Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

((((ragz)))) we can't do anything about it, anyway, so we might as well keep a clear head, count our blessings (and our cans ) and trundle on with our own business.

One good thing about the end of the industrial age (coming probably by mid-century to all countries as the oil runs out) is that the tech to run WMD and fund global warfare will cease to exist.

I'm off to earn my living. Laters, GQ xx

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Thanks to PP for the heads up on the free kindle book yesterday, got that one and the firelighting one and the water one, many useful tips, good stuff. I don't read disaster novels, or watch disaster films or TV series, the propsect of it actually happening is bad enough for me, I don't want someone elses imaginings scaring the life out of me with what ifs!. I've gotten so used to the idea that nothing is going to last forever like oil or the national grid and gotten so used to thinking of what we'd do that it actually has become normal life. I'm a bit of an optimist anyway but I have never underestimated the disruption and difficulties that will inevitably befall us all, and I suspect after an attempt at keeping order, TPTB will melt away and look after them and thiers as you would expect. I still think that skills and an ability to think out of the box and adapt are the very best tools to cope in the eventuality, I'd do all I could and all I had to to make it through though, hard though that is to contemplate, Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

I wish I didn't come visit this morning :rotfl:

I'm tougher these days but keep myself ignorant to what if's etc. I wish I could read the books you discuss because it really is up my street but er... I'm worry wort who won't even read crime novels in case I'm upset

What happened with the oil in the 1970's? Showing my feeble years now aren't I. Born in '79.

I'm definitely a 'bug in' person. If I'm going to go in extreme circumstances I'd rather it be in my home. Unless there's a tempory life saving situation where by flood or fire etc - I'd evacuate but major scary stuff that we're likely to not survive anyway... home please

ragz_2

fuddle wrote: »

I wish I didn't come visit this morning :rotfl:

I'm tougher these days but keep myself ignorant to what if's etc. I wish I could read the books you discuss because it really is up my street but er... I'm worry wort who won't even read crime novels in case I'm upset

What happened with the oil in the 1970's? Showing my feeble years now aren't I. Born in '79.

I don't know, but there was a big threat of nuclear war, something to do with the Cold war or Gulf war? (I was born in '85 so guessing a bit here!) many people fully expected it to happen.
Don't watch Threads it's horrific, but I did and I certainly wouldn't want to be around if Nuclear bombs started flying!

I would prefer to Bug in at Home, hopefully the village would rise to an occaision and pull together rather than turn on each other... but that may be fantasy.

westcoastscot

Fuddle, try and not worry - continue prepping as you are. If things get as bad as they did in the 70's - leccy going off each evening, mass strikes etc then you'll cope at least as well if not better than your peers, and if it ever gets worse than that then it won't really matter for a lot of us! It will be down to survival of the fittest, which isn't me or many of us.

Edited to add: Fuddle I recall an interesting book, more "home front" than war-based, called When the Lights Went out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett. About folks lived experience of the 70s and the political fabric of the world - really interesting!

More importantly it was 5 degrees last night - first frosts will be here soon I guess.

WCS

mardatha

Scottish weather forums said 3C up in the glens and they had frost.
I survived the 70s seven stories up in a tower block, and was in hospital having my 3rd with no hot food, paper sheets, and cold milk for the babies. We all coped fine - sometimes it's easier doing it than thinking about it. Because you just get on with it
I don't pay any attention at all to films, think they're mainly stupid lol

[Deleted User]

If the unthinkable happens, we're unlikely to know anything/much about it, so why worry?

You may as well be like the man reading the newspaper, in Deep Impact.

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mardatha wrote: »

I survived the 70s seven stories up in a tower block, and was in hospital having my 3rd with no hot food, paper sheets, and cold milk for the babies.

I wasn't living in a tower block, and I certainly wasn't giving birth, but I too lived through the 70s.

It was tough at times, but we coped.

Trouble is, the molly coddled kids of today, would consider it a crisis, if they couldn't use their I-phone for a couple of days.

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FUDDLE life's much too short to worry about things that only 'might' happen, I only am really concerned if it is going to happen and I know about it. I lived with the Nuclear Threat all my life, I remember the polio epidemic and the panic that went with it, I lived through the problems and power cuts in the 70s and the 90s slump when all the houses were in negative equity because the prices had become ludicrously high, through the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the strikes and power cuts in the 70s, the slump in the 90s, the millenium bug scare, and nowadays, and all I can remember is getting on with life as best we were able under the circumstances prevailing from day to day. Yes, there were shortages of some things, yes we had to do jobs while the electricity was on, yes there was the negative equity problem in the 90s but life had to go on and be made as normal as it was possible to make it. Whatever happens will probably happen gradually and there will be time to become accustomed to the rolling changes as they happen, we humans are made of tough and reslilent stuff you know, you too little one, it will be a toughie, but we'll get through, never you worry, Love Lyn xxx.

ragz_2

Well said... I find if I spend too much time reading about prepping/reading news etc it goes to my head and I need to drag myself out of it. Easy to get overwhelmed. I will reel myself back in and head prepping towards winter stuff as that's at least a certainty