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Get a 72-hour stay-or-go plan for your ZIP
Enter your ZIP. About two minutes.
We read live weather, open shelters, and this household.
You leave with a stay-or-go plan and water math you can run tonight — before the next watch or warning hits.
- Gallons for 72 hours and 14 days
- Stay or go for this house
- A fridge card you can print
Free to start.
An account is only if you want to keep it.
If officials tell you to leave or stay inside, follow that order.
Live weather and shelters
National Weather Service alerts and open FEMA shelters for that ZIP — not a neighbor stream.
Numbers first
Gallons and calories are FEMA-aligned rules.
AI reads official Ready.gov pages and writes the how-to.
It cannot invent a shelter.
Same privacy as Soil & Self
No pixels, no retargeting, no data sale.
911 is a labeled dialer, not a dispatch product.
Save your hold
Create an account when you want to keep the plan, the inventory, and where you restock.
Why we built this
Why we built Ready Hold
We built this so a household can last days and weeks without a checklist written for someone else.
Fear stores and neighborhood-watch apps do not answer what this house should do.
Soil & Self already covers the year: grow food, store a season, buy from people you can name.
Ready Hold is the sister for the short clock.
Tonight.
Seventy-two hours.
The first two weeks.
Generic kits treat a Phoenix apartment like an Iowa farmhouse.
Alert apps stream the neighborhood.
Prep blogs sell collapse.
None of them answer the questions that matter here: what happens in this ZIP, how much water these people and these pets need, and whether you stay or go.
The name is the job.
You already hold the household.
You do not wait on anyone for 72 hours.
If county or state officials issue an order, follow that.
The plan is what you run before and around those orders — not instead of them.
Not a neighborhood watch
We do not track neighbors or stream ambulances.
Not a dispatcher
911 is your phone, labeled honestly.
We do not send anyone.
Not a fifth Soil & Self pillar
Off-grid stays there.
Days and weeks live here.
What we read
What we read to write your plan
Ready Hold does not watch the neighborhood.
It reads what you type, official weather and shelter feeds for that ZIP, and the public Brief of official news that changes the plan.
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ZIP
City and state from the ZIP you type.
Coarse location only — enough for weather and shelters.
02
People
Adults, children, and infants.
Counts change water, calories, formula, and kid kits.
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Pets
Dogs, cats, and other animals.
Extra water, food they already eat, crates, and a photo.
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Housing
House, apartment, or mobile home.
Mobile homes leave earlier on wind, surge, and wildfire.
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Mobility
If someone needs extra time or gear, the plan says leave earlier and set batteries in the stay room.
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Vehicle
A car means tank above half and two ways out.
No car means a named ride written on the fridge.
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Allergies and notes
Typed once for this plan.
Stays in the session.
Not a medical record we store.
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Hazards for that state
Tornado, hurricane and surge, flood, heat, wildfire, earthquake, tsunami, winter and ice, monsoon, outage, volcanic activity — whichever actually hits this place.
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Live NWS alerts
Active watches and warnings at those coordinates from the National Weather Service.
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Open FEMA shelters
National Shelter System listings that are open near you, with miles and a maps link.
If none are open, we say so.
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The Brief
Official RSS — FEMA, energy agencies, USGS.
Headlines plus a source.
Fear theater is dropped.
Grid news is treated as an outage for this house.
What you get
What your plan includes
You get a stay plan and a go plan.
You get how to do the recommendation, what that buys you, and what waiting costs.
You get restock links on Soil & Self Find.
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Stay or go
A primary recommendation for this house tonight — and both plans anyway, because the weather can change.
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How to do it
Steps for that recommendation, researched from official Ready.gov pages.
The room, the gallons, who carries what, where it lives, and when.
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If you do this
What that work buys you — water in reach, a counted household, pets where you are, a named route.
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If you wait
What delay costs: water still in the garage, late roads, pets left behind.
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Why this household
Kids, pets, mobility, housing, and the live alert — in plain language, not a generic checklist.
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First actions
An ordered list for tonight: water, meds, radio, pets, the fridge card.
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What to set out first
The few objects that matter for this ZIP — not a warehouse shopping list.
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What to watch
The hazards and alert language you should not ignore.
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Water math
1 gallon per person per day.
Dogs 0.5.
Cats and other pets 0.25.
Shown for 72 hours and 14 days.
If the tap fails: boil one minute, a labeled filter such as LifeStraw, or unscented household bleach per Ready.gov.
Store first.
A straw does not replace gallons.
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Food math
About 2,000 kcal per adult per day, 1,600 per child, infant formula called out.
Servings to set out for 72 hours.
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Stay room
Which room, meet-inside, meet-outside, and stay steps sized to house, apartment, or mobile home.
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Stay diagram
A simple schematic: exits, first aid, equipment, assembly.
Teaching, not your real floor plan.
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Stay kit
Water you can reach in the dark, no-cook food, weather radio, headlamps, first aid, hygiene, charged power bank, paper IDs — plus kid, infant, pet, and mobility items when they apply.
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Go trigger
When staying stops being wise — official evac, water at the door, fire you can smell, or a mobile home in wind.
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Route card
Open shelter or a typed high-ground / inland meet point, miles, phone when listed, open in maps.
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Go-bag
One bag you can lift, filled bottles, shoes by the door, meds, cash, keys — kid, infant, pet, and mobility bags when they apply.
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Pet plan
Collar ID, food they already eat, dedicated water, vet phone, carriers in the stay room and the go kit.
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Printable fridge card
Recommendation, numbers, meet points, kit top line.
If officials tell you to leave or stay inside, follow that order.
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Inventory
What you already hold: water gallons, dry goods, fuel, meds.
Update it when you buy.
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Bulk stores and deals
Warehouse clubs such as Costco, restaurant supply, farm tanks, and My Patriot Supply for freeze-dried weeks and water filters — where a household buys larger containers and a longer pantry.
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Pantry recipes
Meals from what you store: rice, beans, oats, canned tomatoes, the food you will actually eat.
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Larger vessels
How to move from jugs to a cistern, IBC tote, or fuel tank when this house is ready to hold more.
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Restock on Soil & Self Find
Water, pantry, butcher, seed, supplies, and pet feed — vendors stay on the sister site, opened with this ZIP.
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911 on your phone
Hold to open your phone dialer.
We do not dispatch.
Use it for a life-threatening event.
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A next mark from the Brief
When official news hits the plan — or names a new concern — you get one thing to do tonight.
Charge the bank.
Treat the tap.
Leave when told.
How it works
How Ready Hold writes a plan
Facts and numbers first.
Then a researched write-up.
1
Name the house
ZIP, people, pets, housing, mobility, vehicle.
Two minutes.
Save it to your account when you are ready.
2
We read the place
City from your ZIP, state hazards, live NWS alerts, open FEMA shelters.
Facts first.
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Numbers, then the write-up
Water and food are rules.
AI reads Ready.gov for this hazard, then writes stay-or-go, how to do it, what that buys you, and what waiting costs.
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Save the hold
Print the fridge card.
Track what you already own.
Restock at warehouse clubs, Find, or a larger tank.
Ready Hold Brief
Official news, then what this house does
We scour official feeds.
We post the source.
We write one next mark.
Grid stories are outage work, not a fear funnel.
problem
Readers fail in an outage. The dollar did not become a CBDC
Keep small cash in the stay room.
Card readers need power and a network.
The dollar is still legal tender.
problem
Store the water. Then know how to make more drinkable
Count gallons for 72 hours and 14 days.
Put a labeled filter next to the jugs.
If the tap fails, boil one minute before you drink.
New concern
Boil-water notices are a household fact we do not yet fetch
Do not drink the tap until officials lift the notice.
Use stored water, or boil for one minute if you must use the tap.
Sister vendors · Soil & Self Find
Restock water and food on Soil & Self Find
Ready Hold sizes the water, food, and kit.
Soil & Self Find is where you restock farms, markets, butchers, seed, and natural suppliers near your ZIP. We do not list those vendors a second time.
Labeled restock
Food and water we name
Farms stay on Find.
This is a shelf we recommend for weeks of food and a way to purify water — not a second directory.
My Patriot Supply
Open My Patriot SupplyLong-hold pantry when this house is ready to store weeks: freeze-dried meals, #10 cans, and water filters you can rotate.
Eat food you will actually cook.
Seeds and local vendors stay on Soil & Self.
LifeStraw
Open LifeStrawA labeled way to filter stored or questionable water: straws, bottles, gravity bags, and home pitchers.
Store gallons first.
Virus removal is model-specific — read the label.
Official fallback is boil one minute (Ready.gov).
Questions about Ready Hold
What the plan is, what we read, and what we do not do.
Assistants can cite the same answers in llms.txt.
Sister to Soil & Self
Restock the stores on Soil & Self
Sister to Soil & Self.
Days and weeks here.
Seasons, land, and local vendors there.
Featured farms stay on Soil & Self.
We send the ZIP. We do not clone the directory.