Chapter 5 | Staying Put, Intentionally

Building the Six Household Capabilities for When Systems Falter

This article is part of The CP Journal’s Individual Readiness Playbook.

When most agencies tell you to remain where you are during an incident, they use the phrase shelter-in-place.

We’re not going to use that term here.

“Shelter” has always sounded passive to me. As if you’re simply waiting something out.

Instead, we’re going to use the phrase protect-in-p…