Preparedness for when

twiz21

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I have heard that snow is on its way too

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/forecaster-predicts-brutal-uk-winter-weather-for-2011-2012/

Butterfly, this article is dated Sep 4 2011.

Popperwell

This was interesting...it can be listened to on line or downloaded as a podcast soon...

it is about food waste, redistribution and/or how to avoid the waste of food...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n9vhr

2tonsils

I managed to get in touch with my friend and he is running this facebook page now as well as his website , so hopefully you can get updates by signing up to one of them. Here is the link, it sounds nasty and I have been notified by more than one forecaster world wide about it..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=429289930467283&set=a.324166630979614.78834.320341941362083&type=1&theater

In case it doesn't work its UK Stormchasers if you have to use the search for it.

will update later, at the moment we have a storm from hell approaching and its so dark in the living room I can't even see my OH who is sitting near the window...once again in his headphones watching an online movie....if the SHTF I will have to tap him on the shoulder and inform him LOL

mardatha

Windy Wilson says gales and rain for us from next Wed on, and I think I read somewhere about snow for the end of the month. For us up here anyway.

SpikyHedgehog

Fifer73 wrote: »

For others that may be interested in amature radio
information on your nearest club will be here
http://www.rsgb.org/clubsandtraining/

I just googled amature radio fife to finf my nearest club, as at the time didnt realise this site was here

I am mainly interested in the operating nights ( which i still have to see as my local club dont do this every week )
I have been told that my yearly membership will be £20 and £1 a week to go into the tea and biscuit kitty.

The foundation licence course gets done over a weekend and i really must do this to understand how all this comes together, cost wise is around £32

It might not be for everyone as most at my local radio club have different interests, operating ( like what i want to get my teeth into ) some do morse code, others are there to build and repair from scrach arials, and other bits of kit etc, and others for the wider communications.

Untill i get my first operating night under my belt, cant really post much more , my foundation course will be mid november as club needs another couple of people ( not just from this club , but local area ) to make it viable to do a group sitting for the foundation course. And again once i have sat this , will post on what its like.

keep up the good work preppers

There are 2 within 10 miles of me, neither of them have websites for info though. I think it's something that will have to come after being able to drive and getting a car, for me, so I could get there, as they're both out of my town and into the villages, where buses aren't as frequent as they are in town.

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I have heard that snow is on its way too

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/forecaster-predicts-brutal-uk-winter-weather-for-2011-2012/

2tonsils this might be helpful on earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

That earthquake link is interesting... If you zoom in (and put in on street map so it shows country boundaries and names because I don't know them without it showing me ), there was something (small, I think...) in Bosnia & Herzegovina on the 8th of Oct, and another in Algiers on 10th Oct.

Alison_Funnell

http://ukweather.wordpress.com/

This is where I check.

Alison_Funnell

2tonsils wrote: »

So pleased that so many on here have commented that they enjoy reading my posts. Thank you for your comments.

I have a mate who lives on Κέρκυρα (Corfu). I love to hear how it is for you as well.

lyrolee

Here are a couple of links that I find useful re - weather

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=78&mode=0


http://www.raintoday.co.uk/


HTH.

Alison_Funnell

D&DD wrote: »

Alison I'll clear you the comfy chair all the rest are filled with heaps of stuff ATM

I will feel quite at home then, we have an entire house like that. On occasion I have been known to muck out and find the floor...:eek:

Then you always have to move a cat off the chair first!

DD is called Rosie so am chuckling at the thought of your dragging a moaning 23yrd old out for a walk in the sun! :rotfl:

2tonsils

The people who live here seem to split into two kinds...the ones who are realistic and know what is going on around them, and the ones who pretend that things are fine and ignore or are oblivious to all that is going on. I guess the world could be classed the same way really. I prefer to know what is going on and I think I am more aware of how the ordinary people are being affected (like the Greek pensioners) than if I lived in a resort with mostly tourists around. I live in a mountain village with mostly sheep and olive farmers, and I wouldn't have it any other way. They are lovely people.

I keep up with the earthquake news on the Greek site. We have many small tremors but now and again a much bigger one. The largest we have had in the 19 years we have lived here has been 5.6. It really made the building I was working in sway around, all the children in the school were screaming and diving under the desks. We have had smaller quakes that have broken ornaments and pictures in the house many times. It always shows a quake shaking on the tv and movies but here it feels more like a cradle rocking. We tend to get them more when the weather has been dry for a few months and around January seems to be a hot spot for them.

I really hope you don't get snow! Most of the forecasts for the UK seem to be showing nasty gales and heavy rain again (sorry!) for next week and they all seem to agree to Wednesday onwards for it.

I got the ironing done but when the lightning moved just outside the window I turned off the iron. The fact we only have trip switches makes me nervous in a storm. I only had two of the OH's shirts to finish anyway....he will never miss them LOL...they are back in the ironing cupboard for next time.