Evacuation wouldn’t happen now would it?

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Everyone being effected by rationing was a bit of a myth. Yes the ordinary people were in the same boat (more of that in a bit) but if you had a country estate you could keep everything you grew / shot / caught.

Fish was not rationed. So if you lived on the coast with a fishing fleet you could buy what was available. This led to people from inland areas taking a day trip to port towns if they didn't have a 'wet' fish shop.

It was a very different time in the second world war and the cities took, the worst of it ,my Grandparents took in two evacuees they lived in a village in Lancashire ,whilst it a wsnt exactly rural ,the nearest city was Manchester about 20 miles away
There must of been parts of the UK that were barely affected by the war,well.away from the bombings, I know every body would have been affected from rationing.

Depends on what kind of war I suspect it we ever have another world war it would be nuclear ,and then you would either die, in the first blast or if you didn't it would be every man for themselves
In the film threads ,when they knew war was likely everyone tried to get to the countryside as they thought it would be safer,and the roads were gridlocked, obviously that was just a film but I can imagine
People behaving like that IRL.

That's because you have never been in the situation where you have to make that choice. And you probably can't even think about why you would make that choice.

If you were on the first floor of your house, there is a fire on the ground floor and someone outside tells you to throw your child out the window to them, you would do it, because that is the better choice.

Throwing a child to a complete stranger is not usually a good idea but sometimes it is the best of a series of bad ideas.

There would be martial law, road blocks, armed police, army. Which is what happened to friends during COVID believe it or not.

God forbid there’s ever a need, but I imagine it would happen without people having to be ordered to do it, mass exodus from the cities

Cool.

They'd get here.

And no one else would be coming in my house. Just them.

My father and his brother were among them.

The entire family decamped from London to Tunbridge Wells, but the only house they could get was too small for all of them, so the two oldest were sent to live with another family nearby. They ended up stick thin, incredibly underweight, and after a year or two they all moved back London.

The house where grandmother and the youngest 4 lived was just along the road from where my SIL moved to 70-odd years later.

My father and his elder brother went to a school that was evacuated from London to Oxfordshire, and it became a boarding school for most of the war. They spent much of the war away from the family.

I'm sorry to hear that. It was a terrible time for everyone to be sure.

1. They'd be among millions on the roads so going nowhere fast

1. Other people would get to your place in Wales long before your family. You'd be literally fighting off intruders. In waves. Endlessly.

What show is this?

I also have family who were on the kinder transport. She never got over being separated from her family. It literally affected her until she died.

Civilian flights will cease I think

The poster I was responding to wasn't referencing nuclear war. That would obviously make a lot of the concerns and comments on here somewhat moot.

If possible I'd like to think I'd escape on a plane with my family to Thailand or somewhere else where its tropical, neutral and cheap to live! I'd book a holiday and stay illegally!

Weidly enough i was having this convo last week. My family live in thr midlands. I live in semi rural Wales. They'd all come here if there was a war and bunk up with us.

True.

I don't think Teams will work particularly well following an electromagnetic pulse, tbh.

I think its really interesting that so many people on this thread think 'if there was a war we would be wiped out anyway' there are currently several major wars going on in the world, along with dozens of internal conflicts. Just because we are an island doesn't mean we couldn't face invasion and occupation. Even the Israeli government with such a profound hatred for the Palestinians see the value in the land they are on, nuclear weapons make land inhabitable.

In early 2020, Bil and SIL in China genuinely considered sending their toddler Back to the UK for a few months to keep her safe from Covid. They didn't in the end, which is probably good because it would have been 2 years not months, but they were worried enough to consider it.

eyeroll at the original post, not this one...the one about no one having room

If you really worry about this all the time, you need some psychological help

My dad became best friends with a boy who had been evacuated from Bristol. When he moved back to his home after the war he said he would come back to live here. Many years later he did just that and he and my dad remained firm friends until the friend died in 2015. His daughter and grandchildren still live in the village.

I know from the case of my great grandparents that during WW2 parents of very small children were evacuated with them so I imagine that would be the same.

Only school age children were evacuated alone.

Safeguarding checks would be needed now though. I dread to think how many children were put with unsuitable carers in WW2.

When Chernobyl went up the clouds were radioactive, when the rain fell on Wales the sheep were deemed contaminated and tested for years. As was the water but they kept quiet about that. We lived in the area were caught out in that rain with two small children , got soaked. There were a lot of worried families