About Robert Smythe and 90 Days Without Power
Robert Smythe is the author of 90 Days Without Power, a household guide to surviving a long blackout. The book and this website explain official U.S. preparedness baselines and then show how a family or renter can build an optional longer cushion without treating a 90-day outage as a prophecy.
Experience and approach
This project is a practical planning book, not a clinical manual and not a law-office memo. Where the text gives a number - one gallon of water per person per day, a 1-minute rolling boil, 8 drops of 6% bleach per gallon, a fridge that stays safe about 4 hours with the door closed - that number comes from a named public source such as Ready.gov, the CDC, EPA, or USDA / FoodSafety.gov. If a figure was not in a public official source, the book leaves it out instead of inventing it.
The current visual edition includes diagrams, a Top 50 gear chapter, QR codes that open pages on this site, a Watch & Learn video library checked against YouTube’s public listings, and pilot state chapters for Arizona, Texas, California, Florida, and Minnesota. State self-defense notes quote or point at official statute pages and say plainly that they are not legal advice.
What this site is for
This website exists so readers can preview the book, use free guides that answer common questions, and open the same gear pages the printed QR codes use. Some gear Buy buttons may be Amazon Associates links, which support this guide at no extra cost to you. Those links appear only on this website, not inside the ebook or PDF.
Standards you can check
- Ready.gov power outage and water pages
- CDC boil-water and “make water safe in an emergency” guidance
- EPA emergency disinfection of drinking water
- USDA / FoodSafety.gov power-outage food times
- CPSC generator and carbon monoxide safety
- American Red Cross two-week home supply recommendation
Contact and press: use the email you publish alongside this site once it is live. For statute questions, read the current state code rather than this page.