EvacuationFor Families
EvacuationMost families own emergency supplies they have never opened. The gear was never the problem — nobody ever taught them. This is the part nobody teaches, and none of it costs money you haven’t already spent.
Walk every room with your phone and photograph everything you own. It takes about eleven minutes and it becomes your insurance claim. People who skip it end up arguing with an adjuster about things that no longer exist.
Free, irreplaceable, and the first thing people forget.
Three days for two people is about 48 lb. Nobody carries that.
An emergency is a pharmacy outage. Know what day five looks like.
Networks fail precisely when everyone uses them at once.
A kit you've never opened isn't preparation. It's a receipt.
People who haven't answered this decide in the driveway, at night.
Open the bag. Empty it onto the floor. Put back only what you can explain the use of. Whatever you can’t explain, you were never going to use — and whatever’s missing, you now know about while the stores are still open.
The S.A.F.E. Plan is the eighteen-page workbook — contacts, medications, rally points, evacuation routes, and six tear-off Breadcrumb notes your household leaves behind so people can follow your trail when the phones are down.
Download the S.A.F.E. Plan (18 pages)Printing note: pages 12–17 are tear-off sheets. Print those single-sided.
“During COVID I built go-bags for my family. Then a neighbour asked for one. Then another neighbour asked me to show her how to use the bag she’d already bought online — she didn’t know what a single thing in it was for. That’s the company.”