Preparedness for when

2tonsils

maryb wrote: »

2T a man was tested in a Birmingham hospital after becoming feverish on a flight from Nigeria via Paris but he was given the all clear.

Re gas from Russia, my concern is that although we don't get much gas directly from Russia, I read that a lot of the gas we do get from Norway is on 'interruptible contracts' because that is cheaper, so no firm guarantee of supply. If Germany needs to replace supplies will they outbid us?

Vivid dreams last night about having to evacuate DD from university. We passed a shop window with one of those cheap plastic water carriers - the sort they sell in pound shops in the camping section - and I remember saying I wished we had bought one of those. It's getting to me:rotfl:

I had a similar dream about evacuating last night, I was trying to leave an area on a bus...but hidden beneath the seats! In my dream I had no money so had to barter with the bits out of my handbag (if that is the case I should do well LOL ). I have been having prepping/disaster dreams for the last eighteen months. At least half of them are coming true.....

Perhaps you should get the containers and fill them....you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.:D

2tonsils

Thanks for the info about the man being tested in the Birmingham hospital...we were sure he mentioned it on Sky and then no more was said. At least RT news goes into plenty of detail! The dangerous weather forecast for our area is hitting Croatia to the North of us and Italy to the west. I live on the west coast and we get a direct hit by their storms. The sky is clouding over, the air is full of static and it looks like my trip to the marina pool might have to be called off....in which case I am going to cheer myself up by making lots of gluten free cakes and biscuits for my stash in the freezer. If the SHTF I want to be able to indulge in various gf baked goods and oodles of tea......then the weather can do what the hell it likes....

Frugalsod

I had thought that with the high temperatures heat strokes might be a problem for some, so think about methods to help people to cool down.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Hi all, haven't really had time to catch up with the thread so this may have been posted already, but this might be useful for someone. Several hundred pages ago Bedsit Bob recommended bioethanol for use in camping stoves in place of meths, meths being quite pricy. Anyway B+Q have been stocking 2L bottles for £5, but I was looking at getting some more for a camping trip we're planning, and I've discovered that they are going to discontinue this and replace with a pack of 12x1L bottles for £54 :eek: That's an increase from £2.50/L to £4.50/L :mad:
Online so far I've found A5da - 6L for £35, Ocado - £4.99/L and the only one that comes close, Amazon bulk buy https://www.amazon.co.uk/BIOETHANOL-FUEL-FREE-DELIVERY-IRELAND/dp/B00745WCUA/
which works out at £2.70/L so long as you want to buy 24L....
So I've been down to B+Q and grabbed a few, if you pop into your local store and find they've just sold the last few remaining, sorry that might have been me

2tonsils

Went to stock up on my calor gas this morning as last time the Russians cut off the gas and oil here there was a shortage. When I got to the shop there was only a little old lady there so I had to lift both big canisters in and out of the car boot....boy those big full ones are heavy to lift over the sill into the boot space! Got them for 20 euros each which seems reasonable enough, I now have enough to run my gas hob in the kitchen for over a year, and the emergency gas fire for a couple of months if the diesel heating oil supply is cut off

We now have wall to wall cloud instead of sunshine so I believe the storms are coming this way from Italy. It is so hot and muggy it is hard to breathe at the moment and the temperature is hovering around 36 degrees. If it rains heavy I might just run out into the street and dance in it.......

southantrim3

2tonsils wrote: »

LATEST UPDATES PEEPS Becoming Much More Unsettled for Most - Rest of the Week / weekend.
Irl / N. Irl - http://wp.me/p3nqlE-1ou
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Not looking good on the weather front but I guess we can't moan. We've been spoilt really again this summer, compared to previous summer's last year and this year have been really good. As the saying goes all good thing's must come to a end lol.....let's just hope it's a short lived ending

Report by reality weather. I will post the updates as I get them

Many thanks for the weather updates, much appreciated.
Thursday looks like fun here, however, it shouldn't be as bad as other places.

2tonsils

This is a film from Romania this afternoon. My heart goes out to them and the other countries North of us that are getting the same. The storm clouds have just built up here and the rain has started. Here is the link to the Romanian video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8q12FD4T6g#t=73

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MOS we live not far from the military port at Marchwood on the Solent and we get Chinnoks and Apache helicopters over most days, they are sending some equipment and troop to Poland to tke part in Nato military exercises it's supposed to show Russia that we have combined muscle with Nato and make them think again about the actions in Ukraine. We do get some gas from Russia I think it's something like 2% but I could be wrong, we get a lot of our gas from European countries, I think though that they get a lot of the gas they supply us with from Russia too, we just buy it from whichever country has best deals. The Russians have just signed a deal to supply China with gas so although our sanctions will undoubtedly bite to an extent they will have a ready market and income from selling gas to the far east.

happydays89

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Hi all, haven't really had time to catch up with the thread so this may have been posted already, but this might be useful for someone. Several hundred pages ago Bedsit Bob recommended bioethanol for use in camping stoves in place of meths, meths being quite pricy. Anyway B+Q have been stocking 2L bottles for £5, but I was looking at getting some more for a camping trip we're planning, and I've discovered that they are going to discontinue this and replace with a pack of 12x1L bottles for £54 :eek: That's an increase from £2.50/L to £4.50/L :mad:
Online so far I've found A5da - 6L for £35, Ocado - £4.99/L and the only one that comes close, Amazon bulk buy https://www.amazon.co.uk/BIOETHANOL-FUEL-FREE-DELIVERY-IRELAND/dp/B00745WCUA/
which works out at £2.70/L so long as you want to buy 24L....
So I've been down to B+Q and grabbed a few, if you pop into your local store and find they've just sold the last few remaining, sorry that might have been me

I have just come from Asda and they had 1ltr bottles bioethanol reduced from £3.50 to £2.00 a bottle.checked our B&Q and the shelf was empty.

GreyQueen

Yeah, ivyleaf, it's a very dodgy way of running anything, the use of questionnaires. Not all people have access to the internet, not all people are even literate, and of those, some people are limited in their comprehension skills, so that they aren't able to fully-understand what they're being asked to opine on. I punch well above the average in terms of processing power, and I wouldn't like to make those decisions.

Democracy is the least-worst option, but with local authority elections, the turnout is consistantly sub 30%, so most of the electorate don't bother to contribute to the political makeup of their LA, never mind pay attention to what is being proposed.

My lot aren't Tory but they have had to make some hard choices, and anything which isn't ring-fenced as a statutory provision is up consideration for cutbacks. Agreeing a budget takes a lot of time each year, and you can't satisfy all the demands of all the people, even when they are very reasonable wants and needs and in no ways excessive.

I was thinking about education today, one of the biggest spends. When I was a kid there was one computer in my school - in the headmaster's office. No ITC for us, it was blackboards and chalks, cheap sugar paper books and random sheets of A4 lined paper to write on, and 5 sharing a text book (and that was just as awkward as it sounds, btw). But compare and contrast the expenditures of running the same amount of pupils 35-40 years later and the difference is eye-watering.

I don't have any pat answers, unfortunately, just wish I could harvest the magical money tree and distribute the money evenly according to need.

What I really wish is that so many public resources weren't wasted as a result of slovenly, anti-social and vandalistic behaviours such as littering, graffiti, fly-tipping, criminal damage and the ilk. Yes, it's all work for the working man to do, but it's a poor return for council tax payers' money which is hard-earned and taken with threat of criminal sanction if not paid.

*********steps off soapbox********

Have been working, visiting a shopkeeper pal (they keep the kettle on for me ) on the way home and am awaiting a call back from SuperGran with the News. She was on the phone when I rang her, how very dare she.:rotfl:

Have just had some bumph from Goo Oootdoors and they have those single burner butane stoves plus 2 x 4 packs of butane cylinders on offer for £15 the lot from today for a week, if anyone wants to get those. I have one myself, and 12 cyclinders by me.

I'm growing concerned about what I am reading about Ebola having a 3 week incubation period. I'm not understanding if the whole of that period is asymptomatic, and at what point in the incubation period they become capable of passing the infection on, perhaps MrsLW will ask her GP daughter? But what concerns me is that people who have no idea that they have been exposed may be travelling in an infectious condition and who knows where they may end up? It's the very stuff of nightmares, isn't it?

I wonder if we might yet see international travel on lockdown and countries try to put a cordon sanitaire around their populations, and what the hell it would mean for those travelling overseas if they got stuck in limbo, unable to go home and not having sufficient resources to support themselves in another country. Being stuck in an airport with your summery duds and fast-disappearing supplies of money sounds very bad to me.

No infectious disease with high morbidity and high mortality is good news, but Ebola seems a particularly vile way to go.....those poor victims and their loved ones........:(