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Mobile Home Severe Weather Pack
A calm, practical plan for tornado, hurricane, high wind, flood and winter weather if you live in a mobile or manufactured home
Choose your shelter on a calm day. Leave before the storm.
- Quick Pack (13 pages) + Full Guide (100 pages)
- Instant download
- US Letter, prints on A4 too
- Worksheets you fill in
- Plain English
$9.99 one-time, instant download
- Secure checkout by Payhip
- Download link on screen and by email
- Read the free sample first
- No refund once downloaded
Who it is for
For people who live in mobile or manufactured homes, and for the family and neighbors who help them.
What you get
- A plain-English explanation of why most mobile and manufactured homes cannot be made safe shelter, with the National Weather Service figures read carefully, and a short list of the words this guide uses.
- The Shelter Vetting Worksheet, with eight questions to test any shelter, including whether it is open at 3 a.m., and what to look for if you want a shelter of your own.
- The Shelter Plan and Time-to-Shelter Worksheet, so you know your route and your door-to-door minutes by day and by night.
- Three small alert tables that explain what each watch and warning means, and what to do at each level in a mobile home.
- The Night Alerts Setup Checklist for your phone, a weather radio and local alerts, including a bedside setup that works while you sleep.
- What to look at on your tie-downs, anchors and skirting, what never to attempt yourself, and eight questions to ask a qualified installer, plus the Home Checklist.
- A go bag you can carry, a car kit, a document folder, a contact card, and care plans for pets, infants and people with extra needs.
- A two-trigger tornado rule, a leave sequence you can practice, what to do when you reach the shelter, three walkthroughs and a six-line Tornado Trigger Card for your fridge door.
- A hurricane and high-wind leave-early plan with a clock, a table of flood depths, and the Evacuation Triggers and Leave-By Clock worksheet.
- Winter, power cut, heater, carbon monoxide, generator and fire guidance, with a food and medicine clock and the Winter Power-Out Plan.
- Step-by-step recovery advice for re-entry, photos, insurance, scams, FEMA and SBA help, proof of ownership and key deadlines, with one Recovery Log.
- Your Year at a Glance, one page that puts every monthly, seasonal and yearly task on a single calendar, and short notes for readers in the UK in three sections.
What is in it
- Why Your Home Is Not Your ShelterThis section tells you the plain truth about mobile and manufactured homes in severe weather, and changes the question from 'How do I make my home safe?' to 'Where do I go?' The rest of the guide is a plan to leave early and calmly.
- Choose Your Shelter and Know the RouteThis section turns 'go somewhere sturdy' into a named place, a route you have driven, and a time you have measured. Do it in calm weather. It is the most important decision in this guide.
- Alerts That Wake You: Watches, Warnings and the Night SetupA warning only helps if it reaches you in time to act on it. This section shows what each alert means, what to do at each level, and how to build three layers of alerting so that one failure does not leave you without a warning.
- Tie-Downs, Anchors and SkirtingAnchors limit damage to your home and your neighbors' property, but they do not turn the home into a shelter. This section shows what a proper system looks like, what you can safely check by eye, and what to ask a qualified installer to check.
- Go Bag, Documents, Contacts and PetsWhen you leave a mobile home, you leave fast. This section helps you pack one bag, one folder and one contact page now, so you can grab them on the way out and go.
- Tornado Plan: When to Leave, Where to Go, How Long You HaveThis section gives you one clear rule for when to leave, a short sequence to follow when you go, and three walkthroughs to rehearse before the night it counts. The goal is simple: be at your shelter before the tornado, not on the road when it arrives.
- Hurricane, High-Wind and Flood Plan: Leave EarlyThis section gives you a plan for hurricanes and high winds that is built on leaving early, with a clock you set now in calm weather. It also covers flood rules and the insurance step that has to happen well before a storm.
- Winter, Power Cuts, Heaters and FireCold, power loss, heaters and fire are the hazards you can meet in ordinary weather, with no tornado or hurricane involved. This section helps you keep pipes, heat and air safe, get through a power cut, and get out fast if a fire starts.
- After the Storm: Re-entry, Utilities, Documentation, Insurance and FEMA HelpThis section gives you the order of steps after a storm, from the first safe hour to the last deadline. Follow the order. The early steps protect your life, and the later steps protect your claim.
Read a free sample
This is the opening of the guide, exactly as it appears in the PDF. Download the free sample PDF (4 pages: the cover, the one-page plan and a first taste).
Part 1
Why Your Home Is Not Your Shelter
This section tells you the plain truth about mobile and manufactured homes in severe weather, and changes the question from 'How do I make my home safe?' to 'Where do I go?' The rest of the guide is a plan to leave early and calmly.
The honest answer first
This is hard to read if the home is yours, you have kept it up, and you have paid for it. It is still the most useful thing this guide can tell you. A home that looks solid on a calm day can be destroyed by wind.
So the question changes. Stop asking, 'How do I make my home safe?' Start asking, 'Where do I go, and when do I leave?'
That question has an answer, and you can settle it on a calm day. A plan made now, in calm weather, gives you your best chance of getting somewhere safe in time. People who know where they are going, and how long the trip takes, can leave early and without panic. The rest of this guide helps you build that plan.
$9.99 one-time, instant download
- Secure checkout by Payhip
- Download link on screen and by email
- Read the free sample first
- No refund once downloaded
Questions
What exactly do I get?
Two PDFs in one download. The Quick Pack (13 pages) is the short version: the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in and keep. The Full Guide (100 pages) has the reasons, worked examples and everything else. Open the Quick Pack first. Both are laid out for US Letter paper. You print them, or read them on a tablet or computer. There is nothing physical to wait for.
How do I get it after I pay?
Payment is handled by Payhip, a payment service for digital products. As soon as it goes through, you see a page with your download link, and the same link is emailed to you. This website never sees your card details.
Can I print it?
Yes. It is made for printing: big type, plenty of space to write, and worksheets you fill in by hand. Print the whole thing, or only the pages you need. Print at 100% size on US Letter (it also prints fine on A4).
Is it based on real sources?
Yes. Every instruction traces to an official source such as Ready.gov and FEMA, the CDC, the National Weather Service, the American Red Cross, the US Department of Energy and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The sources are listed at the end, with tags next to the items they support. It was fact-checked and safety-reviewed before publication. It is still general information, not professional advice, so check anything critical with your local authorities.
Is it just the free plan on a PDF?
No. The free personal plan gives you a checklist and your top priorities. The guides go further: decision rules, schedules, scenario walkthroughs and worksheets you fill in, written for one situation in depth.
Can I get a refund?
Read the free sample and the full contents list first, so you know what you are buying. Because this is a digital download, we cannot refund it once you have downloaded it. If you have not downloaded it yet, email hello@afternormal.co within 14 days and you will be refunded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email us and we will fix it, replace it or refund you. See the terms for the details.
Will I get updates?
Official guidance changes. If we revise this guide you will be able to download the new edition from the same link.