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Minute 0 to 10: confirm and activate
- Confirm with two official sources before you move: the phone's WEA alert, the FEMA app, NOAA radio, your city or county alerts, an official press conference. Social media doesn't count as a source.
- One pre-written message to the family group: "PLAN ACTIVATED. Level [1/2/3]. Report your location."
- Locate every adult and the pets. Whoever is out comes back or goes to the meeting point; nobody "finishes what they were doing". Whoever is at work runs the race from there (ATM and gas on the way) and comes back by the secondary route.
- Water, now: fill the tub (with a WaterBOB-type bag if you have one; if not, a clean, covered tub), pots, bottles and buckets. In a cyberattack or blackout, water pressure can drop within minutes.
- Charge everything: phones, power banks, laptop, radios and portable power station.
- Split the roles. Team A, in one car: cash, then gas, then pharmacy. Team B, at home: water, documents to the door, backpacks, pets, lock up the house and monitor official sources.
- If the threat is from the air, missiles or nuclear: nobody goes out. Go straight to the nuclear plan (chapter 15): interior room, away from windows, at least 24 hours inside.
