Emergency Preparedness Blog

Think your emergency food supply is ready? You might be making these common (and costly) mistakes. Learn how to avoid them and build a food supply that will actually keep your family safe and fed.

Don't guess on your cabin's power. This guide provides a step-by-step calculation, real-world examples, and cost estimates to help you choose the right size solar panel for your off-grid needs.

Stop guessing how much water you need. This guide provides a simple formula, real-world examples, and expert tips to calculate and store the right amount of water for your family's emergency preparedness.

Hurricane Harvey survivor's tested guide to choosing the perfect portable generator. Real-world performance data from 72-hour outages, winter storms, and off-grid adventures. Find your ideal backup power solution.

Professional guide to home food preservation for emergency preparedness. Dehydrating techniques, safe canning methods, and extending fresh food shelf life for disasters.

Store water safely at home in 2025: food‑grade containers vs. plastic bottles vs. barrels, sanitization methods, modern contaminants, and rotation strategies that work.

NFPA safety standards guide to safe heating during power outages. 4 tested methods from propane heaters to wood stoves with safety protocols from 12+ years field experience.

Comprehensive emergency preparedness guide for seniors and aging adults addressing climate health vulnerabilities, medical needs, mobility considerations, and family coordination strategies.

After researching solar generators to water filters through verified user experiences and independent reports, here's your roadmap to home resilience. Real research data, honest analysis, systems that work when the grid fails.

Researched every backup power option for 3 years. Solar generators vs whole-house systems vs generators. Real costs, installation, performance data.

Professional water purification guide: boiling, filtering, chemical treatment, and UV systems. Real-world testing results for home, emergency, and camping applications from 12+ years emergency management experience.

FEMA-certified emergency management specialist's hurricane preparedness checklist. Evidence-based strategies from Hurricane Harvey (2017), Ian (2022), and Ida (2021) response operations. Essential supplies, evacuation planning, and home protection strategies verified through professional emergency management protocols.

After surviving Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Freeze, I've tested hundreds of emergency products from Amazon. This is the no-BS guide to the gear that actually works when it matters most.

Expert guide to surviving extended power outages lasting weeks or months. Professional strategies for resource management, psychological resilience, and community survival from 12+ years emergency management.

Avoid deadly winter preparedness mistakes that kill. Learn from real winter emergency failures: generator safety, heating errors, clothing choices, and preparation timing that saves lives when winter storms hit.

Professional guide to 10-30 year food storage using mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, and food-grade buckets. DIY preservation methods tested in real emergency situations.

Complete battery comparison: Lead-acid vs AGM vs Gel vs Lithium-ion vs LiFePO₄ vs Sodium-ion. Real specs on capacity, cycle life, temperature performance, charging, safety, and lifetime costs.

Create a bulletproof family communication plan for winter emergencies. Includes contact trees, meeting points, check-in protocols, and communication backup systems when normal networks fail.

Build a resilient food and water supply for any emergency: 3-day to 1+ year storage, DIY preservation techniques, bulk storage methods, and commercial freeze-dried options from 12+ years emergency management experience.

Complete 2025 home security strategy: physical barriers, AI surveillance, smart technology, cyber protection, and community networks. Real deterrents backed by crime data and police interviews.