DISASTER · INCIDENT · RESPONSE · TEAMDIRT
EST. 2026 · CIVILIAN DISASTER RESPONSE

Prep for Tuesday.
Not the apocalypse.

DIRT is the field guide and community for people who'd rather help than panic. Real skills, regional ground truth, no doom-porn, no LARPing.

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01
Build your plan.

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02
Learn what works.

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03
Know your ground.

Prep is regional.

Tornado country isn't ice-storm country isn't wildfire country. Field notes by USDA hardiness zone, written by people who live there.

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№ 01404.24.2026
7A · CUMBERLAND

Bug-out bag for a buck: prepping on a dollar store budget

We took $40 to a Dollar Tree and built a real go-bag. Here's what made the cut, what didn't, and what we'd swap if you have $80.

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№ 01304.17.2026
7A · CUMBERLAND

When the Caney Fork comes up: a flood timeline from 2024

Hour-by-hour, what one DIRT household did when the river rose 14 feet in 30 hours. The decisions that worked and the ones we'd take back.

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№ 01204.10.2026
6A · GREAT LAKES

The chest freezer outage no one warned us about

Three days without power, half a quarter of beef on the line. The temperature math, the dry-ice run, and what we keep in the freezer now.

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THE PLANNER

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not a checklist.

Tell DIRT what you're working with — your zone, your household, your blind spots — and the planner builds a 72-hour plan you'll actually use. Edit it like a doc. Share it with your spouse. Update it when the kid moves out.

DIRT · PLANNER
SESSION · DRAFT
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Where do you live? Just close enough — county and state.
Putnam County, Tennessee.
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Got it. 7A, prone to ice storms and Caney Fork flooding in April. Who's in the household?
Me, my wife, two kids (8 and 11), one dog.
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Working on a plan. Two minutes.
PLAN PREVIEW · DRAFT
WATER
72 hr @ 1 gal/person/day
Bathtub bladder
Dog bowl filter
POWER
Battery bank (3 phone charges)
Headlamps in known spots
Generator fuel rotation
COMMS
Out-of-state contact: Aunt R.
Meet point: Shelby Bottoms
EVAC
Two routes (Smith / 70N)
Go-bag in mudroom
PREP IS REGIONAL

Your zone, your weather, your plan.

Tornado country isn't ice-storm country isn't wildfire country. Find your zone. Read what your weather actually does.

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SHOWING: ZONE 7 · TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, NORTH CAROLINA, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA
WHAT ZONE 7 READS
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ZONE 7 · COMMON DISASTERS
Ice storms
annual, peak Jan–Feb
Flash flooding
spring, esp. April–May
Tornado outbreaks
March through May
Summer power-outs
July–Aug heat events
Severe thunderstorms
year-round
WHAT 7 MEMBERS PREP FOR
FLOOD
POWER-OUT
TORNADO
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