Why I Prepare for a Grid-Down Emergency
My preparedness philosophy is simple: prepare to live without electricity and running water. If you can handle those two challenges, you're better prepared for a power outage or grid-down emergency.
For more than a decade, I volunteered at a living-history museum, experiencing a small taste of pioneer life—including 100-degree Texas summers in 1800s clothing and cooking on a woodstove. It made me ask: What would we do if our modern conveniences suddenly stopped working?
No air conditioning. No refrigerator. No microwave. No running water. No flushing toilets. No lights.
I began looking for practical ways to cook, store food, find and conserve water, stay cool, and keep a household functioning without electricity. Those experiences became part of A Slice of Texas, which I started in 2007, and later my 2014 book, Mom's Pioneer Living Handbook.
I eventually put those same ideas into my Grid Down fiction series—Miles Away, Miles Apart, and Miles Ahead—where ordinary people are forced to adapt when the modern systems they depend on stop working.
This GRID DOWN section brings together my best articles about power outages, water outages, emergency cooking, food storage, off-grid living and practical preparedness.
My goal isn't to prepare for every possible disaster. It's to be prepared to live without electricity and running water—and build from there.
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| Power Outage dining - gas stove |
GRID-DOWN FOOD & COOKING
No-Cook Pantry Foods That Can Help You Get Through a Power Outage
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| Berkey Water Filter - no boil |
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| Bare shelves at my local grocery store |
OFF-GRID & SELF-RELIANT LIVING
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