Preparedness for when

Caterina

ginnyknit wrote: »

Welcome back Caterina........

So you can get the fire brigade to come and visit you at home...excellent... sorry my mind was wandering, of course its a really good idea getting advice from sexy men sorry safety professionals........

Ginnyknith thank you for your welcome!

Re. Sexy men, don't be too hopeful about that. I made an appointment with the Fire Brigade to have the house check and was getting quite hopeful to see some serious eye candy in uniform, DH was rather pi**ed off LOL but could hardly complain as it was a necessary measure etc....long story short: got two firemen alright, one was old and paunchy, on edge of retirement, the second barely a teenager, younger than my own kids, in dreadlocks, I would have loved to see him some 40 years before perhaps.... So, disappointment all round, crumpet-wise, but excellent advice and free fire alarms nevertheless. DH is still laughing, though :mad:

mardatha

I shouldn't have said "fire" - should've said flood or knock on the door re gas leak or anything else but fire. I sorry Try it anyway, you end up collapsing in giggles first time but keep practising & it gets dead easy.

Possession

When I had a fire safety check I got 4 hunky firemen! And a fire engine although sadly the children weren't around to see it.

Caterina

Awwww, Possession, don't rub it in! Lucky you!

Possession

Tee hee hee. They were all very tall though. Made me feel a bit inadequate in the height department.

meme30

Morning, all!
I read that Telegraph piece last night, it is worrying. Worst of all there is nothing on the news about any of this, so the majority of people are oblivious to what is going on.

I found this on the BBC site, it really echos what 2Tonsils was saying about Pharmacies in Greece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19682049

Popperwell

fuddle wrote: »

mrs lds, scare monger away. Your not as frightening at the telegraph piece! :eek:

Thank you

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meme30 wrote: »

Morning, all!
I read that Telegraph piece last night, it is worrying. Worst of all there is nothing on the news about any of this, so the majority of people are oblivious to what is going on.

I found this on the BBC site, it really echos what 2Tonsils was saying about Pharmacies in Greece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19682049

Well, BBC Radio 4 have been upping their stories about the failure of crops and the expected increase in prices in food prices but they still avoid talking about what our governement is/isn't doing and they don't report much about what is happening on our doorstep in Europe.

jackieb

fuddle wrote: »

mrs lds, scare monger away. Your not as frightening at the telegraph piece! :eek:

Thank you

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The Telegraph piece says that it's an exercise that's been planned for a while. It's an annual thing.

In preparation for any pre-emptive or retaliatory action by Iran, warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, will today begin an annual 12-day exercise.

ALIBOBSY

Finally finished reading the thread lol.
Loving it so far, OH and I have been watching those doomsday preppers on NG channel and whilst I think some of them are OTT and way out there some of the info is interesting and its fun to watch.

I think those who have critised or reported this thread have made a knee jerk reaction. It is clear most of us on here don't believe WW3, or alien invasions or zombie attacks are imminent or even will ever happen and talk of that kind is clearly tongue in cheek. But its clear from things happening in countries like Greece/Spain/Portugal etc that things can get very hard and challenging for the average person in a short space of time. In this country just look at how quickly shelves in supermarkets can get cleared out for the slightest thing-petrol blockades, even christmas hols :rotfl:.

I read an article by someone who had been in yugoslavia before the war and eventual split into the countries they now are. Ignore all the polictical problems and look at just a normal person. They described how they went from a life pretty simular to most of the EU to being shot at by friends and neighbours in a matter of months so you never truly know what is around the corner.

Now OK our polictical and economic situation is better than many countries, but to assume that disasters or problems will only ever happen elsewhere is shortsighted. For me my stores of food are about being able to bulk buy offers as well as having a "backup" of food etc for period where cash is tight (OH is S/E) or we get snowed in, or the world and his dog are in the stores (christmas week), or we are all ill (swineflu comes to mind). All of which are real life events that can and do happen and the stores made that so much easier.

We also live in a semi rural area where most of the electricity comes via overhead cables over the fields and its a good year if we get no electricity blackouts at all (lived in the area since the late 70's and can't recall a full year without any cuts-but they are less regular than they were) so again having solar lights/wind up lights/candles makes practical sense. I also lived through the 70's all be it as a child and recall mum being the only one with gas, heating up food for the neighbours by candle light.

TBH most of the doomsday predictions are a bit far fetched and I reckon the chances are anything that really happened would not involve the whole of society colasping. Eventually the gov/emergency services would get to you, but it is highly likely they will be an intermediate period when you will need to rely on yourself to get through till things get more organised and sorted.

Ali x

Popperwell

Ali,
I don't want to shorten your post if I quote it nor reprint it immediately afterwards when its there to be read above mine. I think you have summed things up really well...

I know I have become thrifty(I think I always have been)because the worry of being on a low income and things getting tighter with all the changes coming.

Also seeing prices on energy and food increasing. The rest I have no control over. But I have to try and save in other ways to try and absorb the costs I am unable to.

If what I do and learn from others here help in an emergency that's a bonus.