Preparedness for when

Popperwell

Hi craigywv:)
Think its a day for looking at my so called medical cupboard and checking the dates and my meds...

I am prepared to throw out cough bottles etc...that go past their dates but sometimes wonder if antiseptic wipes and the like that go past their dates would really hurt if used. Or if it is just to get us to buy more.

Often own brands are as good...as we know...

craigywv

pops me personally i would dump anything out of date that has to been taken orally, things like savlon etcc i would keep now thats just me im sure many on here wouldnt. i would use it for the dog .

pineapple

I think my hard drive may be on the way out - it's very painful! :eek:
So there may be a gap in posting. Maybe the time has come to get a shiny new laptop and consign this machine to computer heaven. Just busy saving info.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the Cyprus President on TV saying it was a 'good day'. He didn't look as if he believed it either.

GreyQueen

DisreputableDog wrote: »

Well I'm tired and work to do first thing! so saying goodnight to you all! xx

Nice to 'meet' you, DispreputableDog. Certainly sounds like you have some unique topographical challenges. I like the resourcefulness of storing a car on a main road as a lot of the time when people get snowed in it's the last little bit to their home which is affected. I know on my parents' housing estate that once you can get up onto the main road (gritted) you're fine, it's the half mile slither around the estate which is the kicker.

Wood pigeons are classified as vermin so the RSPCA wouldn't object to you shooting them and local farmers would probably be well-pleased. Lay off the grouse, tho, they're not in season until The Glorious Twelth (of August).

As a result of reading Alex Scarrow's Last Light, I've been giving some thought to what would happen in RL, where I live, if the bit where the imbecilic prime minister tells the country in a national broadcast in the middle of the day that they'll run out of food actually happened, and precipitated a run on the supermarkets.

I live in a city of just under 300,000 people. Probably nearly a quarter as many again if you added in the network of villages which have become contigious suburbs and whose population gets their grub form the same big supermarkets out on the periphery. We have all the usual suspects out on the rim and smaller versions of (and smaller chains) inside the city limits.

The amount of food sitting on supermarket shelves + the amount of people who probably have very little at home and would jump into their cars and tear off to the supermarkets in a blind panic is a scary bit of mathematics.

Unsurprisingly, the big peripheral supermarkets are on the main roads out of the city, so that even if you were trying to head out of town and into the open country in a SHTF situation in a vehicle, to beat the rush, as it were, you'd easily be caught up in a traffic jam. And as this city, like many cities, has a centre formed in the days of horse and cart, the potential for a city centre dweller like me to get caught up is shocking.

I've been planning a van-based bugout, if necessary; a fast call to a nearby hire place where they know me as a customer and then a week's hire of a SWB Transit, a vehicle I'm very familiar with. Quick turnabout to the homestead, load and scarper, inc slinging the pushbike and BOB into the van as the last thing.

Have already decided which of the routes into and out of Shoebox Towers offer minimal chances of getting traffic jammed and which routes out of the city are best to avoid the big supermarkets. I know this city well, and even knowing where the likely log-jams would be, involves making a jinking course across town to exit on the same side as my parents' town an hour away.

The worst-case is to get myself out of the urban area, where as a lone female I'd be vulnerable, and to take the preps to the non-prepped family so we could eat. If the periphery of their little market town looks too tough, we are surrounded there by open country and woods, which Dad and I know very well. I'd feel more comfortable camping and hiding in several miles of woodland that going thru TEOTWAWKI in a city centre.

That would rely on the balloon going up in such a way as there was a few hours' grace before it all went horribly wrong. If it didn't, I'd have to weigh up a pushbike/ on foot bugout vs staying in a neighbourhood which is dodgy at the best of times. It woudl be a tough call to make but I feel that a little time thinking about it and mentally rehearsing what to do and what order to do it in could avoid paralysis in a crisis.

My relatives who got stuck in occupied Europe were one day too late to a channel port and the last ship for England had gone. A Mum, a Dad, 2 teens. Because they didn't believe his Dad, who'd emigrated in the early 20th to be with an employer and got caught up in WW1 a few years later. He could see the signs and wasn't going to be caught up again but his son didn't believe it was that bad and wasn't fast enough to get to the coast, which was only a few tens of miles away. They and several thousand others ended up stuck in the ports with no way out, hung about for several days before giving up and returning to their city to get on with living under occupation with the nationality of an enemy country.

This scrap of my family history reminds me that sometimes a few hours is the difference between safety and danger, and sometimes things really are going that bad and a wise person needs to recognise the signs.

2tonsils

Last night the Russian President made a statement that if their business accounts were ''haircut'' in Cyprus they would freeze German business accounts in Russian banks until further notice. It seems he was not bluffing..... here is the latest news on that one...it seems they are encouraging Russian citizens and business to do it worldwide. He also told all foreign banks to leave Russia because they were robbing people blind and he could not condone it....
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/kremlin-eu-and-us-are-preparing-for-the-largest-theft-of-private-wealth-in-modern-history_032013

2tonsils

Pops, what I do for an emergency zip repair is to sew a line over the zip where it zips down to okay. I mean put on the jacket and see where the zip is bursting open. If you can get the zip to stay shut say half way down you can then sew a line over the zip teeth where it is staying shut. That should last.....of course it only works if you can get the jacket over your head to put it on but its save my jacket many a time till I can sort the problem properly with another zip or velcro or whatever.

We had storm force winds all night that kept me awake as they were so noisy. The wind is coming from North Africa and is hot and full of fine sand. The sky is dusty pink and so is the white cat that comes to visit me every day for a love! My eyes are streaming, its hard to breathe in the wind and its making me sneeze like crazy lol the antihistamines help a bit but then everyone is like it...even the dogs and cats are sneezing!

Holiday here and a day for parades for Independence day. The riot police are on alert and thousands of police have been drafted into the towns and cities for the parades. The ones under threat are the politicians.....

grandma247

Oldfield, memories of childhood links there

pineapple

UK farmers in the snow affected areas on the news this morning saying their livelihood had been well and truly stuffed (pineapple technical term ) by the weather. Another reason to stock up!

DisreputableDog

*Waves to all*

Popperwell, I also chuck out anything that's swallowed, but the only problem I've had with creams is a dried crust on the top if not used for a while.

For some reason I've found antiseptic wipes can dry out, even in sealed packaging, so I usually replace those eventually as well. I'm not sure if they're still effective once they've dried out like that, might be worth looking into as it irritates me no end to chuck something away unused.

GreyQueen, seems you've got a pretty comprehensive plan of action! In that kind of scenario I'd be the one sat at home wondering why everyone is rushing about. At least I'd be fairly safe for a few days I suppose, it's reasonably isolated here.

No worries on the grouse front, I'm not prepared to be chased across the moors by an angry gamekeeper unless it really, really is the end of the world.

Just seen what an enormous essay I wrote last night! :eek: Good job I have to crack on with work or I'd ramble all day!

Butterfly_Brain

DisreputableDog welcome :wave:

My doctor has always told me better out than in when I have had a runny tum, because that is natures way of ridding your body of the bacteria/toxin that has caused the problem, so I always keep a good store of dioralyte in the house or if I run out I make my own with salt and sugar in equal measure, but I will have to ask if that is still safe as I have just been diagnosed with diabetes.