Standards
Editorial & safety
Preparedness touches safety-critical subjects. These are the rules this site holds itself to.
- Personal experience is identified as personal experience, and nothing else is presented as tested.
- Real photographs of equipment, installations, tests and locations are preferred whenever they exist. Generated or stock imagery is never used to imply that something has been owned, installed or tested when it has not.
- Product specifications should ultimately be confirmed with the manufacturer.
- Weather and emergency guidance should come from appropriate authoritative and official sources.
- Generator operation, electrical connections, fuel storage, water purification and medical or first-aid matters require appropriate authoritative guidance — this site does not provide it.
- Readers should follow manufacturer instructions and applicable local requirements.
- No do-it-yourself electrical instructions are published here, and generators should never be operated indoors or in enclosed spaces.