Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

Witless wrote: »

One thing that surprises me about the vehicle & home prepping is the apparent absence of fire extinguishers: essential IMHO.

We have one on the stairs and a fire blanket in the kitchen. Lidl seem to get them for reasonable prices every so often. Also important is fire alarms, we have one upstairs and one down, plus 2 carbonoxide monitors. Thinking about it we may have gone a little OTT as one of each is battery-for if the power is off, one is connected to the burgler alarm alongside the CO monitor.

Mind you hubby is an IT tech so the alarm we have is actually a professional alarm he fitted himself and if it goes off it rings the mobile with the reason so perhaps a bit of overkill.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Witless wrote: »

I prefer the top of the stairs, that way you have the chance of another way out: depending on where the fire is.

We compromised and put ours on the little landing bit halfway up the stairs.
We have an escape plan and the kids know it. We did look at those escape ladders, but we have a garage that sticks out at the front so the plan would be to get out there-and yes we have checked that we can all get out the window. As we are a semi we could then walk across to next doors garage and bang on the bedroom window (we would have to wake them up anyway in case a fire spread to them). If they are away the plan is sons mattress etc onto the grass and OH will hang and drop, then get the ladders for the rest of us.


Totally off topic anyone else see the new series "Evacuate Earth" on the national geographic channel here:- http://natgeotv.com/uk/evacuate-earth

Basically it takes a major worldwide doomsday scenario and plays it out on the programme, kind of like that supervolcano programme a few years ago. Be warned though if you are new to prepping or easily scared stay away, this is serious watch this weeks obscure but sounds almost plausable reason for the EOTWAWKI complete with fake news reports and fatality counts. Not for the faint hearted, but I suspect some others may like this sort of thing (sadly I am one of them lol)

Ali x

paidinchickens

I have an escape ladder, I've seen a couple of house fires in my time and had to watch the families jump out of the windows, scary moments.

The straw that broke the camels back was when we had scaffold round the house for the solar panels to be erected.

The panic of not getting out of the windows :eek: Hubby bought me a ladder which was half price as the box was broken ???

One of the best purchases I've bought for piece of mind.

PiC x

boddy

Have come out of lurkdom. Read with interest posts mentioning health problems happening in younger people due to the junk food etc. I've thought this would happen for ages. I see very young and sometimes too young children get a sausage roll or pasty shoved into their hands. Given crisps etc at a very young age. I was thinking those eating pastry and Maccy Ds too often will end up with digestive problems. I did hear of a young couple liquidising a Maccy D for their baby.

I'm seeing it happen within family. Youngest grandson is 22 and started having health problems which are due to poor diet even though over the years I've encouraged and gently suggested to daughter that fruit and veg better than processed food. Daughter also has health problems. It is only now she realises that I may be right. I despair sometimes that to a lot of the younger generation fast food is a daily diet. I could go on but won't. Just wondered though have TPTB encouraged this.

PS I'm in my 60s. Only illness I've had is pnuemonia two years ago. I've not been ill since as I've used food to keep me well. Certain spices and herbs help with health. I've got a bit of arthritis in my feet and hands but still very active.

Prepping wise I've started a BOB and have a few wind up torches and a wind up radio and battery powered lantern. Have found a Army store so will visit that at the weekend. Also bought a portable mobile battery charger that I keep charged up. Would give extra life to phone if no electric for a while. Mine gives two full charges.

calicocat

Hello boddy...(wavy hand Smiley)

Is the army store local to us?? I googled it a while back and came up with one that I knew about in Newcastle that has been there for years....but if there's one nearer us all the better.



I've been saying this to friends for years too. Had one friend I swear was addicted to Mac D's...it was almost like some religion to her. The amount of people that don't bother to cook now is staggering...lots think shoving a ready meal in the oven IS cooking. I found that even people my age don't (48)...yet constantly say they will start when they see the food I take into work.

Not only the food aspect will start killing us off younger....the fact that lots of us (me included) drive everywhere....this makes us way more unfit than the generation before that walked everywhere.

boddy

Hi Calicocat. (Waves back). It's the one in Newcastle. Thought I might have a mooch in on Saturday.

calicocat

boddy wrote: »

Hi Calicocat. (Waves back). It's the one in Newcastle. Thought I might have a mooch in on Saturday.

I used to go into it years ago with an ex and his son.....you will be in there for hours....al sorts to get...enjoy.

boddy

Looks like there is two in Newcastle.

Uniscots97

A younger relative of mine fed her child (6 months at the time) chocolate to keep him quiet (as she couldn't stand him screaming!!). The little lad is 4 now and has tooth decay, yet she doesn't see this is her fault.


I used to have a wind up charger for a mobile I had a number of years ago but wondering if you can get one for apple phones?

thriftwizard

Another ME "survivor" here; dropped out of uni with it, following a vicious bout of (probable) glandular fever aged 19, and it's come & gone ever since. Unfortunately that happened before it was "invented" (1978) so I've never had a proper diagnosis. Luckily I'm usually not too bad; only two really awful episodes where to be honest, if I'd been working outside the home, I'd have sacked myself. Could hardly see for "halos", legs wobbling, loss of balance & grip, total exhaustion after the smallest exertion, agonising shooting pains, etc.etc. No way I could trust myself to drive, but my erstwhile employers would undoubtedly have expected me to (mobile job) and not understood that it would have been downright dangerous.

I know I'm very fortunate that I can set my own pace now and take things slowly if I need to, which helps avoid another major occurrence; I'm not the main wage earner. But as against that, if I don't earn anything, one son won't be able to pay his rent and another will be left with a mouthful of unfinished teeth!

Agreeing that junk food is a major problem with upcoming generations. My middle son lives on supermarket pizza; we cannot seem to get it into his head that nicely-packaged cardboard topped with slop is a world away from what generations of Italian peasants have sat down to after a hard day grafting in the vineyards. And that supermarkets don't actually have much interest in the long-term health of their consumers, any more than the purveyors of sporting "supplements" do... IMHO the drive to ever cheaper food has been at enormous cost to the quality of what's available, and that (sadly) includes the raw materials for "scratch' cooking.

Off now to put my money where my mouth is and plant some more seeds. But will have to come up with some vertical growing options to deal with everything that's gone in so far - I NEED a bigger garden!