Preparedness for when

missrlr

It is probably rattling a few cages with Superstorm Sandy still in memory it may just have pricked the consciousness of a few Daily Wail readers who should know better and are simply being ignorant whatsit

TeaCake

I saw this and thought of you guys today : http://shop.biolitestove.com/BioLite-CampStove_p_15.html

TattyG

http://menmedia.co.uk/stockportexpress/news/s/1594767_well-prepared-stockport-ex-soldier-spends-20k-on-ways-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world

This one lives about 10 mins from me x

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Grey Queen
Saw this and thought of you
http://www.instructables.com/id/Paracord/

Thanks, hun, I've added that to my rainy day project list.

Had a snoop at the article and embedded video on the Daily Wail and am astonished at people putting their prepping out there in the public domain. Could be a very bad idea, even if TSHF doesn't happen; you might get some numptie with a taste for weapons deciding to do a little light burgling. A cross-bow isn't a joke weapon, even in unskilled hands.

Needless to say, my personal prepping will be discreetly under the radar; nothing even slightly odd is visible in my bijou flatlet. What is going on behind closed doors/ under the bed or in the cupboard is another matter altogether, of course.:rotfl:

The lady who thinks she's a unique example obviously doesn't mix with us or hang out in various other preptastic places.

Interesting to look at the 1000+ comments on the article in the Wail, obviously this is a hot-button subject for a lot of people.

2tonsils, hope the weather stays calm and you and the OH are able to have an uninterupted night's sleep tonight.

ETA TattyG, make a note of his address, this will be valuable information in a crisis. Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is itemising his preps to a colleague and then asks her what her preps are?

She said; I have your address.

2tonsils

After a peaceful evening when I even got to see the full moon between the clouds, they have given us a dangerous weather warning tonight that extends the dangerous storms into the middle of NEXT WEEK! With increasing winds and a drop in temperatures Northern Greece will get snow blizzards while we will get the storms and tornadoes back again from tonight.

The authorities must be worried as they have cancelled many of the ferries and flights in and out of Greece and have given the emergency services special powers to enforce road safety measures due to the weather.

We say the fire brigade and police in town today going slowly with their lights on to slow the traffic down from its usual pace . Good idea! All our shutters are still locked tight and we have moved everything that could become a lethal object in the high winds. The drains are clear of stones again and we have half emptied our water tank under the house so it doesn't overflow again. At the moment its windy out with the hot wind but it is very dry.

And here we all were in Greece, just worried about the finances and new taxes! This weather is crazy and its not just Greece.

Glad to say we are pretty well prepared for most things that could happen. Pleased we have full insurance even if it does cost us an arm and a leg each year.

Hope you are all wrapped up warm and cosy tonight , it sounds very cold in the UK.

GreyQueen

Depends where you are, 2tonsils. I was wandering around outside between 6 and 7 pm. It's 4 degrees in my city tonight and not expected to be colder than +2 overnight.

Feels mild. Strips of cloud obscuring the moon. Haven't needed to dig my gloves out yet.

Worrisome weather you're having and expecting to have. Hope that it doesn't do too much damage although you sound as well-prepared as is possible.

meme30

Well we are -2 this morning and a lovely frosty white! The moon is so bright it's almost daylight!

Those storms sound bad 2Tonsils, hunkering down and waiting it out sounds like a good idea.

These floods have made me take a good look at my house and what would be important to us. We live on high ground so I have never considered flooding a danger, then I saw the story of the houses in Whitby. If I only had ten minutes to take things out of my house, what would I take? I'm not talking about documents etc, they are all in one place and in a case ready to pick up. I'm thinking of all the personal, sentimental things that we all own, take for granted and we would be devastated to lose.
Don't get me wrong I don't have my Great Granny's long lost jewels hidden away :rotfl: but we have DH's dad's papers and medals from the war, and some photo's I know no one else has. Things like that. I suppose I am talking about losing our family history.
I realise that this is not practical at all, but listening to that woman say that 26 years of her life was being lost really struck a chord with me. I have always imagined being able to come back and things like that would always be there. Of course in the event of a major fire there would be nothing left at all.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

In the begining I think people who 'prept' were a bit OTT, but now I think more and more people are realisinh how vounrable sp? we really are, and how we have got used to everything being there for us..

Ok some of those american preppers ( and british) are extreme, but, I think people are waking up to it, for me stockpiling food stems from when it was a case of feast or famine when ti came to money to buy food etc.. so I allways bought more when I had money to tied me over the lean times.... Now its a case of trying to beat the price increases..as I personally think its just going to go up and up.. and will be a very long time before it starts levelling out..

We are extremely lucky as we havent had any floods etc effecting our house, but there are more and more people being flooded out, a few years ago, when stratford etc got flooded in the summer, they sais it was rare,,, a few years down the line, this is all we are hearing about, our climate is getting wetter etc.. so I think this should be a wake up call for peeps to have a decent stockpile, and have some survival items.

I think there should be a realistic balance between a stockpile and being a hoarder:cool::D and make sure food is being used, not just stored, so if you have a stockpile of lets say a 100 tins of baked beans, then use them, keep topping up, and make sure you use them in date sequence..

I also going to start having a stock of tinned pet food... as we cant leave them out of this...

I have £25 boots gift card courtesy of my amex rewards, so i might start getting a stockpile of ladies monthly's

JKJ

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

In the begining I think people who 'prept' were a bit OTT, but now I think more and more people are realisinh how vounrable sp? we really are, and how we have got used to everything being there for us..

Ok some of those american preppers ( and british) are extreme, but, I think people are waking up to it, for me stockpiling food stems from when it was a case of feast or famine when ti came to money to buy food etc.. so I allways bought more when I had money to tied me over the lean times.... Now its a case of trying to beat the price increases..as I personally think its just going to go up and up.. and will be a very long time before it starts levelling out..

We are extremely lucky as we havent had any floods etc effecting our house, but there are more and more people being flooded out, a few years ago, when stratford etc got flooded in the summer, they sais it was rare,,, a few years down the line, this is all we are hearing about, our climate is getting wetter etc.. so I think this should be a wake up call for peeps to have a decent stockpile, and have some survival items.

I think there should be a realistic balance between a stockpile and being a hoarder:cool::D and make sure food is being used, not just stored, so if you have a stockpile of lets say a 100 tins of baked beans, then use them, keep topping up, and make sure you use them in date sequence..

I also going to start having a stock of tinned pet food... as we cant leave them out of this...

I have £25 boots gift card courtesy of my amex rewards, so i might start getting a stockpile of ladies monthly's

Excellent post. It has been mentioned before either on this thread or another, that the mooncup saves a fortune, and although I rarely have to use mine now (aging does carry a few advantages), I can heartily endorse this. I think you can actually buy them from boots now so if you invested your gift card in buying one,you would both save money and storage space to stockpile something else. Also, I can't tell you how grand it felt when I bought mine, to be rid of the awful sinking feeling when I knew I would have to buy sanitary items due to need, but always needed the money they cost to spend on other essentials. The month I had to choose between tampax and milk 2 days before my DH got his JSA (redundancy and 4 kids) is not a time I care to remember.

thriftwizard

CoolTrikerChick, if it doesn't "gross you out" (in the words of one of my American friends) investigate Mooncups instead - more portable, more discreet (unless your kids find it & perch it on top of a shampoo bottle like a little hat :eek:) and much, much cheaper in the long run. I bought mine 14 years ago thinking I might only get 2/3 years out of it but that it would still pay for itself, but actually I got 8+ years out of it before I didn't need to worry any more. And it did make life a whole lot simpler, as well as cheaper, once I'd got the hang of it.

I'm tied up with ordinary winter preps ATM but have realised I need to rethink my document storage as soon as I have time, and make it waterproof...