Preparedness for when

Popperwell

missrlr wrote: »

Well we cleared the path outside our house, no other like minded community spirited people on this road!
All good here but little T0sc0 bereft of most stuff, unbelievable!

In Durham they have two Tesco's in the city centre always busy(an Express and a Metro)approx 5 mins apart they were still open after 10pm last night and a delivery was being made.

The Tesco Express in Darlington closes by 10pm and the Tesco Extra on my town is open 24/7.

craigywv

all i can say PINEAPPLE is thanks for nothing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whilst reading your post about re..dog bowl/warden i then went into a fit of coughing to the point i near blacked out!!" ended up having to take a shower and clothes going round in w machine on boil wash...........i havent laughed like that in a long time...son thought i was insane!!!ABSOLUTLEY BRILLIANT i could imagine myself in that postition lololol. very very funny....not going to read your post agin incase it happens again xxxx POPS thanks for your reply my granny used those as well so will betrying them out xxx stopped snow/hailstoning here can hear the birds in garden fighting so away to feed them take care all xxx

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Hey CRAIGY poor you, not nice at all, The Tosco own brand of Tena work just as well and are much cheaper and really do the job. I had need of them when I had a bladder infection and it allows you to do normal things without having to worry. Hope you feel better really soon pet, stay warm and keep your liquids up (I know it will add to the problem!) because you'll feel much better if you do.

SIEGEMODE thank you for your last post which is the voice of reason and I totally agree with all you say. To be prepared and not to need the preparations is so very much better than to be caught up in a situation that you have nothing to help you with. If the preps are not used on one occasion they are still with you for the next one and there will always be a next one. I value the heads up on the possible weather problems and would much rather know of potential problems than just have then happen so thank you to both KITTIE and 2T for thier valuable input which is much appreciated and I hope will continue to be posted in the future to help us all, bearing in mind that they are both parting with thier own cash for this information and are both kind enough to share it with us as much as they are able to, you are both kind and sensible folks!

Take care everyone in all this icy weather, Cheers Lyn xxx

GINNY I hope you are not too uncomfortable and sore this morning but I suspect you will be pet, just remember that meds don't do you any good at all while they are still in the packet!!! Take care of yourself, Lyn xxx.

mardatha

We still have only 8", not melting at all and forecast is for a lot more. RV is out clearing the road with neighbours - there's one very annoying man at the bottom (steep cul de sac with only 10 houses) - an architect who works from home and travels to London and all over - who never once came out to help (even in the bad winter of 2010) although the 80yr-old man over the road and the wee lassie next door are shovelling away out there. He sits in the house and waits till it's all done and then gets into his car and drives off. I'm plotting a way to get him
We don't need to go out for anything, got loads of food,coal and calor gas but they seem to be saying this will last for a bit. Today's to be ok until teatime then heavy snow all night so I might nip out and get some sw...
erm
things.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Well, no more snow for the second day on the trot and I can even see patches of green grass poking thru outside my flat. Sky is white-grey and louring so don't know if some more is about to descend or what.

My Dad was a farmworker in the winter of 62-63 and has told me vivid stories about how the crops were frozen in the ground for a couple of months and couldn't be got up to the wholesale markets in London (even in those times they were trucked up to London and trucked back down again for retail sale locally, such a waste of energy). Then it thawed and flooded and then they rotted in the ground, fields were too waterlogged to get the machinery onto them.

He can recall digging up root veg in the back garden using a pick-axe, the soil was so solid. My folks had an outside water tank, a square of galvanised iron and although they broke the ice every morning, one night it froze solid and popped its rivets and they had a 4 ft square ice cube! I wish they'd thought to take a picture of it for posterity. The frosts were so hard that you'd be biking up the road with a bottle of squash in your haversack and by the time you'd travelled a mile, it'd frozen solid.

Bitter, bitter weather. We haven't seen anything like it since.

Even at work, where people are often part of two-income households, I hear colleagues fretting about how much extra they're spending on their heating. It's a real worry to so many people, in work and out of work. And what goes to the futility companies won't be available to spend elsewhere in the economy so there'll be knock-on effects felt elsewhere.

As to whether you give credance to reports of unusual weather (or anything else) which seem to stretch the outer reaches of probability, my stance is simple. We're all adults and can make our own judgements and decisions. You can choose to wander through this world believing only in a BBC/ Met Office filtered version of reality or you can read/ listen widely and draw your own conculsions. And your conculsion may well be to split your sides laughing, but at least you had fun.

Sometimes predictions are proved right, sometimes they're proved wrong. Such is the nature of trying to predict the future. I always remind myself that a completely broken (traditional style) clock is absolutely correct twice in 24 hours and approximately correct 4 times in 24 hours. Thus even a tin hat conspiracy theorist website might just turn up a nugget of wisdom.

Tens of millions play lotteries, even though the odds are appalling, but some of the same people see fit to see those who are prepared to consider disruption to the supplies of food, energy etc as the looney tunes......:rotfl:

I've got a nagging anxiety about those poor people caught up in the avalanche in Scotland and hope that in a few days, the names will be released. A woman I've met in the past is a regular extreme winter climber in Scotland and I'm really hoping not to see her name up there. SuperGran learned a couple of days back that the SIL of her best friend was on that Algerian site (mercifully not taken nor harmed in any way, he's rung home) but it brings it home how interconnected the world is.

((ginnyknit)) owww-eeee! Sounds like the pits. Treat yourself very gently, hun.

Right, more tea in order. Plenty of tea in the cupboard and UHT milk and I fancy just staying at home today. Might even do a bit of housework if I CBA.

Or maybe not.

ETA Mar, perhaps the geezer who takes advantage could have his section of the cul de sac just accidentally forgotten, as you do? Good luck with shopping for the swe .. .oopps, I meant essential items.

greenbee

mardatha wrote: »

We still have only 8", not melting at all and forecast is for a lot more. RV is out clearing the road with neighbours - there's one very annoying man at the bottom (steep cul de sac with only 10 houses) - an architect who works from home and travels to London and all over - who never once came out to help (even in the bad winter of 2010) although the 80yr-old man over the road and the wee lassie next door are shovelling away out there. He sits in the house and waits till it's all done and then gets into his car and drives off. I'm plotting a way to get him
We don't need to go out for anything, got loads of food,coal and calor gas but they seem to be saying this will last for a bit. Today's to be ok until teatime then heavy snow all night so I might nip out and get some sw...
erm
things.

Can't you create a huge pile of snow each side of his drive, so although no one has blocked him in, their clearing (which should NOT clear his drive/pavement or whatever you have out in the wilds... ) creates a decent wall either side that makes him feel a little claustrophobic... :cool:

GQ - one of the great things about having stores is that at least we can all save money on food shopping and put the money towards the extra fuel bills. I know some people will be worried about running down their stocks, but this kind of situation (the need to a. Stay in rather than shopping and b. make more money available for fuel) is why we have them :-). Although lets hope this doesn't last as long as in 1963...

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MAR - The ultimate punishment - KALE HIM!!!!!!

Hardup_Hester

Ginny, I hope you feel better soon.
Pineapple, I keep a shewee http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shewee-Bright-Pink/dp/B00200LO8A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1358677117&sr=8-3 in the glove compartment of my car, great for if you get caught short as you can go standing up & in the countryside it eliminates the chance of squatting on thistles or nettles. Sorry Pop probably TMI, lol.
Hester

Popperwell

HH,
I've long sinced stopped being coy/bashful about such things:rotfl:We're all alike and well having cared for Mum, well you know what I mean;) Even though as such I have been single and not been in a relationship I know quite a lot about those things that affect either sex:p

Then again I never stop learning.

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

- there's one very annoying man at the bottom (steep cul de sac with only 10 houses) - an architect who works from home and travels to London and all over - who never once came out to help (even in the bad winter of 2010) although the 80yr-old man over the road and the wee lassie next door are shovelling away out there.

There is always one - and it always seems to be the same ones that come out to help. In the last bad snow I heard the sound of an engine revving and came out to find a car stuck on the bend down our treacherous little track. Several of us came out with shovels and grit. He removed a couple of token spadefuls then stood watching while regaling us with stats about the number of people who have heart attacks while shovelling! And then he went in for a cuppa and left us to it! :mad:. No one appeared from the house directly opposite however and they told me later that they will no longer help him because he is known for this.
It's partly why I'm hoping for a white-out to be honest. Because I will most certainly sneak a look this time around to see who's in trouble before offering my services. Nasty, nasty Pineapple :rotfl: