Who's behind this
I'm Todd. I've been through enough real emergencies to stop treating preparedness as a someday problem.
I'm a parent who completed CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training through Montgomery County, Texas. It is volunteer training, not a professional qualification, and I am not an emergency professional. The safety guidance on this site and in the binder comes from named public sources, not from me. Follow those sources and your local officials over me.
I've lived through multiple hurricanes, a wildfire, and a flood, and I started this site to give regular families the practical, no-panic guidance I wish I'd had.
Most emergency prep content is aimed at people going off-grid for good. This is for regular families who want to be ready without making it a lifestyle. Practical steps, honest gear picks, no fear language.
A local volunteer course. Not a professional qualification.
Multiple hurricanes, a wildfire, and a flood. Weeks without power.
Practical prep without the bunker. Honest gear, no fear, no hype.
The safety guidance here is compiled from public sources such as Ready.gov and FEMA, the CDC, the U.S. Fire Administration, the National Weather Service, the EPA and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Where we quote a U.S. government page, the wording is theirs, and we name the page and the month we read it. Where a government page does not cover a step, we say so instead of making up an instruction.
Agencies update their pages, so check anything important against the current source. We are independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any agency. In an emergency, call 911 and follow local officials.
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