Preparedness for when

BessieBooBoo

Hello preppers!

Hope you are all keeping cosy and warm. Sending virtual hugs to all you poorly ones out there, get well soon please. I'm 'supervising' OH who is lighting the multi-fuel stove with free wood (best not to ask...)!

I am adding more and more books to the reading list, thanks all, , keep them coming...

Also, in my avid (should I say rabid) reading obession, I came across an interesting article in the BBC Focus magazine in the library: April 2013, No. 253, pp.40-41 'Geological Hazards' by Bill McGuire. Sorry don't know how to link to them or if they have a web-site?

Don't want to cause a flap for you, but in a nutshell it does describe the fact that melting artic ice causes the earth's crust to 'bounce back' once freed of weight. This then causes a domino effect on the surrounding crust, imagine throwing a rock in a pool and watching the ripples outwards. In other words, earthquakes, worse case scenario, agitating a volcano to erupt.

EEP. Never mind the rising sea levels/storms/unpredictable weather. Never heard of this one before.

A few words tucked in the article talk about how the population levels fell during one hazard..... Yikes.

I feel the urge to hoard is upon me....

Keep safe and keep prepping all.

BBB

bluebag

RAS wrote: »

One friend suggest diving socks as an alternative http://www.scubastore.com/scuba-diving/bare-neo-sock-2-mm/13359/p sort of thing

I had a look at goretex sox too, thought they might work quite well inside crox. But you would really look a right narna in 'em.

GreyQueen

Yup, Cheapskate, it was an acclaimed novel long before it was filmed. I have a Costner allergy so haven't watched it.

BBB, there are coastal volcanoes in several parts of the world whose volcanic activity fluctuates according to the seasonal fluctuations in sea level. It's all to do with the pressure on the rocks (I did read the scientific explanation but didn't manage to park it in deep memory, too much carp in there already).

Fairly easy to imagine that the future will be more volcanic. I've been in New Zealand, including in the highly-geothermal area of Rotorua. You walk down suburban streets of single-story clapboard houses and they have drains in the gutters just like ours but theirs are issuing steam. Every now and then, there is an empty plot along the street.

A local chap told me what happens; steam vents suddenly appear in the ground as Rotorua is inside a dormant volcano's caldera. If they open up well down the yard you're in luck as you have a free hangi pit for steaming food. If they open up under the house, they have to remove the house, hence the empty plots.

I asked however do people get house insurance against volcanic activity and he told me it's done via their government. Not far from Rotorua is the remains of a village which was immolated in a nineteenth century eruption. Fascinating place, reeks of rotten eggs but you're never short of hot water.

I've also walked the Tongariro Crossing near there and it's 3 volcanoes in a national park, doubled as Mordor in the Lord of the Rings movies. One of them blew last year, dropping house-sized rocks on a tourist rest hut. Gave me the willies, I'd stood on that very spot.

My McCavity trick again............. I've been to Christchurch too; not a lot of that left after the terrible earthquake. Shoulda gone to the cathedral when I had a chance, dammit.

ETA, this aft I got a book called When the Lights Went Out; Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett. My childhood era. Want to read up on some of the whys and wherefores and fill in the blanks and see if there are useful lessons to be learned. I spotted this at another c.s. late last year but wasn't prepared to pay £4.99 for it but wasn't passing it up at £2.25.

Bit of a doorstop and will be one to dip in and out of around the novel reading, but I figured it would be instructional, to say the least.

Cheapskate

Apropos of completely nothing, I just g009led Alex Scarrow and David Brin - striking resemblance between the two, albeit a few years adrift - bit spooky!

*going away quietly now as I obviously have nothing better to do!*

A xo

GreyQueen

Cheapskate wrote: »

Apropos of completely nothing, I just g009led Alex Scarrow and David Brin - striking resemblance between the two, albeit a few years adrift - bit spooky!

*going away quietly now as I obviously have nothing better to do!*

A xo

You should worry. I've been coveting survival buckets. Online. They collapse and fold.

You cannot begin to know how exciting I find things which can pack really small to be. I feel a trip to the camping store in my personal future, gawdhelpme.

bluebag

GreyQueen wrote: »

You should worry. I've been coveting survival buckets. Online. They collapse and fold.

You cannot begin to know how exciting I find things which can pack really small to be. I feel a trip to the camping store in my personal future, gawdhelpme.

Oh gawd GQ you have no idea what a relief it is to hear someone else talk about foldiing/small things. My family thinks I'm off my trolley.

I always say there must be more that me like that or they wouldn't make the titchy stuff.

Glad I am not alone in my minature folding world.

Cheapskate

A girl after my own heart GQ! :rotfl::rotfl:

My dad was a seafaring man, and lusted after gadget-y catalogues, some for his job, some electrical, others like Scr**fix, etc., including compact versions of just about everything in the universe! I fear I've inherited some of this - I love miniature tools, or ones that are multi-purpose, or foldaway contraptions. He was like that cos of the space limitations on board, but I'm just a tad mad!

A xo

PS I've been nagging DH to take me to the big camping shop 2 towns over for AGES! :rotfl:

bluebag

Cheapskate wrote: »

Apropos of completely nothing, I just g009led Alex Scarrow and David Brin - striking resemblance between the two, albeit a few years adrift - bit spooky!

*going away quietly now as I obviously have nothing better to do!*

A xo

Please don't go, I can waste time on gooogling pure garbage 'just because' I find out all manner of useless tat I like to share with other random nothing better to do people.

bluebag

Cheapskate wrote: »

PS I've been nagging DH to take me to the big camping shop 2 towns over for AGES! :rotfl:

I bet they do online stuff.

Caveat.... please do not take as investment advice, no responsibility will be accepted for any damage to bank balance or marital status.

GreyQueen

bluebag wrote: »

Oh gawd GQ you have no idea what a relief it is to hear someone else talk about foldiing/small things. My family thinks I'm off my trolley.

I always say there must be more that me like that or they wouldn't make the titchy stuff.

Glad I am not alone in my minature folding world.

A foible shared is a problem halved, is it not? I have always been fascinated with things which fold, have dual-functions or otherwise are not what they seem to be.

This was a firm character trait even as a young child when we holidayed in static caravans. I'd frisk the joint as soon as we arrived to admire the cleverness of the design and explore all the folding potentialities.

I adore hardware stores, camping stores, army surplus places and any charity shop which is suitably disorganised and random to offer exciting folding options.

Of course, it could be that we're both off our trollies.........

Speaking of which, I was recalling a trolley that I saw years ago when I helped someone move. It could be used vertically as a sack trolley but could also fold to be a 4 wheeled trolley. It was yellow and black and very sturdy and I wants one. Think a visit to a big box hardware store may be on the cards.

I was thinking of Easter weekend and taking one of my pensioner parents to front up the deal with their enviable pensioner discounts. Now if only I can remember who made those darned trollies..............

ETA Cheapskate, the Screwfix catalogue can keep me fascinated for hours. And Axminster Tools is a great read, too.

Several years ago, Mother's Day co-incided with us (Mum, Bro and I) running a boot sale stall. And it was warm and sunny. I'd been terribly disorganised and hadn't got some flowers in and here we were with lots of plant stalls, so I let mater off with some dosh to self-serve, as it were. (I talk to my parents daily but as a family we don't do big fuss over occasions).

Mum came back beaming from ear to ear like a kiddie who's christmas and birthdays had all come into one. She was holding a large wooden drawer from a defunct chest of drawers full of misc small hardware items and was so happy she could burst. We went home and put the kettle on and sat together around the kitchen table nattering and sorting them into categories and she kept cooing with delight over her treasures.

Plus she uses the stuff from there on projects. It's not surprising I can recognise a plasterboard screw fitting, can grade screws at a glance and know more than is strictly wholesome about DIY..............