Short, practical writing on how we think about preparedness — risk, home safety, maintenance, and current conditions in the Bay Area. Written to be useful, not alarming.
Preparedness is not a pile of supplies. It is a maintained system built around the emergencies that are both serious and likely for your specific home.
Earthquakes, smoke, outages, and displacement are not equal. Here is how we weigh likelihood, consequence, and what a family can actually control.