Ready at Home — Calm 72-Hour & 2-Week Household Emergency Plan with Readiness Score, Lights-Out Drill & Printable Checklists

A calm, official-source household emergency plan: water, food, kits, power outages, evacuation — with the Readiness Score and printable checklists.

Preparedness is not paranoia — it’s a weekend project. Ready at Home is a 32-page printable PDF that helps any household, anywhere, get through the first 72 hours of an emergency and build toward two weeks, calmly and on a budget.

Inside:

• The Readiness Score: a 10-minute, 40-point household check with four levels

• What agencies recommend, side by side: Ready.gov/FEMA, American Red Cross, EU, Canada, UK, Ireland and Japan’s “rolling stock” habit

• 2025–2026 context with sources (NERC reliability assessments, the April 2025 Iberian blackout, 2026 government campaigns)

• The plan: your local risks, meeting places, out-of-area contact, communication, kids, older adults, medical needs and pets

• Supplies: water amounts and how to make water safe (CDC, EPA), food you actually eat, stay-kit vs go-bag, first aid, hygiene, documents and cash

• Situations: power-outage playbook with USDA food-safety times and carbon-monoxide safety, heat and cold, storms, floods, earthquakes, wildfire smoke, evacuating in 15 minutes

• The 2-Hour Lights-Out Drill: a family challenge that finds the gaps before an emergency does

• 2027 outlook: named forecasts (WMO, NERC), three scenarios and clear conclusions (labelled as Orbit’s view)

• Toolkit: 8-week build plan, printable checklists, household plan worksheet, wallet contact cards, maintenance calendar and log

General information based on official public guidance — always follow your local authorities and emergency services.