Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603420355 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Flaws of This Book Are Hazardous to Your Well-being Gail Rhea The author has the right idea in that we should be prepared for various situations "just in case" and wrote an easy-to-read book full of mostly excellent information, but Kathy Harrison should have quit while she was ahead.The book's strength is in home preparedness for the beginner, particularly food preparation, recipes, and storage which comprise more than 50 pages of the nearly 230-page text. However, if you have a carport instead of a garage, don't have a basement, live in an apartment, or rent, you need a lot of imagination to adapt her advice to your living arrangement and you'll need to accept that parts si. Good Quality Tranquility If you want a fairly complete preparedness guide for the family for storms, electrical outages, etc. this a great book for the price. I have done a lot of research on this topic before purchasing this book, so for someone like me it didn't hold too many surprises, but I would still recommend it. It has a great section on taking care of plumbing in cold weather. It skims the surface of most topics and goes a little in depth, but not too much. Frankly, this should be given out by Homeland Security, FEMA, etc. rather than those minuscule pamphlets they like to distribute.This would be an excellent guide for those with. Auntie Claus said Little House in the Big Woods. SEPTEMBER 1"Little House in the Big Woods" according to Auntie Claus. SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost Little House in the Big Woods SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost 3 years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou. years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou. , "Little House in the Big Woods" according to Auntie Claus. SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost Little House in the Big Woods SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost 3 years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou. years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou. 011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost Little House in the Big Woods SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 UPDATE POST-SOUTHWEST GRID OUTAGE:I bought this book almost 3 years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou. years ago in Virginia, where it applied very well. However, if you had picked this book up in, say Southern California a few weeks before the power went out in the whole Southwest recently, you probably would've have found the book's unrelenting focus on Northern winters frustrating to say the least.In Chapter 10, Loss of Power, despite saying "There will likely be no advance warning of impending grid failure beyond the rolling brownouts that are now a common summer occurrence in much of the country", the chapter is devoted to power ou
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