Preparedness advice is only useful if it is true. This page explains how this site tries to keep it that way, and how to read the signals each page carries.
The source registry
Every factual claim on this site cites an entry in a single source registry. Each entry records the publisher, the address of the page, and the date an editor last opened that page and checked the claim against it. The registry favors the agencies whose job preparedness is: Ready.gov and FEMA, the American Red Cross, the National Weather Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and county emergency management, and the established training organizations for first aid, bleeding control and amateur radio. Every educational page ends with its sources, listed under “Sources and further reading.”
What the badge on a page means
Each educational page carries one of three review statuses.
- Draft — the page is being written and should not be relied on. Drafts are not normally published.
- Awaiting source review — the page was written against the cited agencies’ guidance, but an editor has not yet re-checked every claim from the live source page. The sources are real and the addresses are the agencies’ own; what has not happened is the line-by-line check.
- Sources verified — an editor opened every cited page on the date recorded in the registry and checked each claim on the page against it.
As of the site’s launch in September 2026, every page carries the “awaiting source review” status. That is a statement of honesty, not of doubt: the pages say what the agencies say, and the badge says that we have not yet finished checking.
Amounts belong to the authority
This site never states quantities, ratios, limits or doses in its own words: not how much water to store, not how long food stays safe, not how to treat water, not how far to place a generator, not what to take or how much. Those numbers change, they depend on circumstances, and getting one wrong can hurt someone. Each page says what to do and why, and sends you to the cited authority for how much and how to.
Scripture
Where Scripture appears, it appears as a reference and a line of application, linked to the passage in context, and never as quoted verse text. Read the passage; do not trust our summary of it.
Nothing sold, nothing endorsed
No product is recommended by brand. Nothing on this site is sold, and every download is free. No page carries advertising or a sponsored link.
When a reader reports an error
A reported error is checked against the cited source. If the page is wrong, it is corrected, its “last reviewed” date is updated, and the correction is noted in the site’s records. If the source has changed, the source entry is updated and every page that cites it is re-read. If the page is right, we say so and thank the reader anyway. How to reach us is on the contact page.
Dates
Every educational page shows the date it was published and the date it was last reviewed. A review date is a promise that a person read the page again on that day and either corrected it or found nothing to correct.