A house glowing warm in a dark, snow-covered forest at night
A household readiness plan

Be ready for a two‑week outage.

Without spending it all at once. Six questions build a plan sized to your household, then spread the buying over what you can actually afford.

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Sample plan
Family of four + dog 63gal of water 168meals 7.2kWh a day, backup 5go-bags 24%ready today
Fourteen days without power

What a long outage actually asks of a house.

Storms, ice and grid failures can take the power for days. Here's how two weeks unfold, and what your plan has ready at each point.

A lit lantern alone in the dark
Hour 01

Lights out.

The house goes quiet. The fridge starts to warm, and phones are at whatever charge they had. A refrigerator keeps food safe for up to four hours if the door stays shut.

Your plan has ready
A headlamp for every person
Charged power banks and a lantern
A power station sized to your fridge, phones and medical devices
Frost patterns on a window with warm light behind
Night 01

The cold sets in.

Most furnaces need electricity to run, so the heat leaves with the power. Never heat the house with the oven or stovetop, and run generators and grills only outdoors.

Your plan has ready
One room you can close off and keep warm
Cold-rated sleeping bags for everyone
Carbon monoxide alarms on every level
Jars of dry grains and beans on a dark shelf
Day 04

The pantry carries you.

Roads are bad and shelves are thin. The household eats what it already stored, bought a little at a time on ordinary grocery runs.

Your plan has ready
A gallon of water per person per day
Two weeks of food your family actually eats
A way to cook without the grid
A small house in the snow at dawn, its windows still lit
Day 14

Still standing.

Everyone is warm, fed and accounted for. Not because the house was lucky, but because the plan was built months ago, one paycheck at a time.

Your plan has ready
A role for every person, kids included
Meeting points and an out-of-area contact
Reminders to rotate, test and restock
The readiness check

Six questions. Your score. Your next step.

  1. Who lives with you
  2. Your kind of home
  3. What your area gets
  4. Anyone needing extra care
  5. What you already own
  6. What you can set aside
This week · free

Register for local alerts

Label the shutoffs

Run a 15-minute drill

This month · $288

Carbon monoxide alarms $50

Fire extinguishers $70

Three days of water $18

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Budget first

A $3,876 plan. Bought $150 a month.

Free steps and life safety come first, so the house is safer in the first month. Big purchases wait until a savings fund covers them. Renting, short on space, or caring for someone? The plan changes to fit.

  1. Now$288Basics covered: CO alarms, extinguishers, water, a radio, medicine
  2. Month 3$552Two weeks of food, added on regular grocery runs
  3. Month 6$1,017Two weeks of water stored
  4. Month 22$3,387Fully stocked, power station included

Example household: two adults, two kids and a dog, already owning about $489 of the plan. Prices are approximate.

The five parts of a ready household

Field guides

  1. 01Backup powerKeep heat, cold food, phones and medical devices running.
  2. 02Water and foodTwo weeks of what you already eat and drink, rotated.
  3. 03Home hardeningSmoke, cold, heat, fire, break-ins and account takeover.
  4. 04Alerts and contactWarnings and family contact when cell service is down.
  5. 05EvacuationEveryone, pets included, out the door in 15 minutes.
Plan for what your area gets
Winter Heat Wildfire Hurricanes Floods Earthquakes Tornadoes
A street lamp lit on a snowy night
Start tonight

Start with six questions.

One minute tonight, and the plan takes it from there: what to do this week, what to buy this month.

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