Should we be Prepping in case there's WW3?

[brickinitIam]

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 don't have the cupboard space. We're doomed in this house.

I've thought about prepping but decided I will just run towards the blast zone centre and hope to get frazzled.

run towards that glorious bright light arm outstretched and ready to meet your maker

Correct you can't just rely on tins of food.

Pfft! I've got a tin of pears and a vegetable curry in the back of the cupboard that I bought around the time DD was born. (11). Just checked. They're still good for another 6 years!

I hadn't thought about it before but I live near a military base so i might get taken out early if it all goes tits up. I guess that saves me from having to stock up on emergency rations.

'An old icecream container with a couple of odd assorted bandaids, a triangular bandage from a first aid course and a box of ibuprofen'

That's about where we are. I haven't yet filled in the shotgun licence application I started when reading on here about Arron Banks the other day. Getting into your networks and working together to survive does indeed sound like the voice of sanity.

If I stock up on chocolate does that count?

It does contain some good stuff and would give me some energy and at least I would die happy

(Hmmmm ponders on how many time I would need to 'stock up' with all that chocolate calling to me from the back of the cupboard under the stairs.......)

Ahem...never mind Rick
Just need a crossbow Daryl style and all will be good 😄

Forget the bow, Daryl will do.

Step away from the redneck hes all mine....

I have tinned stocks and medical supplies in the cellar. I also have some buried (a year worth of food, cigarettes and alcohol for 10 people) from when I had a breakdown and anxiety issues which displayed themselves in extreme prepping. I still prep now but not in the extreme way I once did. We grow food in a couple of different locations, have a seed library and have a network of people (not family) who we could rely on and could rely on us during harder times. We have learnt useful skills (various forms of fire building, fishing, preserving, useful crafts, mechanics, plumbing, cheesemaking) and our educational back grounds (medical) would hopefully mean we are useful people to have around.

I think we are already in WW3 (and have been for some time) and are likely to face many severe cyber attacks (there have been a number of underreproted cyber attacks in the U.K. in the last couple of years) over the coming years and deliberate EMP attacks which would cause panic like we can't even begin to imagine. Learning to not rely on electronics (modern cars won't work, nothing even vaguely electronic or with a data chip will work during an EMP strike) and have some alternatives around are useful. Analogue clocks, oil lamps, fire starters, batteries, torches, faraday cages are all useful. If you want to buy these kinds of things get them at bootsales for pennies now.

If it's nuclear then I have enough oramorph for my family to say a nice bye bye with a bottle of rum.

I think we'll be OK. DH has played a whole heap of post-apocalyptic computer games and he knows where all the kill boxes are on the killer robotic horses.

My house has a weird faraday cage effect (really, dunno if there's a load of rebar in the walls or what?!), I wonder if we'd be protected from an emp...?

Will I be vapourised in zone 5? I do hope so

Eatspam my mind is boggled by your post, I'm sincerely sorry to hear of your anxiety problems but you've done the research and put in the hard work and the human race needs people like you to take it forward from the new stone age.

I by contrast am a useless oxygen thief who should be allowed to take the easy exit

crikey is it STILL april 1st ?? this is a joke thread isn't it ? please tell you peeps aren't being serious....

pipsqueak.
You never know.

Always Be Prepared. as the Scouts say.

^Forget the bow Daryl will do
^
The answer to my username is "me"

What would Daryl Dixon do? Me. He would do me. Anytime, anywhere

TenementFunster
Probably not vapourised, but it might be 3rd degree burns for all?

There's a handy website where you can see what would (most likely) happen to your city if various sizes of nuclear bomb were to hit it: www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Enjoy is really not the right word to use here. Inform? Try not to terrify yourself?

My hope is that if this were to come about there'd be a simultaneous strike on the city where my little sister lives - I can't bear the thought of her knowing we'd all been wiped out & her feeling frightened about what was happening, even with her husband & his family there. But mostly my hope is that nothing like this will ever happen!

EatSpam

Sounds like you are at expert level. I need to be following you with a notebook!

Tobolsk where will you put your rubbish? Surely an overflowing wheelie bin would be a tell tale sign. You don't want to keep all the rubbish in the house. Perhaps you'll need to bury it.

I've thought about prepping but decided I will just run towards the blast zone centre and hope to get frazzled.

You see, it's my optimism and hope that might give me the edge. As I'd run and hope to get Frazzles.

Some great photos of a council info leaflet from the 1970s

I was hoping not for major burns actually. That's come as a bit of a disappointment. I do work near raf Northolt tho so fingers crossed it's on a weekday should Armageddon. Come.
Which it won't of course. Can't be doing with a The Road type exit.

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....And i know in my heart of hearts I'll have eaten all my rationed food by the end of day one. I get hangry at the best of times and I'm an emotional eater