The journal

Practical preparedness for suburban and coastal homeowners. New guides publish every few days — starting with winter outage season.

First to publish

Our first articles are in the works. Here's what's queued — each gets a full, practical treatment:

Backup power

Coming soon — How to keep your home running through a winter power outage

Sizing a portable power station for the essentials: fridge, phones, router, medical devices. The watts-and-hours math, and two field-tested options — no overspending.

Storm season

Coming soon — The nor'easter checklist: your home, the weekend before

Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30; winter storm season starts the same week. What to stage, charge, and check before the first big coastal storm.

Home & family

Coming soon — Pipes before gadgets: the frozen-pipe prevention plan

A burst pipe costs more than every gadget in your prep closet. Insulation, drip strategy, shutoff know-how, and thawing without a torch.

Home & family

Coming soon — The quiet 72-hour buffer every home should have

Water, food, light, heat, medications — FEMA's baseline, adapted for a suburban home that wants resilience without a bunker aesthetic.