Preparedness for when

DawnW

Hope you don't get flooded Greenbee , or if you do that your preps mitigate the worst of it.

thriftwizard

Good luck, Greenbee; thinking of you and all who are facing this right now. Our water-meadows/flood plain are now all flood, no plain; it's still well below us & within the town's flood defences, but I'm starting to plan now too, even though it's not likely to reach us.

GQ, angry on your behalf! And sad for the chickens & their rightful guardians; depends on what breed they were & whether the barstewards had any idea what they'd got hold of, but the pot is apparently the most likely intended destination for them. Very few non-poultry types realise that good layers are rarely good eating. Can't help wondering whether your lotty neighbour might have been lurking up there hoping to give them a warmish reception?

Cheapskate

http://www.mynewoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/prepping-matrix-ver-1.pdf

Saw this on p!nterest, fascinating diagram/schematic about all sorts of prepping. US site, but you could pick out what suits you. Didn't realise p!nterest had stuff like this, I use it for crafts, cooking, etc!:D

A xo

ALIBOBSY

thriftwizard wrote: »

Good luck, Greenbee; thinking of you and all who are facing this right now. Our water-meadows/flood plain are now all flood, no plain; it's still well below us & within the town's flood defences, but I'm starting to plan now too, even though it's not likely to reach us.

GQ, angry on your behalf! And sad for the chickens & their rightful guardians; depends on what breed they were & whether the barstewards had any idea what they'd got hold of, but the pot is apparently the most likely intended destination for them. Very few non-poultry types realise that good layers are rarely good eating. Can't help wondering whether your lotty neighbour might have been lurking up there hoping to give them a warmish reception?

Agree with this about those in the flood areas, our thoughts are with you guys. Its an awful thing to have to go through. Had some pretty heavy rain today, but yesterday was quite sunny in the afternoon, no flood warnings here at the mo, so feel very lucky.

Sending bad karma to GQ's robber gits, I hope the birds weren't heading for eating, surely even dodgy types would think its easier to rob a prepared one from the supermarket that take one and kill it. Probably in someones backyard now laying eggs for someone else, but hopefully still alive.

Keep safe guys and prep harder.

Ali x

sorryImoved

One website that has an amazing amount of information that will help in SHTF situations is

http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com

Great stuff to know.

auntymabel

I was listening to Petrie Hosken's programme on LBC 97.3 this morning where they were discussing the NHS data opt-out leafle. Petrie said her GP told her that it didn't make any difference if you did opt out as your data could still be sold on. One of the callers said he had worked with NHS data and he confirmed what the GP said. I wish I could remember the details. Should have taken notes!

GreyQueen

One of the GPs who has been involved with the anti care-data information campaign -indeed, the one who did the website, Dr Neil Bhatia of Yately - has apparently been threatened, as have other GPs, with loss of their jobs if there are mass opt-outs from patients in their practices.

Which suggests to me that the opt-out would be effective. One thing for sure is that I had no information leaflet and neither did my family and that's four intelligent and able adults who pay attention to what's sent to them and we had no idea until I saw this on the web.

I don't give my consent and I will not be steam-rollered into this unconsenting and I will demand that my MP account for this to me.

Too often in this world, it's tempting to sigh and shrug and say What does it matter and there's nothing you can do so why bother. Yup, I remember people saying that about the Poll Tax, too, when I and many others were busying ourselves with the anti campaign. Heck, even my mild mannered Dad made them take him to court to get the money, and insisted on having his say in court, too. D'you think that would have been overturned without us antis?

If several hundred thousand people opt-out, splurge this all over the media, talk about it at the school gate and the pub and bellyache to their MPs, it doesn't go thru quietly. It goes thru kicking and screaming and makes a lot of people very angry. It also compromises patient care, even though this data isn't for care at all; if anything you tell your GP is in the hands of Big Data within a month, month in, month out, would you think twice about what you divulge to them? I suspect people will.

(((((greenbee))))) thinking of you and your flood risk and wishing you well. Remember that if the water gets in it'll certainly take your electrics out if it gets to socket-height, so try to have everything which needs charging, charged, and plans for alternative lighting, cooling and cooking as appropriate. Maybe set up a temp camp kitchen in a corner of the upper floor?

Long curtains can easily be hoiked up out of the way by pulling them thru a trouser-bar type coathanger and hanging that off the rail. It's advised that should canned or bottled goods get wetted by floodwater, not to use them as you are liable to introduce bacteria into the food as you open the container. Here's hoping they'll all be upstairs and out of harm's way.

I don't know about other local authorities, but mine doesn't provide sandbags to the public; we don't have very many and we will provide what we have to the emergency service, or to another LA on request, but never to private citizens. You should be able to source heavy duty polythene from garden centres, which could be a useful backing to a sandbag line.

If I can think of anything else which might be useful, I'll let you know. All the best of luck and mind you back when digging and lifting. HTH.

craigywv

hi all hope those of you in flooded areas are managing to stay dry and safe. GQ hate hearing that about your lottie I suppose the idiots doing the damage will be watching you watching them, from a safe distance, . its horrible that that's happening after your hard work. the usual howling wind/rain here this morning even the dog has gotten used to business being done in stormy weather whilst being anchored down to the whirly bird with enough slack to trot himself into "going".i was in town yesterday in land of poooond and it was ab hectic I noticed a lot of peeps had tinned /dried food in their baskets also the veg/seeds was very popular. milk all sold out also the cheese ,sausages and bacon! now when I there at that ttime usually about 10.30 theres plenty left not yesterday though. sign of the times. also another 2 big shops closed down and a big caf! in the same mall .......very sad to see. sales on in every shop and nobody in the shops. I went home and took heed of my summer/winter clothes/shoes and boots seems myself and oh have plenty but boy the way he is growing is the only one who needs constant new /bigger clothes. called into preeeemark and spent over an hour with my mum getting reduced price combats/jumpers/shorts tee shirts all 2 sizes bigger and for 32.00 I got an ikea big blue bag of clothes for him , tops where selling for 50p!!!trousers 2-2.50 . pj down to a quid ooooooooohh I do love it when its stock changing time so it hanging in wardrobes . then went to charity shop and found 3 pairs of boys jeans from next for a quid each! and a few other bits so im happier now. I was looking in ebay and the postage is not worth buying the goods for yes t shirt a quid ...postage 3 quid! sorry to have rambled on but that's what I prepped this week clothes.have a good day all

GreyQueen

You're not rambling at all, craigyw, you're sharing your preps. Since we're not allowed to wander the streets in our birthday suits, clothing is important. I don't wait until I'm on my last example of whatever type of clothing I need, as you then have to buy at whatever price they are charging that day, and can't usually get the bargains.

I keep my (90% secondhand) wardrobe topped up with bargains when I see something suitable, inc work blouses at 50p each unworn from one c.s. I regard such things as simple prudence. And I recall reading about one US prepper Mum (or Mom, I suppose ) who was buying ahead for her kids as they grew. As long as you keep the stash in play and don't allow them to grow past the point where the stashed clothes fit before bringing them into use, it's all good.

Yeah, as the allotment site was in an uproar, and the CIS officer was on my plot (which caused all the lottie neighbours to converge on my plot) and I saw grinning youths on the street nearby, it certainly crossed my mind that they might be more than taking a malicious pleasure in our misfortunes - that they were the cause.

Elsewhere in my life, a hairdresser in a parade of shops I used to frequent was done out of business by repeated break-ins. They went thru her plate glass shopfront time after time, causing £500 reglaze each time and she told me her insurance had a £500 excess, so she lost £500 each time. She was cutting my hair that day, and having to drive up to Provincial City after work to go to the wholesalers to restock all her tools. You have to graft hard at £8 a cut to earn £500.

The day after the robbery which left her with one pair of scissors (because they'd been buried in a basket of rollers) and no clippers or blowers, three lads with freshly-clippered hair parked themselves on the wall outside her shop, grinning in at her.

She couldn't prove anything but they caused her to close down her shop and go mobile hairdressing. And there'd been a hairdressers in that parade of shops for 40 years. Other shops were driven out by similar crimes and now it's just got a mini mart and the rest is boarded up.

We had a bad go-round with repeated break-ins at the lotties about 3 years ago, and then it went quiet, and now it's kicked off again. I'm hoping it'll tail off as they realise that most people haven't got valuables and most people are like me and haven't got livestock either.

Here on Saturday, the cheap stores and the chazzers were mobbed but the 'proper' stores are pretty quiet despite heavy discounting. Signs of the times - villains are even breaking into the charity shops.

I'll have another cuppa and then hie me up to the lottie. Can't stay too long as I have a lunch party at a friend's place and will need to come back and get bathed and tidied, will probably just attend to the shed and do a dump run with some couch grass. I shall aim to head up to the lottie after w*rk now that the nights are drawing out a bit, to keep an eye.

That's what is so annoying about thieves; they steal your peace of mind as well as cause loss and damages. Maybe the hammer-throwing geezer was lying in wait; years ago one of the other geezers, now gone, baseball-batted someone on his plot at midnight. He used to get on the wrong side of his missus and have to sleep in his shed from time to time, is what the other old boys told me...........:rotfl:

thriftwizard

Morning all! Breezy here, but no apparent damage. Which probably just means that some other poor souls had it worse…

I was meandering round our local shops yesterday & yes, they were quiet; a few people in the charity shops but the only regular shops doing business were the shoe mender & the food shops. But when I popped into the place where I have my stall, it was heaving and people were swooping on things they could easily have found in charity shops, or even their own lofts, with cries of delight & bearing them off in triumph. Far be it from me to want to stop them, but it seems to me that most well-trained consumers have just replaced one kind of shopping for another!