[ OP-00 · Briefing ] Printable blackout plan · One-time payment
Keep your family warm, fed and safe through a 7-day blackout — without building anything or buying a generator.
One printed binder that tells your family exactly what to do in the first hour, by day 3 and by day 7 — without turning into a prepper, without tools or weekend projects, without a $1,500 generator and without waiting 10 days for a book to ship.
Print it tonight. Ready by bedtime.
Reviewed & approved · Dusty Burke, U.S. Marine Corps veteran
[ OP-01 · Threat assessment ]
It's not that you don't care. Nobody ever gave you your orders.
Hour 1
You freeze when the lights go out
Flashlight in one hand, phone in the other, and no idea what to do first. That first hour decides the whole week.
Day 1
You throw away a full fridge
In every long outage, hundreds of dollars' worth of food goes in the trash because nobody knew when to open the fridge and when to keep it shut.
The garage
You have gear, but no plan
Water jugs, a dusty flashlight, two survival books you never finished. Stuff everywhere, and no idea what comes first.
Storm season
You lie awake worrying about the ones who can't take the cold
The kids. Your mom. Her insulin in the fridge. Every forecast, you run the same math in your head.
[ OP-02 · What changes ]
Six things no survival book ever gave you
You know exactly what to do in the first 20 minutes
The Hour 1 card on your fridge: 12 actions, in order, that save your food, your water and your phones.
You stop throwing away the food in your fridge
What to eat first, what to move, what to keep sealed and how long it lasts with the power out.
You never wonder if you have enough water
The Household Numbers tell you how many gallons your family needs for 3, 7 or 14 days. No guessing.
Your family sleeps warm with the heat off
One room, sealed and kept warm with blankets, towels and what's already in your closets.
Your phone and radio stay alive all week
A charging schedule that stretches every battery you own, so 911 and the news are never out of reach.
You stay calm, and your kids see it
No improvising in the dark. Everyone knows their job, so nobody in the house panics.
[ OP-03 · Field reports ]
Messages from families who already have their binder
[ OP-04 · The plan ]
In a blackout, nobody needs more skills. They need a sequence.
Every survival book on your shelf teaches you to build things: rain barrels, solar rigs, root cellars. That's why they sit half-read. The night the grid goes down, you don't have a weekend and $300 in parts. You have a dark kitchen, a phone at 40% and a family asking "what now?"
Project Ash Wolf is the order of operations for a blackout. What your family does in the first hour, by day 3 and by day 7 — using only what's already in your house, with every amount worked out for the size of your family. It's not your fault you weren't ready. You were sold projects when you needed a plan.
Every page reviewed and approved by Dusty Burke, U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
[ OP-05 · The 1-3-7 Sequence ]
A blackout doesn't come at you by topic. It comes at you hour by hour.
H+1
The first hour · 20 minutes
- Keep the fridge and freezer shut
- Save the water in your water heater
- Switch every phone to low-power mode
- Unplug what a power surge can fry
- Give every family member one job
D+3
Days 1 to 3 · settle in
- Water: your exact daily ration
- Meals with no fridge and no stove
- One warm room, sealed for the night
- Phones and radio on a charging schedule
- Check on the neighbors who live alone
D+7
Days 4 to 7 · hold the line
- Hygiene and sanitation without running water
- Home security after dark
- Keeping the kids busy and calm
- Stretching food, fuel and batteries
- When to stay, and when to leave
[ OP-06 · How it works ]
Three steps, and your family is ready tonight
01
You download it
Checkout takes a minute. The printable PDF lands in your email right away.
02
You print it and build your binder
One evening. The Kitchen Binder Kit shows you where every section goes.
03
You run the Lights-Off Drill
Flip the main breaker for one evening and walk your family through the Hour 1 card. Then you'll know you're ready. (If someone uses powered medical equipment, have their backup power ready first.)
One evening. No tools. Nothing to build.
[ OP-07 · What you get ]
Three pieces that work together
The plan
The Ash Wolf Blackout Manual
The full 1-3-7 Sequence in about 90 printable pages: water, light and phones, food with no fridge, one warm room, security and family. All of it using what you already own.
The first hour
The First-Hour Fridge Card + 72-Hour Checklists
One card with the 12 actions for the first 20 minutes, made to hang on your fridge, plus 9 checklists for days 1, 2 and 3.
The amounts
The Household Numbers
How much water, food, batteries and fuel for 1 to 8 people over 3, 7 or 14 days. In gallons and liters, °F and °C.
[ OP-08 · Free for the next 15 minutes ]
Three gifts. Each one answers a "yeah, but…"
Gift 1
The Kitchen Binder Kit
"A PDF is useless when the power's out." That's why you print it: cover, tab dividers and a one-evening build guide. Paper on your shelf tonight, not in 10 days.
Gift 2
The Apartment Blackout Plan
"I live in an apartment — no garage, no yard." The 1-3-7 Sequence for high floors, elevators and buildings where the water pump runs on electricity.
Gift 3
The Medical & Meds Blackout Card
"My mom depends on her CPAP." What to do with insulin, oxygen, CPAP and refrigerated meds, how to register with your utility's medical priority program, and when to head to a warming center.
[ OP-09 · Inside the binder ]
See how it's laid out before you buy
Every page is a step you can check off. Numbered, timed and built to be read by flashlight.
[ OP-10 · After action reports ]
What families say after their first outage
Houston, TX
★★★★★
After the hurricane we lost power for two days. Last time I threw out a full freezer. This time I followed the Hour 1 card and we kept almost everything.
Ottawa, ON
★★★★★
The warm room section is the reason my grandkids slept through a night at -7°C outside. We used the blankets and towels we already had.
Columbus, OH
★★★★★
I'm not a tools guy and I have two survival books I never finished. This one I finished in one evening, because there's nothing to build.
Denver, CO
★★★★☆
Very complete. I wish the apartment plan was longer, but it answered the one thing I worried about: our building's water pump runs on power.
Asheville, NC
★★★★★
We flipped the breaker on a Sunday night, just like the drill says. My wife rolled her eyes at first. By 9 pm she was the one running the checklist.
Phoenix, AZ
★★★★★
My husband uses a CPAP. I didn't know we could register with the utility's medical priority program. That card alone was worth it.
[ OP-11 · Your order ]
Everything your family needs, in one payment
Today you save $30 — that's 64% off.
One-time payment. Lifetime access. No subscription.
Your 3 gifts expire in
After that the price stays the same — it's the gifts that disappear.
Instant download · 30-day guarantee · No subscription
[ OP-12 · Who signed off on it ]
Reviewed & approved
Dusty Burke, U.S. Marine Corps veteran
"In the Corps you learn that people don't panic when everybody knows their next move. That's what this binder gives a family."
Dusty reviewed every page of Project Ash Wolf and approved the 1-3-7 Sequence line by line, so what your family follows in the dark is simple, safe and in the right order.
The Lights-Off Drill Guarantee · 30 days
If you don't feel ready, you don't pay
Print your binder, flip the main breaker for one evening and run the Hour 1 card with your family. (If someone in the house uses powered medical equipment, keep their backup power on.) If you don't feel ready for a 7-day blackout, email us within 30 days and get every cent back. Keep the binder.
We tie the guarantee to the drill on purpose: one evening with the lights off tells you more than any review.
[ OP-13 · Questions ]
What people ask before they order
It's a PDF. What good is it when the power's out?
That's why it comes with the Kitchen Binder Kit. You print it tonight, file it in a binder and keep it in the kitchen. Paper on your shelf before the next storm, not in 10 days on a delivery truck.
I'm not handy. Will I have to build anything?
No. Every step uses what's already in your house. No tools, no parts, no weekend projects.
Is this doomsday prepper stuff?
No bunkers, no conspiracy theories. It's a plan for the week the grid goes down after a storm — the kind of week millions of families have lived through in recent years.
I live in Canada. Will it work for me?
Yes. Every number comes in gallons and liters, °F and °C, and the warm-room section was written with ice storms in mind.
Ready.gov is free. Why pay?
Free lists tell you what to have. Project Ash Wolf tells you how much your family needs and what to do, in order, once the lights are already out.
When do I get it?
Right after checkout, straight to your email. You can print it tonight.
[ OP-14 · Final order ]
The next storm won't wait until you're ready
The manual, the fridge card, your household numbers and three gifts — printed and on your kitchen shelf tonight, for less than a tank of gas.
One-time payment · 30-day guarantee · Instant download
Project Ash Wolf is a printable digital guide (PDF). Nothing is shipped. For the buyer's personal use; resale and redistribution are not permitted. General preparedness information: it does not replace official emergency instructions or medical advice. Never run a generator, grill or camp stove indoors or in a garage. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.