Preparedness for when

Gigervamp

Well, that was grim.

auntymabel

jk0 wrote: »

Anyone notice about ten minutes in, someone was trying to light a gas stove, but no gas ignited?

However, the spark ignition worked okay.

Some have a battery.

Butterfly_Brain

It was too Blair Witch for me and how did they manage to charge their phones?

ALIBOBSY

Did you notice is some of the news/stock footage of emergency vehicles and traffic queues that sometime lights were on in buildings or a matrix sign was still flashing lol.

Still quite enjoyed it, but think the armed forces would have been deployed MUCH faster and probably curfews as well.

Makes you want to prep harder, but maybe not bother with the gennie. That prepper guy forgot the first rule of prepping OS.

I think in that sot of situation you would be better at night having at least some of your food/water upstairs with you and barricade the door.

Ali x

craigywv

watched BLACKOUT:cool:....................still up rambling about ,felt the need to guard my preps! rest of house is snoring away. good thing came out of it though, my oh sat for the entirety of the programme in silence,then plodded about the house muttering to me about how he now sees why I prep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! me thinks it took him to watch this to get the bigger picture. I prep for monetary boom which I do notice every week in my shopping price hikes etc.... think oh now thinks the grid is going to blow! food for thought ..............he away to bed thinking of it! I always knew I would get him on board..........hehehehehehehehehe:D

jk0

I thought some of the things shown might give bad people ideas.

Who'd have thought we need to lock up our garden hoses lest they are used to syphon out our petrol?

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

I thought some of the things shown might give bad people ideas.

Who'd have thought we need to lock up our garden hoses lest they are used to syphon out our petrol?

In the seventies oil crisis, there was a fair bit of petrol-stealing. It was happening even in the small market town where I lived. That's why they invented lockable petrol caps.

My gas stove's ignition works off an AA battery located in the pan compartment, so my stove would be one of those which would spark but not light if the gas supply was off.

I haven't seen Blackout, which is my own fault for choosing not to have a telly, but I can look forward to catching up with it in a few weeks when I next visit the folks. Assuming they don't misplace the recording, lol.

One thing I recall from James Wesley Rawles' book TEOTWAWKI was to be careful what foods you ate in a crisis; the odour of that heating can of chili might be enough to bring starving and desperate people to your door.

The vast majority of my canned preps (excepting the FB pies) are edible cold. OK, I'd prefer some of them heated, but they're edible cold. Better to discreetly eat canned sardines in the dark than have to defend your BBQ against the mob.

It's interesting that this looks like bringing some sceptical spouses on board, and maybe give some non-preppers pause for thought about how they can help themselves in the future.

Or perhaps it will be a flash-in-the-pan and very little will change, even for those who chose to watch it.

Remember to preserve your OPSEC at the water cooler/ school gate/canteen/ wherever, fellow preppers.

ETA I was wandering around of the interweb and found a site called survive2day which has some Ytube vids in it. Engaging presenter who did some pieces-to-camera as if S had already HTF in his city. Worth a look, IMO. What called it to mind just now was his comment, in one of these, about being careful what rubbish you throw out of your house in a crisis.

Think about it; you should be careful about bringing stuff in but you should be equally careful about what you throw out in an emergency, such as food cans and other packaging for shelf-stable foods. We may want to review how we handle household waste to preserve privacy. There are people taking black sacks out of the communal bins, in the middle of the night, in my block already. I shred everything and cut all tablet strips into tiny shards with scissors to make them unidentifable.

lillibet_dripping

Morning all,
Greyqueen - what is OPSEC please (hangs head in shame if it's something obvious:o)

Watched 'Blackout' with DD15 last night. Her comment at the end: 'Blimey. Thanks for growing veg and filling the cupboards, mum':T
Finally, SHE GETS IT:T

GreyQueen

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

Morning all,
Greyqueen - what is OPSEC please (hangs head in shame if it's something obvious:o)

Watched 'Blackout' with DD15 last night. Her comment at the end: 'Blimey. Thanks for growing veg and filling the cupboards, mum':T
Finally, SHE GETS IT:T

Be not ashamed, it is merely a military acronym which has wandered into the preppersphere. Stands for OPerational SECurity.

OPSEC means keeping your plans close. Such as not having three dozen cans of beans and a pallet of bottled water delivered at once, or running your mouth about what you have stashed at home, or having preps visible. Buy stuff for cash.

Loose lips sink ships and Keep mum, she's not so dumb were wartime exhortations for encouraging secrecy.

Loving your DD's comment. Just have a word and make sure she won't be bragging about her Prepper Mum to her classmates and other pals.

[Deleted User]

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

what is OPSEC

Operational Security.