Mobile Home Severe Weather Pack

A calm, practical plan for tornado, hurricane, high wind, flood and winter weather if you live in a mobile or manufactured home.

Choose your shelter on a calm day. Leave before the storm.

TWO PDFs IN ONE DOWNLOAD

- Quick Pack (13 pages): the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in. Open this one first.

- Full Guide (100 pages): the reasons, worked examples and sources.

WHAT YOU GET

- A plain-English explanation of why most mobile and manufactured homes cannot be made safe shelter, with the National Weather Service figures read carefully, and a short list of the words this guide uses.

- The Shelter Vetting Worksheet, with eight questions to test any shelter, including whether it is open at 3 a.m., and what to look for if you want a shelter of your own.

- The Shelter Plan and Time-to-Shelter Worksheet, so you know your route and your door-to-door minutes by day and by night.

- Three small alert tables that explain what each watch and warning means, and what to do at each level in a mobile home.

- The Night Alerts Setup Checklist for your phone, a weather radio and local alerts, including a bedside setup that works while you sleep.

- What to look at on your tie-downs, anchors and skirting, what never to attempt yourself, and eight questions to ask a qualified installer, plus the Home Checklist.

- A go bag you can carry, a car kit, a document folder, a contact card, and care plans for pets, infants and people with extra needs.

- A two-trigger tornado rule, a leave sequence you can practice, what to do when you reach the shelter, three walkthroughs and a six-line Tornado Trigger Card for your fridge door.

- A hurricane and high-wind leave-early plan with a clock, a table of flood depths, and the Evacuation Triggers and Leave-By Clock worksheet.

- Winter, power cut, heater, carbon monoxide, generator and fire guidance, with a food and medicine clock and the Winter Power-Out Plan.

- Step-by-step recovery advice for re-entry, photos, insurance, scams, FEMA and SBA help, proof of ownership and key deadlines, with one Recovery Log.

- Your Year at a Glance, one page that puts every monthly, seasonal and yearly task on a single calendar, and short notes for readers in the UK in three sections.

WHO IT IS FOR

For people who live in mobile or manufactured homes, and for the family and neighbors who help them.

GOOD TO KNOW

- Print it, or keep it on your phone or tablet. US Letter, prints on A4 too.

- Digital download: read the free sample first. We cannot refund a guide once it has been downloaded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email hello@afternormal.co and we will fix it, replace it or refund you.

- General educational information, not medical, legal or emergency advice.