The First Night Without Everything: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Breakdown of Modern Life

The power goes off. Then the phone signal. By the second day the shops are cash-only and the taps are losing pressure. What do you actually do? The First Night Without Everything is a plain-English handbook for ordinary households, written by someone who assumes you have never lit a fire without a gas ring. It covers the first 72 hours, two weeks of food and water, fire and cooking, making water safe three ways, toilets without plumbing, a garden in 30 days, keeping food without a fridge, first aid when there is no doctor, and a straight-talking chapter on which kitchen and garden remedies really work — checked against the old Ayurvedic texts and modern clinical trials. Then small solar done right, pedal and car power with honest numbers, radio and navigation without the internet, and what to do in floods, cyclones, outbreaks and worse. 85 clear line drawings you can build from Ten weekend projects with parts lists and costs 16 tear-out quick cards for the cupboard door Every method sourced to CDC, WHO, Red Cross, Cochrane or the classical texts Written for the tropics first, with cold-climate notes Read it once on a quiet evening. Then put it on the shelf with the candles.