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How ready am I?

If you have to leave right now

  1. Follow the official alert. It names the evacuation route and the reception centre to go to.
  2. Grab your go bag, medications, phone and charger, ID and keys.
  3. Take pets. Follow your plan for livestock.
  4. Tell your out-of-town contact where you are going.
  5. Register at the reception centre so family can find you.

When the grid is down

With no internet, this app cannot get new alerts or maps. It keeps working with what is saved on this device: your kit, your plan, the emergency channels, your places-to-go list and the last information it loaded.

Paper never runs out of battery. Print your pack now and keep a copy in each go bag. Your alerts will come from a battery or crank radio.

Official alerts for my location

Set your location first.

Disclosure: alerts are passed along as they are received from official sources. Kit&Cache does not write, check or change them, and they can arrive late or not at all. This app is not a replacement for government emergency alerts and critical information feeds. Always rely on Alert Ready, official broadcasts and your local authorities.

Earthquakes

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Wildfires, storms and volcanoes

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Space weather

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Weather and air quality

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River levels near me

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Where to go

In a real evacuation, the official alert tells you which reception centre is open. Go there first. The places below are the nearest hospitals, fire halls, police, community halls and assembly points from OpenStreetMap, so you know your options ahead of time.

You Hospital Fire hall Police Community hall / assembly point / shelter Bunker (mapped, usually not public) Earthquake Wildfire / event
Set your location first.

About bunkers

Canada and the US do not have a public bunker or fallout shelter network. Any bunkers shown are old military or private structures mapped by volunteers, and most are not open to the public. For tornadoes, the safest place is a basement or a small inside room on the lowest floor. For everything else, the reception centre named in the alert is where help, food and beds will be.

Weather radar and wind

Live map by Windy.com. Use its menu to switch between radar, wind, rain, snow and satellite.

Aircraft overhead

Open in Flightradar24 · Open in ADS-B Exchange

Ships and ocean

NOAA ocean buoy map (live buoy readings) · Tsunami warnings (tsunami.gov) · Open in MarineTraffic

Emergency channels

Write the important ones on paper too. Cell networks often go down in a disaster.

My household

Amounts in the lists adjust to these numbers.

My emergency plan

Fill this in once, print a copy for the fridge and one for each go bag. It saves as you type.

Backup and move to another device

Your kit, plan and location are saved on this device only. There are no accounts yet. To move everything to your phone or keep a safe copy, save a backup file and load it on the other device.

Where the information comes from

  • Weather alerts: Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the US National Weather Service (NOAA)
  • Earthquakes: US Geological Survey (worldwide)
  • Space weather: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
  • Wildfires, storms, volcanoes: NASA EONET
  • River levels: Water Survey of Canada (Canada only)
  • Weather forecast: MET Norway (licence CC BY 4.0)
  • Air quality: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Health Index (Canada only)
  • Places to go and town search: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Base map: Esri
  • Live maps: Windy.com, airplanes.live, VesselFinder

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada, and data from the US Geological Survey, NOAA and NASA.

Privacy

DRAFT. To be reviewed by a lawyer before public launch.

  • There are no accounts. Your location, kit and plan are stored only in this browser on this device. We cannot see them.
  • To show information for your area, your location (rounded to about 1 km) is sent from your browser straight to the data providers listed above. They can see your internet address, as any website can.
  • The live maps and the Directions buttons are run by other companies (Windy, airplanes.live, VesselFinder, Google) under their own privacy policies.
  • We use no advertising and no tracking.
  • To erase everything, clear this site's data in your browser settings.

Terms of use

DRAFT. To be reviewed by a lawyer before public launch.

  • Alerts are passed along as they are received. They come from official government sources. Kit&Cache does not write, check or change them, and cannot promise that any alert will arrive, or arrive on time.
  • This app is not a replacement for government critical information feeds. Keep official alerts turned on and follow them first.
  • Kit&Cache is not an official warning system. It gathers public information to help you prepare. It does not replace Alert Ready, Wireless Emergency Alerts, weather radio, or instructions from police, fire and local officials.
  • Information can be late, incomplete, wrong or unavailable, especially during a disaster when networks are overloaded. Do not rely on this app alone to decide whether you are safe.
  • Places shown on the map come from volunteers and may be closed, moved or not open to the public. In an evacuation, go where the official alert tells you.
  • Checklists and amounts are general guidance. Your household, health and animals may need more.
  • The app is provided as is, with no guarantee, and you use it at your own risk.
  • In an emergency, call 911.

Alerts are passed along as received and may be late or missing. Kit&Cache is not a replacement for government emergency alerts. Always follow official alerts. In an emergency, call 911. Privacy and terms