THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

thriftwizard

Yippee! Found one on Amazon for less than the Ebay ones, and grabbed it - I've been searching for long enough. There is a secondhand one on Ebay too, that looks to be in good nick and may be a good bargain for someone, but I'm not prepared to play the waiting game for something I've already waited (& budgeted) for years for & may "miss" at the last moment. Thanks, all!

mardatha

I just realised we wouldn't have a problem with sewage backing up into the house - this village is on a septic tank that is down at the bottom of the hill. So surely that would be ok? Until the septic tank filled up. It gets emptied 2/3 times a year by a big tanker. But it's well downhill from me.

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An interesting little snippet on the news feed today says that radioactive iodine 131 usually found in medical machinery has been spreading in a cloud across Europe for some weeks now, source unknown but the US put up a tracker plane and couldn't find where it came from. Worrysome??? I think that is a whole different ball game to planning for bad weather, civil unrest, electric grid going down as I can't think of one thing anyone could do to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time with something like that. It would be nice to hope that this is some of that 'false news' being talked about but I'm not sure it is!

mardatha

Mental picture of preppers all over Europe running out for diving suits and oxygen cylinders MrsL!

GreyQueen

I read about the radioactive material on the Hedge several days before it made the mainstream media. Bit of a worry but not one I can do anything about.

mrs-moneypenny

mardatha wrote: »

My head isn't working just now MrsL so I canny think how we would deal with that scenario - but we are all sorted apart from water. I don't know either if sewage would come up the sink or into the washing maching.

When we were moving into our house over 30 years ago we were the last ones In Our run of 6 to move in, we'd been in measuring up and I'd flushed the loo came down to find all manner if disgustingness all over the kitchen floor it was coming out of the pipe the washing machine emptying pipe goes outside drain was blocked and as the other five houses were being lived in the sewer was backing up and that pipe was the first point of overflow:eek::eek:
We had to quickly contact he builders and beg the neighbour's not to flush or use their drains till blockage was moved and clear.

We now regularly check that the manhole cover by our front door and under our drive is clear so it doesn't happen again.

So yes it can back up

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culpepper wrote: »

and a couple of 'soda can' burners.

Something like this?

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Bit of a worry but not one I can do anything about.

If it gets serious, I have an NBC suit.

silverwhistle

I've cooked on the top of my wood burner and boiled the ever vital kettle, and inside it too: baked potatoes and some flat foccacia type bread in cast iron skillets. Incidentally I only remove the ash every couple of weeks or so, so that's the least of the chores with a stove.

As a female separating the fluid to go on the compost is slightly trickier, and I'm no way doing the direct method available to the guys! They can dig my long drop in the back garden...

culpepper

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Something like this?

LOL yes.I hunted in the park last Autumn and came home with various tins to practice making them with.
They did get a very good long soak in a bucket of hot water first.
Its very satisfying to boil water on something so ridiculously small.:cool: