📖 Book Guide
When the Lights Don't Come Back
By Cole Danforth
Long-Duration Survival: What Real People Did When the Power, Water and Supply Chain Stopped
Plan for disruption at home with guides to household dependencies, useful backups and a written contact plan. Related reading: Cole Danforth's book on prolonged power, water and supply-chain disruption.
Original GentleTools articles on related topics, with public safety sources. These guides are not excerpts or chapter summaries from the book.
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Make a Paper Emergency Contact Plan Your Household Can Follow
A simple household contact sheet with named people, meeting arrangements, support tasks and a short rehearsal to expose gaps.
What Stops Working in a Power Outage? A Home Dependency Checklist
Walk through your home to identify what depends on electricity, record practical backups and give each preparation task an owner.