Move away from immediate danger.
Read the official alert and follow its location-specific instructions. Call emergency services when needed. Do not wait for a website update before acting.
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Preparing for Emergencies
Practical steps for Manitoba households.
Prepared, not panicked.
Build a plan around the people you care for, the place you live and the supplies you can manage. Start small. Make it useful. Practise it together.
In immediate danger? Call 911 where available, or your local emergency number. Follow local emergency instructions. This page is educational guidance—not a live alert feed.
Understand the situation
Plan for disruptions. Check real conditions.
As winter approaches, review plans for severe cold, snow and ice, power or heating failures, road closures, and interruptions to water, communications or payments. These are preparedness priorities, not a prediction that a crisis will occur. Flood and wildfire risks also depend on location and season.
Guidance reviewed 2 November 2026. Check the official services below for current conditions; this page does not declare an active emergency or an all-clear.
Free information · No purchase required
When something happens, take the next safe step.
Evacuate—or shelter—as directed.
If told to evacuate, take portable essentials, medication, documents and pet supplies. Follow official routes, tell your contact where you are going and wait for clearance before returning. If told to shelter in place, follow the specific shelter instructions instead of leaving unnecessarily.
Check on your people.
Use your household contact plan. Keep numbers and meeting places on paper. Short texts may work when voice service is congested. Plan assistance for children, older adults, people with disabilities and pets.
Based on Manitoba emergency instructions and the federal household planning guide.
Two different jobs
A home reserve. A portable go bag.
At home: Manitoba recommends at least 14 days of supplies. Begin with what you can afford and build gradually: water, shelf-stable food, a manual opener, first aid and hygiene supplies, lighting, radio, charging and household-specific essentials.
Ready to leave: federal guidance recommends at least 72 hours of essentials for evacuation or sheltering. Keep portable supplies easy to carry, with a realistic water/refill plan. Manitoba’s own GO-kit guidance describes up to 24 hours; do not confuse a portable bag with a 14-day home reserve.
Account for medicines, mobility equipment, infants, allergies and pets. Discuss medication reserves and temperature-sensitive supplies with a pharmacist or prescriber.
Start with your water plan.
Manitoba’s home-storage benchmark is 4 litres per person per day for drinking, cooking and washing. Additional household or pet needs may increase this.
Store in manageable food-grade containers. One litre weighs about one kilogram; plan safe storage and replenishment, not an overloaded backpack.
112 Lhome water planning benchmark
Winter, power & everyday essentials
Keep the basics working safely.
Heat without creating another emergency.
Use only properly installed and maintained indoor heating equipment. Never use barbecues, generators or camp stoves indoors or in garages. Plan a safe warm destination and transport if your home cannot stay warm.
If a CO alarm sounds: get everyone and pets outside, call 911 or local emergency services from a safe place, and do not re-enter until cleared.
Light, information and food.
Keep LED flashlights, spare batteries, charged power banks and a battery or hand-crank radio. Keep fridge/freezer doors closed during an outage. Follow official food-safety guidance; never taste food to decide whether it is safe.
Measure essential device loads before buying backup power. A small battery is not automatically a space-heating or medical-equipment solution.
Communication and payments.
Write down key contacts, two meeting places and an out-of-area contact. Keep a modest amount of small-bill cash for essential purchases if ATMs or card systems are unavailable during an outage.
Review your supplies and contact plan every six months and after important household changes. Rotate foods you normally eat rather than panic-buying.
Optional planning tools · Offer preview
Turn the information into your household plan.
The safety guidance and official links above stay free. These optional digital resources add printable and fillable structure for planning, shopping and regular reviews. They are self-guided tools—not individualized medical, nutrition or emergency-response advice.
Start here
Family Preparedness Guide
$10 CAD + applicable tax
A 10-page family handbook for building readiness, organizing essentials and making a household plan you can use.
- Household preparedness guidance
- Clear starting points for family planning
- Digital PDF, delivered by email
Go deeper
Detailed Preparedness Program
$25 CAD + applicable tax
Includes the 10-page family handbook plus a 28-page printable and fillable workbook: 38 pages in total. Detailed action programs run from one day through longer planning windows, with shopping lists and household worksheets. Calculations are completed manually.
- 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days and 90 days
- Six-month maintenance and one-year planning
- Premade adult-baseline lists for 1, 2 or 4 people
- Space to adapt for children, pets, accessibility and individual needs
Preview only. The guide and workbook are prepared for review; ordering details still need confirmation. No purchase or payment is taken from this page. Personally prepared family lists are not included as an unlimited service; any tailored assistance needs an agreed scope.
Planned manual delivery
Request. Confirm. Pay. Receive by email.
- Choose the $10 guide or $25 detailed program and send your request.
- We confirm the total, applicable tax, delivery email and verified e-transfer instructions.
- Send payment only after receiving those verified instructions. No banking destination is published in this preview.
- After payment is confirmed, your files are emailed manually. This is not instant checkout or automatic download.
Never send banking passwords, security codes or sensitive family/medical details in an enquiry. Verify unexpected payment instructions through the business’s known contact details.
Ask about the upcoming guides →Local kit planning · Availability confirmed first
Build a practical kit close to home.
Ask about locally sourced, ready-to-assemble emergency kits and suitable equipment. Start with your household size, essential needs, budget and what you already own. We confirm the proposed contents, current availability, pickup or delivery options and timing before you commit.
No kit is advertised here as in stock, immediately available or guaranteed to cover every emergency. Safety-critical equipment needs suitable, traceable products—not unverified substitutes or a promised overseas arrival date.
Request local kit availabilityOriginal educational templates · In preparation
Plan before you buy a solar or battery system.
Three proposed self-guided resources, $5 CAD + applicable tax each. These are educational planning tools—not electrical installation instructions, engineered drawings or a promise of runtime.
Solar Planning Overview
A conceptual framework for organizing your goals, site questions and equipment discussions before seeking a professionally designed system.
Energy-Use Worksheet
Record essential device loads, operating hours and charging needs so you can discuss a realistic energy budget.
Battery Runtime Planner
Explore planning assumptions, losses and reserve needs without treating nameplate capacity as guaranteed usable runtime.
Preview only. Final files are being prepared. Any purchase would follow the confirmed e-transfer and manual-email process; no payment is accepted here. A qualified professional must confirm equipment compatibility, protection, connections and applicable requirements for an actual installation.
See the planned request process →Read the original guidance
Official sources, not rumours.
- Manitoba hazards and emergency planning
- Manitoba: prepare before an emergency / 14-day supplies
- Manitoba: what to do during an emergency
- Government of Canada: emergency kits / at least 72 hours
- Manitoba Hydro: power-outage preparation
- Manitoba Hydro: carbon monoxide safety
- Health Canada: safe food and drinking water
- Alberta emergency guidance: outage supplies and cash
Longer reserves are optional planning choices, not a government requirement or a guarantee of self-sufficiency. Follow current local instructions when they differ from general guidance.