September was National Preparedness Month, and it made its own case: a blackout on Kauai that took more than two weeks to clear, a rare nor'easter over 40 million people, a Category 5 hurricane in the Pacific. Today MyPlann opens, and the first thing it gives your household is one number.
September was National Preparedness Month, and the news did not need the reminder. Hurricane Lowell never made landfall and still cut power to most of Kauai, and it took the island's co-op more than two weeks to get nearly everyone back. A rare September nor'easter put more than 40 million people from North Carolina to New England under days of wind and high water. Hurricane Polo reached Category 5 in the Pacific, and in the produce aisle one recall followed another.
None of those events checked whether anyone was ready. Each one asked the same question: how long can your household stay home? Federal guidance starts at 72 hours, and several states now tell residents to be ready for two weeks. Most households have never worked out their own answer, because it is tedious arithmetic across water, food, fuel and medicine.
It is how many days your household could manage at home with no store runs, and the thing that would run out first. Stored water divided by a gallon per person per day. Food divided by the calories your household eats. Cooking fuel divided by what hot meals take. Medicine divided by the doses someone cannot go without. The smallest of those is the number, and whatever produced it is where the next dollar should go. Issue 35 walks through the arithmetic by hand.
MyPlann does that arithmetic for you, from who actually lives in your home and what is actually on your shelves, and it keeps doing it as your pantry changes. It names the item that runs out first, so you always know what to fix next.
The free plan is the core of it: the Household Readiness Profile, your days on hand and what runs out first, FEMA's three-day minimum measured for your household, and the Grid Down scenario. The Household plan adds five more scenarios: Major Hurricane, Pandemic, Biological Attack, Major Earthquake and Dirty Bomb. Plus adds AI Takeover, Nuclear War and Zombie Apocalypse, with a real product catalog on the way.
Every household we approve as an early adopter gets Plus, our top plan, free for life. The details, including what is still on the way, are on the pricing page.
Sign up on the MyPlann home page. In these first weeks we set up every household ourselves and email you your sign-in details; the first time you sign in, you choose your own password. Then it takes about twenty minutes: add the people and pets who live with you, work through the Readiness Profile (estimates are fine, and you can correct them later), and open your dashboard.
That is your number. After that the work is small and steady: fix what runs out first, then look again. The Pulse keeps coming every week, and if anything in MyPlann does not make sense for your home, reply to any email from us. It reaches the person who built it.
Start free with Grid Down: power, water and stores out for weeks. MyPlann works out how many days your household could manage and what runs out first.
MyPlann maps your real preparedness level against every scenario in this brief — and shows you exactly what to address first. Free during early access.
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