Preparedness for when

Ellidee

Charis wrote: »

They are doing this deliberately. You can't prove you haven't had the leaflet. It's almost impossible to prove a negative.

Good point AND with the junk mail where they were delivered :mad:

sb44

sb44 wrote: »

If you have a twitter account, it may be worth taking a look at this twitter member https://twitter.com/WeermanAshoka . If not, I would open one just to receive his tweets, he re posts lots of tweets from UK and Ireland, so very interesting.

I started following him a couple of days ago and some of the things he is reading from the weather charts he posts may startle you.

He is Dutch (I think) so some of his posts may be not be in the correct form of English but you will get the gist.

I will have to look back through his tweets over the last two days but I am sure we are going to get the tail end of the storm from the USA, ie snow.

I have just told my husband about the latest tweet from WeermanAshoka (who?)and he says he doesn't want to hear anymore and to just read them myself. Doh! :mad:

We live in North Staffs so not effected by floods but have been getting high winds.

It read:

I think a armada of showers with Hail+Thunder wants to move in Ireland /NW England from the northwest ! In matter of hours ! Keep updating !

This was posted at 3pm exactly (today, 15th Feb) so lets see how it pans out.

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greenbee wrote: »

Neighbours and I lost fence panels on the boundary round our sewage system last night. And the roof where the sewage plant is.

Trouble at the sewage plant, eh?

Now that really is a SHTF situation.

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I was having a bit of a muse earlier (I like a good muse ), about people with generators.

In a power outage (especially an extended one), it probably isn't a good idea to advertise the fact you have one, with a blazing light bulb in the living room.

As an experiment, when it gets dark, I'm going to close the LR curtains, and see if it is possible to work by the light of a Fireglow bulb, and whether it would be likely to draw attention to your home.

Charis

GreyQueen wrote: »

Insofar as a genuine attempt to obtain presumed consent, it's an epic fail but if your goal was to be able to say, with wide eyed faux innocence But we sent you a leaflet! then TPTB are doing just fine.

I don't like being taken advantage of, but that pales into insignificance with how little I like being played for a fool.:mad:

I just found an interesting leaflet online, a promise by the NHS that 'You have the right to privacy and confidentiality and to expect the NHS to keep confidential information safe and secure (the NHS Constitution for England 2010). This guarantee is our commitment that NHS organisations and those providing care on behalf of the NHS will use records about you in ways that respect your rights and promote your health and wellbeing.'
[...]
The law gives you the right to:
• confidentiality under the common-law duty of confidentiality;
• protection in the way information about you is handled under
the Data Protection Act 1998; and
• privacy, under the Human Rights Act 1998.

I had a personally addressed letter about that, headed 'private and confidential' (although there was no personal information in the letter) including this leaflet. It was sent from this county's NHS headquarters in 2012. Has the NHS developed dementia?

Charis

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I was having a bit of a muse earlier (I like a good muse ), about people with generators.

In a power outage (especially an extended one), it probably isn't a good idea to advertise the fact you have one, with a blazing light bulb in the living room.

As an experiment, when it gets dark, I'm going to close the LR curtains, and see if it is possible to work by the light of a Fireglow bulb, and whether it would be likely to draw attention to your home.

I think the noise might be a bit of a giveaway. It would have to be situated outside your home or you would die from carbon monoxide poisoning (presuming you don't live in a suitably adapted building). There was a link on here the other day to a preppers site where one survivor of the Bosnian conflict recommended that you sandbag your windows to make access more difficult. That would cut down the amount of light seen from outside (but you'd need an alternative 24/7 to see indoors).

Frugalsod

VJsmum wrote: »

Are we still in Kansas??

Are you wearing your red shoes?;)

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Afternoon all, a much more benign day here in the deep south after an amazingly windy night, so nice to wake up to sunshine this morning. I've actually been able to get washing dry outside, first time in months and was lucky enough to get it in just before a very heavy shower fell. We've had to re position the polytunnel door again as it had moved sideways in the high winds but that is all we have had go wrong so we're much luckier than some poor folks. I came through Romsey on the train yesterday evening and saw the first flooded houses I've ever seen, up to the windowsills on the ground floor just beside the station and an industrial estate underwater too, so much bad stuff happening because of this string of storms my heart goes out to anyone affected by them. I hope the suggested snow prediction doesn't happen next week, the melt water on top of the floods would cause devastation, Lyn xxx.

vivatifosi

pineapple wrote: »

Don't know if anyone has posted about it but we have yet another sinkhole!
http://news.sky.com/story/1212076/homes-evacuated-as-20ft-deep-sinkhole-appears
Evacuating so many houses seems a bit OTT though. Maybe they think others might open up? :eek:

jk0 wrote: »

Typical Police overreaction as usual. I think they just like throwing their weight around.

It's not a crime scene that needs protecting from traffic. Presumably all the homeowners are grown-ups who are capable of weighing up the risk of a big hole. All they need to do is stop anyone driving near it.

Hope you don't mind me joining your thread, but this is an area I know well so wanted to give some background. This is a relatively new housing development, built by a housing association. Prior to that, there were a number of bungalows there... about 60 years old, the type with long front gardens and back gardens. Can't remember how many, probably about 4-6. They took those down and built this little estate with many more properties. Where the sink hole is, from memory was in the past someone's front garden rather than a house.

In terms of the evacuation, I think there are a number of issues. From some of the pics, you can make out that the hole goes under the road. As a result, people there cannot get their cars in or out of the development at all. More importantly, the spur where the gas and other services to the property is in the hole. This is the first property in the development. So lots of factors at play: they won't want to leave people in houses with no power/heat/water.

Also the Housing Association may decide that it is better to mitigate risk by moving people. Per the latest news reports, the sides of the hole are still falling in, albeit at a slower rate, so it is nowhere near stable.

Charis

greenbee wrote: »

Picture 2 of 7 appears to show a giant lizard emerging from underneath the road...:eek:

Well spotted,Greenbee. I saw the pic but was more concerned with the fact it seemed to show the hole goes under the road and maybe under the house opposite. I wonder where it ends?