Preparing for War or Apocalypse

[CantBelieveNaive]

Am I the only one low level preparing for a disaster?
I'm low level feeling that there is some type of disaster on the horizon, be it a war, mass disease or other occurrence.
Have I watched too many apocalyptic films?
I have lots of tinned food, tin openers, water, disaster plans including lists of written phone numbers. Also plan to collect family members quickly to keep us all safe and good relationships with neighbours so we can survive together if needed.
I feel that we see so many war torn countries, war on women, natural disasters etc etc is it a logical conclusion to prepare for the worst?
Anyone else?
Genuine question.

Thankfully I'm in zone 2/3 so I will be dead VERY quick in a nuclear disaster

If it brings you some comfort to be prepared, then go for it.

I haven't the time, space nor money to prep. I wouldn't want to survive I don't think, as society would fall apart and that feels far scarier than the disease/apocalypse itself.

@CantBelieveNaive This all sounds quite a stressful way to live. Are you ok? I guess you'd probably need a few cans of petrol to get you to various family members but where would you plan to go? I think the UK is quite densly populated, unlike the US where you could feasibly have a bunker somewhere. And is it worth living in such a scenario?

🤣 but seriously you never know what you're capable of til you try xx

What’s your address Op? Just in case 😆

I suppose. I might team with that poster to go and raid the shed with the 900 loo rolls if I am still alive😂

I don’t understand how people can prep enough water? You’d needs hundreds of litres to last? 2 litres per person a day, 14litres a week per person. For a family of 4 a week you’d need 56 litres. That’s a lot of water.

Definitely not stressing about it but I think of the future a lot. 👉🏽👉🏽 Used to do event planning so always 9 months ahead ! Also a mum of two and that makes more safety and survival modes kick in I think.
My kids think I'm mad anyway but Covid happened, so not quite so mad now! 😜

Me too! I’ve also assigned jobs to family members.

Thanks for all your funny and intelligent responses!
I love Mumsnetters 💕🏆💕🏆

I do understand OP, it does sometimes feel like we are teetering on the precipice and that the world is in an utter state atm. But twas always thus.

God i hope i dont survive an apocalypse, I'm a fat bugger, somebody would want to eat me

You can drink your urine once a day. Need fresh water in between.

@Chanelbasketballandchain ha ha. Ice you're not eating as much, you wont need as much loo roll! 😁

This. Haven't you seen The Last of Us? I'd rather have died in that initial spray of bullets.

No I don't do any of this, far too busy enjoying my life. You could've done the same in the time you spent doing all that too!

I was prepped for Brexit and a new baby which meant when covid struck I was positively swimming in bog rolls and pasta, thank you.

Not saying I had any sort of DIAGNOSED anxiety issues, but we didn't set foot in a physical shop for twelve months... (Got deliveries, but the stuff I had stashed was a godsend.)

Everyone lolling at this thread has very quickly forgotten the shortages of summer 2020 and how hard it was to get deliveries or get hold of particular items.

Now I'm a single parent with a small child and have no time to be as prepared, but frankly I'm not ditching the tin cupboard or the wind up radio just yet.

Lol I'm in the NW, how about you?
Could you bring any survival skills to the basement? <half jokes> 😁

I don’t think anyone who has watched ‘Threads’ would want to survive an apocalypse. Terrified the life out of me!

Unless the apocalypse/war was worldwide (in which case pass me the vodka) I think the best prep would be a car, a valid passport, a load of cash, jewellery you could pawn and a sleeping bag. I'd be straight to the airport/ferry port/small boat for a one way ticket out of here.

My tins always end up rusty so no tins for me. I have a torch, paracetamol and would like some water purifier maybe. Food for about a week but it wouldn't be high end restaurant. 3 meagre litres of water in case of disaster for 4 people. Is it much? No. Is it enough? Maybe. No disaster like this was here yet.

No, it will take more than some tins, bottled water and tin openers to survive a war. Let alone anything bigger. You need fairly good medical knowledge, defensive skills and the ability to take a life if it came to it.

Honestly, I’m not sure I want to though. I don’t want to necessarily spend endless days in a refugee camp at the mercy of the Red Cross, wondering if my family are dead or somewhere lost in the camp. Watching people around me slowly starve. Watching as simple infections kill people. I have a young child so people will automatically know how to exploit me, through threatening them.

For any sort of environmental/nuclear disaster or the zombie apocalypse, I don’t have the medical knowledge to survive. I don’t have the hunter skills to get food. I’d be useless at trying to kill an animal, I have no idea how to prepare meat from scratch. I can’t even grow tomatoes on a tomato plant so I’m not going to have my own off-grid garden. I’m not going to win in a fight against someone who comes to take my food or shelter or medicines. I hope I’m part of the first wave gone and if not, you’ll probably find I’ve traded everything remotely valuable for some cyanide pills.

Is that book scary? 📖 if its useful as a planning tool or to help me think ahead would def get it.
Sorry if I'm scaring anyone.
I like being prepared 🤔🆘😘

I don't know if you are but we've been here so many times that it's boring. Been reading a history book about the 1970s and people went on like this then. And here we still are.
YAButterlyU and paranoid.

Not this again. These posts are way too regular and do little other than scare people.