{ "item_title" : "Secure the House First", "item_author" : [" Walt Webber "], "item_description" : "A homeowner described the moment her basement flooded during a spring storm. She had a flashlight and some canned food, but no idea where her main water shutoff valve was, and by the time help arrived, she had already thrown out soaked furniture and run a shop vac for two hours; her insurance adjuster later told her all of that made her claim harder to prove, since there was no photographic record of the original damage.She didn't lack good intentions. She lacked a plan for her house specifically, and the fifteen minutes of decision-making that would have protected both her home and her claim.That's the gap this book fills. Search for emergency preparedness guides and you'll find plenty built around a seventy-two-hour bug-out bag, for the family that might need to leave. This book is for the far more common outcome of nearly every home emergency: you stay, and you need to know your own house well enough to control it.Inside this book: The Five-Minute Shutdown: exactly where your water, gas, and electrical shutoffs are and how to use each one safely, before you ever need to under pressureA four-category framework for correctly reading what kind of emergency you're actually facing, so your response matches the real threatThe First Fifteen Minutes: a repeatable five-step sequence that works the same way whether it's a burst pipe, a storm, or an outageBackup power done safely: the real carbon monoxide risks of portable generators, and how to avoid creating a second emergency while solving the first oneKeeping water safe, staying livable through an extended outage, and stopping water or wind damage before it compounds into a much bigger, much more expensive problemThe single highest financial-leverage chapter in the book: exactly how to document damage the way an insurance company actually needs it documented, before you touch anythingBuilding a Home Emergency Binder so the information that matters most is never something you're trying to recall from memory under stressSizing supplies to your actual household instead of a generic checklist, plus a neighborhood mutual-aid approach that closes the gaps individual preparation can'tA bonus chapter with quick-reference profiles for hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes, winter storms, and floodingWritten in the same plain, practical voice as the rest of Walt Webber's Home & Property Guides, this book isn't about becoming a survivalist. It's about knowing your own house well enough to protect it, and yourself, when something goes wrong.Book 8 of the Home & Property Guides series, from the author of the Genealogy Guides and Outdoor Guides series.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/105/9798191056555_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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