Preparedness for when

craigywv

a bit off subject but pound shop selling 1.4 kg bags of sugar for a quid good for prepping

mardatha

FluTrackers says it all depends on the size of the airborne microbes. I am damn sure you could catch it from a sneeze.. and I read that same book GQ and I turned cold reading, it spooked me for weeks.

Softstuff

Reading about Ebola makes me generally a bit more grateful to live in Australia. Not for the improved reactions from the authorities (who are apparently woefully unprepared for the eventuality). But instead for being a bit more remote and a bit less populated.

I've warned OH that if it makes it here, we're not leaving the house. And given that he works from home, that's not an idle threat.

muffin_man_7

craigywv wrote: »

a bit off subject but pound shop selling 1.4 kg bags of sugar for a quid good for prepping

Sugar prices cheaper in
Poundstretcher 1kg 49p bnm2x1kg £1 farmfoods 1kg59p hth

Butterfly_Brain

craigywv wrote: »

a bit off subject but pound shop selling 1.4 kg bags of sugar for a quid good for prepping

Farmfoods and Aldi are doing 1kg bags for 59p
It is still 79p in Asda waitrose and Tesco and 80p in Sainsbury's :eek:

Thanks for the heads up on poundstretcher muffin man, but our branch has just been done for mice in the food :eek:

craigywv

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww bb mice in the food I HATE THEM THINGS!!!!!!!! give ma cockroaches anyday

GreyQueen

craigywv wrote: »

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww bb mice in the food I HATE THEM THINGS!!!!!!!! give ma cockroaches anyday

Y'know, cockroaches are about the only thing I haven't booked a pest control treatment for, lately. This week and last I have been up to my eyebrows in mice and rats (metaphorically speaking) as they seem to be decamping from gardens and sheds into homes. They may be vermin but they ain't daft, are they, winter's coming.

Have just mooched around to the burst water main to have a conflab with the water company fellers. Where we had a swamp-and-stream combo this morning, we now have a bliddy-great-hole-full-of- muddy-water and a stream. They're waiting for someone to turn the water off so they can get in there and fix it. ETA to no water 20 mins or so, duration of waterlessness, unknown.

One of the fellers remarked that this main is always bursting and we had a little commiseration about it, and happy recollections of earlier inundations with water 3 ft up the column of the streetlight (the streetlight they took away in the end, it was in such jeopardy)..

Ah yes, happy times. It's the stones in the ground that do it, apparently; the vibration caused by heavy traffic causes the earth (avec stones) to move against the main and oops! it breaks again. On past form, each repair can be expected to hold 1-2 years.

Shoebox Towers is built on thousands of pylons, which are imbedded in the rubble and cack of antiquity, as peeps have been grubbling around building on this site since the Romans were roaming, the Vikings were burning and the medievals were being..........tolerably pleasant.

One of SG's neighbours, another older lady, has decided to stock up on bottled water. This preppering is catching, innit?

ETA; the water company fellers are doorknocking right now; water going off in a few mins possible for up to 3 hours, depending. Very appreciative of the heads-up as kettle is filled as is the washing up bowl with hot water. And I've decided the big messy cooking that I was going to do is now out of the question and I shall hie me up to my favourite emporium for fish & chips. Or fush & chups, if any Kiwis are in da house.

Frugalsod

DawnW wrote: »

I think that the guy is daft to agree to feature in the national media :eek:

However, looking at the comments underneath the article, many are pretty sensible and down to earth, ie from people who had taken sensible measures themselves, thinking in terms of what would happen if there were power cuts, bad weather, unemployment etc. Maybe there are more preppers than most people think - after all, for probably all previous generations, some degree of prepping, as far as circumstances allowed, was totally normal behaviour, and those who did not would have been considered irresponsible.

I think that most people prep to some extent but may not realise it. Making sure the car is well equipped and fully topped up at all times is one form, especially if they have a hot flask and a blanket in the car during winter. Having extra food in, in case you have surprise guests is another. We all do it to some extent. It is when it is taken to an absolute extreme that it becomes questionable. Though prepping for probables is far better than prepping for exceptionally unlikely events even if they are seriously devastating like meteor impacts.

So for me the things that I am preparing for are powercuts, water shortages and financial collapse because the government have not fixed any of these problems.

Nellie_the_Viking

craigywv wrote: »

Good morning , question, see if we did get water shortages can i go to one of my 3 water butts and scoop out the water , boil it and drink it? Is this enough to make it safe. I also have water purifacatio n tablets do i boil and add these? Whats the best way to do it thanks x

I was leading a kids expedition in Africa this summer and one night our campsite turned out to be a dusty clearing with a green, mosquito ridden fairly stagnant pool of water as it's sole water supply. Most of us had run down to our last half litre of water before we arrived, having trekked for 8 hours through the morning and early afternoon so we had to use it. Imagine my delight when that night, a pod of spotted hyenas came through the camp and used it to both eat and bathe!


We hauled it up by the bucket load, strained it twice through a tea-towel into the kittle to remove a range of interesting bugs and sludge, boiled it and held it boiling for 10 minutes in the kettle over the campfire, then used chlorine solution from chlorine water purification tablets at a slightly higher concentration than we would for "clean" water. It still tasted kind of funky, but no-one got ill from it. If stagnant African hyena water can be made drinkable, I'm sure it will work from a civilised water butt!

Frugalsod

News from Germany that is no surprise to me.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-10/it-begins-german-banks-lower-deposit-guarantee-scheme

The big German banks are in a worse state than any of our big banks. If they reduce the deposit protection then you might be a lot better off keeping your money in the mattress.