Three one-page printables, free, no email required: a family emergency contact card (two per sheet), the costed 72-hour kit checklist from our July 2026 study, and the first hour of a winter power outage in order. Print them, put them where they will be found, and share them with a school, a workplace or a neighbour.
Each sheet is US Letter, black and white, and carries the source guide it comes from. They may be copied, printed in quantity and redistributed by schools, community groups, CERT teams, libraries, employers and bloggers; we only ask for a line of attribution to preparingwithdan.com. If you host them on your own site, a link back to this page lets us tell you when a version is updated.
1. Family emergency contact card
The lines Ready.gov’s family plan asks for: two meeting points, one out-of-state contact, school and doctor numbers, medical alerts, utility shutoffs. Two cards per sheet; fold one into every backpack, wallet and glovebox. The full method is in our family emergency plan.
Download the contact card (PDF, 1 page)
2. 72-hour kit checklist, costed
The Ready.gov kit list with the quantities for a family of four and the prices we verified item by item in July 2026 (about $200 for the eight items that carry the cost), plus the rest of the list and the ration-bar calorie warning. From our 72-hour kit cost study.
Download the kit checklist (PDF, 1 page)
3. The first hour of a winter power outage
Minute by minute, from the Red Cross and Ready.gov guidance: fridge shut, one room chosen, phones charged from what is left, stay-or-go decided before dark; with the hypothermia and frostbite signs to watch. Tape it inside a kitchen cabinet.
Download the first-hour checklist (PDF, 1 page)
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The numbers behind them
The figures on the sheets come from official sources and from our own published data; both are collected, with links, on our emergency preparedness statistics page. For quantities sized to your own household, the free supply calculator does the arithmetic and prints its result.