Preparedness for when

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Homemade rehydration fluid

6 teaspoons of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1 litre of boiled drinking water

dissolve sugar and salt in the water and cool.

GreyQueen

Just been preparing my allotment for an expected frost tonight. All spudlings have been bathed, story-told and wrapped up in dead grass and weeds and wished a good night. I shall get them out from under their covers tomorrow morning.

Mid-May frosts are the very devil around here, two more weeks and we should be free and clear.

Thanks for the info, nuatha, I will keep and eye out.

milasavesmoney

And here I am complaining that I have already had to turn on the air conditioning this early in May. We always try to last until June but just couldn't this year. It's going to be an expensive summer.:eek::eek:

Rehydration fluid is important to know! Good recipe.

milasavesmoney

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We are here to discuss preparedness for various emergency situations. Please read the purpose of this thread. It will help you with future comments.
Rehydration can be critical and can not be accomplished by just drinking water after a bout of serious diarrhea.
That IS science.

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I'll never understand why anyone who sees prepping as a ludicrously hilarious occupation performed only by those of flawed intellect reads this thread??? There are so many other threads covering a multitude of other subjects that would NOT elevate their blood pressure to read that surely common sense says to give this one a miss and not interact with perceived lunatics like us???

Me I like to hedge my bets and take prepping seriously enough to act and prepare for the unforeseen as life is still in 2016 a little uncertain and the world is NOT in my control and has been known to produce situations where these preps will make a difference to our safety.

IF you don't like this particular brand of heat please do yourself a favour and stay out of this particular kitchen!

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I'm not nearly as nice as you are NUATHA, no one of the human race is exempt from life and life produces situations that come out of the blue and really upset everyones apple carts. I like to think though that if during one of those situations I came across a sceptic who had been as rude as we know they can be I'd be magnanimous enough to help them if I had enough preps in place to be able to. If however I hadn't they'd just have to cope on their own and sink or swim accordingly! and tough luck!

thriftwizard

Ignore oral history at your peril. Take it with a pinch of salt, by all means, but there's often a big grain of truth at the heart of local tales. If a certain big builder had taken more notice of local stories that there used to be a stream running into the river where they're plonking several hundred new homes near here, which was buried when they slapped up a munitions factory on a huge concrete raft in WW2, they wouldn't have to be running several massive pumps 24/7 with no end in sight.

And they did used to try to count the bombs falling in WW2; their lives depended on it. My mother was right underneath the route the bombers & doodlebugs flew to London, and that our own boys took home again, often discarding bombs they hadn't had a chance to drop over relatively unoccupied countryside, where they were a huge danger to locals and sometimes still are. So the local ARP wardens used to try to count, or at least estimate, them, and mark where they'd fallen.

Karmacat

thriftwizard wrote: »

And they did used to try to count the bombs falling in WW2; their lives depended on it. My mother was right underneath the route the bombers & doodlebugs flew to London, and that our own boys took home again, often discarding bombs they hadn't had a chance to drop over relatively unoccupied countryside, where they were a huge danger to locals and sometimes still are. So the local ARP wardens used to try to count, or at least estimate, them, and mark where they'd fallen.

I wasn't going to let the troll's post pass unchallenged either. My Nan was an Air Raid Warden in WWII in Liverpool during the Blitz, and the home my mother lived in was half a mile from a tar works and an important transport junction (road/rail/canal). There was a huge percentage of bombs that didn't explode as they landed.

The bonding between the regulars over this is quite fun :beer:

jk0

WW2 history is very interesting to me. I was amazed to learn recently that Belfast was bombed by the Germans with very heavy casualties. Presumably they thought (as I would have) that bombers wouldn't risk flying over England to get there.

This is an interesting account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm not nearly as nice as you are NUATHA, no one of the human race is exempt from life and life produces situations that come out of the blue and really upset everyones apple carts. I like to think though that if during one of those situations I came across a sceptic who had been as rude as we know they can be I'd be magnanimous enough to help them if I had enough preps in place to be able to. If however I hadn't they'd just have to cope on their own and sink or swim accordingly! and tough luck!

There was nothing particularly nice about my post, hence the comment about sarcasm.
I have no intention of being that magnanimous.

thriftwizard wrote: »

Ignore oral history at your peril. Take it with a pinch of salt, by all means, but there's often a big grain of truth at the heart of local tales. If a certain big builder had taken more notice of local stories that there used to be a stream running into the river where they're plonking several hundred new homes near here, which was buried when they slapped up a munitions factory on a huge concrete raft in WW2, they wouldn't have to be running several massive pumps 24/7 with no end in sight.

And they did used to try to count the bombs falling in WW2; their lives depended on it. My mother was right underneath the route the bombers & doodlebugs flew to London, and that our own boys took home again, often discarding bombs they hadn't had a chance to drop over relatively unoccupied countryside, where they were a huge danger to locals and sometimes still are. So the local ARP wardens used to try to count, or at least estimate, them, and mark where they'd fallen.

Several years were spent hunting for the second torpedo dropped on a local village without success. It was assumed that the reports of the second torpedo were mistaken. Until some decided to improve their garden by removing the air raid shelter in the 70s, excavating around it found the missing torpedo and resulted in apologies to the people who'd been telling the tale since the night the village had been torpedo'd. (German aircraft having met much heavier resistance than expected had abandoned attacks on a port).

A long street of houses was built on a slope known locally as the "Cully." Apparently the builders thought this was a corruption of the word gully. Particularly towards the bottom half of the slope the houses had major damp problems. A 17th century map of the village shows a large stream down that slope, sometime subsequent the stream was housed in a culvert, hence "Culy"

Strange things are preserved in children's tales, a long derelicy area of land in a local town was always avoided by children and referred to as a plague pit - largely by children too young to have heard the term elsewhere. As the kids became teens it was a rite of passage to cross the "plague pit at dusk on your own. Then as the kids became adults the very notion of it was dismissed. Industrial expansion meant the land was excavated and a large number of skeletons discovered. 300 years of forgotten history preserved by the town's children and dismissed as they became adults.

jk0 wrote: »

WW2 history is very interesting to me. I was amazed to learn recently that Belfast was bombed by the Germans with very heavy casualties. Presumably they thought (as I would have) that bombers wouldn't risk flying over England to get there.

This is an interesting account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz

Belfast was a major ship building centre, all such were targeted by the German war machine to reduce Britain's capacity to defend itself. Anywhere within range was going to be targeted.
There was an assuption by the Luftwaffe that targets in the North of England and on the River Clyde would be less well defended compared to the South of England. However Battle of Britain fighter pilots were rotated to airfields in Northumberland for rest and training resulting in German bomber wings (largely without fighter escorts due to the ranges involved) encountering very experienced air defences.
In theory there are large swathes of Britain with minimal population and high flying aircraft could expect to pass by with a good chance of being un-noticed, or at least unidentified as enemy craft - Radar was a very closely guarded secret.