Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Afternoon all.

Have just been talking to the folks about this care.data malarkey and they haven't had any leaflet, either. I have emailed them the links and will be visiting my GP practice on Monday to get the opt-out codes onto my files.

thriftwizard, ooooohhhhhh Sanderson curtains and the kitchen doo-dad. Deeply deeply envious. May you thoroughly enjoy them.

:mad: I went to my allotmentino this morning to find a duplicate of last Saturday's experience. Beggars have prised the plank off my shed door again but not challenged the lock. They didn't even go around and peer in the window - this I know because I have raked soil underneath. And wherever I looked, in all directions, shed doors were gawping open.

So I rang the police and got the same lady I spoke to last Saturday. At this rate we'll soon be exchanging Xmas cards. They sent CSI to photo things and try to get fingerprints. There has been poultry taken, and some other bits and pieces, but mostly it's sheds busted open and nowt taken. Absolutely bliddy maddening. Plus I got caught in a rainstorm.

One of the geezers happened to be on his plot at about 10 pm last night and disturbed two of them. The police officer told me that he threw a hammer at the blighters. No info on whether they were hit or not, dammit. In my dreams.............

As a result of the distractions, I only managed to clear about a sq meter of couch-grass infested feral strawberry bed.

AND, someone has burned down one of the family farmhouses. OK, we didn't own it past the mid-twentieth century and its been derelict for decades, but that was a perfectly good 17th century farmhouse, only needing shedloads of money to make it habitable. It was even listed (and listing, but that was fixable - see the bit about shedloads of money).

Must be a day of unbridled villainy, my Magic Greengrocer was running after a shoplifter (habitual shoplifter as in several times most days) with an axe-handle this afternoon.

I dunno, my shed has been damaged, one of the ancestral homes is incinerated and the grubbyment wants its sticky mitts on my confidential data......if this carries on I shall have to up stakes and go back to Hemyock. I'm only 6 generations on from the rellie who left for the bright lights of Bridgewater, I'm sure I can claim local connections........what's nearly 200 years got to do with it?

ALIBOBSY

zee wrote: »

if solar or emp affects computer chips in cars since late 80's ,how could a car act as faraday cage..just asking because curious and interested.

As I understand it its only stuff inside the cage-and not touching any metal parts thats protected. Was a thing on tv a while back where richard hammond sat in a car whilst they blasted it with 60,000 volts of electricity and both he and the camera and mic were fine.

Anything in the engine compartment would be touching or connected to the metal parts of the "cage" and therefore would get fried.

Ali x

Frugalsod

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

As I understand it its only stuff inside the cage-and not touching any metal parts thats protected. Was a thing on tv a while back where richard hammond sat in a car whilst they blasted it with 60,000 volts of electricity and both he and the camera and mic were fine.

Anything in the engine compartment would be touching or connected to the metal parts of the "cage" and therefore would get fried.

Ali x

In aircraft, if the plane is hit the lightening is directed around the outside of the craft and people everything inside is safe. The engines still run.

daz378

thinks to store an old kindle with plenty books on, pico solar charger , spare phone(old one from last contract) spare sim and wind up radio, batteries.......thanks for all suggestions

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Re the Faraday Cage, how about one of these?


BTW. I think some of you are confusing lightning strike and EMP.

greenbee

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Re the Faraday Cage, how about one of these?

They're a nightmare to open and close Bob. I have one and currently keep my shoe-cleaning stuff in it. So hardly ever clean my shoes as I can't face the battle to get it open. I used to keep my gun-cleaning kit in it as at did at least contain the smell of the cleaning fluids.

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greenbee wrote: »

They're a nightmare to open and close Bob.

I've never had any trouble with them.

I used to keep (strangely enough) ammunition in them.

The 100 round (50 up - 50 down) boxes of military surplus .22LR fitted perfectly, width wise, in the 200 round 7.62mm ammo cans.

greenbee

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I've never had any trouble with them.

I used to keep (strangely enough) ammunition in them.

Obviously you've got the knack of opening them.

I could never afford enough ammunition to get the free case . I can't actually remember where this one came from, but suspect it was 'liberated' from a cadet force armoury somewhere...

GreyQueen

I think they're kinda cute. Do they come in other colours than olive drab? Which reminds me, it's far too long since I've been to the army surplus store. Must rectify that pretty soon.

I have my windup radio in a tin but realised belatedly that I need to insulate it from the metal. Would bubblewrap do the job? How about foam? Haven't got unlimited access to packaging materials but would like to get it right.

Just had the police on the line confirming the crime reference number for our allotment crime spree. Little thieving chicken-rustling barstewards. I wonder if having a hammer thrown at them by a nutty gardener late at night will act as a disincentive? Wish I knew a) which geezer it was and b) what the heck he was doing up there at that time of night in early Feb? :rotfl:

I'll go back up there tomorrow to do a little more graft and mend the shed a bit. Think I will do a flimsy mend in getting that plank back on, rather than a proper mend, which just caused the rest of the door to splinter more badly when they levered it off for the second time. Want to keep out any rats and the rain. The door is tongue-and-groove planking with proper wood in the traditional Z shape behind it, and the lock is attached to the cross-brace.

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You can buy the empty ammo cans, from military surplus stores, Ebay, etc.