Kami 
By the Preparedness Team Preparedness is fundamentally non-partisan. Whatever your politics, a household benefits from being resilient to the disruptions that political instability can bring, because those disruptions land on ordinary families the same way a storm does: through the everyday systems they depend on. This guide sets aside ideology entirely and looks at the … Read more
By the Gear Team In an evacuation, your ability to communicate and to keep your devices powered can matter as much as food or water. Your phone is your map, your news source, your link to family, and your call for help, all in one, and it is useless the moment its battery dies. Meanwhile, … Read more
By the Gear Team When a disaster forces you from your home, the things that prove who you are, what you own, and what you are owed can be as vital to your recovery as any survival supply. People focus on water and food and forget that rebuilding a life after a disaster runs on … Read more
By the Medical Gear Team Of everything in a bug-out bag, the first aid component is the one most likely to be needed and most often packed badly. People either toss in a flimsy handful of adhesive bandages or, at the other extreme, try to cram a full home medical cabinet into a pack that … Read more
By the Gear Team Clothing is the survival gear you are already wearing, and in a bug-out situation it becomes your first and most constant line of defense against the elements. Yet it is the component people put the least thought into, tossing a random t-shirt into the bag as an afterthought. That is a … Read more
By the Go-Bag Desk Food and water in a bug-out bag follow a rule that trips up almost every beginner: weight. It is easy to imagine packing hearty meals and plenty of water, right up until you try to carry it all and discover your bag now weighs as much as a small child. The … Read more
By the Financial Resilience Team Natural disasters are loud and fast. An economic depression is the opposite: slow, quiet, and grinding, unfolding over months and years rather than hours. It does not knock out the power, but it can knock out a job, erode savings, and turn a comfortable household into a struggling one. And … Read more
By the Disaster Team A generic disaster checklist is a strange thing. It tells a family in the Arizona desert to prepare for the same threats as a family on the Gulf coast or in the tornado belt, which serves neither well. Real natural disaster preparedness is tailored. It starts with the universal foundation every … Read more
By the Getting Started Team If you are just beginning, the sheer scope of emergency preparedness can be paralyzing. Every guide seems to assume you already have the other ninety-nine pieces in place, and the result is that many people give up before they start. This is the article that fixes that. It is the … Read more
By the Go-Bag Desk A go-bag has one job: to let you walk out the door in sixty seconds with everything you need to keep yourself alive and functional for about three days. It is not a bunker on your back and it is not a camping trip. It is the bridge between the moment … Read more