What Actually Failed — All Three Volumes

All three volumes, 195 numbered checks, 182 pages — plus three printables.

Volume III and the printables are not sold separately.

I have been prepping since 2009. Four extended outages, the longest of them

nine days. After every one I sit down and write out what actually failed,

instead of what I planned for on paper. This collection came out of those

notebooks.

VOLUME I — SAVE THE FOOD, NOT THE REFRIGERATOR · 72 checks · 66 pages

Keeping a household's food safe through an outage, and why the appliance you

already own is the wrong shape for the job. Includes the generator question and

the one instruction in the collection that is not negotiable.

VOLUME II — THE OUTAGE NOBODY PLANS FOR · 71 checks · 62 pages

Water, light, information and fuel. The week where the food is fine and

everything else is the emergency.

VOLUME III — THE MATH THEY SKIP · 52 checks · 46 pages · COLLECTION ONLY

The arithmetic nobody prints on the packaging. The watt-hour figure on the box

is real, and it is measured in a lab — five separate losses stand between that

number and what reaches your freezer, and together they are close to half the

battery. This volume is why the other two work: both of them tell you to size

something, and this is where the sizing lives.

THE THREE CARDS · 8 pages · COLLECTION ONLY

The Hour One Card, which fits on one sheet and tapes inside a cabinet door —

the first ten moves when the power drops, written so somebody who has never

read these books can follow it. The Load Sheet, for measuring your own

appliances instead of trusting a nameplate. The Rotation Calendar, four ticks

a year.

Seventeen diagrams. Every one of the 195 checks carries the honest limit: what

it will not do.

There are no prices in any of these books. Prices go stale within a year and

these are meant to still be right in five. What is here instead is the shape of

the decision — which of two things to buy, which specification matters, and

what the box will not tell you. Go and find out what things cost in your own

town, in the week you are buying.

I put my name on this because I want you to be able to hold me to numbers like

these, instead of vague reassurance.

Instant download. 60-day guarantee. Nothing in it expires.

This is general preparedness information from one man's experience. It is not

legal, medical, or electrical advice. Where a question varies by jurisdiction,

these books name who to ask.