About Boring Apocalypse

Boring Apocalypse is a preparedness site for people who do not want to become “preppers”. You want the lights, the heat, the water and the food to keep working for your family when something goes wrong. That is all.

What we mean by boring

Real emergencies rarely look like the movies. They look like a three-day ice storm, a boil-water notice, a heat wave with rolling blackouts, or a highway that stops moving in January. Getting through them is mostly logistics: enough water, food you will eat, a safe way to stay warm, a plan everyone knows.

So that is what we write about. We skip the doomsday countdowns and the tactical gear catalogues. We give you numbers, checklists and trade-offs.

How we write

• We start from official guidance. Ready.gov, FEMA, CDC, EPA, USDA, NOAA and the Red Cross set the safety numbers we use. When folklore disagrees with them, we say so.
• We show our sources. Every guide links to the pages behind its numbers and lists them at the end.
• We label rules of thumb. If a number is a practical estimate rather than an official figure, the guide says so.
• We update. Guidance changes. Each guide shows the date it was last reviewed.

Read the full editorial policy for details.

Where to start

New here? Read Prepping for Beginners, then work out your household’s numbers with the emergency supply calculator.

Contact

Spotted an error, or have a question we should answer? See the contact page. Corrections are the most useful email we get.