Contingency plan and emergency facts
Your what-ifs, each with a trigger, a decision point, one person who decides and what happens, and the emergency facts to print with the run sheet. Seeded from your setup.
For a first pass, the what-ifs sheet and the emergency facts are essential: four to six rows, each with a decision and a person, and the street address for 911 and the first aid kit's place written down. That is the Start here result of The contingency plan.
What-ifs
One row per thing that could go wrong. The trigger is what you would see; decide by is the moment you choose; who decides is one person.
Emergency facts
Fill these in before the day and print them with the run sheet.
How to use these sheets
- One row per what-if. Write the sign you would see, the moment you decide, the one person who decides, what happens and who you tell.
- Decide by a moment, not a feeling. "At the first thunder" or "Friday 6 pm, from the forecast" can be acted on; "if it looks bad" cannot.
- Print the emergency facts with the run sheet. The address for 911 is the line people cannot find in a hurry.
The example row is from the Ortiz party (fictional): thunder heard during the party, decided at the first thunder by Elena: the program pauses, everyone goes into the house and the garage, and the party waits 30 minutes after the last thunder, as the National Weather Service advises. The tent is not a shelter.
The plan prepares decisions; it does not prevent what it lists. It is not first aid training: a Red Cross class teaches first aid and AED use, and 911 comes first in any emergency.