Preparedness for when

miss_corerupted

Being on a hill in Wales if we flood the rest of you is in serious trouble I tell you

armyknife

miss_corerupted wrote: »

Being on a hill in Wales if we flood the rest of you is in serious trouble I tell you

As someone who fondly lived in Wales for a number of years, can I say surely that's the natural state of affairs, the air around Welsh hills is nearly always flooded.

jk0

I know popular media branded David Icke a nutcase years ago. However, it's interesting to hear him speak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9COUAhs8yg

mardatha

Maybe the swans came early because Siberia is extra cold, not because we're going to be??
GreyQueen the porridge and kettle is always on, just bring me some FB pies and a month's supply of jellybabies.

the_cake

About ten years ago I was living on a stud farm, by a big river. It flooded fairly regularly - moving the youngstock quickly was always fun - open all the gates and whoosh them up ... but before I lived there on one occasion they didn't move some yearlings in time and had to call the fire brigade, who swung them over the flood in slings - eek. The thing I remember most vividly, though, was the incredible force of even shallow water - it didn't come over the top of my normal length wellies, but nearly knocked me off my feet. Scary. NB That's WELLIES, not willies!!

armyknife

jk0 wrote: »

I know popular media branded David Icke a nutcase years ago. However, it's interesting to hear him speak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9COUAhs8yg

It's not the mainstream media, but his own rantings that have done that; I found his or at least a goodly proportion of his follow hinting that lizard people was a code for the Jews particularly objectionable.

Life is way to short to listen to David Icke spout about anything.

Ryanna2599

sb44 wrote: »

I think I will take a look for that book too!

GreyQueen, have you read One Second After by William R. Forstchen?

I haven't read it but is is supposed to be a real page turner, about the after affects of an EMP attack.

He released the follow up last month 'One Year After' but I haven't read any reviews on that one yet.

Lots of YouTube reviews and interviews with the author.

SB44 I'm actually halfway through the One Second After book...and it's making me think about a number of things. I realise an EMP attack or a solar flare is probably very unlikely but if we were unlucky enough to be affected by one I would feel very vulnerable being in a town.

I'll drop another post once I've finished the book...

sb44

Ryanna2599 wrote: »

SB44 I'm actually halfway through the One Second After book...and it's making me think about a number of things. I realise an EMP attack or a solar flare is probably very unlikely but if we were unlucky enough to be affected by one I would feel very vulnerable being in a town.

I'll drop another post once I've finished the book...

Ta!

I recently watched a vid re EMP and CME (solar flares).

He said an EMP would be probable but a CME would be a definate, think he said they are due at least once in every 70 years and we are due one.

mardatha

Talking on another forum about what ran out first in the last war - and what would be the differences if there was another one. It doesn't even have to be a war war, just a new Cold War might do it.
Am wondering where soap powder comes from? ln the war they seem to have run out of it and soap, very quickly.
If Russia took the huff, what would they stop in the way of imports... apart from gas? It might be a life saver that we are an island but it's also easy to cut us off. Think about the pipelines for oil going over the North Sea and to Rotterdam.
Then all the utility companies are foreign owned so they would just flick a switch if their own people needed it more than we did.
And nobody has the wee local grocers shop where you handed in your coupon book and got your weekly order - plus any goodies that he had saved for you- any more.

thriftwizard

mardatha wrote: »

Talking on another forum about what ran out first in the last war - and what would be the differences if there was another one. It doesn't even have to be a war war, just a new Cold War might do it.
Am wondering where soap powder comes from? ln the war they seem to have run out of it and soap, very quickly.
If Russia took the huff, what would they stop in the way of imports... apart from gas? It might be a life saver that we are an island but it's also easy to cut us off. Think about the pipelines for oil going over the North Sea and to Rotterdam.
Then all the utility companies are foreign owned so they would just flick a switch if their own people needed it more than we did.
And nobody has the wee local grocers shop where you handed in your coupon book and got your weekly order - plus any goodies that he had saved for you- any more.

Got me thinking: what's the difference, for you, between surviving & thriving? Soap's actually really fundamental; you can be warm & fed, but feeling filthy can really get you down, never mind the health hazards. I think I'd like to make a list of things that would make the difference between just staying alive in a real, wide-based SHTF situation, and doing all right. Soap & toothpaste would come quite high up on that list. And learning how to make more, or acceptable substitutes from easily-found materials, would be a very useful skill.

Naturally, jelly-babies & good books would be on there too...:D

PS - overnight, the town my MiL lives in (in Spain) has flooded quite badly, and the town my eldest brother lives in (SW) has had 75 households evacuated & the main through-road closed (again) for a mains gas leak...