Nine days in one room during an ice storm. A blizzard that froze the pipes. A summer outage with my wife's CPAP. Heat, water, food, light, power, and staying safe, all told plain, the way I'd tell a neighbor. It runs 444 pages, with the chapter and page for every answer.
Twenty-eight chapters in seven sections, and six appendices at the back. This is the real table of contents, so you know what you're getting before you pay a cent.
Up front: A Letter from Ivan, page 5 · How to Use This Book, page 9
What an outage really takes from you, a plan that fits on one page, stocking up without going broke, and the kits worth having.
Holding one room warm, windows and drafts, every heat source ranked by what's safe indoors, keeping your body warm, and saving the pipes.
How much water to store and how to make it safe, the fridge and freezer clock, a pantry you actually eat, and cooking when the stove won't.
Lights that won't burn the house down, batteries and power stations, generators without getting hurt, your car, and staying informed.
Medicines and medical machines, living alone through an outage, and the summer outage that's harder on an older body than any winter.
Ice storms and blizzards, hurricanes and floods and leaving home, and keeping a house livable when the water stops.
The cheap tricks that work, the viral ones that don't, and how my grandparents got through winter without any of it.
The pages you'll print. Do it now, while the power's on, and keep them with your flashlights.
444 pages in seven sections, with six appendices at the back: the printable checklists, the charts you'll use most, a week of no-power meals, a glossary, a year-round prep calendar, and a Trouble Index. Every chapter ends with my Survival Notes, the handful of things to remember if you forget the rest. Since it's a digital book, you can search it too. Type a plain word like freezer and it takes you to every page I talked about it.
Seventy-Five Winters of Getting Through, Written Down · Ivan's Survival Journal, Volume I
Heat, water, food, light, power, and safety for a regular household, told plain, with a whole section on getting through an outage after sixty.
Taken from the book you'd get, not mocked up. My letter at the front, two chapter openings, and one of the checklists you can print.
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Page 5 · Front of the book
A Letter from Ivan
Page 67 · Chapter 5
Pick One Room and Hold It
Page 378 · Chapter 28
What My Grandparents Knew
Page 395 · Appendix A
Two Weeks of Water and Food
I'm seventy-five, and I've lived where the winters are hard my whole life. I've sat through a blizzard that froze the pipes, an ice storm that kept us in one room for nine days, and a summer outage that showed me what heat does to an older body.
When I started talking about it on the channel, the questions came in. How do I keep one room warm? How long is the food in the freezer good? Can I run the generator in the garage with the door open? (No, and I've seen what happens when somebody does.) What do I do about a CPAP when the power's out?
So I sat down and answered all of them, in order, with the page numbers. That's what this book is. If you've got a question about getting through an outage, odds are somebody asked me first.
Ivan
Check out, and the book is in your email within a minute. It's a digital book you read on any phone, tablet, or computer, and you can print any page at home. Nothing ships, and there's nothing to cancel later. If it doesn't earn its keep in a week, email me and every penny comes back, and you keep the book.
Seventy-Five Winters of Getting Through, Written Down · Ivan's Survival Journal, Volume I
You shouldn't, yet. Read the sample pages on this page. If they sound like a man who's sat through a few long outages, the book is 444 more pages of the same.
No bunkers and no end-of-the-world talk. It's for a regular house when the power goes out for a night, a week, or longer, and for the folks living in it.
No. It's seventy-five winters of getting through, told plain, including the viral tricks that don't work and a few that can hurt you.
A whole section. Medicines and medical machines, living alone through an outage, and the summer outage that's harder on an older body than any winter.
It's a digital book you read on a phone, tablet, or computer, and you can print any page you like at home. You get it the minute you check out. Print the checklists while the power's still on.
If you can open an email, you can read this. One link, one click, and you can print the checklists and keep them with your flashlights.
Email within 7 days and you get every penny back, and you keep the book. No forms, no questions.
It's all set down plain, with the chapter and page for every answer. It's $27 today, in your email within a minute, and you've got a week to decide with the whole book in your hands.
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