The Day-Two List by Mitch Harris

Day two

It is the second morning. A summer storm took the power at supper and you handled it fine; the kids thought it was camping. Now it is 6:40 a.m., the house is 84 degrees, the freezer has stopped humming, and the nearest open store is fourteen miles off. You reach for your phone to check the road and it is at nine percent. Nothing bad has happened yet. That is the point. Day two is when people cry in the driveway, and it is never over the thing they were afraid of.

What's inside

Chapter 1 — The Day-Two Rule: see the shape of every bad week; tape the sheet up tonight.
Chapter 2 — The Week the Power Quits: light, heat, a fridge you can trust, a generator placed right.
Chapter 3 — When the Pressure Drops: hold a week of water and make it safe.
Chapter 4 — The Pantry That Holds Its Price: two weeks of food you already eat, bought cheap.
Chapter 5 — The Day the Card Readers Go Down: the right cash, in the right bills, in the right place.
Chapter 6 — Payday With No App: a paper backup so an outage costs an afternoon, not the rent.
Chapter 7 — When the Call Isn't Who It Says: a family password that beats a cloned voice.
Chapter 8 — The Slow Scams: two rules on an index card.
Chapter 9 — The Week the Job Quits: the loss inventory and a 90-day plan.
Chapter 10 — When the Rate Goes Up: fifteen things the crews do at home, the cheapest last.
Chapter 11 — Telling a Real Warning From a Fake: three boring sources and a sixty-second check.
Chapter 12 — The People Part: the three-door check-in list.
Chapter 13 — The Day-Two List: the cheapest item in the book, held back until last.

13 chapters · 13 tear-out checklists · 13 worksheets · 153 pages · PDF, EPUB and large print

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Sample page 21 — The kitchen drawer, day two

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What changes

	Now	With the list
The fridge in an outage	You open the door to check, guess, and throw it all out.	Door shut, a thermometer, and the FoodSafety.gov clock: about 4 hours for the fridge, 48 for a full freezer.
The thermostat	Where it has always been.	Turned back 7 to 10 degrees for eight hours a day: up to 10 percent off heating and cooling, by the Department of Energy's own page.
The water heater	Where the installer left it.	Set to 120 degrees, the DOE's number. One dial, ten minutes.

This book is for you if

You want your place to be fine for a bad week: a storm, a layoff, a scam call, an outage.
You'd rather use the flashlight you own than buy a $3,000 generator.
You like a list on the fridge more than an app.
You've got people to look after, or you're the one living alone.

It is not for you if

You're after a bunker, a bug-out plan or the end of the world. This is about a week, not a collapse.
You want gear reviews. There's one price tag per item and no brand names.
You want dates and predictions. There aren't any.
You want it to be exciting. Boring is the whole point.

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About Mitch Harris

Mitch Harris spent thirty-one years on a line crew for a rural electric co-op in Missouri, the last twelve as a crew supervisor, restoring power after ice storms, tornadoes and one substation fire. He grew up on a farm the co-op did not reach until 1971, which is where the root cellar, the generator and the paper list came from. He is not an economist or a security expert. He is the man who put your lights back on, and he knows what a house looks like on day two when a system behind it quits. He is retired now, with two grown kids and five grandkids, and his wife says he has been prepping since before it had a name.

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Why isn't all this just in your videos?

A lot of it is, spread over a lot of videos. The book puts every system in one place, in order, with a checklist and a worksheet for each, so you can build the list on a Sunday instead of hunting through a playlist.

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