Preparedness for when

craigywv

good idea that GQ about meeting up as i fully believe if something major did happen i truly think except for a select few EVERYONE would abandon their stations and try and get home to their own familes so if my boy was in school it would be 15 min walk for him i would feel better knowing i could meet him in a designated zone eg beside the local shop or somewhere we both know, unfortunatley his grans house would be no good as he would be closer to me than there. also a bit off subject but Home Bargains selling the battery less torches 99p i got quite a few and they now in our grab bags and 1 in each bedside cabinet also popped 1 into sons schoolbag well you never know lol...i would feel safer than him trying to strike matches if he was ever in position that we couldnt find each other before dark fell at least he could bunker down somewhere and have a light as he is still afraid of the dark, definatley going to prep him tonight gently when he comes in from playing about what to do and where to meet etc and if its impossible for him to get to me just where to bunker down and stay put until i could reach him.......sounds awful but could well save his life.I dont even allow him to leave my side in a supermarket he knows the drill talk to NO-ONE,dont go out the doors and go to tills /customer services people will find me. He actually deliberatly got lost in mr t so he could hear the woman call my name over the tannoy system..........i was 15 feet away from him off loading my trolly 2 tills away from customer services!!!!!!!!!!i just had to wave at the lady in c. services to "release" him. i afraid of stranger danger so he is well warned. need to get more candles as went round house last week filling EVERY candlestick,tea light with candles ....didnt know i had as many!! IKEA here i come to restock!

mrs_lds

I heard recently that stateside the bureau of something wanted to know of address where food was being hoarded everywhere. How scary is that and unfair too. Hope that is not enforced here. There should be more marketing to promote food storage nd grab bags. Each home responsible to be made aware of impending social and economic unrest. Hope things are ok 2tonsils in Greece.

GreyQueen

mrs_lds wrote: »

I heard recently that stateside the bureau of something wanted to know of address where food was being hoarded everywhere. How scary is that and unfair too. Hope that is not enforced here. There should be more marketing to promote food storage nd grab bags. Each home responsible to be made aware of impending social and economic unrest. Hope things are ok 2tonsils in Greece.

:mad: That's pretty disgusting. So, if private citizens want to have big store cupboards, the State thinks it has a right to know about them? For what purpose, confiscation? Can't think of any legitimate reasons why knowing how much food a household has is any of a government's business.

Mind you, the US Govt has historically confiscated gold held by private citizens.

Makes you think that the preppers who say keep it hidden, pay cash, leave no paper trails etc aren't tin hat paranoiacs but bang on the money.

Hope 2tonsils will be able to get back to us soon.

mrs_lds

The only reason I can think for this is to share it out with hose unprepared. I am all for sharing however, would not like anything taken off me or enforced.

prepareathome

It was somewhere on the statute books that in case of emergency soldiers(not police) can enter your home and remove any food hoard you have.

Now do not know if it is still on the books, I wouldn't be surprised. I think it went on during WWII when it became illegal to hoard food.

I put thankfully all my fruit bushes I planted this year in the back garden so they now take over half the ground space, but I knew putting them in side garden would be the same as me handing them out free to all. I have them in a fruit cage, well most of it, it was to big to fit fully so just didn't put all the bamboo poles in, as we have always fed the birds but didn't want to grow fruit just for them. Not much fruit this year but hoping more next year.

I last heard a few years ago that Oxycontin was selling on street for £10 a tablet, I presume its more now. Druggies love them as they are slow release so they chew them and get a rush, also can stop them breathing and kill them, but they don't care. Me I get enough of a rush swallowing them whole and letting them release slowly, how anyone can enjoy the 'high' gives them I do not understand its horrible, and mine is minor to what druggies get, not full control or care about anything urg.

craigywv

prepareathome wrote: »

It was somewhere on the statute books that in case of emergency soldiers(not police) can enter your home and remove any food hoard you have.

Now do not know if it is still on the books, I wouldn't be surprised. I think it went on during WWII when it became illegal to hoard food.

I put thankfully all my fruit bushes I planted this year in the back garden so they now take over half the ground space, but I knew putting them in side garden would be the same as me handing them out free to all. I have them in a fruit cage, well most of it, it was to big to fit fully so just didn't put all the bamboo poles in, as we have always fed the birds but didn't want to grow fruit just for them. Not much fruit this year but hoping more next year.

I last heard a few years ago that Oxycontin was selling on street for £10 a tablet, I presume its more now. Druggies love them as they are slow release so they chew them and get a rush, also can stop them breathing and kill them, but they don't care. Me I get enough of a rush swallowing them whole and letting them release slowly, how anyone can enjoy the 'high' gives them I do not understand its horrible, and mine is minor to what druggies get, not full control or care about anything urg.

my uncle has just recently been put on those meds your on, the police called to his door the day he was prescribed them telling him he not allowed to use his back door at night well advised him not to as these junkies are finding a way through the internet to see whos on what!! my uncle said thats crazy how can a juklie do that policemans reply.........all walks of life are on drugs and they could have had a job in computers before they tragically fell foul to drugs. so its awful but now my uncle has bars and padlocks everywhere he afraid to call the cat in at night so she in from afternoon she in a tizzy. off subject but i just put a thread up there about help with strawberries and since you all lotties could comeone please give me a bit of advice thank-you!

GreyQueen

mrs_lds wrote: »

The only reason I can think for this is to share it out with hose unprepared. I am all for sharing however, would not like anything taken off me or enforced.

Hmmm. Or to feed soldiers, perhaps? Would the Government decide that a household had too many blankets and redistribute those to the needy? Or too much money in your bank account? Too many clothes in your wardrobe....?

I guess maintaining a database of known preppers is simpler than the government maintaining emergency food depots. And so very much cheaper, too.

PAH, is this confiscation statute on the books here in the UK, or is it the USA, or is there one in each country? I'd love to know.

prepareathome

Here in UK GQ I will see if I can find out if its still law - was up till a few years ago anyway, but government went through a purging of old outdated laws not that long ago and I don't know if it survived, cannot see it being kicked off the statute books though, its a handy law to have. Martial law has had to have been declared due to state of emergency before it would kick in though so hopefully that will not happen although the way they causally used the troops at the Olympics I would not put it totally out of consideration.

That really angered me, sorry if anyone is armed forces but they and Olympics do not mix and never should as far as I am concerned, I was blazing when I saw them take the flag, it should have been ordinary people as its a civilian thing not military and with the soldiers also being used for security I was wondering have government plans for getting soldiers in the streets ready for the unrest they expect next year so getting us used to seeing them now.

Sorry if that seems daft but its how my paranoid mind works.

Hugs and Love to all xxx

thriftwizard

Don't know about the legality of forced entry, though I suspect it would be used against those suspected of black market profiteering, but I do know that in case of emergency & supplies not getting through, supermarkets have instructions to ration stuff, like one loaf of bread per household - they have no instructions as to how to work it out per person, just by address - I was told this by the supermarket manager, who's a friend. Fine if there are one or two of you in a household, but in our case (7, sometimes 8 adults) we'd be starved in nothing flat without some backup supplies.

prepareathome

The bread rationing was the same during last bread strike 30 years ago was it? I remember our local shop sent a van up to Scotland for bread overnight and rule was one loaf a house no matter how many in it. I loved it as they got 'plain loaves' which cannot get down here, farmfoods did sell it for a bit but said it wasn't selling,it was a blast from home.