When the Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant (Practical Survival)

For $12 I was expecting a lot more than a wimpy little Xerox quality copy of about the same size as the D.O.L study guide!! VERY DISAPPOINTING!! Wasted money and time. SMDH.

I am an ex-Airborne Infantry grunt and ER and Family Practice doc with a decades long interest in disaster preparation. I have read and/or have hundreds of books on this topic and I can't believe I just found this short but superb book! This is good material down to the excellent suggested reading and "other resources." I especially liked his recommendation to attend a seminar with the Wilderness Medical Institute.On a personal note, I took my fiancée, a Mechanical Engineer, to a Wilderness Medical Society seminar and she loved it and can't wait for me to choke so she can try an emergent cricothyroidotomy! OMG, I muffle even a small cough now.The chapters on 1) Water, 2) Food, 3) First Aid, 4) Home Security & Personal Defense, 5) Heating, Cooling & Energy Needs and 6) Hygiene & Sanitation are the best distillation of my 20+ years of research and application I have ever found. I have minor quibbles (Stabil only preserves your gasoline 6-12 months and propane stores for years, maybe decades.) but he even taught this old dog some new tricks. No spoiler here but see recommendations for staying cool in Phoenix pre-air conditioning or the sweet old lady who had survived several hurricanes, "I am not recommending anything. I'm just saying...." :)p.s. I have eaten my share of MREs and I give his food advice 6 stars.

It’s a little pamphlet on high level ideas/concepts for when the grid goes down. If the grid goes down right now, this book is doing NOTHING for you. You read it ahead of time and get some cute ideas. Garbage.

Spouse loves it, thank you

I almost missed this book at the bottom of my amazon package today. I've had owner manuals thicker than this book. I almost feel sheepish wrapping this book up and giving it to my husband for Christmas. On the plus side, we are in a pandemic. If toilet paper becomes scarce again we can always use the page of this "book". It might last us a couple of days.