Preparedness for when

valk_scot

Byatt wrote: »

Valk, your true scenario has made me realise that in my "brain fog" moments that I would either be blank or super efficient. I'm in a brain fog moment today so can't even think what would be a good solution other than running around like a headless chicken.

Well I know what my friend (the one with the 20lb baby boy, not the one that works there) did eventually. But I'm not telling until I hear some ideas and solutions from the floor.

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valk_scot wrote: »

Well I know what my friend (the one with the 20lb baby boy, not the one that works there) did eventually. But I'm not telling until I hear some ideas and solutions from the floor.

Get the bus to the pool, pick the other kids up, get the bus home?

Fruball

Beg to borrow someone's phone - call the swimming pool and ask them to put an announcement out to the kids to stay at reception if you think they will come out before you get there - call hubby and tell him to meet you at pool - bus or taxi to swimming pool and wait with a cuppa and snacks (assuming pool has shop/vending machines) for hubby to take you home.

OR - call friend (know some numbers off by heart) and get her to pick us up

valk_scot

drinkupretty wrote: »

Get the bus to the pool, pick the other kids up, get the bus home?

The roads were closed around the area and most of the rest of the town was gridlocked or moving very slowly for some hours. The buses were being diverted.

ETA: No taxis or cars were allowed in to pick people up either. And Hubby was forty miles away. Anyway do you know your OH's mobile or work number off the top of your head? I don't!

Fruball

valk_scot wrote: »

The roads were closed around the area and most of the rest of the town was gridlocked or moving very slowly for some hours. The buses were being diverted.

:eek: What did she do?

grandma247

My son knows not to leave the pool but to wait and if I do not appear then he has to tell reception. I did have this happen once.
I would then have waited it out because there is sometimes nothing else you can do.

Dh got caught up at work because of a devastating fire in a unit next to his and they were not allowed to leave work. Fortunately I had seen it on teletext so did not expect him home soon. He did ring a bit later to explain it would be a while before he was home.

valk_scot

Fruball wrote: »

:eek: What did she do?

I'll tell you what she did first...instead of freaking out about the kids at their perfectly safe swimming pool two miles away, she did exactly what the police emergency team on the spot told her to do, rather than doing what some people were doing and trying to get to her car for her posessions. The police were basically telling everyone that came out that particular door to walk quickly but calmly directly away from the danger area, down xxx Street and if they needed help with transport, contacting relatives or other emergency assistance to go to the assistance centre that had been set up at our local sports centre which was roughly down at the end of XXX Street. But the immediate priority was to get herself and her son out of the potential blast zone.

Smart folk these emergency people, eh? It's almost as if they'd thought about it in advance. Evacuate the area as fast as possible and do not allow members of the public to endanger themselves or others, in this case by trying to return to their cars, Do you know that even using a remote controlled key to your car can trigger off an explosion if there's a major gas leak? I didn't.


Okay, what next?

grandma247

valk_scot wrote: »

Do you know that even using a remote controlled key to your car can trigger off an explosion if there's a major gas leak? I didn't.

I did think of this that is why I said stay put but if they were directing people out another door then I would have gone as directed. I would also have had a drink with me for the baby as they always want it at the most inconvenient moments. A friend used to carry a sandwich and a biscuit for her child all the time.


We had a bomb scare while in Manchester a few years ago. We had asked for a parking spot in the arena but as it happened we did not get one and had to park a bit of a walk away. All who were not parked in the Arena were allowed to leave and get their cars. We got home within the hour so about 5.30 but the ones who had to stay were there till 10pm:eek: I was heavily pregnant at the time so I was very relieved we could get home.

Caterina

Val, no I did not talk to them about emergencies of that sort, unfortunately. I agree, they would have been a captive audience then!

valk_scot

grandma247 wrote: »

I would also have had a drink with me for the baby as they always want it at the most inconvenient moments. A friend used to carry a sandwich and a biscuit for her child all the time.

Yes, she told me she was cursing about that because she's usually pretty organised re drinks and such, it was that she was just back from holiday, and she was going to Tesco which you'd think was a good place for emergency drinks.

No suggestions as to what to do next? She did go to the emergency centre btw but there were dozens of folk there already and, of course, they all wanted to complain to the staff and have their problems sorted out first.