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USA Survival Guides

Practical Survival Guides for American Families

Plain-language guides that help your household prepare for power outages, winter storms and grid-down situations, built on guidance from official sources.

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Featured guide

When It All Stops Working

A Family's 90-Day Plan for Transportation, Financial, Food, Water, Power, and Safety

A 90-day household plan for fuel, money, food, water, power, and safety when services fail.

Look inside 62 pages · Grid-Down & Extended Outage

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Every guide, one shelf

Pick the situation you want to prepare for. Each guide page includes sample pages so you can look inside first.

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Why our guides

Preparedness without the panic

Built on official sources

Each guide points back to the agencies and organizations it draws on, such as FEMA, the CDC, the U.S. Fire Administration and the American Red Cross, so you can check the guidance yourself.

Written for real families

Practical, calm and plain-language. No doomsday talk, just the steps a household can take before and during an emergency.

Plans you can actually finish

Checklists, worksheets and day-by-day plans that turn preparedness into a short list of doable tasks.

Choose your format

Guides are planned in Digital PDF, Digital eBook and Printed Hardcopy editions, sold and delivered through third-party retailers.

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129 Pages

A Family Preparedness Guide

Old Ways
Survival

When Survival Was Daily Life

  • 9 Sections
  • 101 Lessons
  • 129 Pages
  • Quick-Reference Charts

101 plain-language lessons drawn from how earlier generations kept warm, found water, prepared food, and stayed safe — adapted step-by-step for families preparing today.

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