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Know Your Stairwell Before You Need It
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Four hours, forty-eight hours, forty degrees
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A Five-Gallon Bucket Is Your Bathroom Plan B
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Bleach can make water safe. The label decides if it will.
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Down for wind, up for gas: how to shelter in place
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Two ways out of every room, and a drill the kids will ask for
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A fan won't save you in 98 degrees. A neighbor might.
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Get under the table, then bolt the bookcase to the wall
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Size Your Battery Bank to the Fridge, Not the Box Art
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Nothing That Burns Fuel Comes Inside the House
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Heat One Room and Cook Outside When the Power Quits
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Pressure Can the Green Beans, Water Bath the Jam
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Rice, Beans and a Mylar Bag That Actually Seals
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Eat the Oldest Can First and Your Prep Never Expires
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The Rule of Threes Tells You What to Fix First
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Boil It, Filter It or Drop a Tablet In It
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The Bag in Your Desk for the Day the Roads Close
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Six Survivors and the One Decision That Kept Them Alive
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Three Blasts, Then Wait
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A Tarp, a Hundred Feet of Paracord and Three Knots
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Wet Wood Still Burns If You Split It Open
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Teach Your Kids to Hug a Tree Before They Ever Need To
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Day Nine Is the Hard One in a Two Week Outage