Doug Haskett Texas Hill Country

Doug Haskett at the desk in his home office

Here's what I do at my house.

Get your home ready before the lights go out.

Three books and eight Drill Cards from a combat veteran whose house stayed warm and had water the week the Texas grid went down.

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Do or Die, Volume II · The system The House They Skip, Volume IIII · The house Lost, Not Found, Volume IIIIII · The way home The Drill Cards

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3Books
40Chapters
31Printable cards
8Drill Cards
380+Pages, big type

01The set

Three books, one job each, and the eight cards that run them.

The Doug Haskett Set: Do or Die, The House They Skip, Lost, Not Found and the Drill Cards
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The Doug Haskett Set

All three books, and the Drill Cards you only get here.

  • Do or Die · the system · 170+ pages
  • The House They Skip · the house · 90+ pages
  • Lost, Not Found · the way home · 90+ pages
  • The Drill Cards · eight cards, big enough to read by headlamp · only in the set

First Hour · Nightly Round · First of the Month · Family · Leave Early · Door Check · Room · Trip

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02The books, one job each

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Do or Die, Volume I

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170+ pagesStart hereVolume I · the system · 20 chapters

Do or Die

A combat veteran's prepping system: what's deadly first, the standard, and the drills that keep a family alive

This is the system, not a shopping list. It's the way our house decides and drills, in the order the trouble goes: what's deadly first, the standard we keep, the supply in the order it fails, and the drills. Every chapter ends on the one thing to do before you sleep tonight, and 13 cards go on the fridge.

From the contents

  1. 2What's Deadly First
  2. 3The Standard
  3. 7Water
  4. 9Light and Power, the Generator Outside
  5. 14The Nightly Round
  6. 16Done Once in the Dark
  7. 19Leaving Early
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The House They Skip, Volume II

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90+ pagesVolume II · the house · 10 chapters

The House They Skip

Protecting your home and family when order breaks down, without a single weapon

After a disaster, most of a road helps. A few people go looking for a dark house and an easy afternoon. This is how your house looks like too much trouble, and how your family is never where the trouble is. There's not one weapon in it. Be too much trouble, then call the sheriff.

From the contents

  1. 2How a House Gets Picked
  2. 3The Gate, the Drive and the Line Around the House
  3. 4Doors, Frames and the Strike Plate
  4. 5Windows, Light and the Look of an Occupied House
  5. 7The Road as a Unit: the Call List and the Watch
  6. 8The Safe Room and the Call
  7. 10When the House Isn't Worth It: Leaving Early
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Lost, Not Found, Volume III

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90+ pagesVolume III · the way home · 10 chapters

Lost, Not Found

Surviving outdoors and getting home: shelter, fire, water, signal and the walk out

Most of the people searched for in the national parks weren't on an expedition. They were out for the afternoon. The best survival skill I own is telling Beth where I'm going and when I'll be back. This is that, the few things that buy you a night until somebody comes, and the walk home on your own feet.

From the contents

  1. 2The Plan You Leave at Home
  2. 3What's on Your Back and in the Truck
  3. 4Stay Put, Stay Found: the Signal
  4. 5Shelter: Out of the Wind, Off the Ground
  5. 7Water: Carried, Filtered, Boiled
  6. 9The Map, the Compass and the Walk Home
  7. 10The Crossing You Turn Back From
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03Who I am

Doug Haskett
"I did twenty-four years in the Army and I'm a combat veteran; the week the grid went down in February 2021, my house stayed warm and had water because we'd rehearsed, and half our road came through the kitchen; everything in these books I've done once in the dark before I put it on paper."

Doug Haskett · From a combat veteran who did twenty-four years in the Army, and whose house stayed warm and had water the week the Texas grid went down.

First edition, 2026

04Why you can trust it

4-1

Done once in the dark before it went on paper

Everything in these books I've done once in the dark, at my own house, before I put it on paper. The drills, the round, the room and the walk home.

4-2

What I paid, where and when

Every price is what I paid at the hardware store, the farm store or the warehouse club, and roughly when. Every number from a storm or a freeze is the agency's own, with the year, in the sources at the back of each book.

4-3

Nothing in here can hurt you

No weapon of any kind. No fire indoors, no generator in the garage, no first aid taught. Where it takes a class or a licensed man, the book says so and stops. And 30 days, money back, keep the files.

05Frequently asked questions

Which one do I start with?

Do or Die. It's the system, the way our house decides and drills, and the other two are one job each. If it's the house after a storm that worries you, The House They Skip. If it's the trail, the truck or the walk home, Lost, Not Found. If you'd rather have it all squared away, the set is all three and the eight Drill Cards for $47.

What am I actually getting?

PDFs. You pay once, and inside a minute there's an email with the download. Read them on a phone, a tablet or a computer, or print them at home on ordinary letter paper. The type is big and plain. The cards at the end of the chapters are made to print and pin up, and the Drill Cards are bigger still, for the fridge and the nail by the back door.

Is there anything in here about guns?

No. Not one weapon, anywhere, of any kind. I did my twenty-four years, and that isn't what these books are for. The House They Skip is how your house looks like too much trouble, and then you call the sheriff.

I'm not a veteran. Is this for me?

It's a house and a family, not the Army. If you've got a house, a truck and people you'd drive home to, it's for you.

I live in town, not on acreage. Does it still work?

Yes. The standard doesn't care how big the lot is. The rain tank and the gate are mine; the water, the nightly round, the door, the bag and the truck are anybody's. Every chapter ends on one thing to do tonight, wherever you live.

What if it's not for me?

30 days, full refund, no questions. Reply to the email the books came in and you get your money back. Keep the files.

Is any of this medical advice, or the order to leave?

No. I own the kit and I took the county's class; go take the class. What I say is what I've done at my house and what it cost. Your county, the sheriff and the National Weather Service give the orders, and they come first, every time. When they say leave, you leave.

You don't set the standard the night it happens. You set it in daylight, before you're scared.

Print the cards tonight. Pin them where the job happens, and run the first one with the lights off.

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