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Heat, water, and food when pipes freeze, roads close, and the power may follow.
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The Pentagon is planning for 90 days cut off
When the trucks stop, your kitchen has days. Theirs has months.
The all-in-one place to shop for preparedness: long-term food, water, power, and tactical gear from the major brands, compared side by side, with prices checked at every store that sells them. Close the gap while the shelves are full.
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90 daysof self-sufficiency the Pentagon is planning for at major US bases: power, water, fuel, and food with no outside help.Source: Fox News reporting on the FORTRESS program, October 2026
14 daysof food and water is what FEMA and the Red Cross tell every household to keep at home.Source: FEMA / American Red Cross, Food and Water in an Emergency
34%of households that keep emergency supplies say theirs would last more than two weeks. Two out of three would not make it past FEMA's own line.Source: FEMA, 2024 National Household Survey
11 hoursis the average time a US electricity customer spent without power in 2024, the most in a decade, and 80% of it came from major events.Source: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual 2024
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Every serious plan is the same four systems in the same order: food, water, power, and tactical. Each hub leads with the products, priced at the stores that sell them, then the guides and calculators that turn your household into exact numbers.
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Most people do not shop by category; they shop by the thing they are afraid of. Pick the scenario, and the kit assembles itself across food, water, power, and tactical, each page with its tickable checklist.
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Power Outage
Light, refrigeration, and charged phones when the grid goes dark, from hours to days.
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Wildfire Evacuation
Grab-and-go bags, clean air, and water for an exit measured in minutes.
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Hurricane
A week or two of food, water, and power for the long outages hurricanes leave behind.
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Grid-Down
The deep bench: weeks to months of food, water, and power you build yourself.
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The latest from the news desk, updated November 11, 2026. Each brief separates what the reporting confirms from what went viral, then points at the need page and catalog it actually affects.
News brief · November 11, 2026
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The Pentagon Is Planning for 90 Days Cut Off. Here's What It Actually Means for Your Household
Fox News reported the Pentagon's FORTRESS program: major bases must be able to run 90 days without outside support. What is confirmed, what went viral, and what FEMA actually tells households.
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News brief · November 11, 2026
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72 Hours Is the Floor, Not the Plan: What FEMA Actually Recommends in 2026
Ready.gov says several days. The FEMA and Red Cross booklet says two weeks at home. The official numbers, exactly as published, and how to build past the floor.
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Food storage guides
From your first two weeks of pantry to a full year of calories, plus the freeze dryer that turns grocery sales into 25-year storage.
Food storage
Freeze-Dried Food, Explained
How freeze-dried food works, how long it really lasts, and how #10 cans, pouches, and buckets compare for long-term food storage.
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Food storage
How to Build a One-Year Food Supply Without Wasting Money
The math, the layers, and the shopping order for a true one-year food supply: calories first, variety second, and no serving-count traps.
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Food storage
Buckets, Mylar Bags, and Oxygen Absorbers
Pack rice, beans, and grains for decades yourself: food-grade buckets, Mylar bags, oxygen absorber sizing, and the mistakes that ruin DIY storage.
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Food storage
Home Freeze Dryers
Freeze-dry your own harvest, meat sales, and garden surplus at home: machine sizes, real running costs, cycle times, and what freezes well.
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Food storage
ReadyWise vs My Patriot Supply
ReadyWise and My Patriot Supply compared on the numbers that matter: servings, calories per day, shelf life, price, and cost per day, from the same data as the product cards.
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Food storage
Mountain House vs Peak Refuel
Mountain House and Peak Refuel pouches compared on calories, stated protein, price, and cost per calorie, using the same catalog data as the product cards.
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Store it right, and know exactly how to make questionable water safe, with doses and times taken straight from the CDC and EPA.
Water
Emergency Water Storage
The CDC baseline of a gallon per person per day, food-grade containers, sanitizing, rotation, and where barrels and tanks actually fit.
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Water
How to Make Water Safe in an Emergency
The CDC and EPA playbook for unsafe water: boiling times, exact bleach doses by concentration, settling and pre-filtering, and the limits of each method.
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Water
Water Filters and Purifiers
What each filter type actually removes, the filter-versus-purifier distinction that matters, and how to size a system for a household.
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Tactical
The Bug-Out Bag, Built Right
What actually goes in a 72-hour bug-out bag, the weight budget that keeps it carryable, and the gear people buy that they never need.
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Tactical
Emergency Communications
Stay informed and stay in contact when networks fail: NOAA weather radio, FRS/GMRS and ham basics with honest licensing facts, and the paper plan behind it all.
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Tactical
Faraday Bags and EMP Protection
An honest guide to EMP and solar storm risk, how Faraday shielding actually works, nested protection, and what is worth shielding in the first place.
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Money & metals
Storing Value Outside the Banks
What gold and silver actually do in a preparedness plan, what they cost to buy and sell, the honest risks, and how barter really works. General information, not financial advice.
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Looking for a battery box you plug appliances into instead? That is a power station, and our sister site BackupPowerGuides covers those in depth. Here, we build systems.
Power
Off-Grid Solar Kits
Panels, charge controllers, batteries, and inverters explained plainly: how a kit is sized, what complete kits include, and where the money should go.
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Power
Solar Panel Sizing
The three calculations behind every honest solar recommendation: daily load, panel watts from sun hours, and battery capacity with real depth-of-discharge limits.
Read the guide →Plan it in one pass
Four tools that turn the catalog into a plan: the bundle builder assembles your whole kit, the quiz scores what you already have, the deals page tracks verified price drops, and the 90-day checklist prints for the fridge door.
Tool
Build My Stockpile
Household, days, and scenario in; a complete priced kit across food, water, power, and tactical out.
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Tool
The Readiness Quiz
Ten questions, a score out of 100, and your top gaps with the products that close them.
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Prices
Deals & Price Drops
Verified price drops since our last check, plus the biggest stock-up values in the catalog.
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Checklist
The 90-Day Checklist
The Pentagon-depth target as one tickable, printable list, with the math shown.
Open the checklist →Scenario playbooks
Scenarios
Grid-Down
A realistic playbook for the first three days of a major power outage: water, food, heat, information, and the decisions that matter in order.
Read the guide →Our accuracy rule: every safety figure on this site is checked against a primary source (CDC, EPA, Ready.gov, USDA, the FCC, or the manufacturer) and carries a last-verified date. If an official source ever disagrees with us, the official source wins.