Anyone planning on buying a wind up FM radio?

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As part of the Be Ready campaign https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwd094x57p32o

households are advised to have basic supplies in, in case of any disruption. Which brings us inline to quite a few other countries. Most is pretty normal and easy to get or we have in already.

Except for a wind up FM radio. I don’t have one of those. But I do love a gadget. Anyone have a wind up radio or planning on buying one?

If it happens imminently the 3 water butts are nice and full for the loo

Same here.👍
Got 400L at the mo but just increased that to 900L so the rain has come at the right time.☔

If you can, grow some of your own stuff. I’ve got 3 tomato plants and I didn’t need to buy any all summer.

There are some really good tips here. I’ve got huge water butts. Didn’t think about how I could use them in the house. Could even have an outdoor shower with the hose if needed.

Good tip about the car radio.

Same. Society cracks up within 24hrs. I dont wanna hang around for people to turn on each other.

I have supplies for power cuts and health but thats it.

Cant get my medication anyway as nhs dont let me stockpile.

Do you have a link to the ones you bought?

Have you tried using the windup function to see how much radio time you get with it?

I need to buy one, but I'm being really indecisive and have currently got about 10 in my Amazon basket🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

I got one with a torch which also works as an emergency power bank (I don't think it would be a very effective one) but we keep using it to look for the cat outside when it's dark! I keep it on the windowsill to keep it charged up (it has a solar panel) but I really need to plug it in given there's very little daylight out there right now... Cost about £25 on Amazon. If you want to get one, I'd give it a few days as I suspect prices and demand have gone up.

When you think of it, a wind up radio, in order to get information when the internet, electricity and maybe some broadcasting centres have gone down, is something you would only use in extreme circumstances, so I just hope we never need it.
On the other hand, a relative was caught up in the Spain and Portugal blackout with no power, no phone, no information at all, and was very confused and worried. I got him a wind up radio but I bet he hasn't kept it charged up.

🙄🙄 you're not being gaslighting about it.

Just because you didn't do it doesn't mean most people didn't.

I am 57. I was a child in the 70s and my Mum has always had enough to feed an army. Lots of tins and things that last a long time.

In the 70s, we had regular power outages and always had plenty of candles etc. We had camping water containers that we had stored full when we weren't camping.

Probably lots of other things my dad had sorted that I didn't really pay much attention to when I was a child, I've always had a well stocked larder too.

I've been a bit slack in recent years with regard to things like battery operated radio and the gas stove, but I'm getting it sorted now.

Got a gadget that connects other "stuff" to a car battery and we have 5 cars so that'll do us. And a large car battery holds a lot of power.

I have got 7!!

I do sadly think that war is on the horizon.

Another point to consider about war is that in normal times, in the event of a water outage etc, the army would be sent in to distribute water or supplies. If they’re off fighting a war they won’t be available for such tasks so the public will be forced to be more self-reliant. I think that’s a big factor in the government issuing this advice now.

you are right @AutumnLoverButNotYet

" @Constantrunner · Yesterday 09:40
I am in my sixties and live in a city. We did not keep a stocked larder a generation ago in case of power cuts. In fact my grans generation did not do weekly shops and shopped for food most days. Rurally was different.
This requirement is new. I will do it, but I am not going to be gas lighted about it."

I am in my 70's was a Londoner till adulthood. Cooker was gas and heating was open fires so we weren't so reliant on electricity. Did my mother keep a stocked larder? She absolutely did. It was a battery radio not a wind up one and candles not rechargeable or wind up lighting. We had no car and we weren't on a close bus route so she bought what she could carry. Its not a "requirement", neither is it new. No one is gaslighting you either. Do what you want to do but stop moaning.

I have one. It’s also a torch.

Good point, we might have some of our population either away or assisting the army so that means the rest of us will have to take the initiative.

Nope. I fished out our wind-up torch and find I can barely wind the thing. You're supposed to do it for ten minutes... I'd be dead by then, maybe that's the Govenment's plan - weed out the weak before the balloon goes up.

Another 70’s child who remembers stockpiled foods and powercuts!

70’s child. I have a blue glass paraffin lamp my Mum used during power cuts.

I bought a wind up radio/torch/power bank a couple of years ago when we were told to have stuff so have got that out and tuned the radio to see if it works.

My gran did and i loved the smell ! Weird lol

I’m in the south and we’ve had tiny electric outage’s tonight … which has made me nervy and more determined to get stuff together!