🏕️ Preparedness

Knowing how to make a family emergency plan is different from actually having one. Most families are somewhere in the middle — they’ve thought about it, discussed it vaguely, and assume that when something happens everyone will figure it out. That assumption holds up fine until it doesn’t. A family emergency plan doesn’t need to…

The question of how much water to store per person has a simple official answer and a more useful real-world answer. FEMA’s recommendation is one gallon per person per day. That’s the floor — enough to stay alive. Whether it’s actually enough depends on what you’re planning for and how you intend to use it….