The Family Emergency Kit: What to Buy, at Three Levels Everything a household needs for an evacuation, a storm or a long power cut, chosen from our buying guides and bundled as a grab-and-go kit, a shelter-in-place kit and a whole-household set-up.

The Best Portable Power Stations for Power Outages (and the Solar Panels to Charge Them) Battery power stations that run a fridge, a CPAP or a router through an outage, silently and safely indoors, compared on capacity, output, battery life, recharge speed and backup switchover.

The Best Emergency Lights for Power Outages: Lanterns, Headlamps and Auto-On Flashlights Lanterns to light a room, headlamps for every person and plug-in lights that switch on when the power fails, compared on brightness, run time and what powers them.

The Best Emergency Kits: Premade 72-Hour Kits for One to Four People Premade 72-hour emergency kits compared by what's inside: water and calories per person, the radio and light, first aid and shelter, for one person, two, or a family of four.

The Best Emergency Food Supply: Long-Life Meals, Counted in Calories Freeze-dried buckets, ration bars and MREs compared on what matters when you have to live on them: calories per day, the meals, shelf life and how much water they need.

72 Items That Will Disappear First When SHTF Discover the 72 items most likely to vanish first in a survival crisis, from economic collapse to natural disasters. Prepare wisely.