Preparedness for when

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Doveling wrote: »

In the power cuts of the 1970's, I sat in the office wearing a coat and gloves typing by candlelight on a big Imperial typewriter.

My job, at the time, was in a timber factory, so all machines were electrically powered.

As a result, they sent us home.

Fortunately, the house had a coal fire, so we remained warm (if boarded stiff), and were able to cook basic food on said coal fire.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep...my electric meter got changed anyway recently (ie when I moved to current house and got the electrics here modernised) and I made very sure it wasn't to a smart meter:p:D;)

fuddle

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Hence why you should keep in enough stock (food, water, batteries, candles, cooking facilities, etc.) to cope.

I do bob. I am on a prepping thread My post was focused on the issue surrounding thinking you can purchase food in a power cut with cash. I posted my experience from last year to show that if the store isn't prepared for power cuts then cash isn't going to get you any where either.

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Just had a strange experience.

Popped into the pharmacist, attached to the medical centre, looking for soluble aspirin.

None on display, so I asked at the counter.

The lady behind the counter asked me, if I'd been advised to take them by my doctor.

When I said no, she said "In that case, I can't sell them to you".

Went into Boots and there they were, freely available, on display.

Didn't even have to go the pharmacy counter. Just paid for them at the ordinary till.

GreyQueen

Deffo weird one, Bob. Whatever do they imagine you'd do with such contraband? The mind boggles.

In New Zealand, pharmacists restrict the sale of certain cough medicines because druggies are using them to cook up something which goes by the street name 'P' but is actually methamphetamine. You see notices about this in all the pharmacies over there, I had to ask what it was.

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PC is on public forum warning of severe cold and brown and blackouts this winter. He is having an important meeting soon at westminster. All on his WA pages, not in my forecast, which I don`t yet have.

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Who's PC :huh:

twiglet98

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Who's PC :huh:

Piers Corbyn.

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

PC is on public forum warning of severe cold and brown and blackouts this winter. He is having an important meeting soon at westminster. All on his WA pages, not in my forecast, which I don`t yet have.

Trust part of that meeting is discussing what compensation householders will get if our equipment is affected by any brownouts...

If my pc got damaged by a brownout, for instance, I would want to know exactly who to send the resultant bill to.

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Trust part of that meeting is discussing what compensation householders will get if our equipment is affected by any brownouts...

If my pc got damaged by a brownout, for instance, I would want to know exactly who to send the resultant bill to.

why should that involve PC at his meeting? He does not make the weather and nor does he have anything to do with energy supplies. He warns and it is up to the gov and energy cos to make arrangements and then again we all have a responsibility ie to turn equipment off and have provisions in. There are already enough warnings in the media. Compo culture is rife but we need to take responsibility as most people do in the shtf thread. We don`t tend to rely on the nanny state to do things for us. Did you shout out about wasting money on wind energy, about shutting coal fired power stations, about stopping coal mining? Now we have the potential consequences of inaction by the majority