What If?

What If?

Preparation

What If Your Utilities are Indefinitely Disrupted?

Preparation

What If Your Utilities are Indefinitely Disrupted?

This edition of "What If?" poses the question: How would you keep your family safe and warm if utilities such as...

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Survival

What If a Coup Occurs During Your Vacation Abroad?

Survival

What If a Coup Occurs During Your Vacation Abroad?

This edition of "What If?" poses the question: How would you respond...

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Survival

What If Your Vehicle Is Attacked By an Angry Mob?

Survival

What If Your Vehicle Is Attacked By an Angry Mob?

This hypothetical survival scenario puts a family in the proverbial...

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July 25, 2018 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If a Dirty Bomb Goes Off in Your City?

For this episode of RECOIL OFFGRID’s “What If?” column, we discuss possible responses to a hypothetical dirty bomb attack in a major city.

May 25, 2018 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If Your Subway is Attacked With Chemical Weapons?

For this episode of RECOIL OFFGRID’s “What If?” column, we had to work our way through a chemical weapon terrorist attack in a crowded subway…

May 14, 2018 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If An Outbreak of Weaponized Pneumonic Plague Hits Your City?

This edition of What If? is about to get contagious.

March 13, 2018 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If Your Child Disappears While Traveling?

In Issue 25 of RECOIL OFFGRID, we discuss how a parent can prepare and react if your child is lost or abducted while traveling in…

February 5, 2018 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If Your Cruise Ship Is Hijacked?

This oceanic survival story isn't some nautical nonsense about people with no survival background, muddling through an emergency. This is how we would personally plan…

January 18, 2018 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If A House Fire Breaks Out During an Ice Storm?

This installment of What If? marks a change in the formula. It's an alteration that many readers have requested, and we hope that everyone will…

October 18, 2017 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If You're Caught in a Tornado?

Though many assume tornados only occur in the Great Plains, twisters have been documented in every state in the USA and on almost every continent.

August 4, 2017 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If You're Stranded in the Desert

The desert is a harsh backdrop for any kind of survival scenario, and the life that does exist there is highly adapted to the climate.

June 20, 2017 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If You're Trapped by a Major Flood that Threatens to Drown You and Those Around You?

This is what it would be like to be a modern-day Noah, minus the bombproof ark full of delicious animals.

May 25, 2017 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If You're on a Train With a Suspected Suicide Bomber

In this gripping installment of What If?, we've been asked to face a disturbingly realistic scenario.

January 15, 2017 :: By Offgrid Staff

Web Exclusive: What If You Were Trapped in a Mass Shooting?

In this "What If?" scenario, a loud noise echoes throughout the mall. Everyone flinches, then freezes. Suddenly, more bangs ring out. It’s gunfire!

January 1, 2017 :: By Patrick McCarthy

Survival Scenarios: New Year's Eve Nightmare

What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a crowd of revelers at Times Square on New Year's Eve, and a possible gunshot…

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