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Cover of The 90-Day Blackout Handbook

Book 1 · free PDF

The 90-Day Blackout Handbook

How a family with small children gets ready, stays safe and stays warm through three months without the grid: water, food, babies, power, health, security and the people around you.

360 gal
water for four
400k
calories, two adults
1,260
diapers, two under-2s
0
flames or engines indoors
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Book 2 · free PDF

Tools & Skills for the dark

The tools a household needs when nothing plugs in, and the skills that keep a family fed, warm, patched up and safe for 90 days without the grid.

120+
tools, in buying order
21
core skills, 13 in pictures
12
practice weekends
0
plugs needed
Download PDF55 pages · 3.5 MB

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Cover of Nuclear Emergency Survival Guide

Book 3 · free PDF

Nuclear Emergency Survival Guide

What a family does before, during and after a nuclear explosion, a radiation release or a power plant accident: where to shelter, how long to stay inside, how to clean off fallout and when iodine pills help. Every step comes from official public guidance.

10 min
to get inside, usually
24 h
stay inside, at least
up to 90%
off with your outer clothes
16
sources, cited
Download PDF20 pages · 1.3 MB
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Inside The 90-Day Blackout Handbook

  • Part 1 · Get ready: water, food, babies and toddlers, medical, power, heat and cold, light and cooking, sanitation, cash and papers
  • Part 2 · Safe from people: low profile, harden your home, neighbors, at the door, stay or go
  • Part 3 · Living through it: hour zero, daily rhythm, months two and three, when the power comes back
  • Part 4 · Worksheets: cards, logs, checklists and the 90-day tracker

Print · punch · keep by the flashlight

Inside Tools & Skills for the dark

  • Part 1 · Tools: buying in tiers, hand tools, repair, water, fire and cooking, power, plumbing, light, medical, sanitation, car and bike
  • Part 2 · Skills: the skill plan, water, fire, first aid, knots, shelter, repair, food, navigation, the calm head, teaching kids
  • Part 3 · Step by step, in pictures: bleeding, water, sanitation, laundry, shutoffs, generator, food cold, fire, tarp, car rescue
  • Part 4 · Worksheets: tool inventory, who can do what, sources

Print · punch · keep in the toolbox

Inside Nuclear Emergency Survival Guide

  • Start here · Is it happening right now? Three paths, four steps each
  • Part 1 · Understand: flash, blast and fallout, alerts and siren signals
  • Part 2 · In the moment: the first ten minutes, where to shelter, 24 hours inside, the fallout clock, cleaning off, iodine pills
  • Part 3 · Get ready: the shelter kit, your readiness score, the family plan, people who need extra help
  • Part 4 · After the event and myths, then wallet cards, a fridge-door poster and sources

Print · punch · keep with the radio

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Rules that don't bend

  • Carbon monoxide has no smell.

    Never run a generator, grill, camp stove or charcoal indoors or in a garage, even with the door open. Battery CO alarms on every floor and in the sleep room.

  • Generator: outdoors, 20 feet out.

    A generator is backup only. Outdoors only, at least 20 feet from the house, exhaust pointing away from doors, windows and vents.

  • Formula: ready-to-feed, never watered down.

    Ready-to-feed formula needs no water. If you mix powder, use bottled water or water brought to a rolling boil for 1 minute and used within 30 minutes. Never water formula down, never make homemade formula.

  • Safe sleep, every sleep.

    The rules don't change in an emergency. Babies sleep on their backs, on a firm, flat surface in their own crib, bassinet or portable play yard, with no pillows, bumpers, blankets or soft toys. Use a sleep sack for warmth.

  • No fuel-burning heaters inside.

    No camp stoves, grills, ovens, charcoal or kerosene heaters for warmth. One warm room, layers and sleeping bags instead.

  • Practice, not risk.

    On the lights-off weekend the fridge, freezer and any medical device stay on their circuits, the CO alarms are tested and a phone stays charged.

Not medical advice. Ask your pediatrician about doses and feeding.