THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

I do think it bad that just before acknowledging defeat in a call to Trump, the Hillary camp sent their supporters home with a 'we could still win it' and so far Hillary has not appeared. Surely her supporters deserve better.

mardatha wrote: »

Woke up to a covering of snow and it's still on. YAAAAAY I LOVE WINTER :j:j:j

Oh how I wish!!! I hope you enjoy your snow!!

DigForVictory wrote: »

I think a lot of Americans will be feeling much as a lot of Brits did when we woke up to Brexit.

I have a sudden new understanding for the Europeans appalled fascination with us, from safely across a dividing strip of water...

Me, with the weather forecast, I had a Snow Day booked, so I can look out at the snowflakes & lean on a warm husband & sip tea.

Can I join you? The other half is off today and I would love nothing more than watching the rain from our sofa with a decent hot choc than at work freezing (though I'd freeze at home to, but I have blankets!!)

I've started to go through this thread but just wondering if anyone has something kind of like a day to day bug-out-bag? I'm thinking I would like to add items to my daily backpack so I have the essentials with me when I'm out and about.

Also started to add other items to my shopping list to pick up this weekend. I seen this and I wondered if anyone has anything like this and whether it would be worth it? I lack usable "storage" space in my kitchen, but I know if I store food items anywhere else I'm likely to forget about it!

Also get a bag/box for the car - more winter preps than bug out really. We once got stuck up on the moor road in a bad blizzard. The snow plough came along and took my two sons into their cab to keep them warm, and then dropped them at a farmhouse beside the road. All the stranded motorists met up at the farmhouse - with the wife making us cups of tea. And later that night the plough got stuck and the 2 man crew had to be lifted out by helicopter the next day. Our car was stuck up there for 5 days

Am feeling more and more compelled to prep, but not sure what else I can practically do? Really stunned at the US result and very concerned for those people Trump attacked over his campaign, they must be feeling very insecure just now. Between that, Brexit, and the worsening position in social care in Scotland (my work arena) I'm feeling quite insecure myself

Need to look to my safety net, see if there's anything else I can do to future-proof myself and my family.

Evening all.

LFC, my daily out-and-about bag is a messenger type, not big. The main compartment contains the stuff I use for work. The side pockets contain a number of other things which are there in the event of being denied access to my home on a temporary basis such as 24-48 hours.

As follows; enough life-essential meds for a couple of weeks, basic washkit, torch, some painkillers and plasters, small bottle hand sanitiser gel, couple prs clean knicks and a basic wash kit. All pack very small and I don't really notice that they're in there.

The other week I went out of my flat in the morning and was surrounded by an event (mass police presence, several cops armed with some species of sub-machine gun, four GSDs and their handlers and gawd knows what else. I tried to find out what the flip was happening but was told by one officer that I couldn't go back 'in there' - being my home).

SuperGran told me that this went on for nearly 4 hours. I was heading out for the day, booted and suited and with my trusty bag. Good job I hadn't just nipped out to the local shop in my flipflops and no coat, hey?

Re Trump, hmmm, interesting article about the election in last week's archdruid report, which might cast some light on the motivations of the electorate, for those who might like to have a gander.