Should we be Prepping in case there's WW3?

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It wouldn't hurt to get a few extra food supplies in (of the non perishable sort). Would it?
Or is it being ott.

I bet the shops love people like me

I'm going to my mate's house. He has a selection of crossbow and decent bows. Lots of ammo for them.
I can skin rabbits, knit and spin. I also have quite a substantial first aid kit and lots of first aid training!
I also have lots of whisky.

Woomebaby Yes. In a heartbeat. My family is from Iraq and I know what happens when society collapses. Preppers* are often well informed about the damage to environment and property disasters will cause but naive about human behaviour.

*No offense to preppers, just not a route I'd go down.

I have supplies for emergencies, incase something happens and there is no water or electricity for a couple of weeks.

Candles, cooking stove, wind up torches and radio, wind up and solar lamps, solar charger for phones. Food and water.

It's not for ww3, but just incase of a natural disaster, or power cuts.

Dh and ds call it my apoca box, and take the piss. I don't care it's come from my childhood, were we lived in a village that could loose power for a couple of days easily, and get snowed in for a week or so.

So to me it's just sensible to have stock in to light and heat your home, and food to cook on one heat source. Even if it's only needed for a couple of days.

We had a power cut a month or so ago, the dc weren't laughing at me then! it's pitch black here without lights. The sudden dark freaked them out and they were the first asking were the apoca box was, for lamps.

I can't survive more than 3 hours in the house with my children.

We'd have to get out regardless of the radioactivity. We're quite hardy, so I reckon we'd be ok.

Will there be zombies?

I have a friend the same age as me who grew up in one of the old Soviet states.

During the cold war they had lessons in the school bunker, a couple of times a year. They were taught all sorts. Like how to tell what sort of attack it was chemical/nuclear, what happens and what you do, what gets effected ect.

All public building had bunkers for the public. not many nuclear though.

Her knowledge was way beyond what we were taught.

I'm with RollingCrone way back at the start of the thread. I've got no interest in surviving the UK getting nuked, not after I watched Threads.

The collapse of modern society would happen quickly if anything tile being discussed happens. If you prep you have to take steps to hide what you have stored, and be prepared to defend it.

Those of you who would rather die or take your own life. That's your choice, and fair enough. I would much rather rather survive.

We'd have to get out regardless of the radioactivity. We're quite hardy, so I reckon we'd be ok.

You do realise that, unless your house is a special bunker, you get as much (gamma) radioactivity in as out? There's no hidding from it.

Only one thing to do when the warning is sounded, stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye

My young adult kids are at Uni and at any one time are all over the place. We had a conversation where we said that in the event of global collapse we would try and wait for them at home. But if we had to leave we would paint a message on our living room wall.

DH is very fit and practical, as is DS1(23), so we would have some protection and muscle. I would worry about my good looking healthy girls being seen as commodities though.

I haven't read the whole thread but I think the only prepping I'd like to do in the event of a nuclear fallout is have some nice poisonous drugs I could administer to my family so we could die peacefully. I'm not sure whether such things are available but I'm sure you could get hold of something nice and deadly, they always managed in Shakespearean plays.

smile can imagine you being the only family out in the park in a post apocalyptic world!

I can't believe you're all so organised as to have thought about this in advance, I haven't even sorted out what we're doing for Easter yet

This thread has done nothing to convince me that preppes are not just people with a high incidence of mental illness.

All of you who's solution is doing away with yourselves, when it came down to it do you really think you would?

Absolutely certain once the radiation sickness and/or severe burns starts.

I will be honest though that if I was able to help others then I would stay around for a while - I have medical training and am very practical.

Well I've checked on the fascinating website provided upthread and even if the highest tonnage nuclear missile landed on the closest military base to me I'm just outside the danger zone.

Therefore I plan to:

Loot a Nissan GTR for quick transportation around the place.

Secure a petrol station (for filling of the above)

Ummmm. Not got much further than that. Although if the Fallout franchise is to be believed then bottle caps will be the currency of the future.

Interesting article

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/what-would-happen-if-a-nuclear-bomb-hit-britain-modelling-world-war-three-a6750216.html

Don'tLetMeBeMisunderstood

LadyFlumpalot, is the bottle caps an actual Thing? My DS collects them but won't tell me why.

It's from a game the fall out saucery

*Its from the game fall out

Ah right, thanks . Thought it was odd he would be prepping as he finds it impossible to prep for school in a Sunday night.

I have an anderson shelter in my cellar left over from WW2 if anyone fancies sharing it with me :-/

Well it sort of sounds like he his prepping

The game is a pc/xbox/ps game, about living in the aftermath of nuclear war, and the currency is bottle caps.

Sounds like heads getting some stock in advance.

Or he just likes collecting bottle caps.