Evacuation wouldn’t happen now would it?

Wouldn't happen. Given the fact very few people today, particularly on MN, answer their phone or answer their door without three months' written notice, who the hell would let a strange child in their house.

Crikey, what a lucky escape!

When the Ukraine war started and there was a lot of worry whether Russia would target us, DC asked what we’d do as we live in London. Without hesitation I said if there was any credible threat, we’d all (including the cat) go to the in laws in Cornwall. I’d certainly want DC out of London if it was an option.

Even at the time, not all parents allowed it. My grandmother refused to let her children go as nobody was stealing her children from her.

I suspect she regretted it when a bomb landed on her house and the only reasons my mother survived were a) because the house was massive and b) the bedroom door blew off its hinges and landed on top of her cot. But they moved to a very nice requisitioned property on the very edges of farmland instead, so she didn't see any need to change her mind afterwards.

Look after yourself, you are always welcome to PM me.

Please don't be hard on yourself. The last few years have been particular grim news-wise with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and with what's going on in Gaza. It's no surprise that people get distressed by the prospect of war, because war is such an awful thing.

I live rurally, so this would not apply to us. Rather, we might take evacuees. We could (and I would) offer our guest room, to a mother and child/ren perhaps? I would take just children,ĺ
if it were really necessary, but would much rather have children with their mummy. I attachment parent and would just feel sorry for poor wee children away from their parents that I don't think it would be good for them.

Now I've got myself into a state and am crying 😄😄😄

Yes, imagining war is no way to live, usually i avoid the topic but the news re India and Pakistan got to me

I'm leaving the thread to get a grip 😄🥰

Think about getting some help, this is no way to live 🌷

Totally different threats today. There would be no warning. People in cities would be dead instantly. People in other places would die slowly afterwards, either of radiation poisoning, or in the violent breakdown of civilisation.

I could foresee a situation whereby people were evacuating in to cities to be sure of a swift and painless end.

Why do I always think about it? Anxiety i suppose

If you look at the states, they have major city evacuations every year because of adverse weather events. Inevitably most people follow instructions, some stay behind to loot and some think they will somehow be safe anyway.

It's possible that something could happen in the UK to require evacuation, and I think it would play out in a similar way.

I think that there were a lot of runaways

I don't know how I feel about evacuation.

My mum was evacuated from London age 3. It wasn't official but one of the families taking her school age brother offered and my Nan thought she was doing the right thing.

She's 86 now and the impact on her has been lifelong and trickled down to me (her severe separation anxiety massively impacted decisions I made in my teens and early twenties).

I can't imagine how it would work these days.

My mum remembered a little girl who was evacuated to an elderly couple in her village at a very young age. By the end of the war she had lived with them longer than her parents and they absolutely adored her. She never went back to her birth family.

I watched Threads by Mick Jackson towards the end of last year and it was grim but eerily interesting. There’s a great interview with him on BBC iPlayer currently.

I agree

I think we’re better off trying to influence politicians to do things that avoid an all out war (and they’ve been miserably failing to do it by showing utter weakness for years) than worrying about evacuation.

If we have one, it will likely either be a nuclear war, or something else non conventional like cyber warfare. I’d be surprised if there was an equivalent of the blitz if nations like the UK were directly under attack.

So theer would be no point in evacuation. If you are talking a war of that scope, nowhere is safe. In fact the best place to be might be under the bombs when they drop.

It wouldn’t be considered now because of safeguarding. I don’t think I’ve ever heard any harrowing tales come out of the WWII evacuations but it must have happened.

I don't think the lockdown during the pandemic is the same as evacuation.
We are much more conscious about child protection now, so children wouldn't be sent to random people's houses without checks and we are also more aware of child psychology and children's emotional development
Also to the PP who said we would do what we were told it wasn't compulsory to evacuate your children, parents did it because they thought it was safer for their children some people refused to send their children.

I think if it meant children were safe, people would do it.
But I do think the way the world is now it’s more likely to be a country or even world ending thing. There is too much conflict in the world and I think if it escalated to the point it is here, then it will be the end of everything.

Why?

I always think no they wouldn't then I remember a picture of people lining up to get their animals euthanized at the beginning of one of the wars

I also remember getting abuse during covid for saying I would not put my indoor cat to sleep that he wasn't spreading covid he was an INDOOR cat

Yep. There won't be time to do much else.