The Blackout Drills

Twelve monthly plans. The one-year list resequenced by season and priced by month, in three budget lanes — $25, $75, or $150. Firewood ordered in June, not October. Seeds in the right month. Kit swaps at the equinoxes. Every month has a buy, a do, a practice, and one thing that is free.

Four drills, each with a setup checklist, a timed run sheet, a debrief form, and a what usually breaks list. The Blackout Weekend. The Water-Only Day. The Comms Drill. The Get-Home Drill.

Six calculators — water, calories, watt-hours, solar sizing, fuel burn, and a household sheet that adds children, pregnancy, and animals. As a printable form, and as a spreadsheet where you change the yellow cells and read the answer.

A calendar file carrying every recurring item — battery top-ups, generator runs, kit swaps, the drills — so the plan stops depending on you remembering.

The Blackout Weekend means deliberately shutting off power to an occupied home. It opens with a do-not-run-this-if page covering medical device dependence, oxygen, dialysis, refrigerated medication, infants, and extreme weather — plus two lower-risk versions for households the full drill does not suit.

This is not the free checklist again. The free checklist is the list. This is the schedule, the budget, and the drills, and the drills appear nowhere in the free material.

• Twelve monthly plans in three budget lanes
• Four drills with run sheets, debrief forms, and what usually breaks
• Six calculators, as printable forms and as a live spreadsheet
• 70-page PDF