Be ready for 72 hours — without the scare posts.
A calm, practical site for ordinary disruptions: storms, outages, and the unexpected. Follow your country’s official checklist. Build gradually. Skip panic buying.
Remembers your choice in this browser and opens that country’s page.
Your fridge has about 4 hours. Do you know what to do at hour 5? Open the blackout simulator for a calm hour-by-hour checklist — then tick what you already have in the kit builder.
Three plain steps
- Check what your government actually said. The viral “30 countries / 3-day blackout” claim mashed up longstanding kit advice. Start with the facts. What the countries actually said · country pages.
- Tick off a simple kit. Water, food you already eat, light, radio, meds, warm layer, cash. Add what your household needs. 72-hour kit · Kit builder.
- Know the first hours of an outage. Fridge timing, phone power, and safety basics — never run generators, BBQs, or fuel heaters indoors. Blackout simulator.
Tools
Blackout simulator
Hour-by-hour prompts for prairie winter, UK damp cold, AU heat, or NZ quake.
Open simulatorKit builder
Tick what you have. See what’s missing for your household size and country water rule.
Build my listPower bank calculator
Rough estimate of phone charges from a power bank. Clearly labeled as an estimate.
CalculateBlock heater (prairie)
“Should I plug in tonight?” using a common −15 °C / 5 °F rule of thumb.
Open toolCountries
Canada
GetPrepared · 4 L · 911
United States
Ready.gov · 1 gal · 911
United Kingdom
Be Ready · 3 L · 999
Ireland
OEP · 2–3 L · 112
Australia
Red Cross / SES · 000
New Zealand
Get Ready · 9 L/3 d · 111
Forty Below
Prairie / Calgary winter readiness: outage maps, road conditions, and cold-weather kit notes — separate from the international home page, same calm tone.
Visit Forty Below →Free checklist + outage alerts
Get the free one-page 72-hour checklist + calm outage alerts. Site and tools stay free. Email opt-in (when live) sends the checklist and short country-tagged notes. Later optional: a paid full printable family plan (~$5–10).
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Not medical or electrical advice — follow official guidance. Never run generators, BBQs, or fuel heaters indoors. Stay away from downed lines.