To stockpile 72 hours of supplies

Under the bed?

I’m showing DH this thread, he keeps complaining that I’m buying too many tins of chopped tomatoes, they’ve been on a really good offer !!

Many of the posts here give out a sense of "I'm too cool to be bothered by this", or "it's going to be a nuclear disaster or a zombie apocalypse so no point with three days of supplies", or just plain sneering at others taking the advice seriously. The notification from our government is mostly focused on cyber attacks and natural disasters. All they want is citizens to be self sufficient for at least three days until they can get things working again, so that their resources can be focused on fixing the problems and not rescuing citizens. This also means having cash at hand, in case the banking systems get knocked out, or shop payment systems don't work. And a battery operated radio to have access to news updates and notices if the electricity is gone. It's just common sense in an era where we rely on technology for everything, and weather patterns are increasingly unpredictable.

My message wasn't actually aimed at you, more those posters who are in panic mode that the world is going to disintegrate at any moment and think this is some kind of advance warning! 😀

New Zealand.

Your 2 freezers full won't be much use if there is no energy to power them!

We have a wind up radio for getting the news in the event of no power. Not knowing what was going on or if anyone was out there would be really rough.

Why do I seem to be the only person nervous by this post

I could probably manage for 3 months or more. I've got 2 freezers full of meat and vegetables. A large stock of tins and dried goods and loads of washing powder, fabric softener, loo rolls etc. I've also got 4 dozen of bottles of water and long life milk. My DS says I could feed the street. He's teases me but I noticed during COVID he was very glad I could give him a couple of boxes of paracetamol, hand wash liquid and loo rolls. I let him take some for one of his mates too who couldn't get any paracetamol or loo rolls. I buy in bulk with 48 rolls in each pack and always have 4 packs.

To an extent, this ‘72 hour back up’ idea is a concept to sharpen minds as much as shore up supplies. It makes us think about our security, our relative comfort.

We have a spring near us
You can fill up your bottles from it as its accessible to all. It’s very popular with walkers

Some, like our well, are on private land though.

How does one obtain water from a well or spring identified on a map?

Just go along with a bucket or hose and tank?

Presumably there will be landowners or jobsworths who get pissy with you

Yes
Look for this symbol

Can I just add.
If anyones lives near Faversham No you cannot come into my house to pump up the water from the well under my house
unless we can do swapsies 🙂

I think these days they know we are not just cannon fodder. Yet. War is still the play things of the rich and stupid; but not in Europe, so much at least.
It does not make it right. Nowhere. But we are probably ok
So I think be prepared but also do the bloody obvious
vote
have an opinion
keep educating children

We have a MAD response which is pretty dark. You nuke us, doesn't matter if you get us, we'll nuke you back. So a country has to be pretty bonkers to attack like that but hey, it's a pretty bonkers world

Apologies but has anyone mentioned what we have to protect us?
Do we have the dome?
I know we have nuke on the subs but if something came at us what have we got to protect us.
Do we have many tanks etc

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water

ratios for water to bleach

We are lucky in that we live in a fairly wet country. Having a couple of waterbutts on all of your down pipes soon means you have a store of a few hundred litres of water.

you can make water safe to drink by filtering it and then boiling it or using a couple of drops of bleach

Would this also show on a new ordinance map?

Water we have 3 days worth (gallon a day per person)
Containers we could fill and water purification tablets.

Food we have weeks of food we could survive on

Ideally I would like to increase the water we have so that in a SHTF situation we could secure ourselves in the house and wait and see approach.

For those of you worried about water, check an old ordinance survey map of your area online and find out where the local springs are. Failing that check for wells.

I have 20 chicken should have enough food for a while lol . Joke aside we have lanterns stove and quite a few gas bottles , a water filtration system if needed and a stream near the garden . I keep car fuel always above half a tank too . We use heating oil ( kerosene ) so if we need I’m sure we can use it on the diesel car as an emergency to try and escape the island . Passports money and important documents always in the same place with a few cherished fotos and kids BC .

This seems more of an actual risk

I bought a 6 pack of gas canisters so should last a while but also a flint just in case.