When No One Coming

Why this workbook

8 reasons to get this before the next emergency

"Someone will come" is not a plan

Response times during real disasters run into hours or days, not minutes. Every checklist in this book starts from that fact, not from hope.

Built for your household, not a stranger's

Hair and skin care, elder care, childcare, apartment living, tight budgets — the plans here account for the households most guides forget.

You already have the instinct

Stretching what you have and reading a situation early was passed down to you. This book turns that instinct into a written, repeatable plan.

A workbook, not a lecture

Every chapter ends in fill-in pages — your contact tree, your 72-hour list, your evacuation route — so you finish with a plan, not just notes.

Covers more than "grid-down"

Power outages, storms, a sudden hospital stay, the week the paycheck doesn't stretch — the ordinary emergencies get a plan here too.

Peace of mind you can point to

A written plan and a stocked shelf turn a 2 a.m. outage from a crisis into an inconvenience.

Starts where you actually live

No acreage or stockpiled arsenal required — just what an apartment, a city block, or a cul-de-sac household can realistically keep and use.

Protects the people who depend on you

Dedicated pages walk you through planning with kids, aging parents, and neighbors in mind — not just yourself.

What's inside

One plan for every kind of emergency

The workbook is built around the three situations most families will actually face.

Grid-Down

What to have on hand and how to keep your household running when the power, water, or communication lines go out.

Family organizing emergency water and first-aid supplies in a garage

Storms

Before, during, and after guidance for the weather events that hit your specific region — not a generic national checklist.

Reading the workbook while out and about in the city

Life Emergencies

The sudden hospital stay, the layoff, the week nothing goes as planned — a plan for the emergencies that don't make the news.

Couple reviewing the workbook next to moving boxes and supplies

The complete workbook edition

Here's everything you get

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The full disaster-preparedness workbook, with fill-in planning pages in every chapter.
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Plans built around real households — apartments, city blocks, and cul-de-sacs alike. Edit me — add bonus #1 (e.g. printable checklist pack)
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Space to build your own contact tree, 72-hour list, and evacuation route. Edit me — add bonus #2 (e.g. emergency contact tracker)
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Guidance for grid-down, storms, and life emergencies in one workbook. Edit me — add bonus #3 (e.g. video walkthrough)

Complete Workbook Edition When No One Is Coming to Help

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About the author

Patrice L. Lewis

Patrice L. Lewis writes for the women who don't have time to pretend a crisis won't reach them. Drawing on a lifelong instinct for practical self-reliance and a clear-eyed view of how emergencies actually unfold — in apartments, on city blocks, and in suburban cul-de-sacs alike — she built this workbook to hand readers a plan instead of a pep talk.

She believes preparedness isn't a new skill so much as an inherited one — passed down, sharpened, and put back to work. When No One Is Coming to Help is her answer to a simple, uncomfortable question: if help doesn't come, what will you do?

Questions

Before you get started

Most family plans assume two adults — will this work for a one-parent household?+

Yes — it’s written with a single-adult household in mind, realistic about the time and budget one person actually has to work with.

I don't want to become a "prepper."+

This isn't stockpile culture. It's a written plan for the outages, storms, and everyday emergencies most families face — nothing more extreme than that.

Is this just a checklist, or something I'll actually use?+

It's a workbook. Every section ends with fill-in pages, so you walk away with your own plan — not someone else's.

Do I need special skills or gear to start?+

No. It starts with what you already have and what you were already taught, then builds from there.

There’s no one else to call. So you become the plan.