Preparing for War or Apocalypse

Part of my 'how to survive the zombie apocalypse plan' is how you brew beer. This is essential as it's also relevant to water purification once you've run out of your bottled water and your water purification tablets.

If you have no knowledge of how to brew, quite frankly you are fucked. However I don't recommend brewing with nettles cos it tastes like complete arse.

Like I say I have thought this through quite a lot.

If you don't have certain areas of knowledge, you are pretty screwed. And even then, you need a bit of luck because even if you are a qualified doctor, you aren't a lot of use if you don't have antibiotics to hand and someone gives themselves an injury whilst using an axe to chop firewood.

An extra tin opener isn't going to kill many zombies. Nor stop you dying from radiation poisoning.

What do you use to fuel your generator? How long will it last? Is storing a whole pile of fuel in your house a good idea - especially if the apocalypse with lots of fire or earthquakes etc is imminent?

Nothing you can do. Why worry? It is not in your control.

@CantBelieveNaive
There is a whole subject topic on MN called Preppers (under 'other stuff' In topics) if you want to share hints etc with others who do this - seems to be a way of life with some people .

Sorry - cross post!

How many tin openers do you have?

I can see sense in having a week's worth of water, camping stove , battery torches etc just based on the last couple of years.
Beyond that, I'd just like some emergency "slip into a deep sleep and don't wake up pills". As my old man said in the 1980s, if the bomb goes up run towards the light.

No thanks. I'm 62 I just want to die if it all goes to shit.

Sometimes, when I've got yr9 p5 on a Friday, I wish for a little apocalypse. Nothing major; just a little zombie outbreak or a few killer plants.

Our gov recently suggested keeping a survival kit at home.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/government-emergency-preparation-advice-kit-list-b1159600.html

I'm too fecking lazy though but it's on my to do list one day. Still have flash backs to the toilet roll fiasco of 2020 as well as the two previous petrol crisis. Everyone went nuts. Yes I was one who queued in my car at 4am waiting for fuel as I was down to fumes and had to make a long car journey that day.

There seems to be a big push for us to purchase a wind-up radio. Interesting..

As a society our biggest threat is nuclear war, which is why we spend a significant amount of money on deterrents.
On the civilian level the biggest risk to ife is probably road safety which sounds a lot less dramatic, I doubt many of the people on this thread give a second thought to getting in their car and going out onto increasingly overcrowded motorways.

Our biggest threat isn't nuclear war. It is a next to 0 chance.

Relax. We'll be fine. This is the UK.

We are civilised people who aren't so stupid as those nations such as Russia and China

We will be fine. Us and the USA are a team. We're safe. Europe (most of it) safe

How many tin openers do you have?

@RedToothBrush

I've seen the "documentary" on that, you head to the pub

Nope, that said I do have decent stocks of food, though not at levels I had at my former marital home when my dd inventoried at the beginning of covid and realised we had 37 cans of chopped tomatoes and 12kg of pasta, before we went shopping that is!

We keep £100 or so in the house in case the banking system has a blip

feeling of impending disaster are a mental health problem, rather than a prediction...

I've always said and some laugh at this - The world will not come to a near end with a nuke war but from some virus via the food chain

Our biggest threat is nuclear war and youd be unlucky to survive a blast from that. Honestly I don't think there's much point, apart from moving to a remote island somewhere. Then there's a risk you'd spend your whole life isolated there for no reason

I do have a sense of impending doom. Russia, the Middle East, China/Taiwan. I think the world is in a very dangerous place at the moment. Add in climate change and an increase in natural disasters (floods, storms, etc) I think we have an interesting few years ahead. But I'm not sure a few tins of beans in your garage is going to make any difference.

I do try to keep a small amount of cash available in case the banking system goes down, but that's about it.

I might get stocked up on a load of Wegovy because I'm sure there'll be a black market in it. And we'll probably be using cans of food for money which will be a bit ironic.

What a load of waffle!

These "End of the World" situations are IMO not worth considering, they are so unlikely as to be impossible.
My Aunt is a committed Christian (conventional CoE) has the answer to Jehovah Witnesses and other Doom mongers that God will not destroy the world because we have rejected HIm, which is their argument, until everyone has been taught about Christianity.
That is a long way off.

It's not a bad idea to be able to stay home with enough food and clear water for at least a week. Depending on your accommodation, it's not always possible to store much but it can be useful. These last years have proven we never know what's going to happen.