As many as 3.7 million Americans are classified as preppers or survivalists. Being a "doomsday prepper" is not easy -- or cheap. These people prepare for different disasters for different reasons.

Hoarding food and supplies has suddenly become mainstream. But as any prepper—one whose lifestyle revolves around preparing for the day when the SHTF (shit hits the fan)—will tell you, the coming ...

DON’T CALL Nick Robbins a Doomsday prepper. Sure, Mr. Robbins, 50, a technology lawyer and general counsel for the Health Coach Institute, produces his own drinking water at his Phoenix home -- a move ...