Preparing for the worst

[Alex71]

Am I just being daft ? I have started to get together a “just in case” box .
Wind up torches and radio
( not sure what else as never really thought about this)

Has anyone else started doing the same ?
Am I being unreasonable being so scared , the last time I felt like this was in the 80’s when the atomic blast was hanging over our heads and we got shown the film in school. My husband and myself both remember and sat chatting about it and the situation now and we are both worried.

Are you preparing for the eventuality and how ?
Thank you

A worried old Bat 🦇

I wish I did.

I'm a prepper and it was a god send when storm ciaran hit the channel islands as I had exactly whst I needed and a plan, especially considering what happened.

There's no harm in having an amergency kit. Always better to have it and never have to use it, rather than not have it and need it

And there was me thinking it's finally gone quiet on the WW3 threads 🙄

What on earth for?

This thread should be gone.

If it makes you feel calmer then no harm, but try to step away from the media circus - it's click bait.

I grew up in the 70s/80s and always believed a nuclear war would be game over, but would it? At some point the bombs would stop and if you weren't necessarily in the blast centre and could shelter for a few weeks perhaps you would be OK. Lots of people survived in Japan (obviously lots sadly didn't). I know bombs are more powerful now, but there is a vast scale between no war and armageddon with a nuclear winter... Either way pleae try not to waste your life thinking about it.

Child of the Cuban Missile Crisis here (President Kennedy and Fidel Castro. Anyone else as old as me)?

We had nuclear drills in primary school. Basically assuming the foetal position under our desks with strict instructions not to open our eyes.

The fear has lurked in my subconscious ever since. I break out in a cold sweat sometimes when I see an unexpected flash of lightning for example.

@Alex71

There's a Preppers section for this stuff. You should ask @MNHQ to move this there.

Yes same here , I would be pretty stuck without my wheelchair!

I am very sorry, you have a choice not to read this!

Torch, candles, radio, batteries, important papers (birth, passport, insurance). Given increasingly unpredictable weather it's as well to be prepared.

We prepared for Brexit. First time we’d ever done anything like that (59 and 64 now). Bit of a waste of time really. We ate beans for a long time 😁 If it eases your mind though and you can afford to, why not?

Thank you for your reply ,
I do not post very often so I would not know how to move this post .

Do I just tag @MNHQ and ask for this to be moved to the Preppers section of Mumsnet ?

Are you preparing for the eventuality and how ?

Nope. I think that the frankly doubtful amount of future benefit that might possibly be gained by advance, speculative prepping for an unlikely events whose details you can't predict is heavily outweighed by the very real and current detrimental effects that embracing paranoia will have on your state of mind.

Completely unreasonable, and I remember the 1980s too.

Let's face it, even in the extremely unlikely event of a nuclear attack on this country, why on earth would you want to survive it?? I'd be out in public hoping I get zapped immediately.

But the truth is that there's no point in wasting your life worrying about things outside your control. Just enjoy the good life that you have here and now.

There's also a Brexit board but no bugger uses it though, do they?

Yes Me! That was a very, very close miss. I was almost 10 in October 1962. I don't remember having nuclear drills ( I am in the UK), but definitely old enough to understand that we might all be annihilated. The Cold War wasn't a good time and it went on for years, but the Cuba crisis seemed the worst

All the Ban the Bomb marches too. Constant worry about nuclear bombs.

I have candles and matches, and also salt! Plus plenty of dried food always in the cupboard. And we have a small store of bottled water plus some water purification tablets. We are all electric so a power cut (or worse) would be a problem... but hopefully mitigated a little by solar panels and a battery so we should have enough electricity to do a bit of cooking and to fill hot water bottles etc.
I do feel that a camping stove and gas bottles would be a good thing to have, I have books on wild food and foraging, so we shouldn't starve, for a while anyway.

It's something we have no control over so why worry. As far as being prepared, it would be like taking a dustpan and brush to an earthquake.