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Make a family emergency plan (opens in a new tab)
FEMA
A fill-in plan covering meeting points, out-of-area contacts and who collects the kids. The out-of-area contact is the single most useful line on it, because long distance often works when local calling does not.
- Established nonprofitDownloadFree
Kiwix content library (opens in a new tab)
Kiwix
The actual downloads: full Wikipedia at around 100GB, a text-only version at a fraction of that, plus WikiMed, Wikivoyage and iFixit. Start with WikiMed if storage is tight.
- Established nonprofitDownloadFree
Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)
Project Gutenberg
Seventy thousand public domain books, downloadable in bulk. Worth having for morale as much as for reference, because a week without power is very long.
- Established nonprofitDownloadFree
Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)
Internet Archive
Manuals, out-of-print technical books and government publications that have quietly vanished from their original sites. Search here first when a citation link dies.
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