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

I have most this stuff as we are campers. I also have DS. He’s my secret weapon once the apocalypse arrives - he’s fast, agile and excellent with an axe.

@PhilippaGeorgiou - Almost as much good advice as reading "When the Wind Blows " or "On the Beach " 😂

I can see torches and cash etc are a good idea for power cuts but I too have seen Threads - A few provisions aren't going to cut that.

Can't hurt to get some bottled water and tinned food in, since you evidently have the room. Not so much because of nuclear Armageddon, but things like water leaks, storms, Russia fucking about with the IT systems that run everything etc. I usually have about £50 in the house too.

If we're ever in a situation in the UK that you need a battery powered radio to be able to get any news or updates then all the torches, bottled water and tinned food you can horde won't be enough to save you or your family.

Society will have already broken down too far and you'll probably be robbed and killed by a panicking horde before the radiation or disease or whatever gets you.

I'm blown away after reading a few more posts.

In what scenario do you imagine that you'd need both a clockwork radio and your passports and debit cards, in this 'emergency pack'?

If a nuclear bomb or disease or cyber attack has taken out all of our electric/TV's/newstations for instance - do you imagine that our banks or airports or passport control are going to be functional?!

You'll be burning those little books of paper in a fire in your back garden for warmth because you'll have no need for a passport!

A taxi driver in Australia once told me that his family left their war torn country when they had the chance. He said that his Dad had kept ahead of the information & made a decision for the family to leave before it was too late. That was his parting advice - think ahead and make decisions before the herd because the people who think ahead survive. I thought it was great advice in general. If things worsened I would say there would be a run on passports and wait times & by then be too late.

I think it’s always a good idea to be prepared with medications in our new era & I think with the threats to power I would add thermal blankets to the list also.

We are lucky enough to live close enough to, 2 US air force baises and one UK one that in the event of a nuclear war the chances of us serving are extremely low. I don't want to be aroundfor the aftermath.

For those wondering Iodine tablets can be taken to reduce the effects of radiation.

I would, quite literally, die without my regular medications. That's the point I was making.

We’re only just over 5 years from the start of the first Covid lockdowns. I’d like to think I’ve got enough in, so that DD and I can stay away from people fighting over loo roll in Tesco and wait until things calm down.

Audit of tins, freezer, dry food, bottled water. We eat these anyway and refill in the weekly shop.

A small amount of cash in case the banking system is hit and card / phone payments don’t work.

We already have a battery radio, various torches and solar lamps, a camp stove, battery packs, warm layers for camping.

As others have said, none of the above will help if we get nuked but I think it’s more likely that we will see an attack on our infrastructure which will cause a few days of chaos. It might be the banking system, it might be the electricity grid, who knows. But having a bit extra in, some cash and a few days of back up for utilities black outs is a good idea anyway.

Exactly.

Like many of you, I don't actually want to survive a nuclear attack. But I'd quite like to be able to stay fed, watered and as comfy as possible at home in the event of some annoying thing that causes chaos for a few days then ultimately peters away.

I expect there'd be emergency provisions soon enough, but queuing up for ages would be boring.

Yes it can. Friend's flat was gutted by fire. Insurance documents in a metal biscuit tin were singed but readable, and it made things a lot easier to claim for.

Helps radio and battery sales I suppose. Otherwise, no, you're totally crackers.

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!

Me too. I shall grab dh and the pets and march towards the mushroom cloud.

Sorry but this made me laugh out loud.

That's amazing! Good to know.

Stop reading that poor excuse for a "news" paper and educate yourself properly.

If we have a nuclear attack there won't be much left of the Country so I think I'd rather not survive. My late Father's advice if we get the 4minute warning was we should stick our head between our legs and kiss our arses goodbye
I think his advice was right, I've no wish to I've in a nuclear winter so I'll take it.

See you out there!!!

No way, do I have any desire to be here after a nuclear attack!!

I don't prep for extreme events like nuclear war as there's no way to prepare for that, you're just buying time till the inevitable happens. I prep for shorter emergenices like being too ill to go out or being snowed in, power failures, burst water mains, that sort of thing.

OP that’s exactly what it was designed to do (like the Covid headlines), to keep you in a permanent state of panic. It’s fear mongering.

Please don’t take any notice of a daily mail headline like this.

Only 2 people on this thread have noticed that European countries have been advising just what the OP read in the Mail. If you read European media, there’s some unease about what could happen on various fronts. British media is not so on the ball.
why this was in the Mail, I can’t say, but it’s standard advice - we are the outliers, in fact.

Agree with above. Seems the DM is just giving out the same information as the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and German governments. Pity our government and the darling national BBC isn't.

I already have a permanent weeks supply of most things but realised I don't have a single bottle of water or any other form of drinkable liquid as I prefer tap water or tea.