Preparedness for when

missrlr

Hello been a bit of an odd few days. DH is convinced I have lost the plot and taking this prepping thing a tad too far. He is in for a shock coz its not stopping here. I am going to get him to raid the toy sorry gadget department in the loft and report back with the view we can update / improve some of these.
I am possibly being a bit of a stress monkey about all things financial but there is a little voice just jiggling away in my head. So I have taken the executive decision I will make the best decision I can now to alleviate this stress a bit.
The second step is to persuade him that a grab bag is needed. So I have complied a list of things needed for this and will hope he buys into this. I actually think we need two. One for e.g. Hospital stays and one for e.g. Bug out scenarios. Plus dog one and document one.
So now back home from a day off and seeing adorable niece so time for a little bit of prepping I think.

ALIBOBSY

Just caught up with the thread. Managed despite being terrified to keep myself calm and have my wobbly painful tooth taken out today. The dentist was very nice and did his best to help me, but so glad when it was over Been sipping soup through a straw lol. Numbness has gone now, but its a bit achy.

Done kids face painting, DD1 is at a halloween party at gymnastics and OH will take them all out later on-yes I even had to paint his face for him :T.

Try not to worry about the hospital tommorrow. DD1 has asked a few times what Daddy is is going to hospital about, but we don't want to worry her unless we have to. DS being older is aware, but being a teenager I don't think he knows how to react TBH.

OH said he thinks there is another smaller lump on the "other side", but as this was where his previous op was we are hoping it may just be scar tissue.

Will wait and see what happens and what if anything the next step is. Thankyou for all the messages of support.

Happy Halloween
Ali x

2tonsils

Just a quick update in case my computer/lights/electric go out.....is it me or am I getting more than my fair share of SHTF situations? This time its an alert for ''dangerous'' thunderstorms and force eight winds from tonight onwards. For once they were specific about the areas that would get them rather than just the timing and we will get them first! They will last for the next 36 hours or so.

I just went down to the shop to get some chocolate (can't get stranded in the house in stormy weather with no chocolate can you? It's the first rule of survival) and the wind is really getting up already. We have just lost sky news on the satelite which is a sure sign the storms are on their way. No one seems to be out trick or treating but then Halloween is frowned on by the Greek Orthodox church anyway. Perhaps they have all seen the weather forecast...

The good news is that my ton of olive wood arrived this afternoon and we just had time to carry it through the house and stack it at the back before a funeral went past. I live on a very narrow road in the middle of the village and its a tradition to have a funeral parade through the village, with a brass band playing in front of everyone ,alongside the priests waving incense burners around. We rushed to get the last logs in so that I could sweep the street then run inside so they didn't all see me covered in moss and bits of wood....

I was very pleased it was delivered as it is starting to get quite cool in the evenings and first thing in the morning. I could have done without the huge free spider though, it looked like a tarantula...even the feral cat wouldn't go near it.

Will continue to post whenever we have a clear patch in the storms. We unplug everything when the storm gets close as the electric is not earthed, its on trip switches....which don't work fast enough in the case of lightning here!

vanoonoo

woweee - how is everyone holding up? it's crazy out there isnt it? I've managed to kill off 15 zombie midgets so far - but why on earth are they all carrying buckets of candy ....

guineapiglet

thank you for the warm welcome and advice, pages bookmarked for full researching later. I really want to get prepared even if OH thinks Im going slightly loopy, hey I went along with his "phases" (I mean interests) in guitars, keeping chickens, bow and arrow and air rifle

I had been saying they were cluttering up the house but since starting prepping and considering he now a good shot and we have the equipment to defend ourselves against the zombies catch dinner? Ive kept quiet unless he decides to question why ive bought 10 packs of loo roll and where they can go ... we could make space by chucking the guitar

GreyQueen

vanoonoo wrote: »

woweee - how is everyone holding up? it's crazy out there isnt it? I've managed to kill off 15 zombie midgets so far - but why on earth are they all carrying buckets of candy ....

They don't come into the Towers. We can't even get the local free newspapers delivered because no one has the bottle to walk around here, apparently. Which is ridiculous; posties come here 6 days a week with no problems.

Having divested myself of my Halloween office ensemble and ornamental spider head-dress, I changed into my civvies and re-acquainted myself with how to change the batteries on my darling little Petzl head torch, which I have an unreasonable fondness for. My headtorch takes AAAs as does my back-up LED torch so they and some packs of spares are now in the BOB.

As well as being just the ticket for camping, imagine if you were trying to cook or wash dishes in the dark? How useful a hands-free torch would be.

Petzls aren't cheep-cheep but there are other brands which are more economical and it would be a useful addition to anyone's kit, IMO, anyway.

Just reviewed the docs in my BOB. I have purchased a second-hand folder type wallet with a card-holder slot bit on one side and a tuck-stuff-away bit on t'other and have got crucial docs in there. I also recalled one doc which wasn't in there and added a scanned version of it to the folder. Wallet is inside a heavy duty zip lock polythene bag, one of the set of various sized zip locks from the army surplus, in depths of the BOB.

Oh, and I sorted out my glasses cases and labelled them with a strip of electrical tape which I wrote on in pen; current prescription, current spares, last prescription spares.

I'm very short-sighted and would be in real trouble without my "windows" so have the current spares in the BOB and the spare-spares are kept indoors in a particular place where I could lay hands on them even in full darkness. I also have my eye prescription in my doc folder.

I'm going to look at getting a thumb drive and backing up my files onto it, and taking that with me (am thinking inside a small tin in case of EMP probs) in the BOB. Nothing particularly confidential on the PC as I never do banking etc online but it'd be a pest to lose stuff.

I was also thinking of scanning instruction booklets, warranties and receipts for my appliances and big-ticket household goods in case of having to claim on insurance in event of total loss. I've heard some insurers can be right PITAs if you can't prove you had X, Y or Z item in the first place. Would be about 30 mins work and might save a world of aggravation later on.

It was chilling to look at the smoking ruins of what had been 80 or so homes on Breezy Point in the USA and think about what it would be like to be the people who are now homeless, probably with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and what they could grab in their two hands.

Like almost everyone who lives in high-density housing, I've had some scares over the years but I was impressed at how far the sound of one flat's smoke detector travelled when it went off; people popped out of other flats like cuckoos out of clocks to see where it was. Nothing too serious; chip pan fire, fire brigade swiftly here. But you need to keep aware of your surroundings.

Despite all this, I remain a cheerful and optimistic person and sleep well at nights with my BOB by the bedside and a torch hooked over the bedpost.

Prepare for the worst and sleep easy at night. I DO know where my towel is (Hitchiker's Guide reference). I even have peanuts.;)

Dippypud

Molly41

Very quiet night for trick or treating. Those that did visit were, as always, polite and said thank you. Think the weather put them off:eek:

Caterina

ginnyknit wrote: »

But Mar with a handy guy like Peter living in your shed you will be fine....:)

Except that Peter does not live in her shed, he only loves
her shed, which is different from living in it! I know because he lives with me, in my summerhouse!

Not done much prepping lately, unless you count learning to knit Fair Isle as a form of prepping?

Battened down the hatches and all front of house lights are off, we don't encourage trick or treaters, around here you get some really nasty teens in full mask so you don't recognise them and they use Halloween as an excuse to make mischief, one year we had the door splattered with eggs. Never bloody again!

bluebag

No trick or treaters here apart from 4 littlies earlier on. I think the zombies letting off industrial sized fireworks on the road have put them off.

I don't get it, all this health and safety stuff means you cant remove your own navel fluff without a certificate but they happily allow explosives on full retail sale ???