Prepared, not paranoid.

Most readiness advice online is written for someone heading into the woods with a rifle. Most of us are heading to school pickup with a dog in the back seat. Supreme Survival is for the second person: the parent, the renter, the grandparent, the student, the household that wants to be ready for a bad week without turning the garage into a bunker.

The idea is simple. Official guidance from Ready.gov, the American Red Cross, CAL FIRE and the EPA is good, free and almost nobody reads it. We turn it into pages a busy person can actually use: a scenario you can picture, a one-page guide you can save or print, a kit list in buying order, a weekend plan that is done by Sunday night.

How the advice is checked

Every number on this site, from gallons of water to bleach drops to how long a closed fridge holds, is traced to a public source, and the sources are listed at the bottom of every guide and article. When guidance changes, the page changes. If a popular tip is wrong, we say so rather than repeating it.

Gear is scored on six things: ease, value, durability, usefulness, portability and reliability, with one straight answer on top: need it, situational, or skip. Some gear links are affiliate links and we say so on the page. Scores never change because of a link, and the first recommendation is always the cheap thing that matters most.

Who makes it

Supreme Survival is made in San Diego by Supreme Team Media, which is why the regional pages start with Southern California: earthquakes, wildfire evacuations, planned power shutoffs and heat. More regions follow as the guides for them are checked.

Start with the Start Here page, or go straight to the one-page guides.