Readiness guides
Readiness Guides
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Planning for Real Events Instead of Fiction
Disaster fiction is a bad planning tool for a measurable reason: it trains households for the rare, violent, individual event and away from the…
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What to Do in the First Four Hours of an Outage
The order of the first four hours decides how much food, heat and patience a household keeps. Eleven steps, what the utility can and…
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What the Second Week Actually Looks Like
Long outages stop being about supplies and start being about laundry, boredom, medication refills and money. What changes after day seven, and what almost…
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Storing and Treating Water at Home
One gallon per person per day, why almost no household reaches two weeks of it, the federal treatment procedures in full, and the thirty…
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Keeping a Home Secure During a Long Outage
What actually goes wrong at a dark house: opportunistic entry, carbon monoxide, generator theft and the neighbour problem. Practical, unarmed, and mostly about light…
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Choosing a Place to Go Before You Need One
Most households end up with family, in a hotel two counties over, or in a public shelter. Three tiers of destination, what makes one…
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One Knife or Three: What a Household Emergency Asks of a Blade
What a household actually cuts during an outage, why fewer knives get maintained better, which steels make sense without a shop, and what separates…
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Go Bag or Stay Put Bin: What Your ZIP Code Argues For
Most households lose power yearly and evacuate once a decade. A point by point comparison of a stay put bin against a go bag,…
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Cooking When the Kitchen Range Has No Power
Nothing that burns fuel belongs indoors. Five outdoor setups compared on real boil times, how much propane a week actually takes, and the order…
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What Belongs in a 72-Hour Kit, and What Only Looks Like It Does
Six categories that cover three days for a household of four, with real weights, the gear that gets bought and never used, and the…
