AIBU to think the stockpile advice suggests something to come??

[OhNoooooooooooooooo]

The government is low-key telling people to stock up with tinned food, bottled water etc

I have tinned food, gas camping stoves etc just need to think about water really..

Do you think that they know something is happening/going to happen?

You'll need mega stocks of Andrex after eating that 😊

Sorry non camper here, so I really basic question. Where should I store a gas camping stove?

In your shed, in a cupboard. Anywhere you fancy really. Mines in a cupboard in my dining room the little gas canister is disconnected.

One of these types. They come in a hard plastic carry case.

www.halfords.com/camping/cooking-equipment/halfords-portable-gas-stove-532534.html?cm_mmc=Google+PLA--Motoring%3ECamping%3ECooking+Equipment--Motoring%3ECamping%3ECooking+Equipment-_-532534&srsltid=AfmBOooCLnYmhFGINj3lT8mo9uGTB06WPdo3Pr95HkXANeUvsxsNss06fUU

According to the Daily Mail which is usually doom ridden it is for crisis which may happen in the food supply chain. Extreme weather, cyber attacks and disease are mentioned. Government probably don't want another thing like in Covid where some people only had half a loo roll and one days food in stock.

Thanks for the recommendation.

You say this, but honestly you could tell that COVID was going to result in supply shock and be a genuine problem very early on from what was happening in China. People who were paying attention and saying this at the end of January/ beginning of February 2020 were ridiculed and written off as preppers. Even if they were known to be very sensible heads.

Then when the shit did start to hit the fan, I was shocked at how many people were really caught out by it all.

I am seeing the same pattern now. There is a build up of issues which are liable to either reach a crisis point or we will have a system failure. DHs job means I am aware of outages more than most and the fragility of a lot of system people are under the mistaken belief are robust and secure. Not to mention how much of a bloody car crash over reliance on AI without the back up of human critical thinking is.

I don't think it's doom mongering. I think it's simply prudence which is massively out of fashion.

It makes sense to have some back up water and food in the house. I don't have much space but always have a few bits and a couple of large bottles of water each.

Covid was funny in that sense. I remember following the stuff in China. Telling dh and he thought I was being a bit tin foil hat but indulged me and started adding extras to each shop but we were never going to lock down.

I was sat on the news and webpages as one of our children had a trip with their activity and I was very much a oh what if it gets cancelled. No it won’t. Well he was right there it didn’t. The day after the trip however we locked down.

He listens now when I say to stock up on stuff.

Today's news from the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp931m8n3p5o
Stock up says minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4g6meekro
Europe targeted by Russia in a campaign of Sabotage.

Nevermind the one yesterday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgyqey6rlyo
Army told to cancel non-essential training.

If you are calling people tinfoilers and banging on about WW3, you are the one who is going to get caught out for not paying attention.

We are being told crisis are likely and not expect help from the authorities immediately in a crisis.

Oh it's the weather this week is it? 🙄 I thought it was war. Was that last week? I can't be bothered keep up.

There are loads of countries where people just get on with the emergency store cupboards without fuss.

They have tv ads in prime time spots about civil defence, earthquake drills in schools, etc. Public sector staff do mandatory training on civil defence alongside how to lift a heavy box or use a stepladder.

There are some odd individuals who feel the need to resist any attempt make the UK nation less helpless in a crisis. I don't understand the resistance, does it impact your civic freedom or something?

We haven't been given messages this clear for ages. They obviously think there is a real risk of significant disruption resulting in situations where we won't get any external help for a while. Anyone who isn;t listening and isn't stocking up is a fool.

@Yodeldodeldo it's because it is decades since most British people have experienced an emergency. I haven't had any power cuts since the 1970s that have lasted more than a few minutes. We had the petrol crisis and COVID, but shops remained open and water came out of the tap.

People probably think the government is going to bring a food package round their house, they seem to expect the government to do everything else.

No. They don't think it will be necessary. All the shops shutting is fairly unimaginable. Sure not being able to buy the food you want, but having zero food available to buy is unimaginable

Anyone with half a brain would realise that if we get power issues then no shops will be open since none of their systems will work - lights, electric doors, security cameras, tills, freezers, banking systems - all go down.

Also, given how people get into fights over a Black Friday discounted tv, I don't think I want unnecessary trips to supermarkets if food shortages get bad.

All the shops shutting is very imaginable if card payment systems and atms go down.

Exactly. They can't even take cash payments if there's no power because they can't safely open the shop.

Agree. I recently received a high value voucher I could use at my usual supermarket; I have a disabled DH and whilst we already had a good stock, I've ordered a delivery, all items we use anyway which I can use and replace, and non perishables like toiletries etc. Great if there's never an emergency, nothing lost. If there is I don't need to get anything for quite a while. I think the 72hr period a lot of countries work on, the time its felt it would take to reorganise after a big power outage/cyber event is pretty realistic.

Yep. We have two and approximately at the moment 14 cans or so. Stored in hall cupboard, which has a battery light so I can find it easily.

Our water butts are all full and the sealed type, comes to about 1000 litres all told. Can be boiled (we have the necessary gas stoves and gas canisters) DH also has water purification tabs (he's ex military, I'd say he's cautious rather than a full on prepper 😅). And like everything else we've stocked up on, if we don't use it we'll use it in the garden at some point. There's something he did to also stop the water freezing.

We have bottled water, I do have purification tablets on my shopping list 😅 push comes to shove id use the water out of the pool.

Im sure dh actually has a water distiller somewhere in the back of a shed.

👍😊

The craziest item we have which wasn’t purchased as a prep. My husband likes to go to storage auctions and stuff.

He came home with a 8 person life raft 🤣🫣 ready for great floods apparently.