow award-winning work in more than 50 countries. Her recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brekke Wagoner looks out the windows of her home in North Carolina and sees disaster coming. Not immediately, but someday, as ...

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: In the aftermath of surviving Tropical Storm Helene, a surplus of goods — once a source of pride for preppers — now seems unmanageable and superfluous. Image design by Xpress ...

In the new disaster economy, a safe place to go when society breaks down is now a must-have commodity. Fortitude Ranch, with locations in Colorado and West Virginia, might be the answer for someone ...

When thinking about society's collapse, it's easy to conjure up visions of a dystopian hellscape straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. But on this front, survivalist prepper Dan Goss has slightly ...