Visual guides
Readiness, one page at a time.
Kit guide
The home kit, in buying order.
Twelve purchases from first to last, so the first twenty-five dollars does the most good.
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Scenario guide
The week after the big one.
What actually stops working after a major Southern California earthquake, and for how long.
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Kit guide
The baby go-bag.
Three days for an infant or toddler, packed so one adult can carry the baby and the other carries everything else.
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Home guide
Readiness for renters.
No garage, no solar, no drilling into walls, and you might move next year. Here is what still works.
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Skills guide
Cooking without power in an apartment.
Gas stove with an electric igniter, electric microwave, no yard, no fireplace. Here is how you eat.
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Family guide
Getting kids ready without scaring them.
How a household practices for the shaking and the dark so children feel capable, not afraid.
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Home guide
Power for medical devices when the lights go out.
CPAP, oxygen, refrigerated medicine, a power chair: what keeps running, and who to call before the shutoff.
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Family guide
A plan for parents who live alone.
How to get an older parent ready from another city, without moving them or arguing about it.
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Skills guide
Water storage in a small home.
A gallon per person per day, in an apartment with no garage and no spare closet.
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Home guide
Twelve ways to make your home safer in an emergency.
The fixes that matter most when the power, the water or the neighborhood is not normal.
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Scenario guide
Twenty minutes to evacuate.
What actually goes in the car, in the order it matters.
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Supplies guide
Fifteen things worth keeping extra of.
Cheap, useful every week, and the first things to run out when stores close.
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Southern California
The shutoff notice just came. Now what?
A Public Safety Power Shutoff gives you a day or two of warning. Here is what to do with it.
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Skills guide
Making water safe to drink.
Filtering clears it. Disinfecting makes it safe. You usually need both.
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Kit guide
The pet evacuation kit.
Most shelters will not take your animals. This is how they leave with you anyway.
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Scenario guide
The power is out until tomorrow.
The first hour, in order. Most of the damage happens in the choices you make right now.
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Scenario guide
Earthquake. The first ten minutes.
What to do while it is shaking, and the order to work in once it stops.
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Skills guide
Hygiene when the water is off.
Twelve mistakes that get people sick faster than hunger does.
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Scenario guide
Heat wave, no AC.
How to keep a house and the people in it safe when it is over a hundred and the power is out.
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Home guide
The 20-minute earthquake home check.
Twelve things to fix or find, most of them with a wrench and a free evening.
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Skills guide
The two-liter bottle filter.
A clarity filter from things already in the house, and the one step people skip.
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Home guide
The document folder.
Twelve things to put in one folder by the door, so paperwork never costs you a day.
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Kit guide
The car kit, in buying order.
Twelve things for the trunk, cheapest and most important first.
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Gear Lab guide
Backup power, ranked by what actually works.
Twelve ways to keep phones, lights and a fridge going, from best to barely.
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Home guide
A week without power.
How a normal household eats, stays clean, keeps cool or warm, and sleeps when the grid is gone for days.
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Kit guide
The 72-hour family kit, item by item.
Everything a household needs for three days with no help, and nothing it does not.
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