Prepping: the new world...

DigForVictory

I love duct tape. Decades ago I made "rubber weapons" for my sons with it, borrowing from LiveActionRolePlay weapon making techniques then. It's held boxes of stuff that have been moved but not yet unpacked (don't judge me, I had toddlers) together. It's held turnups in place til I could get needle & thread into play (sometimes after school, ahem,) It's held dressings in place, reminded wetsuits of their obligations, been used as in-case-of-desperation tit tape (I did use lighter fuel to help get that off without screams later). 

DigForVictory

Back to possibly rather too American, rather Hard Core Prepping, I got a cheerful prepper email asking if I was ready for an earthquake that had knocked out power & water. And fires and collapsing buildings I thought, but face what's in front of you. And after a swift trot though my kit, no I seriously wasn't, well not for more than a few hours. but then in my bit of Lancashire we don't get serious earthquakes that often. (Says she, waving a flag at Fate.) 
I now, of course, cannot find the Wonderful Japanese website (in several languages) that had handy how-to prepping diagrams (the how to convert a pair of trousers into a backpack that could carry large of bottles of water easily was a particular eye opener.)

MrsCD

Am I the only one who has strips of duct tape on the back of the packet of wet wipes in my bag? Well you never know when you might need some!

Cherryfudge

DigForVictory said:

in my bit of Lancashire we don't get serious earthquakes that often.

I'm from Lancashire originally and my Dad was a member of a geological society there. I remember him telling me about blocks of Lancashire flats that were built over a fault in the ground! However, while the fault won't have gone away, boundaries have changed and I don't think those particular flats are in Lancashire any more, so you may be (literally) on safe ground.

The trousers backpack sounds ingenious!

annieb64

I was  once having lunch with my daughter in Wetherspoons in Manchester when there was an earthquake.It wasn't a bad one but everything shook for a few seconds.

weenancyinAmerica

I was just leaving Paddington Station on a train when an earthquake hit and and part of the ceiling came down. So I know they can happen there as well as here. 

Cherryfudge

annieb64 said:

I was  once having lunch with my daughter in Wetherspoons in Manchester when there was an earthquake.It wasn't a bad one but everything shook for a few seconds.

I wonder if that was the same one I experienced, late eighties or 1990, I think. I was in a meeting at work in Manchester when everything started to move a bit. The instinct was to stand up as my chair was moving, but of course that didn't get me away from the overall effect. Quite unsettling for a moment as there was literally nowhere that wasn't affected, but it only lasted a moment and became something to talk about.

Wednesday2000

I went to uni in Staffordshire and there were earthquakes there. I remember one quite bad one when I was in my halls of residence one day.

thriftwizard

I remember lying on a futon with a hot & fretful 3 y.o. (now 30) watching the lampshade dance & feeling the room wobble, at about 4am. Wasn't awake enough to worry about it, but discovered the next morning that there'd been a mag 4 down at the other end of Cornwall - almost 3 counties-width away. It's odd how the "waves" travel...

annieb64

Cherryfudge said:

annieb64 said:

I was  once having lunch with my daughter in Wetherspoons in Manchester when there was an earthquake.It wasn't a bad one but everything shook for a few seconds.

I wonder if that was the same one I experienced, late eighties or 1990, I think. I was in a meeting at work in Manchester when everything started to move a bit. The instinct was to stand up as my chair was moving, but of course that didn't get me away from the overall effect. Quite unsettling for a moment as there was literally nowhere that wasn't affected, but it only lasted a moment and became something to talk about.

I think was later than that. Daughter was born in 1985 and she was on her way back to uni that day. We did have one while we were living near Wilmslow so  between1983-1988. I was lying in bed when everything shook. I thought it was the ancient boiler. I'd forgotten about that one.