Get your household through ten days without power, shops or help: exactly how much water, food and medicine you need, the order to use it, and one plan on your fridge door.
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My name is Ray Hartigan. I spent forty years in emergency response across this country: flood rescues, bushfire fronts, cyclone recovery, and blackouts that went on long after the cameras packed up and drove home.
Here is the order it always goes in. The first two days belong to rescues, fires and hospitals. If you are safe in your house, you are, quite rightly, at the bottom of the list. Days three to five go to the big systems: power to the major towns, main roads, water treatment. Small towns and the ends of lines come later. Days six to ten are when the trucks get through and the shelves fill again.
A three-day kit leaves you exposed on days four, five and six. That is the stretch where I have seen older people end up in hospital from heat, from a fall in the dark, from running out of tablets, or from a long drive to a shop that turned out to be shut.
None of that is made up. It has already happened here:
None of those was the end of the world. Every one of them was a ten-day problem for the people inside it. This book is the plan I would hand you if I knocked on your door tomorrow and you asked me straight: "Ray, what do I actually need?"
Here is what a long blackout costs a house with no plan, set against what is in the book.
One fridge and freezer saved in one blackout pays for the book.
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A fridge keeps food cold for about four hours with the door shut. A full freezer holds for about 48 hours, a half-full one for about 24. Every look inside costs you some of that. So the moment the power goes: leave the doors shut, write down the time, and wait.
After four hours with no power, eat the fridge first: leftovers, cooked meat, milk, soft cheese. Then the freezer, cooking things as they thaw. Only then start on the tins.
Fridge, freezer, pantry. Do it in that order and your ten-day pantry is still nearly full on days four to ten, when you need it most.
That is one page. The book has 111, and the plan for your fridge door.
Metric, AUD, Australian stores, Australian seasons. Every chapter ends with a short checklist.
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I am Ray Hartigan. Forty years in emergency response across Australia: flood rescues, bushfire fronts, cyclone recovery, long blackouts. I am retired now. I live in a regional town with my wife Jan, and the grandkids think I am far too fussy about the pantry.
You cannot stop a cyclone, a flood, a fire front or a blackout. What you can control is what is in your cupboards, what is written on your fridge, and who is going to knock on your door.
When the lights go out at our place, Jan and I sit at the kitchen table with a lantern, a cup of tea and the radio on. This book is how you get there too.
Neither is this book. No bunker, no gun cabinet, no shed full of ration packs. It is a plan for an ordinary Australian home to get through a blackout, a storm, a flood or a fire, the things that have already happened here. Everything on the shopping list is food and kit you use anyway.
Every chapter has the unit and rental version. Water under the bed and on the wardrobe floor, a pantry that fits in one cupboard, cooling a small place with no aircon, and nothing that needs a shed, a tank or a wood heater.
You do not buy it in one trip. The twelve-week build adds a little to every normal shop, roughly $25 to $60 a week for one person, and you can stretch it to six months. ALDI and the home brands are in there, not just the big two.
No. Litres, kilograms and degrees Celsius. Prices in Australian dollars at Woolies, Coles, ALDI, Bunnings and Kmart. Bushfire, cyclone, flood and heatwave season state by state and territory by territory, the Fire Danger Ratings, and ABC Local Radio as your emergency broadcaster.
Yes. It is a 111-page PDF. Print the fridge-door plan and the shopping list, or the whole book. On a phone or tablet you can make the type as large as you like.
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Water to the litre. Food in the right order. Medicines covered. One plan on the fridge door.
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