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We need to have enough tinned food and bottled water to be self sufficient for three days

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CruCru · 22/05/2024 20:51

There’s a thing in the Times about the Prepare campaign - people need to be prepared for risks like localised flooding, another pandemic, a mass cyberattack which cuts off the internet, disruption to UK space systems that affect GPS signals, conflict and nuclear attack.

I must admit that my first thought was that there are countries in the West Indies who have these sorts of rules - mainly in case of hurricanes. It probably would be useful to have bottled water if we had flooding and the mains water would be turned off. Am a bit horrified by the mention of nuclear war but perhaps this has been overly highlighted by the Times.

Have you seen this? What do you think?

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marie3e · 30/05/2024 11:03

I can cut up my doors

Chersfrozenface · 31/05/2024 08:00

One of the main reasons for needing a stock of bottled water. Not nuclear war but damaged and crumbling infrastructure, often going undetected by water companies.

We've seen cryptosporidium in Devon, due to a damaged air valve. Now a fuel leak in Surrey, due to damage during pump replacement and failure of tests on the fuel lines.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgll12v5z7xo

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/full-story-surrey-fuel-leak-29228326

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