To take notice of daily fails headline to invest in an emergency war pack?

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So this morning I wake up and whilst browsing phone saw the headline. I ordered a £16 battery radio plus batteries from Argos & went shopping for bottled water & tinned foods. Family think I’ve gone nuts.
am also going to get a little metal box for documents and some cash next week. I recall the the US fires that’s some people wished they had done that.
where can I get a metal box from? Have a metal filing cabinet was going to put all the important docs in a portable one inside it.
surely I am not the only to do this ? I am not a conspiracy theorist by the way but know some that have planned for nuclear attack for years

If Armageddon occurs, why would you want your passport? All bets will be off.

It’s quite sensible really. So long as it doesn’t cost you much, you are buying some reassurance.

TbH the security situation is really ropey. Having a bit of stuff you can do and that is within your control is useful - just do it. Add: basic medicines, iodine, enough food to be able to stay in the house for a few days.

When’s the war going to come?

A metal box won't keep paper documents safe in a fire.

If you think you'd need a battery radio, then you'd need, candles, lighters and camping stove etc. Realistically if the shit hits the fan, you'd need enough men you can trust to guard the women/girls in the family. What do you think you are going to do with the cash? We aren't going to war in that way.

There’s common sense…and there is the usual shit level of scaremongering ‘journalism’ offered by the DM. It makes sense to have a few bits put by for any sort of emergency, but the way that DM have framed this is terrible. It would be so refreshing to see this irresponsible rag held to account.

I saw that. I'm going to ask my son. He'll know.

I am sorry that you read the Daily Mail and allow their journalism to affect you in the way it has.. I know other newspapers and the BBC are declining in their standard of journalism, but that is no defence.

Proof of identity I guess it said to have that, insurance policies deeds of house. I guess it covers major fires or floods which we unlikely to have in the uk.

Rymans sell them -

https://www.ryman.co.uk/burg-wachter-fireproof-chest-safe-1

Why would you need your documents if you are dead. Everybody else will be so who will check them.
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What would? Do you know ? Major house fires do happen although rare ? Thank you

Our insurance details and deeds got burnt in our house fire.

We still got the insurance and we still own the house. Yet we had copies of neither deeds nor insurance papers.

LOL that’s what my husband said. Said be wishing die as quick as possible not survive a nuclear war!

A safe or metal box is essential in case of a fire but not for the reasons you are going to boy one and I agree with your family that you are nuts.

I’m really sorry that happened to you. It must have been devastating

It’s not essential in case of fire. It makes no difference to any documentation.

What would iodine be used for ?

I'm with your husband.

If we end up under nuclear attack, I'll be going out and standing in the street not hiding in the house with a few days worth of food and a couple of candles!

DH is ex military and worked in many a dodgy situation. He allowed my paranoia to stretch to a camping stove, candles, bottled water, some tins and noodles, and a wind up radio. The only reason he indulged me that though was because we used to live rurally and had many a power cut where they came in handy! Oh! Head torches as well!

I always have a few weeks worth of food, around 90l of water and loo roll etc never runs out. Candels, batteries, lamps, basic painkillers.

We was fine at start of covid lockdown panic buying. Fine when the power goes out. Fine for the first 24-48 hours of no water.

It doesn't cost much if you buy one extra thing a week until your stock is up to two extra weeks worth.

Also I have cash. A few times the supermarkets have had visa go down etc. Cash machine empties within the hour.

To those commenting about the Daily Mail you are right. I’m normally pretty relaxed but it made me panic a bit today so I was wondering whether anyone else took any notice. It won’t have been a good headline for anyone who already has anxiety for sure. Like some of the Covid scaremongering headlines.

luckily I can afford some extra cans of food and cheap radio but I know plenty other people can barely afford to feed themselves atm.

To the poster who mentioned about strong men to protect women - war is just awful there’s so many poor people suffering. We are so lucky in the UK. It’s just not great with Putlin & Trump in power

OP, are you 12? if you read the mail, you don’t have to disguise it by being so predictable as to call it ‘daily fail’. It’s a bit immature.

Every other thread on this forum is someone quoting from the Mail, but being very careful to insert ‘daily fail’. We can clearly see you read it. If you read it, why not own it.

Embarrassing and pathetic.

The intensely high temperatures in a serious fire would cause the paper to combust inside the box were it to become engulfed.

Better to go Viking and bury your hoard, sealed securely, in the garden. However, in case of displacement, which is likely in war, you'd then be separated from your essential items.

How about some sort of lightweight metal canister with a screw lid (about the size of a kitchenroll spool) into which you can roll your documents and easily keep about your person; if you manage to safely evacuate a burning building / swim ashore a flooded riverbank / withstand a explosive blast, so will your canister.