Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

Another reason for burning a full new set of CDs when you update is that they don't last forever... Check carefully for cracks around the hole in the middle as they explode spectacularly when they go, usually destroying the drive as well, and are a b****r to clean up!

Thanks for the reminder. Years ago, the Computer Wizard showed me an online video of what happened when a cracked DVD exploded in a DVD drive and it scared the stuffing out of me.

2tonsils, when I saw online newspapers with pix of people loading newly-purchased gennies into the backs of their cars in the day or so before Sandy, I wondered if they'd ever used them before and whether they'd be safe. I was thinking along the lines of fire risk but hadn't recalled the fumes. So wretched to think of those unnecessarily lost lives.:(

I used to work the fairs with a troupe of travelling players and gennies would invariably be involved somewhere on the site. I hate the things; noisy, smelly and fumey, even in the outdoors.

I am typing to you tonight wearing my tank-driver faux-fur and fabric hat, with earflaps down. I bought it a couple of days ago and I am very pleased with it. Getting rather bitter here tonight and I decided to up my personal temperature by adding the headgear. I have the c.h. on but am overtired and struggle with my personal thermostat (fellow ME-sufferers may be familiar with the problem).

Right, need to go do something else for a whiley.........

ohh, Grandma247, those fleece-thingies look really good. Are they intended for lounge-wear or night-wear of as a warm layer under waterproofs?

ETA; re the Red Cross in America, the blogger Annie Brewer http://annienygma.com/ was writing a while back about the experience of her family and others in a bad wintry spell which saw them 8 days without power and they got no help, not even a hot meal, from the Red Cross, until the crisis had passed and their power was back on and they didn't need the help.

annie123

I know this is an american government site but it is full of basic, clear and simple, how to prepare and what to do during and after various SHTF situations.
Everything from a pandemic to environmental to man made. Useful for anyone who is not sure if they should prep or what to prep maybe.
Includes stockpile food and water, kit bags, plan/practice situations, basically what this thread is all about.

http://www.ready.gov/natural-disasters

No mention of Zombies though:cool:

mardatha

GQ re that hat, I'm seeing Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Hereos... :rotfl::rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

kittie wrote: »

I wrote on tough thread. Making no apologies for copying same here

. Light snow 7th. HEAVY snow/blizzards 8th+ BAD to 18th then major storm a few days later

Get sorted!!!!! Don`t wait to see. 15-20% chance it might not happen but if it does then sht will hit fan

Just wondering where abouts in the UK the snow is predicted as can't see any on our local forecasts?

TY
Ali x

grandma247

GQ they are pyjamas but I intend lounging in them in the evenings too.

I used a paper pattern for the bottoms but a nighty I liked for the tops. (no gapping and getting cold) I just folded it in half and laid it against the fold on the blanket and cut it out then folded it the other way so I ended up with a front and back. The sleeves were folded out of the way while cutting out the body then I used them as a template for sleeves and just rounded the top to fit in.

ALIBOBSY

Looking at pictures from the aftermath of sandy its shocking really how quickly people go from living the "normal" western lifestyle to being desperate, fighting and digging through bins.

Hopefully things will get sorted for those poor people effected, but maybe indirectly more people will start to see that "prepping" is a bunch of crazy nut jobs worrying over nothing, but is a real way of protecting yourself and your family against events that can happen swiftly with little warning.

Ali x

fuddle

What happened in America was devastating. Millions upon millions of people have been affected one way or another. I hear the argument for preparing, boy do I, I do it myself, but you can't prepare for everything nor every situation.

The BOB is the only prep I will do for if I have to leave home. A half decent but not extreme food store with blankets and warm clothes for if we're holed up and dry indoors.

Other than that, I just can't prepare any further because otherwise I get into the spiral of what if's and obsess.... which is where the stereotype 'nut job' will come in.

It's sensible to prepare for a little emergency but we're just individuals, mortals in life who sadly are going to get caught up in atrocities, natural or otherwise. We just can't prepare for everything and unfortunately those left in Sandy's wake are seeing that authorities preparations, that aid organisation's preparations just can't cope with a huge situation. You can't prepare for every eventuality, no matter how big your care group is - a family of 4 or a country with millions of people.

So many people are alive because they were forewarned. It could have been so much worse, regardless of what preparations people had.

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ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Just wondering where abouts in the UK the snow is predicted as can't see any on our local forecasts?

TY
Ali x

sorry, that is all I will say. It is a private bought subscription and has to be kept to my own circle as is copyright. I do have maps and the month is broken down into 3 day sections but I have said as much as I dare.

missrlr

fuddle wrote: »

Other than that, I just can't prepare any further because otherwise I get into the spiral of what if's and obsess.... which is where the stereotype 'nut job' will come in.

:beer:exactly my thoughts, despite the fact DH seems to think I am already on the loony side of this already. Yesterday we were speaking with our neighbours who were commenting on the cold and how difficult it was making for them to finish the winter prep in the garden and so on - I made the throw away comment of "well just wait until the snow arrives then" to which DH throws his hands up in the air raises his eyebrows and huffs "you and your survivalist stuff, I don't know what you have been watching but anyone would think the end of the world was coming" neighbour then said "well it's better to be prepared" and carried on. We went home and DH then turned on the news to be greeted with the queues of people, news of looting, and so on for the USA so I took great delight in saying, "well if they had only been a bit more prepared" He shut up at that point and found me some wind up torches on t'interweb. :rotfl: I am working on a generator next :T
Water butts are now full to over flowing :cool: and one of the newly installed gutters has a drip :mad: so call to them on Monday to get it fixed I think - hope irritating.
Right off to the gym as I have been up for blinking hours

mardatha

The one thing that I thought mad was the queues of people who bought generators when they heard the storm was coming, and who now have to stand in line for hours to get a can of petrol the run the bloody things. (Also the people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from them because they didnt know how to use them.)
This world managed without elect until - I dont know but wild guess here - maybe 1890s. Some farm cottages until as late as the 1960s. Look at what the Victorians did without it, they were terrific! It might be harder work and more awkward but there is no reason why we can't do it for a few days in an emergency.
EDITED - oops misslr, cross posted. Wasnt getting at you pet xx A genny stinks and is loud. Everybody who has them hates them - please think hard