Just in Case

Essential strategies to prepare you in the event of an emergency.

If disaster strikes and public services are limited, you want to know that your family will be taken care of. Learn how to inventory and rotate your food supply, pack an evacuation kit, maintain communication with loved ones, and much more. With bestselling author Kathy Harrison's Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens, you'll soon gain the ingenuity and resourcefulness to get your family through even the most unfortunate circumstances.

"Aided by charmingly retro illustrations vaguely reminiscent of a 1940s air raid brochure, Harrison presents her 'OAR' system for preparedness—organizing, acquiring and rotating supplies—and techniques to safely and even comfortably survive any kind of emergency. She shows how to prepare for a short-term crisis: building a supply of food and water; preparing first aid and evacuation kits; planning communication and a family meeting place in times of crisis. She also presents long-term strategies for self-sufficiency: 'eliminating debt and securing a supply of cash in your home'; planting a garden, canning food and making cheese; replacing an inefficient fireplace with a woodstove; building a solar oven. Harrison shows that learning to do it yourself, besides providing some security in an increasingly insecure world, brings less obvious but perhaps equally important benefits: an incredible sense of self-sufficiency and independence." —Publishers Weekly

Illustrations by Alison Kolesar