The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

silvasava

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DigForVictory

How do you prep for golf ball sized hailstones? As Sydney Australia seems to be struggling a bit & my sovereign remedy of feedsacks & baling twine doesn't seem helpful.

Delighted to hear Gatwick back open for business (thank you all squaddies & other ranks involved!) and hoping all who want to get away now can.

As with so many preparedness situations, do please learn to swim? Flying is tricksy...

moneyistooshorttomention

Someone said to me this morning "At least we're not at Gatwick" and that just goes to show you can't tell how anyone thinks on some things by looking at them:rotfl:. They didn't get quite the response they expected to that - more along the lines of "That environmentalist must be pretty clever to manage that".

Tries to remember how many years it is since I was ever at an airport......over 10 I do know...

Karmacat

DigForVictory wrote: »

How do you prep for golf ball sized hailstones? As Sydney Australia seems to be struggling a bit & my sovereign remedy of feedsacks & baling twine doesn't seem helpful.

I was watching a documentary I'd taped about weird weather, and they were discussing a group of 300 or so bodies found in the Himalayas in 1942. It was assumed they were Japanese soldiers on an attack mission to India, who died from cold en route, but a few years ago, the bodies were re-examined, and found to be around a thousand years old, a mixed family grouping. All of them had penetrating wounds to the tops of their skulls, and no other injuries. Yep, giant hailstones were the suggestion of cause of death for all those people ...

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

I was watching a documentary I'd taped about weird weather, and they were discussing a group of 300 or so bodies found in the Himalayas in 1942. It was assumed they were Japanese soldiers on an attack mission to India, who died from cold en route, but a few years ago, the bodies were re-examined, and found to be around a thousand years old, a mixed family grouping. All of them had penetrating wounds to the tops of their skulls, and no other injuries. Yep, giant hailstones were the suggestion of cause of death for all those people ...

What a horrible way to go!


I've read about hailstorms like this in the US and any car caught out in it is liable to have an interesting repousse decoration of its roof and bonnet, and roofs don't stand up too well, either.


Bearing in mind how regular size hailstones can sting, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of the giant examples.


It's been raining all day here and I just came back in, having wombled a brolly which was dumped alongside a streetbin because it had broken in the strong winds. Why is this preptastic, you may wonder? Because it's in CAMO FABRIC.


Woot! I'm going to use some of it to make a cyclindrical bag to hold my thermarest, which was a 2nd hand purchase and has no carry bag. Said mat lives permanantly inflated leaning up against hte bedroom wall, as I believe its recommended that they not be stored rolled/ folded.


There will likely be some other bits of umbrella fabric left over (tis a full size not a collapsable brolly) and I will prolly make some small possibles bags with drawstrings and sprung toggles. I always save toggles from any bag/ garment that is worn out and has to be scrapped. That's likely to be a project for the New Year.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

What a horrible way to go!

Horrible thought isn't it, all those people on their trek of their lives, and it ended like that.

It's been raining all day here and I just came back in, having wombled a brolly which was dumped alongside a streetbin because it had broken in the strong winds. Why is this preptastic, you may wonder? Because it's in CAMO FABRIC.

Woot! I'm going to use some of it to make a cyclindrical bag to hold my thermarest, which was a 2nd hand purchase and has no carry bag. Said mat lives permanantly inflated leaning up against hte bedroom wall, as I believe its recommended that they not be stored rolled/ folded.

GQ, thats brilliant :j:j:j
I'm so near to finishing the hedges, and the ideal then would be to do the weeding - but right now, any weeding I manage will have to be done while I'm standing on a path or the patio or something, standing on the soil would be awful right now. So I might use the time by exploring what preptastic stuff I can make from my material stash

machasraven

Well the chainsaw ran - stopped - and refuses to start again despite being taken apart 3 times grrrrrr. Always when you have loads of wood to sort! So in the new year another will be bought and sod's law the other will start :rotfl:but you can never begrudge having a backup:T.

mumf

machasraven wrote: »

Well the chainsaw ran - stopped - and refuses to start again despite being taken apart 3 times grrrrrr. Always when you have loads of wood to sort! So in the new year another will be bought and sod's law the other will start :rotfl:but you can never begrudge having a backup:T.

Check the air filter is not clogged.

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm going to use some of it to make a cyclindrical bag to hold my thermarest, which was a 2nd hand purchase and has no carry bag. Said mat lives permanantly inflated leaning up against hte bedroom wall, as I believe its recommended that they not be stored rolled/ folded.

Spot on. Store flat with the valve open ideally, or fold once if you absolutely must. By all means transport squished flat, rolled & the valve released so it won't leave the bag without a scrap, but store flat.
Thermorests are the most convenient way of converting people who "can't be doing with camping" to the absolute comfort that is passing out on the floor on a thermorest. Says she with no connection to the business other than serial customer, with offspring who have taken them to mates parties to assure themselves of a comfortable night/early morning & I am even urged to keep one in the car. (I don't have the boot space but the 3/4 length fits...)

So, if you hate the foam mats proffered for sleeping, try a Thermorest. Other mats are available but we'd layer them with a thermo, just to be sure!

jk0

This little gadget came up on youtube adverts today, which I thought might interest you guys.
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