When the Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant

Built for real-world use, not your bookshelf: field-tested survival strategies from 30 years of teaching.

In this compact manual, longtime survival instructor and author Tony Nester delivers the essential, no-nonsense guide for handling an urban emergency when the lights go out.

This is not a coffee-table book. It is a tactical field manual intentionally designed with a slim profile that covers the 6 key areas for preparing your home and family. Every page is packed with pragmatic information for both short-term 72-hour situations and long-term grid-down emergencies.

Topics Covered:

• The mindset and strategies used by urban survivors.

• Water storage, purification, and regional water mapping.

• Off-grid medical kits for when the pharmacy is closed.

• Proactive security and how to harden your home against threats.

• Maintaining heating, cooling, and sanitation without power.

Turn uncertainty into an actionable plan with this manual designed for modern self-reliance.

Tony Nester has spent the past 30-years applying and teaching survival skills to the military special operations community and general public, including serving as a consultant for the movie, Into the Wild, the Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and the NY Times along with providing training for actors Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch. For years, he also wrote a monthly survival column for Outside Magazine and is a frequent contributors to numerous publications.