Overview
If the power went out tonight and the phones stopped working, what would your family do first?
Signal Ready is a step-by-step family emergency preparedness guide for the days when the systems we rely on stop: a winter blackout that runs for days, a flood that cuts off the road, a regional crisis that empties the shelves. By the last page, your household has a written plan that everyone, from your teenager to your grandmother, knows how to follow.
It was written by a retired Canadian Armed Forces officer and corporate security executive who has evacuated families from high-risk areas across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. It gives you the method professionals use, adapted for an ordinary home. You need no experience and no special equipment to begin.
What you will be able to do
- Score the real risks to your household and set family alert levels with clear triggers for when to act
- Plan across four time horizons with the Signal POST model
- Store water, food, heat, medicine and cash for a short outage or a long one
- Harden your home, plan a safe room and decide in advance whether to stay or leave
- Keep in touch when the internet and mobile network are down, with family codes and meeting points
- Understand nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological basics and how to shelter
- Give first aid and trauma care until help arrives, and find accredited training
- Organise your street into a neighbourhood network that looks after its own
- Test everything in a seven-day family exercise
The people who get left out
Chapters for single mothers and fathers, women living alone, older adults, people with disabilities, children and pets.
Inside the book
45 chapters, 17 fill-in templates, a four-layer kit standard with quantities, a training and course guide, a glossary and official sources. Every chapter ends with the kit to own, the skill to learn and a drill to practise together.
Signal Ready takes no political side. It is general preparedness information, not medical, legal or financial advice, and it points you to accredited training for any skill that could cause injury.
About the author
AJ Signal served ten years in the Canadian Armed Forces and retired as an officer. He then spent more than a decade as a corporate security executive at major American, British and Canadian companies, running security programmes, crisis response and executive protection, and evacuating staff and families from high-risk areas. His analysis has been cited in a US Congressional Research Service report. He writes the Substack newsletter Signal, Not Noise! and is the author of The Arena.
Start with chapter one tonight and have your family plan written by the weekend.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798163055975
- ISBN-10: 9798163055975
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.38 pounds
- Page Count: 362
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