Preparedness for when

pineapple

I caught part of Channel 5's programme last night on Iceland's volcanos - past and present/future likely eruptions and the effects. I intend to try to watch it again on catch up because I missed the end and am hoping I missed a 'solution'. Because seriously what they were saying was terrifying.
The one we had in 2010 was nothing. In the past the ash cloud and suphuric acid in the atmosphere has taken out millions of people in Europe and the whole northern hemisphere. Katla is apparently long overdue, plus it typically follows the one in 2010 and there are currently signs of activity. With a big one, the air, ground and water would be polluted - starting with Europe then the whole Northern hemisphere, transport would be stuffed and global temperatures would drop. No amount of preparedness would get you through this - unless you can live in a hermetically sealed pod for a year or so .
If this goes I suggest the best preparedness might be a plane ticket to somewhere like New Zealand but since flights could stop quite quickly you would have to be on the ball. I think the first indications of something amiss would be the great and the good taking off for 'vacations' on the other side of the world
Happy Saturday!

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Morning all, £4,000 in clothes??? I wonder what they would make of my 17 year old sweatshirts that have been dyed 3 or 4 times and just won't wear out, the huge cost to the lurcher household £2.99 each, also my jeans of various vintages which have also been dyed to freshen and won't wear out - there you go folks, along with a few ancient T Shirts that's my wardrobe (which is in itself rescued from someone who had just got a nice shiny new one) do you think I should try harder to join the disposable economy or stay as I am?

ELONA the numbers are beginning to add up aren't they, I am more concerned about the big Trade Fairs that are going to be held in china soon, and attract people globally, perhaps the profits to be made are more important than peoples lives???

PINEAPPLE all the worrying isn't going to stop it happening if nature decides that's what is going to happen, we can only do what we can to prepare and make provision for keeping us safe, I'm not going to lose sleep over it, if it does happen we'll deal with it as we are able, whatever the IT is!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

Katia would certainly affect our weather - somewhere online I read about all the times of famine in Scotland, and more than a few of them coincided with Icelandic volcanoes going up.
I think the long slow decline is already upon us... a mix of bad weather causing high food prices; money tightening up; higher heating bills; no jobs. If that lot isn't the Sh*t it's bloody close to it.

GreyQueen

That article is certainly twaddle; all my clothes and shoes come to well shy of £1k and that is bumped up by a very few big ticket items like shoes; mostly everything is from c.s. and cost under a fiver. Some of it is other people's cast offs and cost nowt. Not to mention the jumblie haul.

Just did my sums and worked out that the State would support me to the tune of £155.86 (JSA + HB + CTB) a week if I was jobless and I earn £48.42 net above that and pay full rent and CT. The difference was a lot less until this month's income tax threshold changes which has seen me get ahead by nearly £24. It hasn't covered the increase in my rent, a % of which was ordered by the Govt to bring social rents in line with market rents.

I shall be falling down and weeping with gratitude and voting ToryDem as a result - NOT!

I have purchased precisely one alcoholic beverage thus far in 2013; a half of lager at a pub. I have drunk precisely one half of lager and one glass of white wine (parents' Easter Sunday lunch) this year. That's a pretty typical alcohol consumption for me. I don't do narcotics, but if I wanted to, I could hang around outside my neighbours' flats like a Bisto Kid and get high on their weedsmoke seeping past the closed doors and windows.

Liquid consumption chez GQ is Sainsbugs Basics tea at 34p per 80 bags or tapwater. I wouldn't waste my money on carp like fruit juices when I can get 5 oranges for 50p by shopping around. I spend about £12 a week on food, on average, per week. And that includes running handsome amounts of stock, so it could go far below that as a temporary measure.

Here at Shoebox Towers we have a mixture of people who work for what would quite modest wages (delivery drivers and labourers and shop workers, some going off to work at 6.30 am), people who are seeking work and being unsuccessful and are very unhappy about it, people who appear once a fortnight to meet their signing on appointment and are gawdknowswhere the rest of the time, people with serious illnesses inc missing limbs and cancer, some retired, and the seemingly able-bodied drug-dealing scum.

I'd be perfectly happy to see the drug-dealers lose their benefits as they are clearly financially-capable with entreprenurial skills and won't starve any time soon if deprived of their benefits.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Morning all, just catching up. Some good though-provoking stuff as usual!
Grandma247, there's nothing wrong with the high carbohydrate diet on that BBC link, most of the risk of carbohydrates is to do with simple carbohydrates (sugars), especially fructose in fruit, not complex carbohyrates (starch). That's why cultures with a high carbohydrate diet don't/didn't get much diabetes (think Ireland and potatoes, China and rice).
The clothes thing is interesting because it's about how much the clothes are worth, not how much was paid. GQ, like you I have a lot of clothes that I had for free or nearly so but which might originally been quite expensive I suspect (well, a few things, anyway). Sooo, how much are they worth, rather than cost? If I had to replace the lot from scratch, buying new, would be more than 1K for sure, maybe 2K. I just had this vision of a SHTF clothes disaster, an epidemic outbreak of mutant clothes moths eating every piece of cotton, nylon and polyester in sight... hmm, good job moths don't mutate as fast as bacteria

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

Katia would certainly affect our weather - somewhere online I read about all the times of famine in Scotland, and more than a few of them coincided with Icelandic volcanoes going up.

If this was 'the big one' think Europe covered in ash, water undrinkable, transport stopped, food production stopped, sulphuric acid eating away at our skin and organs .... I think climate change might be the least of our worries
Nothing for it to make merry as best you can while you can! With this in mind, after watching the latest Hairy Bikers programme, Pineapple is going to have a go at making mead. Apparently it's easy peasy (you may have to dance naked round a bonfire though )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhT-TIy1buw

daz378

in work later , but right kneecap is really hurting... touch of arthur it is ..ithink, might have rang in ... but client going to family about 6ish ... so short shift .. if he goes? need to get some more ibu prufen on way work....happy days

grandma247

Perplexed Pineapple I have to limit white carbs such as potatoes,pasta and things containing cornflour and wheat as well as sugar. I discovered when I did this that the hard belly fat I have been struggling with for years is slowly going and I am less tired so for myself only whole grains that are not wheat seem to be best but I do realise that everyone's body works differently.

If I was young and doing a lot of physical work it would probably be ok to eat larger quantities of those foods because I would use them for energy.

D&DD

Morning all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer linkie for the volcanic eruption

Cold and dark here this morning,looks like rain but not dropped any just yet! Washing is STILL on the line...:o

I'm doing a new bread recipe every day this week I've decided for a bit of variety was a bit miffed however when Tesco decided to raise my 60p bread flour to £1.21 :eek: will stock up when the Hollywood effect wears off..
I'm trying to work with only food storage items so will be interesting!

Off to walk the dog and check on the fruit trees on the field have a great day all XX

boultdj

I recorded the volcano program Pineapple, 'cause OH hate's thing's like that and there was a program on that we both wanted to watch on at the same time, it was about the race to recovery lad's Dakah rally, make's you appreciate being able bodied seeing as nearly all the team are amputei's[ all are solder's both UK & American.