Preparedness for when

jk0

The crumpled cigarette pack analogy is really scarey:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-real-fukushima-danger.html

bluebag

jk0 wrote: »

The crumpled cigarette pack analogy is really scarey:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-real-fukushima-danger.html

To be honest if any of that goes down there is nothing I can do about it at all. It is one of those situations no one can defend against.

I don't worry about things like this precisely because I can't do anything. I work on accepting the outcome whatever that may be.
Head work is much harder than back work.

Prayer, hope and luck are poor strategies, but when it's all you have .....

GreyQueen

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

GQ, if you bought one of the crossbows you could use it on your neighbours and then get more sleep!
Hester

I'd need a lot of crossbow bolts, hun; most of the block was kicking off one way or t'other last night. SG has given me a to-date status report.

Tower blocks = battery hen cages for human beans.

I went to bed for an hour this morning and an hour this evening. The students were screeching in their house and an alarm was going off on the halfway house for the homeless. Dunno why they have them on there; no one pays a blind bit of attention to it ringing off and it just pollutes the environment.

A good tip with the buddy burners is apparently to leave a little tuft of cardboard at the centre to serve as a starting point for the flame.

I'm re-reading David Brin's The Postman, a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1985. There is apparently a fillum made from it with my least-fave actor Costner, but I may well try to rent it. Have spoken to kid bruv and he can lend me The Kraken Wakes, to round out my preptastic reading.

Been lottie-wrangling and fighting to access the earth under The Rough, the never-touched-by-cold-steel-for-a-decade-minimum bit near the top of the plot. It's shrinking inch by inch and I'm eyeing it up with a view to being next year's tattie patch.

And, let the joy be unconfined, the lottie site burn ban comes off in a coupla days and I have flammables, firesteel, matches and a will to commit arson. Yippee!

I love my life. Well, I'd love it a bit more with more sleep and an at-home crossbow range, but you can't have everything.

********GQ grins evilly, swigs her tea and hums Def Leppard's Pyromania......yeah! *******

bluebag

Greyqueen,
sympathies on the rowdy neighbors. I live in a similar area, always some flippin drama or another. Police, ambulance, some government body or another kicking doors in and all the hoo ha that goes with it.

The best to date though was the neighbor who drove her car through a garden wall and missed entering the living room by millimeters late one night ...unmerciful noise.

It has it's upside too though, great public transport, hospital, doctor, shops and what not all within arms reach.

And the motorway is only a mile away if I need to escapeted to the green and verdant land of merry England. Camping is my secret pleasure, so peaceful most of the time.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Interesting reading, jk0, scary times for Asia-Pacific indeed. I'm a bit puzzled by the bit about moving south of the equator, maybe that applies to the Americas only? Presumably if radioactive material crosses the Pacific to the west coast of the USA it would be attenuated by the time it reached Europe, or might not reach Europe at all if water rather than airborne.
I don't think it's time to start digging bunkers yet anyway.

bluebag

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Interesting reading, jk0, scary times for Asia-Pacific indeed. I'm a bit puzzled by the bit about moving south of the equator, maybe that applies to the Americas only? Presumably if radioactive material crosses the Pacific to the west coast of the USA it would be attenuated by the time it reached Europe, or might not reach Europe at all if water rather than airborne.
I don't think it's time to start digging bunkers yet anyway.

Some species of tragescanthia(sp) plants have blue stamens that turn pink when atmospheric radiation is present, they also absorb some of the ionizing (worst type) of radiation.

Natures Geiger counter.

nuatha

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Interesting reading, jk0, scary times for Asia-Pacific indeed. I'm a bit puzzled by the bit about moving south of the equator, maybe that applies to the Americas only? Presumably if radioactive material crosses the Pacific to the west coast of the USA it would be attenuated by the time it reached Europe, or might not reach Europe at all if water rather than airborne.
I don't think it's time to start digging bunkers yet anyway.

Given the mandatory testing on affected UK farms was only lifted last year from the Chenobyl disaster. (And sheep from high pastures were definitely still failing texts in 2009 - I don't know about later than that) we could be looking at very long term global consequences.
Admittedly the worst affected areas will be those close by, it took 6-8 weeks before there were confirmed reports of (relatively minor) fallout from the USA and Japan.
I suspect that short of a fallout bunker stocked for decades there aren't preps for the worst case scenario no matter where in the world you live.

DawnW

alice-mary wrote: »

Is it strange that I am now wondering if any of my neighbours would notice me searching through their recycle boxes for corrugated paper/cardboard?

I expect they would assume you wanted it to package a parcel? That would be a good explanation to use, in any case

pineapple

alice-mary wrote: »

Is it strange that I am now wondering if any of my neighbours would notice me searching through their recycle boxes for corrugated paper/cardboard?

You need to visit the cardboard skip at your local household tip. In theory no one is supposed to purloin stuff from within a skip (coughs) but you could always stand guard or have a word with your friendly tip staff.
Or put the word out on Freecycle.
Just had a ton of thick (flat) cardboard to dispose of but it is now in good use. The previous house owner had the not so bright idea of tiling throughout the ground floor. Just what you want in a stone cottage up in the wilds of Bronte land! Anyhow I have a large central carpet/rug and cardboard makes great underlay.:T

thriftwizard

All eyes on the Senate & the House of Representatives; likely ramifications for the world economy, folks? I have friends who will be hit hard personally by any shutdown, but I'm wondering how it will affect people's confidence in the dollar. If at all...?