To be disturbed by the "Prepping" board.

[TheoriginalLEM]

Is this a thing now?

Is there really a need to be stockpiling food, medicines and creating a bolt hole?

Am i missing something? Seriously (this is not a light-hearted thread), i suffer from anxiety and this is really disturbing me.

Hopefully people have just been watching too much walking dead.

How the hell is it bullying? is this for real? Do you actually know what bullying is?

The guys who say they wouldn't want to live through "it", why do you think we are solely preparing for an end of the world nightmare? Or are you saying you'd prefer dying to living through a short powercut?

I prep for situations like a powercut for a few days, or needing to evacuate the house for some reason. Both these things have either happened to me or people I know so I don't see it as unreasonable to prepare for it.

Presumably you're not one of the 'buy several acres further inland and install two generators' kind of preppers than, dont?

There's was some to show a while back showing all the American rednecks with guns and bible quote tattoos showing their stock rooms filled with Gatorade and Kraft Macaroni Cheese. I thought it would be a depressing indictment of the human race if all were wiped out but these gun toting gourmands.

It's nothing to be worried about, if it ever gets to a stage where the country as a whole needs to be drinking bottled water, then stashes of cash and tinned soup is the least of your worries.

If you live in some remote area where a bad winter could wipe out your electricity for a few days then you do obviously need to 'prep' if however you live in an urbanised area your main issue will be not having fresh milk,bread or veg for a couple of days. Super Noodles and baked beans will keep you going.

Just give the whole preppers business a 'yes dear' and move on.

I think it is the responsibility of the DCs that has made me want to be better prepared if the power /water goes off for a few weeks.

I know not everyone feels like this. I have no problem at all with that. I don't think I am crazy though. Perhaps just a little unhinged :)

but surely you go out. buy some water some cans, stick it in the shed. sorted. whats to discuss? ?

I would rather get in a few more tins ready for bad weather, illness or the bank IT system failing, than freaking out about handbags. You could say any interest is bonkers.

Ive started prepping. For me it's not about zombies or nuclear wars because firstly they're kind of unlikely but mainly I don't have the space to prep for years and years of being cut off.

I'm going to prep for a significant power cut though. Dh works in the power industry and says nationally we're on a knife edge as far as power supply goes. Though he thinks any problems will be localised rather than nationwide.

I'm clearing junk out the pantry and getting more tinned/dried food in. We will eat it all as I will use it on a day to day basis amd replace so nothing runs out of date.

Yes we can speak to each other even with this type of thread but its basically bullying ti.keep saying preppers are crazy

Who said 'crazy'? Not the majority, anyway.

Posters are just trying to reassure Lem that it isn't mainstream thinking to take preparedness to life-changing extremes.

I first got into it after reading about the grids becoming elderly, how frequent and sustained powercuts will become a reality in a few short winters because of it.

But nobody is listening because we're so accustomed to being plugged in and using more power than ever before.. It's part of the arrogance of being human.

It's harmless, just a hobby and very interesting to those of us into it. Calling us names says a lot more about you than it does us.

For the record... I wouldn't want to live in a post apocalyptic world either

Here in Canada, and I understand a lot of other countries, it is considered absolutely normal to have an OFRS/bug out bag etc. We are advised to be able to look after ourselves in the event of a (quite likely) earthquake for 72 hours. Bear in mind that we have volunteer Fire Fighters and a very spread out population so it makes sense that the people would be more in charge of themselves.

DH and I have taken it a bit further than that... It is possible something major could happen but not necessarily likely. If I still lived in London I wouldn't prep. Way more services there, less likely the emergency services would fail and if there was a real Apocalypse scenario, London is fucked anyway.

Feel free to ignore us. It really is more like a hobby than anything else...

I must admit that I thought it was a joke when I first saw it.
I've always seen preppers as a group of nutters in the US waiting for a zombie apocalypse.
I always have tinned food, candles and water in the house.

I had short power cut about a year ago. I snoozed for a couple of hours until it came back on.

LEM if the power goes off the shops will only stay open as Long as their generator is running. They close after that.

And if the other 50,000 people round here think at the same time as me "fuck I need bottled water incase this problem carries on" I don't fancy my chances of getting any in Tesco.

No strawberry I'm not. I think that small short term emergencies are possible and I like to be prepared. If the SHTF was simply being without access to food and water for two weeks, that doesn't seem too horrific, I'd like to survive through that SHTF, none of this "oh I wouldn't want to live in such a dreadful world" stuff. The world itself wouldn't be dreadful because a local area had no food supplies getting in for a few weeks.

I'm normally pretty robust about other people's irrational fears hut j have to say seeing the threads at the one that when I have a new baby and all the hormones that go with that is making me feel quite on edge. I should really hide the topic as it is setting lots of uncomfortable thoughts running but I mainly use the mobile site and it's a proper pain in the ass to hide topics.

Can see why some people get into it and agree it's a bit like a doomsday hobby but also can see why it would trigger a hit of anxiety in some people

Laughing at the prepping board

People have been calling the behaviour crazy, not the people. That's not bullying or rude.

I don't understand why anyone would be anxious or upset at the prepping board and in all honesty, if the notion of random strangers hoarding water and baked beans gives you the fear, you need to get a grip.

It's just a thing that some people do, especially if they live in remote areas.

Its not an irrational fear because the things you are prepping for actually do happen. It is like calling a fear of being robbed an irrational fear. Well robberies happen so it isn't irrational.

Prepping is knowing where a torch is in case there's a power cut. It's keeping medicines in a draw so you've got them when the chemists shut. It's having a spare tyre. It's putting nails in a baseball bat to beat the brains out of zombies. It's having a few days worth of food in the cupboard. It's so bleeding obvious that everybody does it to some extent without giving a name to it.

I think that small short term emergencies are possible and I like to be prepared.

It's only town-dwellers that don't TBH

See I grew up a goodly few years ago out in the sticks. We would have power cuts that lasted for several days. To this day my folks have power cuts that last several hours. Due to that I always know where there are some candles and a torch.
I don't consider that to be prepping, just being sensible.

I don't need to prep, I live and work in an hotel and short of a nuke hitting us (in which case its stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye) we'll be ok because we got a generator and lots of food, and close to the sea.

Also got a dinghy and a pikestaff

Everyone preps to a degree even if they claim they dont. It's just what degrees feel is necessary. If you live in an area that often gets cut off from the outside world, you will probably stock up a bit more than someome in the city.