Power-outage runbook
72-Hour Power Outage Runbook
A printable A4 72-hour household power outage runbook — nine preparedness surfaces with per-row checkboxes plus an AcroForm note column, with a 72-hour timeline and household sign-off on the closing pages.
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In the wild
Photographed at the kitchen table
The runbook is built to be filled in once, well, before the storm season. These are the moments the pages are designed for — checked off by lantern, marked by hand, signed the day the power returns.
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Why this product
Built for the night the grid drops — not a locked dashboard
Here's what sets this runbook apart from a generic household checklist.
FEMA, Ready.gov & Red Cross sourced
Items drawn from FEMA emergency guides, Ready.gov household-prep lists, and Red Cross preparedness references — not a generic internet checklist.
AcroForm fillable PDF
Fill directly in Adobe Reader, Preview, or any PDF viewer. Save between sessions; your notes survive the next power cycle.
Fill once per season, revisit on the day
Designed to be completed before storm season and consulted the day the power drops — not a SaaS dashboard that expires.
A4 / Letter, locale-agnostic format
Prints correctly on both A4 and US Letter without layout shift. No region-locked content — the nine preparedness surfaces apply anywhere.
Wide note column per row
Each checklist row includes an open note column for supplier contacts, expiry dates, or storage-location notes — built for the binder, not the screen.
72-hour timeline + household sign-off
The closing pages log the outage from start to return, with a household leader signature line — a dated record, not just a checklist.
What's inside
Nine preparedness surfaces, one fillable runbook
Brand cover, nine preparedness pages, then the 72-hour timeline and the household sign-off — print once, fill in each row before the storm season, revisit it the day the power drops.
Cover
Brand cover with the OffGrid Ledger Co. wordmark, product slate, and the compass glyph that signals the household-prep family of products.
Water runbook section
Drinkable water: 1 gal per person per day for three days. Storage, treatment, hot-water tank flushing, and the alternate-source checklist -- FEMA / Ready.gov baseline.
Food runbook section
Three-day non-perishable pantry, manual can opener, baby / pet / med-food branches, and the no-cook meal backup -- Red Cross reference.
Lighting runbook section
Flashlights, headlamps, batteries, lanterns, glow sticks, and a candle / lighter kit. One lamp per person plus a high-output area light.
Heating / cooling runbook section
Season-aware backup heating (propane / wood) and cooling (shade + hydration) with the indoor-ventilation drill -- municipal-prep + Red Cross.
Cooking runbook section
Outdoor propane burner, charcoal grill (outdoor only), fire-extinguisher rule, Sterno can, and the never-indoors-never-coal drill.
Communications runbook section
Battery / hand-crank NOAA weather radio, charged phone power bank, family meeting-out-of-area contact, and the landline-corded fallback.
Sanitation runbook section
Toilet backup (5-gal bucket + liner + kitty litter), hygiene kit, hand sanitizer, trash bags, and the gray-water disposal rule.
Medical runbook section
First-aid kit, prescription 7-day refill, glasses / contacts backup, copies of med records, and the AED / oxygen-arrangement branch.
Security runbook section
Lock + key set, spare house + car key, garage-door release, motion lighting, and the generator-fuel storage rule (locked, ventilated, off-window).
72-hour timeline
Hour-by-hour anchors (Hour 0, 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72) with per-slot checklist items -- fill the notes column between outages.
Household sign-off
Closing page: household name, address, outage start, utility contact, household leader, neighborhood contacts, plus signature line.
Preparedness surfaces
Nine surfaces, 8-11 items each
Each surface ships with eight to eleven pre-populated items sourced from FEMA, Ready.gov, Red Cross household-prep checklists, and municipal-prep guides. Per-row checkboxes plus a fills-in note column.
- · Water · 1 gal / person / day for 3 days
- · Food · 3-day non-perishable, no cook OK
- · Lighting · One lamp per person + area light
- · Heating / cooling · Season-aware backup; vent drill
- · Cooking · Outdoor burner; never indoors coal
- · Communications · NOAA radio + family contact drill
- · Sanitation · Bucket kit + hygiene + gray water
- · Medical · 7-day script + copies + 1st aid
- · Security · Keys + locks + generator rule
Household sign-off
Outage metadata + signature - the closing page logs every outage
Seven AcroForm fields (household name, address, outage start, utility contact, household leader, sign date, neighborhood contacts) plus a household leader signature line and a wrap-up notes box. The buyer signs the day the power returns.
Buy direct
The Buy Direct chip on each tool opens a Stripe-hosted checkout that is the only purchase path. It only works once the deploy's Stripe keys are wired and the operator runs the steps below.
- Finish Stripe onboarding on the Polsia dashboard Payments page (Connection + branding) — direct checkout stays gated until this completes.
- Set ORDER_TOKEN_SECRET on the deploy env (openssl rand -hex 32 → store via set_app_secret) so download links survive a restart.
- Redeploy: polsia.toml ships npx prisma db push at build, so the Order table lands automatically.
- Smoke-test one $1 charge end-to-end: open /tools/<slug>, click "Buy direct", submit a known email, complete Stripe checkout, land on /checkout/success, click the download button, confirm /api/orders/download streams the unlocked PDF.
- Watch the orders feed: prisma.order rows flip pending → paid; the receipt email fires from the post-payment helper.
Direct checkout is the only purchase path — Stripe-hosted with a secure download link emailed the moment payment clears.
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