FIELD NOTES · ARCHIVE
The newsletter, in public.
One issue a week. Practical over tactical. Regional over generic. The archive lives here, free, no email wall.
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7A · CUMBERLANDBug-out bag for a buck: prepping on a dollar store budget
We took $40 to a Dollar Tree and built a real go-bag. Here's what made the cut, what didn't, and what we'd swap if you have $80.
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7A · CUMBERLANDWhen the Caney Fork comes up: a flood timeline from 2024
Hour-by-hour, what one DIRT household did when the river rose 14 feet in 30 hours. The decisions that worked and the ones we'd take back.
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6A · GREAT LAKESThe chest freezer outage no one warned us about
Three days without power, half a quarter of beef on the line. The temperature math, the dry-ice run, and what we keep in the freezer now.
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