Preparing for War or Apocalypse

Me too! I’ve also assigned jobs to family members.

I don’t understand how people can prep enough water? You’d needs hundreds of litres to last? 2 litres per person a day, 14litres a week per person. For a family of 4 a week you’d need 56 litres. That’s a lot of water.

I suppose. I might team with that poster to go and raid the shed with the 900 loo rolls if I am still alive😂

What’s your address Op? Just in case 😆

@CantBelieveNaive This all sounds quite a stressful way to live. Are you ok? I guess you'd probably need a few cans of petrol to get you to various family members but where would you plan to go? I think the UK is quite densly populated, unlike the US where you could feasibly have a bunker somewhere. And is it worth living in such a scenario?

If it brings you some comfort to be prepared, then go for it.

I haven't the time, space nor money to prep. I wouldn't want to survive I don't think, as society would fall apart and that feels far scarier than the disease/apocalypse itself.

Thankfully I'm in zone 2/3 so I will be dead VERY quick in a nuclear disaster

Why would you not have got through covid without your supplies?

Not everybody lives near a shop or a supermarket.

Have I missed something...no..why would you unless you have issues.

I wouldn't have got through covid without my supplies.

Why would you not have got through covid without your supplies?

I've always got a certain amount of food in the house - stuff in the larder, a small amount of frozen fish - but not because I'm prepping.

Covid didn't see me using up all my larder or frozen stuff. I just continued as usual. The shops were open and tbh I didn't really notice a massive change in availability of things generally.

Obviously loo paper went through a short phase of empty shelves but that was because some people got a bit silly and started buying far more than they needed. But even that I never ran out of.

In the event of an apocalypse I'd hope to be dead. I'm certainly not going to want to prepare to survive one.

I’ll be eaten in the first week.

Nuclear war? No.

Russian interference in the systems we all rely on for life to run smoothly?

Hell, yeah.

Going to save you ^

No.

If there is a disaster then having 900 bog rolls stores in your shed really isn't going

If this helps you to manage your anxiety, that’s understandable but you really should consider getting some counselling for your anxiety too. This is no way to live your life.

I've no desire to survive an apocalypse thanks. I'll carry on and hope the first wave takes me clean out. I wasn't built for strife.

Op yanbu.
The government set up a prepare website only a few weeks ago telling people to stock up in case of emergencies… https://prepare.campaign.gov.uk/

https://prepare.campaign.gov.uk/get-prepared-for-emergencies/

Er yes but I wouldn't get through the apocalypse. However, where I live it floods so do I have a weeks worth of bottled water and a few weeks of tinned food, an electric generator, torches etc.

I don't think that's particularly weird!

Not necessarily for a war or disaster but I've been collecting other goods in case if price rises.
Washing powder, shampoos etc.. when they're on offer

I've watched the Walking Dead.

I'll end up a slave or shot down for my stash of period pain pills anyway. Might as well go in the first wave frankly.

Dying of radiations is pretty nasty too.

Being prepared for emergencies is only sensible. As soon as you mention war people will laugh but it's best to be prepared for job loss, extreme weather, power outages, transport disruptions, crop failures and so on. I don't see the point in preparing for nuclear war but I am already prepared for plenty of other situations that may arise. I wouldn't have got through covid without my supplies.

I don't understand the mirth around prepping.

No, no and thrice no.

And even if there was an apocalypse I would not want to survive it.

I know someone who's fallen absolutely for the 'friend of a friends husband is a soldier and called to tell her something is happening in 2 weeks' tale.

Have to say I'm amused by it all.