Preparedness for when

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In the depths of last night when I was trying to stop a terrified lurcha from digging up every bit of flooring in every room we own downstairs because we had a thunderstorm it suddenly struck me how very difficult it would be trying to cope with an illness, a break in, a fire, wind damage in the pitch darkness if the power DID go off!!! I was very tired, very stressed and having to chase him from corner to corner to stop him digging for around 2 1/2 hours and it was cold which I think was a factor in my feeling that I was nearly stretched to my limits. The storm did eventually pass and he did eventually stop panicking and settle down but if it had been in a powercut, sense would have been to actually get dressed and try to stay warm and get lighting, even if it was only a single candle in a SAFE place in every room as we were whizzing around at speed and a candle might have been knocked and dangerous. I am left with the feeling that daytime crisis events are likely to be easier to deal with than night time ones if we have no electricity. Why this hasn't occured to me before I don't know but I'm going to station a candle in a jam jar and a box of matches in every downstairs room from now on, just in case.

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I've just been having a bimble round the interweb and found a couple of very interesting articles about HONEYSUCKLE TEA being like a 'viral antibiotic' in the event of you actually catching flu. It is apparently an old herbal remedy against flu that has been used for eons in China but the scientists have done some testing and found that in the mice they tested the tea on they absorbed a certain molecule from it into their bloodstream and lungs and it turned off a couple of genes in the actual flu virus and that stopped it from adapting and changing genetically to be able to invade its' host. Interesting stuff and apparently you can buy Honeysuckle Tea in health stores in the UK. I'll keep an eye open when I'm next in town and see if there is any on the shelves.

kezlou

Another patient in conformed in Spain, a nurse contracted ebola in Sierra Leone.
WHO predict if the flow isn't stopped quick enough, they could be 50% to reach the uk within 3 weeks and 75% in France.

Read a a report about a journalist and aid workers where patients were being turned away because they had no space for the ebola victims. Absolutely devastating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29507673

VJsmum

My weakness is the heating - i just can't abide being cold.

So mine is left to the thermostat (set at 18 degrees). if the thermostat decides it's cold, that's fine by me.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a "waltz round in a t shirt with the windows open and the heating blasting " kind of girl (18 degrees doesn't lend itself to that in any case) - but i won't sit in the freezing cold, bundled up in jumpers etc.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

this is this banding around Fb..


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436170/Worst-winter-for-decades-Record-breaking-snow-predicted-for-November


didn't they say this last year??


but it has reminded me my animal feeds/food is getting low, and I need to get a few more bales of straw in..

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it's not good news.

We're not even 12 hours into the test, and the light level has fallen considerably.

It's still usable but, for how long, I really don't know.

I'll be surprised if it's still running (let alone usable) by the 24 hour point.

StanwithaPlan

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

this is this banding around Fb..


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436170/Worst-winter-for-decades-Record-breaking-snow-predicted-for-November


didn't they say this last year??


but it has reminded me my animal feeds/food is getting low, and I need to get a few more bales of straw in..

That's the second 'snow warning' I've seen today on facebook...the first published 2012 and that one 2013...as silly as they are it has reminded me to order my heating oil! x

StanwithaPlan

I also had a power cut of around 5 mins earlier...I was going to have to have a sandwich and breakfast cerial for dinner (or cold beans)

1. Order heating oil
2. Town on friday to buy a camping stove (and hope power doesn't go in the meantime)

happydays89

Hi,I live in Aberdeenshire and we have noticed that there are hardly any red berries on the trees,so we are going to see if it means a mild winter.The two very bad winters we had the branches were so heavy with berries I am surprised they stayed on the trees.Time will tell.

merlin68

Enough warning folk ebola and a bad winter. I'm of to stock up tomorrow when money goes in. just had my dutch oven and tripod with grill delivered so can still cook in event of power cut. got some masks as well.