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Step 02 of 06

Research

You can’t plan for threats you’ve never named.

A tornado plan is wasted effort on the coast; a hurricane kit gathers dust in Kansas. The most important input to a real plan is where you actually live — the hazards, the population pressure, the infrastructure your life leans on.

Researching is the work of pinning your county and your points of interest, then reading the real data for that geography. From there you can name the threats that genuinely apply to you — natural, infrastructure, civil, and personal — instead of starting from a generic checklist.

The Engineered Preparedness Research guide
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Do it by hand — or let the tools do it.

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Articles about this step of the framework

The Ultimate Preparedness Framework™ — Daniel MacLeod
Stage 02 — Research — is a chapter in the framework.

The Ultimate Preparedness Framework™ defines all six stages on paper — the reasoning, the worksheets, the math. This site is the same framework, compiled: the data pre-loaded and the worksheets live.

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