Preparing for winter IV

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10 mins walk, downhill fortunately, then the view is surreal, floods all over as far as I could see. No entry cones are in place and no sign of where the roads are. So that is one road cut off. An active ford across another, ok now but will activate across that access road as soon as we get any more rain or when we have melting snow. One left and that is ok but with fingers crossed, it had some work done on that crossroads as last year that was impassible for a while

I am feeling a strange ethereal sensation in the air now, it is getting dark and I feel the temperature dropping, just give it a few days folks. I was talking to some old friends on the phone today and they were saying how much the coast has been destroyed. How much can this little island take?

115K

It was really mild and springlike on my dog walk this morning. Bizarre weather.

I wouldn't mind a little bit of snow honestly.:D My dogs are hilarious and they rush around all excitedly when it snows.

Princess_kate

Goodness Kittie, I'm getting worried now! I saw on the news yesterday about how much the coast line had been eroded, huge sections just washed away by the power & force if the waves. Amazing but very worrying!

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princess, humans are designed to be adaptable (remember that from biology lessons!) and we can adjust if we are young and in good health. The ones who need to get going with precautions, who cannot quickly physically adapt, are the older ones and those in charge of babes and poorly ones. Our weather is going to be like this but worse over the next 20 years, ok we could curl up and succumb but no we won`t, we WILL survive and without the nanny state and without anyone telling us what to do

The shtf thread is the thread to follow re forward planning. We need to learn how to keep warm on minimum energy and the older ones know how, so ask them. We need to know how to cook one pot meals, to grow food, to use a hay box, to repair ourselves using what nature has provided ie herbs and so on. Look on it as an exciting time, full of learning new things. We cannot change things so we must go with the flow

ragz_2

Kittie, I caught some news about that solar flare yesterday, have added a few extra preps just in case it causes immediate effects, not sure how it effects the weather, but undoubtedly will. Amazing you PC guy predicted it a few weeks ago, that sunspot's only been visible in the last week? I would subscribe, but everytime I visit his site I get scared off as I can't even make sense of the first page!
Amazing how weather all interacts with space...
Suspicious0bservers on youtube interesting but hard going...

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ragz, the front page does take a bit of deciphering and so do some of the posts underneath. The R numbers are the important things as that is a `measure` of the sort of activity we are likely to get. Some posts are very interesting and informative eg the sun is so important to us so why has it not been fully investigated? and note the big land grabs in africa, it does appear, even to little ole me that the powers that be know all about what is happening and they are securing their own selfish energy futures. In the meantime they are spinning out `global warming` and climate change for all they are worth because of the absolutely massive cash income from all the taxes etc.

Re planet interaction, the simplest way of looking at it is gravity via one mass affecting another and also electromagnetism, remember your lessons when you saw a magnetic field around a simple coil. When you bring one field close to another then you get distortions and attraction and repulsion. This is very simplistic but it means that the benign earths magnetic field is being pushed one way and another and so particles move as well ie jet stream winds, water vapour etc. It is highly complex but we have all heard of einstein and in my view piers corbyn is another einstein so why won`t the powers listen to him? well they have their own agenda and they don`t give a twopenny toss about ordinary human lives

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PRINCESS KATE do come over on the the prepping thread, it's an interesting pool of like minded folks who have a wealth of knowledge and strategies for any scenario you could possibly imagine. Ask whatever you'd like to know and someone will be sure to have an answer for you, probably many answers at that. The best thing about pooling ideas is that we ALL learn new things and even new thinking, it's really useful and you'd be very welcome. KITTIE thanks for the reccommendation to PK to come to visit the preppers, you as usual are very generous with the weather information so thank you once again for all you are able to share with us, it's much appreciated, Lyn xxx.

mardatha

When you think how many thousands of years we have lived and coped with life in places like Siberia and Alaska, then you see we can cope and we can sort things out. DON'T PANIC lol

bossymoo

keep
calm
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sweeties

greenbee

I've just had a visit from the village flood co-ordinator. There's now only a couple of inches clearance under the school bridge, so they expect the centre of the village to flood tomorrow. However, the only houses currently affected are old houses with ground floors built below the water table.
I should be fine, as I'm on the highest point of my plot, with a good 6 inches from the ground to the front door (and neither my foot bridge nor the drive bridge are under water yet), but one of the soakaways from our sewage system may be out of action if the watermeadows spill over into my neighbours' garden. The one in my garden should be OK...