Anyone planning on buying a wind up FM radio?

If it happens imminently the 3 water butts are nice and full for the loo

I think how much wine should we store?

Water falls out of the sky. It's doing it now. Muchly so.

We used to have wind up torches from a holiday at a very basic S African safari camp - no electricity, etc. They worked very well but I don’t even have a clue whether we’ve still got them.

Here I was, merrily thinking that GB News Radio was 'wind up radio'.

No but we have a battery operated one which I assume will last three days. If it’s needed for a long time then we’re all in trouble anyway.

We brought one last year.

You can get something called bedbath wipes if there's not much water, DH uses them sometimes when he goes off in his car and sleeps in it for his hobbies if it's a distance away

No. I have a car. If we're only supposed to prep for 3 days surely the car radio would suffice?

FGS so much panic!
If it’s for 3 days use the radio in your car, it barely uses any power.

If that’s too “Let them eat cake” you could dig out an old radio (mine’s in the garage for music while I potter) and buy some batteries. If you need months’ worth of batteries, there will be worse things to worry about…

During Covid, in my area which is high risk for earthquakes and floods, the (Italian) Civil Protection volunteers had loudspeakers on cars doing the rounds broadcasting official advice. It felt like Big Brother but that’s what they’d been preparing for and they did it full force!

Does anybody think they might drop leaflets from the sky?? They did in that Julia Robert’s film, where she ended up in an air-conditioned underground bunker, fully stocked and with a lifetime supply of DVDs. A prepper’s wet dream.

I bought a couple a few years ago, but the trouble is I can't remember the safe place we stored them! I think that even my family thought I was mad at the time, but with Putin and Trump, and the Chinese and North Korea, etc I thought they might prove to be a good idea. I hope they don't, I hope my family never think, Wow mum/my wife was on the ball there. In reality, I'm not sure we would even get a chance to use them 🥺

If the world is about to end, I’d rather not listen to a commentary.

Wow. I now have ten litres for two people and thought that was a fair bit.

Well opinions vary but 2.5 - 3.0 L per person just for drinking alone, then add a few more litres for cooking/hygiene. That's for one day.

How much water per person should we store?

In addition to drinking water I keep liquid detergent bottles when empty, rinse and fill with tap water and drop of bleach, to use for loo/ handwashing etc, as they're sturdy and have a built in handle.

Also many of us have done this for years.

yes but ick!

Yes, so is the delicious M&S nutrition dense super seeded oaty sliced bread, I bought some recently with next March date.

Rye bread is long dated.

I do understand that many think this is an attempt at scaremongering by the government (especially after we've been through Covid) plus all the scandals that have gone on, so no need to be sorry about your outlook. Others will definitely share it.

It's not just the UK though, that is advising citizens to prepare. Many European countries have done this for years, we're only just dipping our toes into it now, which in my opinion is really a bit late, but better than not at all.

I think going into next summer we'll really see the impact of the fertilizer shortages, caused by the various wars, and there will be shortages of various foods or ingredients which will mean prices really go up a lot. Next year could be very uncomfortable for many. Of course it's up to you and I suspect you are better at survival than many of us who've been more comfortably off.

A few things worth checking before you buy: get one with AM as well as FM (notimagain's right, AM can carry further when local transmitters are down), and pick one that charges three ways: crank, solar and USB or batteries. Then test it at home now to check it actually picks up your local BBC station, and see how long a minute of cranking really plays for.

I got tic tacs

I bought one today on Amazon. It said there were 11 left and it would come tomorrow but now it's showing as arriving on the 29th. So I reckon there's been a sudden run on them. Mine is going to be a Xmas present for dh, who loves contingency planning. He recently bought those vacuum machines for if someone gets sth stuck in their air passage - one for the house and one for the car!

We are not talking about war famine disaster, at least I am not. Don't you want to be able to see in a powercut? Clean your teeth if the water goes off?

I was born poor raised poor still poor i can live and survive where others woulden`t .
Ive been in survival mood for 40 year im a pro.

Prepare britain for what, scaring familys and folk into buying stuff we wont use or even need.
We all know how the goverment love to feed crap to the news channels.

Sorry for my odd out look on it all.