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The NewBold Survival System

Bug-In — The 90-Day Plan

Most emergencies don't make you leave. They make you stay — in a house with no power, no water pressure, no heat, and no truck coming. This manual is how that house keeps a family alive, warm, fed, and sane for 90 days.

Manual 2 of 4

What's inside

  • The first hour: the walk-through that makes the house safe — water, breakers, fridge discipline, one warm room
  • Holding heat: the one-warm-room system, safe indoor heating, the pipes plan, and carbon monoxide — the quiet killer, with the rules that prevent it
  • Light, water discipline, and the sanitation start: the twin-bucket toilet system, set up on day one
  • Cooking on what you have, the first three days of meals, and the tear-off First 72 Hours Checklist
  • The generator chapter: sizing, the 20-foot rule, refueling discipline, and a run schedule that stretches fuel for months
  • Water and sanitation as systems: sources in and around the house, greywater, waste burial, odor and pest control
  • Summer heat without AC — the season that actually kills — plus winter room rotation and slow problems: mold, pests, boredom, friction
  • Home security basics: lighting, locks, visibility — staying lawful and boring
  • Morale and routine: the daily schedule, jobs for kids, and the maintenance calendar that carries a household to day 90
  • WHEN STAYING MAKES YOU A TARGET — roundup warning signs, the hide-vs-flee decision, making a home read as vacated, hide spaces, staged quiet departure, and protecting the Code Key if the home is searched

Built in two phases

Phase 1

The First 72 Hours

Step by step, in order — the decisions and actions that keep your family alive.

Phase 2

Days 4 Through 90

The sustainment: systems, routines, and resupply that carry you to day 90.

In every NewBold manual

  • A full communications chapter — family comms plan, out-of-area contact, check-in schedule, NOAA weather radio, FRS/GMRS and ham basics with honest licensing notes, and what to do when cell networks fail
  • Built for OPSEC — code-name worksheets throughout: a captured binder tells a stranger nothing
  • Supporting sections on the other pillars — water, food, shelter, medical awareness
  • A Myths section — the bad advice, crossed out

Bug-In is Manual 2 of 4. Get all four manuals plus the Family Code Key in the System Complete bundle and save 44% versus buying the pieces separately.