What If?

What If?

Survival

What If You're Caught in an Indefinite Blackout?

Survival

What If You're Caught in an Indefinite Blackout?

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Survival

What If a Winter Road Trip Leaves You Stranded and Injured?

Survival

What If a Winter Road Trip Leaves You Stranded and Injured?

You're on a road trip during a winter snowstorm when your car hits...

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Preparation

Rapid Emergency Networks: Porch Vikings Amidst the Minneapolis Riots

Preparation

Rapid Emergency Networks: Porch Vikings Amidst the Minneapolis Riots

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All What If? Articles

January 14, 2021 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If Your Neighborhood is Attacked by an Angry Mob?

October 27, 2020 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If We Are Hit By Another Pandemic?

June 26, 2020 :: By jschwartze

What If Your Family is the Victim of a Mountain Lion Attack?

Being out in nature also means being out among nature's predators. What would you do if your family was attacked by a mountain lion?

June 1, 2020 :: By Offgrid Staff

What If You're Assaulted in a Parking Structure?

College campuses are target-rich environments for criminals and predators. What would you do if you were assaulted as you returned to your car at night?

February 25, 2020 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If You're in a Hostage Situation?

In this RECOIL OFFGRID “What If?” column, we go out of the frying pan and into the fire of a violent hostage situation during a…

December 19, 2019 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If You Stumbled Upon a Potential Home Burglary?

You’d hoped this would be a simple house-sitting gig for a friend, but you may now have stumbled upon a home burglary in progress. What…

December 4, 2019 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If an EMP Rendered Your City Technologically Helpless?

The stalled-out cars, my dead phone, no lights, and a crashing plane — this was no power outage, or even a cyberattack on the power…

November 21, 2019 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If You're Trapped in a Mass Shooting?

In this edition of What If?, we pose the question: What if you’re in a crowded shopping mall when a mass shooting occurs? We asked…

October 11, 2019 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What if You're Locked Up Abroad?

For this installment of RECOIL OFFGRID’s “What If?” column, we are taken out of our normal surroundings and thrust into a locked up abroad situation.

July 24, 2019 :: By Patrick McCarthy

What If You're Lured into a Roadside Robbery, Abduction, or Worse?

Throughout history, “highwaymen” or “road agents” have robbed travelers in remote roadside areas and disappeared with the loot. Little has changed over the centuries.