News - The Survival Tabs

Disaster Assistance and Insurance Claims Guide

A calm documentation and application process for disaster aid and property claims, with clear legal and policy limits.

Hurricane Cleanup and Recovery Guide

A safety-first guide to reentry, flood and structural hazards, mold and moisture, debris, utilities, documentation, and household recovery after a hurricane.

Safe Home Canning Guide

A safety-first guide to tested recipes, correct equipment, processing records, storage, and spoilage decisions.

Tornado Preparedness Guide

A safety-first guide to tornado alerts, shelter decisions, household planning, immediate protective action, and cautious recovery.

Emergency Sanitation and Hygiene Guide

A practical household system for toilets, hand hygiene, waste, cleaning, and disease prevention when normal services fail.

Hurricane Preparedness Guide

An evergreen guide to hurricane hazards, official forecasts, evacuation, sheltering, household supplies, accessibility, home protection, power loss, and recovery.

Financial Preparedness for Disasters

A practical household guide to protecting access to money, records, insurance, essential services, and recovery support.

Civil Emergency Preparedness Guide

A calm, practical household guide to preparing for severe disruption, civil unrest, evacuation, service interruptions and recovery using lawful, safety-first planning.

Managing Relationships During Emergencies

A calm guide to emergency communication, voluntary roles, shared resources, caregiving, privacy, boundaries, conflict de-escalation, and immediate safety.

Foraging Safety Guide

A harm-prevention guide to wild food gathering that emphasizes expert identification, legal harvesting, contamination risks, and poison-response planning.

Emergency Stockpile Guide

A calm, scalable household system for building, storing, rotating, and using emergency supplies

Earthquake Preparedness Guide

A practical guide to reducing household earthquake hazards, acting safely during shaking, and managing aftershocks and recovery.

Emergency Food Preservation Guide

A safety-first overview of freezing, drying, canning, pickling, fermenting, curing, storage, outage decisions, and suspect-food disposal.

Urban Emergency Evacuation Guide

A practical urban evacuation guide covering alerts, routes, high-rises, transit, accessibility, reunification, shelter, and safe return.

First-Time Camping Guide

A beginner-friendly camping guide covering site choice, forecasts, essential gear, camp setup, food, fire safety, wildlife, and when to leave.

Cold Weather Camping Guide

A conservative cold-weather camping guide covering trip decisions, shelter, clothing, sleep systems, combustion safety, frostbite, and hypothermia.

Rainwater Collection and Storage Guide

A safety-first guide to household rainwater capture, intended uses, contamination controls, storage, overflow, mosquitoes, and ongoing maintenance.

Quick Emergency Meals Guide

A practical guide to safe no-cook and minimal-cook meals for outages and evacuations, with food-safety, water, dietary, and accessibility considerations.

How to Find State Emergency Management Resources

A practical guide to locating, verifying, saving, and using official preparedness information.

Storm Preparedness Guide

A practical, all-hazards framework for preparing before a storm, making safe decisions while conditions are dangerous, and recovering without creating new risks.

Community Emergency Preparedness Guide

How neighbors, local organizations, and public agencies can prepare together—calmly, inclusively, and safely.

Winter Storm Preparedness Guide

A calm, practical plan for snow, ice, extreme cold, outages, and safer recovery.

Complete Guide to Emergency Water

A safety-first household guide to emergency water storage, treatment boundaries, contamination risks, advisories, sanitation, and recovery.

Small-Space Emergency Supply Storage Guide

A practical system for organizing emergency supplies in limited space without blocking exits, overloading shelves, or making essential items hard to reach.

Rural Community Emergency Preparedness Guide

A practical framework for communities facing long distances, limited infrastructure, agricultural risks, and slower access to outside help.

Emergency Power Guide

How to plan safe, realistic backup power for outages.

Emergency Preparedness Gift Guide

A respectful guide to preparedness gifts for homes, vehicles, travel, older adults, people with disabilities, children, and pet owners.

Home Fire Emergency Guide

A calm home-fire guide covering prevention, alarms, escape planning, accessibility, immediate evacuation, emergency calls, and cautious recovery.

Long-Term Emergency Food Supply Guide

A practical system for building a long-term emergency food reserve through household needs, safe storage, rotation, preparation planning, and food variety.

Firewood Storage and Safety Guide

A practical firewood storage guide covering moisture, stable stacks, pests, safe separation, fire restrictions, inspection, and responsible handling.

Emergency Cooking and Stove Safety Guide

Use emergency cooking equipment safely during outages and evacuations, with practical guidance on no-cook foods, outdoor stoves, fuel, fire prevention, carbon monoxide, and food safety.

Emergency Water Sources and Treatment Guide

A practical emergency water guide covering safer sources, official advisories, boiling, disinfection, filtration limits, storage, and contamination hazards.

Family Emergency Preparedness Guide

A family emergency plan covering communication, reunification, evacuation, sheltering, children, older adults, disabilities, pets, supplies, and practice.

Emergency Radio and Communication Guide

Build a layered emergency communication plan using written contacts, text messaging, official alerts, emergency radio, two-way radios, backup power and check-in procedures.

Emergency Shelter Basics

Learn the basics of emergency shelter planning, including evacuation decisions, home and outdoor shelter, ventilation, insulation, water, communication and special needs.

Wilderness Food Preservation Guide

Learn safer wilderness and off-grid food preservation practices, including drying, smoking, curing, canning limits, storage, wildlife protection and when to discard food.

Vegan Emergency Food Storage Guide

A practical vegan emergency food plan covering shelf-stable calories, protein, nutrient variety, safe water, cooking constraints, and household dietary needs.

Emergency Medication and First Aid Kit Guide

A household organization guide for medications, health records, first-aid supplies, label-directed storage, emergency contacts, and regular maintenance.

Rainwater Harvesting for Emergency Preparedness

A safety-first guide to collecting, storing, maintaining, and using rainwater as a supplemental emergency resource—not automatically safe drinking water.

Emergency Power and Generator Safety Guide

A safety-first guide to emergency power priorities, portable-generator boundaries, carbon monoxide prevention, electrical isolation, fuel handling, and safer alternatives.

Emergency Food Preservation Guide

A respectful preparedness guide for older adults and caregivers covering communication, mobility considerations, essential supplies, food, water, documents and support networks.

Urban Emergency Evacuation Guide

Emergency preparedness for apartments and small spaces, including compact storage, evacuation, power outages, water, food, communications and building-specific planning.

First-Time Camping Guide

Choose emergency food for evacuation and bug-out bags by balancing portability, shelf life, preparation needs, packaging, water requirements and household preferences.

Cold Weather Camping Guide

A practical framework for estimating a family emergency food supply by household size, duration, dietary needs, storage space and preparation requirements.

Foraging Safety Guide

Learn how to build a practical emergency food supply for power outages, with an emphasis on shelf-stable, low-preparation foods and sensible household planning.

Rainwater Collection and Storage Guide

Plan ahead for wildfire evacuation with routes, communication, go-bag essentials, important documents, emergency food and water, and household readiness steps.

Quick Emergency Meals Guide

A practical tornado preparedness guide for choosing a safer shelter location, building a kit, planning communications and keeping essential food and water available.

Complete Guide to Emergency Water

A household earthquake preparedness guide covering safer spaces, emergency supplies, communication, food and water planning, and what to do after shaking stops.

Small-Space Emergency Supply Storage Guide

A practical guide to preparing your household for hurricanes, including evacuation planning, emergency supplies, food, water, communications and recovery basics.

Urban Emergency Preparedness Guide

A practical, low-space plan for apartments, high-rises, dense neighborhoods, and transit-dependent households.