You don’t have an OPSEC problem. You have six of them, and most are sitting in your driveway, your trash can, and your phone. Social media posts. The neighbor who means well. Photos with GPS data baked in. Mail nobody shreds. Location tracking you never turned off. Passwords sitting next to the laptop. None of…
Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
Today’s briefing: record heat, record grid demand
Good morning, Tomorrow, the power grid serving 67 million people across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic may see its highest electricity demand ever recorded, breaking a record that’s stood since 2006. Here’s what’s driving it, and what else is on our radar today: Grid emergency: PJM Interconnection is forecasting 166,304 MW of peak demand tomorrow. DOE…
Monday morning. Here’s where things stand.
US-IRAN — MOU ACUTE STRESS US and Iran exchanged kinetic strikes across four days (26-29 June). The IRGC struck the Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely cargo ship, the Kiku tanker carrying 2 million barrels of Qatari crude, US 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, and Kuwait military bases. US CENTCOM struck Iranian coastal radar installations, missile sites, and…
DTR 25-JUN-2026 | Venezuela M7.5 Twin Earthquake | Ebola Reaches France | Lebanon Talks Collapse | Cisco KEV Sunday
Today’s brief opens with a disaster that broke overnight and was not in yesterday’s cycle. Venezuela was struck by twin earthquakes — a M7.2 and M7.5 that hit 39 seconds apart, the most powerful seismic event in the country in 125 years. At least 164 people are confirmed dead and 971 injured. Multiple high-rise buildings…
SUBJECT: DTR | 24 June 2026 | PREP-CON 3 | IAEA Grossi: Inspections “Going to Happen” | ENHANCED CO/WY Tonight | Ebola 1,000 Cases | Cisco KEV 29-JUN
Today’s Daily Threat Report is published. PREP-CON 3 BROWN SKY remains in effect. Six active watch items. THE LEAD THIS CYCLE The IAEA Director General spoke publicly today from Fukushima: nuclear inspections of Iran will happen under the MOU text — “This is going to happen.” He called the US-Iran public dispute a “war of…
Daily Threat Report
Four threads moved simultaneously over the weekend. Here is the Monday picture: WILDFIRE — The National Interagency Fire Center elevated the national fire danger level to NPL 3 this morning — the third-highest level on a five-point scale. There are 31 large uncontained fires burning across the country, with 8 new fires ignited over the…
New Online Training Courses
See whats coming at https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/curriculum/ The MAG Logistics course is being beta tested and should be available early next week. The MAG Vetting courses is being deployed to the website this weekend. Once complete it will go to a few folks to beta test then will be available. The next one, already developed, is INT-04:…
FORTUNE FAVORS THE PREPARED — DAILY THREAT REPORT
17 JUNE 2026 | PREP-CON 4 ORANGE SKY Three items in today’s report that can’t wait: — SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVE: SPC Day 1 MODERATE RISK in Illinois and Indiana. Intense tornadoes, 75+ mph gusts, damaging hail. All three Illinois NWR transmitters (Hillsboro, Princeton, Lockport) are simultaneously out of service. WEA phone alerts are the only…
Deal Day is Friday – what’s in today’s report
The US and Iran agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding on Sunday. The signing ceremony is Friday, June 19th, in Switzerland. Brent crude fell more than 4% today – the lowest price since March. Here is the honest picture going into Friday. The deal nearly collapsed on Sunday. The IDF struck Beirut’s Dahiyeh district after…
A lot of updates this week on Fortune Favors the Prepared
INTELLIGENCE • Intelligence Landing Page (NEW) – fortunefavorstheprepared.com/intelligence/ • Intelligence Disciplines hub page (new) – fortunefavorstheprepared.com/intelligence-disciplines/ • Counterintelligence Tradecraft article (updated) https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/preparedness-book-of-knowledge-2/intel-gathering/counterintelligence-tradecraft-for-preppers/ • The School for Ungentlemanly Warfare – How a secret training pipeline that ran from the Scottish Highlands to a lakeshore in Ontario built the modern intelligence operator, and why its lessons still…