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.

The important question here is can you do it blind fold?

At my office we had to come up with various emergency plans and our “incident away’ plan -the one where we have to evacuate and meet somewhere off-site plan includes a meetup at the closest bar. Weirdly that one saw the most drills 🤣

@RedToothBrush I recently saw a brilliant plan for zombies and that was to put treadmills all around your house lol

I know most replies have been scornful but tbh it does all feel a bit ominous and it doesn't hurt to have a bit of stuff put by. People took the piss greatly when people were worried about this new virus in China...

It's just a cold they said ]. Storm in a teacup they said. Three weeks later aaaagh disinfect the mail hah.

It’s handy to have a few tins and bottles of water in case of an emergency. But any longer than a couple of days and society will start to break down. Do you really think you’d be able to keep your food if another family with a couple of big burly blokes was also hungry? No, they’d take it off you! So what’s the point?

It’s handy to have a few tins and bottles of water in case of an emergency. But any longer than a couple of days and society will start to break down. Do you really think you’d be able to keep your food if another family with a couple of big burly blokes was also hungry? No, they’d take it off you! So what’s the point?

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I prep and have gone some way to being self sufficient. I use all sorts of techniques to preserve home grown veg and fruit and bought meat. We are not reliant on electricity, oil or gas. I have supplies of water. I have learnt the war-time home survival skills of my great grandparents. It has taken years of learning and practice. It is a hobby as much as anything. I grew up wanting to be one of ‘ The Waltons’ children.
One of the reasons - we live reasonably comfortably in the uk now, but things could easily go backwards in terms of food and energy security. They could get worse in times of high inflation, civil unrest, pandemic or cyber attack. I’m not thinking Armageddon.
Another reason - we live organically, additive and preservative free, using no supermarket bought products, meat from hobby farms, veg from the garden, eggs from our chickens. Our food is local. We only buy essentials new. Everything else second hand.
But I’m not kidding myself, without my daily supply of heart drugs I’d be dead.
I had hoped to pass these skills on to my children. Their lives are too fast paced although both aspire to this lifestyle.
It’s hard work. Dh is an engineer working over 50 hours per week, I work in admin 25 hours.

Everyone thinks about nuclear attack when talking about this, in which case I agree that anyone who has 'prepped' would just be keeping the inevitable at bay slightly longer than everyone else and I am not sure it's worth it.

But I think the basic advice to have some tinned food, water, first aid supplies and battery operated torches / lights is perfectly sensible. I am no expert on this but this the more likely things we could be dealing with are weather events and cyber attacks that could impact the national infrastructure, locally or across the country. In that case, having short term supplies to see you through e.g. a sustained power outage could make a big difference, especially for vulnerable people who can't easily get out.