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Power Outage Preparedness

Prepare for the first ten minutes, a long overnight outage, food and medication concerns, dangerous temperatures, and safe backup power.

Target outcomeKeep the household safe and functional through at least 72 hours without grid power.
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First actions

If this is happening now.

Slow down enough to identify the hazard, then protect life before property.

  1. 01

    Confirm whether the outage is limited to your home, then check the breaker only if conditions are safe.

  2. 02

    Keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed and note the time power failed.

  3. 03

    Use flashlights instead of candles and keep generators, grills, and fuel-burning devices outdoors and away from openings.

  4. 04

    Check medical-power, heating, cooling, and communication needs before they become urgent.

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Extended Blackout 72-Hour Playbook

A printable operating plan with medical-power, temperature, food-safety, backup-power, relocation, and restoration decisions.

You do not need to purchase this to access the safety guidance above. The paid edition adds printable, offline, writable field pages.

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Primary public-safety sources

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FlintReady organizes decisions. Government and local emergency authorities issue the alerts, orders, and condition-specific instructions.

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WATER

Water Emergency

Build a safe water reserve, recognize the difference between public notices, and plan for drinking, food preparation, hygiene, sanitation, and resupply.

Outcome Give every household member a safe drinking-water plan for at least three days, with a path toward two weeks. Build this plan MOVE

Evacuation

Decide where to go, when to leave, what to take, how to communicate, and how to keep people, pets, medications, documents, and routes accountable.

Outcome Be able to leave safely with the whole household in 15 minutes when officials order evacuation. Build this plan WEATHER

Severe Weather

Turn watches, warnings, forecasts, and local orders into clear household actions for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfire smoke, earthquakes, winter storms, heat, and cold.

Outcome Know the safest place, the trigger to shelter or leave, and the official source to monitor for your most likely hazards. Build this plan
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