What to do before, during, and after every kind of emergency.
By the Preparedness Team Almost everything written about water preparedness assumes the tap has stopped. Filtering from a creek, storing barrels in the basement, catching rain off a roof: all of it answers the question of what to do when nothing comes out of the faucet. That is the dramatic failure, and it is also … Read more
By the Gear Team Q: My phone gets emergency alerts. Why would I need a radio? A: Because your phone’s alerts depend on two fragile things at once: cell towers with a few hours of backup power, and your battery. In the disasters where information matters most (hurricanes, ice storms, wildfires, multi-day grid failures) cell … Read more
By the Preparedness Team Modern shelves look permanently full, right up until the moment they are not. Most of us learned during recent years just how thin the supply chain really is: a single disruption somewhere far away, and suddenly the everyday things we assumed would always be there, from paper goods to medications to … Read more
By the Grid-Down Desk A few hours without power is an inconvenience. A few weeks without it is a different kind of event entirely, one that quietly unravels the invisible systems modern life depends on. The water stops when the pumps fail. The stores empty and cannot restock. Heating, refrigeration, payment, and communication all lean … Read more
By the Preparedness Team Few preparedness topics attract more fear, fantasy, and outright salesmanship than the electromagnetic pulse. Depending on who is talking, an EMP is either the inevitable end of civilization or pure science fiction, and neither extreme is honest. The truth sits in between and is genuinely worth understanding. This guide sets out … Read more
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