Most preparedness content wasn't built for how most people live.
The standard preparedness playbook assumes a yard, a generator hookup, and a basement. Most Americans live in apartments, condos, and dense suburbs, and most prep content ignores them entirely. CityReady was built to fix that. A scored audit of your household's real gaps, built specifically for urban and suburban renters and owners, with a concrete plan to close every one. No survivalist framing. No gear obsession. Just an honest picture of where your household stands and exactly what to do about it.
On January 13, 2018, my family and I were living in Honolulu when every phone in our condo started screaming.
“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
I ran with them, turned around, and went back inside to change my shirt.
That's what panic looks like when you have no plan.
We made it to the stairwell. No basement. We crouched behind trash cans with neighbors we'd never met, no supplies, no information, trying to piece together what was happening. I had a contact at the Department of Defense. I messaged him. That was the extent of our emergency plan.
It was a false alarm. 38 minutes of real terror, then back to our lives. But it never left us.
We had nothing ready. No supplies for shelter-in-place. No go-bag. No idea what we would have done if it had been real. Around us, people were trying to get into bunkers only to find them sealed. People were jumping into sewers. My wife called her father. He told her to prepare to meet her maker.
That is not unique to us. Most households, especially the ones in apartments and condos and dense neighborhoods, are in exactly the same spot. And most of them will not find out until the moment it matters.
Preparedness isn't something that requires land, a generator, or a bunker. It's something everyone can do. Most prep content just wasn't written for people like us.
CityReady is.