Preparedness for when

2tonsils

Thanks for the link....I meant normal things to prepare for the winter so that link is great thank you. I need to get my head around winter proofing the house while I still have time (its still 32 in the shade here and unusually warm for this time of year). The weather should be breaking soon then we will get our usual storms. Need to order wood as soon as its available and find someone who can fix our electric blanket...

2tonsils

For any of you thinking I am crazy planning for bad winter weather because I live in Greece, it gets horrendously cold and wet here in the winter and I am talking from experience. We get cold winds that Siberia would be proud of. Last year we had 16 weeks with no car after an uninsured driver hit us...we had to ride our scooters in the rain/frost/wind/ you name it. We bought thermal ski under wear from Lidl's here and it was amazingly good value for money. It will definitely be used this year as well. I also learned defensive driving the hard way!

vanoonoo

suburbanwifey wrote: »

1 x large Maglight (also useful for defence, effective smashing someone over head lol)

1 x mini Maglight (for other requirements)

(I wouldn't like to bump into me in a survival mode )

lol too funny! heehee!

vanoonoo

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Do you seriously think you need a crossbow? :eek:

how else will we fight off the zombies?!

D&DD

Five minutes peace!!

I'm off to try and catch up, ooh prepping today consisted of buying a rather fetching t-shirt with my avatar on it so I can look stylish when the z's arrive :rotfl:

I was REALLY tempted by one that read " if the zombies come I'm tripping you over" is that naughty :A:D

ginnyknit

After the terrible winter a couple of years ago and being snowed in for so long I really do not want to be in the same situation again. My main concern is OH's physical and mental health. To run out of meds or not to have nutritious food in store is a worry. Since then my arthritis has made it so I cannot walk to the chemist in bad weather as the pain is unbearable. So really I am preparing for winter but I like to be a step ahead of the chaos in every way I can. I also have an 82 year old Mum to think about, during the bad weather she gets stir carazy and soon ends up feeling very low. Getting her to prep a bit makes her feel in control and tbh smug :rotfl:

It seems to me there are an awful lot of people who think like us, just visit any prepping site and see how many posters are on. Obviously some are extreme - often Americans but they live in a totally different way to us, especially those out in the wilds. As we see in 2tonsils case, the S**t is very close to hitting the fan. I was telling OH about her today after seeing holiday adverts for Greece, and I presumed, wrongly, that she was a young lass due to her fitness levels. i am all the more impressed to find she is a little older than me ...wanders off to resume the 300 situps I used to do less than 4 years ago before my arthritis hit...pushing a wheelchair is demanding and OH is getting worse by the day.

GreyQueen

Suburbanwifey, I had a very interesting conversation with a cop's sister in New Zealand a few years ago. Despite its bucolic reputation, NZ has some ghastly drug problems, particularly people crazed by a synthetic drug called P.

She told me how she'd walk home at night holding the largest Maglite torch resting against her shoulder (she mimed how you'd hold a rifle at parade rest) ready to hammer down with it if necessary. She'd already had some close squeaks and this was the cop-brother's advice btw.

I know someone who was living in a block of flats where one caught fire. Was extinguished with no loss of life but the whole block had to do emergency evac with no notice. Water went down thru block's electrics and rendered it so hazardous that it had to be disconnected from the grid and stayed disconnected for weeks, until it dried out and every inch of the electrics examined and tested.

With no power, no lights, no lifts, it was uninhabitable. People were spread all over the place in emergency digs. The council put security guards on the outside (no power for the security doors) and residents were allowed back on chaperoned access for 15 mins the next day to grab what they could. Then they were locked out of their own homes.

That was their reality for WEEKS.

Bad things happen. I live in a tower block. Several of my neighbours are mentally-ill. They do dangerous things sometimes. My block one had a gas explosion which took out several flats and caused a midnight evac.

It could have easily been my block rendered uninahbitable for weeks. Going forward, it could still be my block, one of these days.

As to being concerned about natural disasters, why not?

Volcanic explosions cause a reduction in solar radiation reaching the ground which causes crops to photosynthesise less and yields to decline, sometimes into famine range. Any big blow will impact harvests for several years and the trade winds will circulate the dust around the planet. It isn't a question of the end of the world, it's a question of less food for a lot of people for a few years, and that's not a good thing by anybody's reckoning.

I had a friend in Thailand when the tsunami hit. She was up in the mountains on the Laotian boarder when it hit, but had been right in the danger zone days before, and I didn't know she'd gone upcountry.

You can bet next week's housekeeping money that I was trifle stressed until I heard from her via email. And I made sure that my Xmas pressie money that year went to the disaster relief fund, out of compassion and out of a sense of thankfulness that it wasn't me or mine in the middle of all that.

And I agree with whomever it was who pointed out that you don't have to read the thread if you don't want to, much less feel the need to point and jeer.

2tonsils

Ginnyknit..... only my passport says I am 57 next week...my brain , sense of humour and body insist I am only thirty....

I have to stay fit as I have Hashimoto's thyroditis and Celiac disease, both of which are helped with a healthy diet and good level of fitness....so I keep up with both. The truth is I just love staying fit and the fitness instructors here are fantastic!
Nothing better than a full out kickboxing session to make me feel better.....I even think I could take on a few zombies if I had to!

ginnyknit

I totally agree GQ, like people who moan about things on Tv - there is an off button. Fuddle has the right idea, she picks out what is pertinent to her and ignores the rest - bright girl our Fuddle as we know

2tonsils I would love to do kick boxing but will have to make do with a mean right hook and OH, who is a crack shot (ex army sniper). The fat woodpigeon in my back garden will be first on the list if we need to forage and I do feed them so its fair. Being of gypsy blood I have no qualms about dispatching food, I was raised on wild food even tho me granny settled in a house - 4 foot 10 inches of dynamite the woman was, thats where I get my spirit from. I am seriously going to try and get fitter, I decided this during the usual bout of insomnia last night, I need to fight the arthritis on all fronts.

prepareathome

My oldest son knowing his mum well brought me a real Aladdin lamp back from Arabia