Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens

Just in Case provides strategies for preparing your family for emergencies when public services may be limited. The book covers practical steps including how to inventory and rotate food supplies, pack evacuation kits, and maintain communication with loved ones during a crisis. Kathy Harrison presents her 'OAR' system for preparedness—organizing, acquiring, and rotating supplies—along with techniques for safely surviving emergencies. For short-term crises, she explains how to build food and water supplies, prepare first aid and evacuation kits, and plan family communication and meeting places. For long-term self-sufficiency, the book covers eliminating debt, securing cash at home, gardening, canning food, making cheese, installing a woodstove, and building a solar oven. The book features illustrations by Alison Kolesar in a style reminiscent of 1940s air raid brochures. Harrison demonstrates that developing these skills provides both practical security and a sense of personal independence and self-sufficiency.