Preparedness for when

Caterina

A little step further in my journey, I have booked my two AA driver refresher lessons for the week after I come back from Italy.

I am also trying to train my body (and mind but that's another story) to a better level of fitness so today I walked a fair long way. As a result, am knackered! Luckily DS agreed to make a pasta dinner for the family, I shall jus fry myself a couple of eggs to go with the sauce, and salad.

vanoonoo

Helen2k8 wrote: »

How does everyone's Zombie Attack List compare with their Stuff For Winter List?

more paracord :rotfl:

katieclampet wrote: »

All sold out yesterday all you preppers must have beat me to it. will look on ebay to see if they sell anything similar

katie

in fairness they only had one at that price at the one in loughborough! good luck!

D&DD

Helen2k8 wrote: »

How does everyone's Zombie Attack List compare with their Stuff For Winter List?

My winter list has more hot chocolate


also has rocksalt,snow shovel,yaktrax all of which would probably not be much help in a zombie outbreak

My zombie list includes doorcovers and duct tape,facemasks,and more coffee :rotfl:most of which won't keep out the cold....or zombies for that matter !!

katieclampet

Helen2k8 wrote: »

How does everyone's Zombie Attack List compare with their Stuff For Winter List?

Pretty much the same, but paracord is on my zombie shopping list, and 2 new winter fleeces on my winter prep list. :rotfl:

Oh and extra chocolate (which goes quite nicely on both lists)

katie

fuddle

I can't store chocolate. Seriously, if it's there I eat it that same night. I'm terrible!

Anyway, I've taken the duct tape idea and added it to my list

D&DD

Reason I bought the door covers were they had them cheap on Approved foods (99p for 3 I think)
I also bought the duct tape on sale cheaply, from chemist direct weirdly enough but its gone up now.

I recieved a message last week re a chemical fire literally down the road from me and residents were ordered to stay indoors and keep homes shut up..so just shows how different preps for different places/people etc work.

My plans all involve sheltering in place unless its totally unsafe to do so,so we do have probably different things that others might not need or find useful,but little camping gear as one of my boys (at least) couldn't camp under any circumstances..

bossymoo

fuddle wrote: »

I can't store chocolate. Seriously, if it's there I eat it that same night. I'm terrible!

Anyway, I've taken the duct tape idea and added it to my list

Maybe you could use the duct tape to stick chocolate to the ceiling, so you can only reach it when a zombie makes you jump

Caterina

Got something that bothers me and I would love to hear others' opinions:

in terms of survival, do you think that people like me, practically vegetarian, are going to have a substantial disadvantage? I read about all sorts of bushcraft stuff and a lot of it is about hunting and fishing etc. I even saw something about eating worms (apparently a very good source of protein).

If TSHTF and we stay put, stores of food would see us through for a while, but in the situation that we were to be on the move, I am really worried.

I have been wondering whether to start eating some meat (other than the odd slice of Parma Ham I mean!) but not sure about the ethics of eating meat in preparation, and in any case one thing is eating a nicely prepared chicken breast, another to eat a (possibly raw) pigeon or rabbit leg! Let alone a handful of grubs or wood lice! Advice and comments welcome. Thanks.

GreyQueen

I ain't scared of no zombies, I've got much scarier things here. They're called my neighbours.

Apart from TEOTWAWKI-level crises, I prep for the following; emergency evac at no notice for a fire in my block of flats.

This happened a few years ago. A drunken neighbour caused a gas explosion. Several flats were completely destroyed and had to be rebuilt and the entire block had to evac to a community centre in the middle of the night in whatever they had on. No argy-bargy, the fire brigade were running around banging on doors to wake people up yelling Get out! Get out now! and the flames were shooting everywhere.

So, we could possibly have a re-run of that, esp given mentally ill neighbours self-disconnected from the leccy who are lighting their hoarded homes with candles.

I'm also on flat land beside a river. Nothing higher than a 2 foot wall between the bank and me, and that has gaps in it. Environment Agency website classifies the flood risk here as Moderate but if it did occur it would be Severe. People have drowned in their homes in my 'hood in times past. Could have to evac for a flood at short notice. I have a flood drill about grabbing certain items and placing them up high but appliances and bed etc would be goners.

In event of major civil unrest, I'd aim to sit tight and keep a low profile but have my bug out bag at hand. Plan B is to bicycle across county on the backroads to the parents, who are also on much higher ground (I'm within reach of the sea, should anything catastrophic happen out there like that large chunk of the Canary Islands poised to landslip and expected to cause a tsunami which would reach as far as Southern England).

I have camping gear which I could use in an event of heading to the woods but it would be hard to carry it all. And there is no spare chocolate on the premises and never will be. I know my weaknesses.

Got plenty of warm clothes for winter and YaxTrax too.

Fruball

Caterina wrote: »

Got something that bothers me and I would love to hear others' opinions:

in terms of survival, do you think that people like me, practically vegetarian, are going to have a substantial disadvantage? I read about all sorts of bushcraft stuff and a lot of it is about hunting and fishing etc. I even saw something about eating worms (apparently a very good source of protein).

If TSHTF and we stay put, stores of food would see us through for a while, but in the situation that we were to be on the move, I am really worried.

I have been wondering whether to start eating some meat (other than the odd slice of Parma Ham I mean!) but not sure about the ethics of eating meat in preparation, and in any case one thing is eating a nicely prepared chicken breast, another to eat a (possibly raw) pigeon or rabbit leg! Let alone a handful of grubs or wood lice! Advice and comments welcome. Thanks.

I'm not sure about this one. I was a vegetarian for a number of years, altho I eat meat again now... I do know that when I began eating meat again, it shocked my system and I had awful stomach pains and indigestion whilst it all settled down.

I guess you have to weigh up how likely it is that you will actually be in a serious enough SHTF scenario to actually need to eat pigeon or rabbit because.

On the other hand, if you are thinking about eating small amounts of meat again, why not include a very small amount into your diet once or twice a week - that way, when we all get our ration books, you will be able to eat the meat and not just the bread and jam

And also, you will need all your strength to fight off the zombies :rotfl: