THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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money there are all sorts of good people out there, salt of the earth but its the selfish ones, the ones who want power by any means who make the news. So much good goes on but quietly, got to remember that and get all into perspective. I hardly have anything on tv these days and certainly not the news. Don`t have the news on and other programmes and don`t get brainwashed and manipulated

jk0

ivyleaf wrote: »

I'm pretty sure kittie meant to type NK

I agree, absolutely no point in worrying.

I've been having mischievous thoughts today...

Just musing that your house gets vaporised while you are in the fallout shelter, but you take solace from the fact that it was tidy when it happened.

You may have guessed I'm a hoarder.

GreyQueen

I always think of this song when nuclear sabres are rattling ....... http://www.famousfix.com/topic/tom-lehrer-we-ll-all-go-together-when-we-go

There are some folks who are not familar with Tom Lehrer's life's work - but there's always time to get with the programme - enjoy!

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thriftwizard wrote: »

and for getting the populace to accept all kinds of control

The Hegelian Dialectic.

Personally, I think an EMP strike would be more damaging to society, than a straight nuclear one.

elaine241

Hello All. I havent posted on hear for ages, but still kept up with prepping which was all started with the original post on the first thread!!

I am very worried about the two idiots, one an ex reality TV show participant and the other someone who kills his uncle with a missile while making his family watch!!! Neither strike me as stable mentally!

As for nuclear war unfortunately it wont be a case of sitting outside with the bubbly! Unless you are literally within 5-7km of the bomb you have a pretty good chance of surviving the inital explosion (even if you dont want to) and then dying a slow death in the next couple of weeks/months depending on distance. I have been worried enough to research the survival rates etc and it is all down to wind direction, distance from the blast, topography of where you live, what type of building you are in, exposure time to radiation etc. I am not usually a nutter like this but the two idiots have me seriously worried. I dont think all out thermo nuclear war is an option but limited strikes would still produce radiation clouds etc ( I live on a sheep farm on a mountain in Wales ask me how I know this!!!). I have been sufficiently rattled to order potassium iodode tablets from USA (cheaper, this is MSE!), stock up on water, food etc and make a list of things I need to quietly put away over the next few weeks. Im not rushing out and going mad prepper but I am also building up cartridge stocks for the shotguns!
Hopefully this will come to nothing, the preps will get used as a matter of everyday life and the potassium iodide tablets used as a dietary supplement!!

moneyistooshorttomention

The 5-7 km radius Elaine being exactly why I'd hope I realised in time to get back to Home City (ie as it would probably cop a direct hit) or, failing that, get to Cardiff (the biggest city in this part of the country) and ditto...it should cop a direct hit.

Living in back of beyond Wales - I feel I'd have time to hear about it all on the news (or grapevine) as appropriate, get in some booze for my "farewell party for myself", take a last walk round the area and then come back to my house and sayonara time/kill myself off in an immediate death before copping it for a long/slow one whilst upsetting me mentally watching my Society disintegrate around my ears. I take the view personally of "Why would I want to spend weeks getting ill/be thoroughly upset at what was happening/struggling for survival - when I could be there on The Other Side in a few hours partying/catching up with dead friends and sighing with relief at not being on Earth any more". Put like that = no contest and start the "welcome Home" party in a few hours time.

Might as well be realistic - rather than fighting on for a few more days/few more weeks/few more months in a Society that was nothing remotely like my normal one.

I would be watching what was happening on Earth (after I'd safely left it and Gone Home) - partly to see how things panned out and partly because I would be waiting for my friends and relatives to join me.

Mojisola

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I take the view personally of "Why would I want to spend weeks getting ill/be thoroughly upset at what was happening/struggling for survival - when I could be there on The Other Side in a few hours partying/catching up with dead friends and sighing with relief at not being on Earth any more". Put like that = no contest and start the "welcome Home" party in a few hours time.

Might as well be realistic - rather than fighting on for a few more days/few more weeks/few more months in a Society that was nothing remotely like my normal one.

Having read Neville Shute's "On The Beach" at a formative time of life, I don't think I'd be hanging around either.

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I am still being realistic about future house planning, still watching rightmove and now more MK as I realise that I would perhaps but maybe never, have to get my outbuilding stuff and workshop stuff into one single garage. Talking to my gp neighbour today and discussing how bungalows are bad except for the very infirm like RA sufferers. I always knew I wanted stairs, they keep a low level of fitness and mobility in anyone who uses them

monnagran

From a different point of view, I, and several of my extended family and friends, have had to move very elderly relatives in their late eighties and nineties from their family homes and the reason has been the same in almost every case, stairs. Granted that in a couple of cases there was also the matter of the house and garden being to large to be manageable, but in many cases there was a fall or unsteadiness on stairs.
The move at this age was horrific for the families, (I could write a book about moving my father at the age of ninety,) and quite upsetting for the old people concerned having to settle into a new environment away from familiar places, friends and neighbours.

I refuse to inflict this on my own children so, at the age of 78 and still in pretty good nick, I am making the move now while I can still do it myself, always supposing I can actually sell my current house of course, and yes, I am looking for a bungalow.

mardatha

I've been in a bungalow since I was 40, and my hips and knees improved a lot when I moved here. With my ME I'd have been really struggling by now if I still had stairs - some days it's like climbing Ben Nevis just making it along the hall:)
Watching the preps for the hurricane and wondering why the hell anybody would ever want to live in a house 15ft above sea level...