WHOA! British Official Warning Public: Stock up on food, water, canned goods & cash – enough to survive 1 month – Banks may CLOSE(Stock meltdown)

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up on canned food for stock market crash, warns former Gordon Brown adviser www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stock-up-on-canned-food-for-stock-market-crash-warns-former-gordon-brown-advisor-10469509.html

British Official Warning Public: Stock up on food, water, canned goods & cash – enough to survive 1 month – Banks may CLOSE(Stock meltdown) investmentwatchblog.com/whoa-british-official-warning-public-stock-up-on-food-water-canned-goods-cash-enough-to-survive-1-month-banks-may-closestock-meltdown/

of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's advisers is in full-blown panic mode over China's Black Monday uk.businessinsider.com/gordon-brown-adviser-damian-mcbride-full-blown-panic-mode-over-chinas-black-monday-2015-8

We have seen seeing the markets crashing everywhere. Governments from china to the US and EU are trying their best to simulate the economy and delay the inevitable. It is now official, there will be an stock market collapse, meaning the banks will be shut and with that everything coming to halt. No one will be at work, no imports will come in, food and medication selves will be empty, civil unrest, hungry and confused people etc... will follow. We have seen it happen to other countries like Greece, but this time no will be here to save our butts.

We dont know what simulation package (if any) will follow, but in the mean time it will be a good idea to have bear essentials like food/ water/ medication/ warm clothing and coal to hand. Im looking at it as buying insurance.

Just wondering how much food and other essentials you have got in your house. And would you be buying more stuff to protect your family, from a economic collapse.

Most people dont keep up to date on this stuff, if you have please share some info to help others understand what is happening.

Thanks

Sophie

Excellent plan, are they fully trained mini ninjas?

Absolutely PMSL at this:

"CosmicDespot Tue 01-Sep-15 01:53:36
So do vampires have to stand quietly on the front path if you refuse to let them in? Seems a bit of a design flaw in an evil being in all honesty."

Great thread!

I think there's a lot I think of sense in stockpiling a month's supplies for all sorts of reasons, health, weather, personal financial crisis, being able to help others in crisis but in a complete breakdown of society I don't think it would help me and mine. You'd have to be prepared/able to kill to defend it.

XCChamps, you will need to defend it, because people like FattyNinjaOwl will turn into zombies and try to loot you.

Having been in this situation, a group of people you know and trust is just as important as having supplies. Strength in numbers and a good hiding place is vital for survival. In the first month, a lot of people will die of hunger and lack of safe drinking water.

I don't plan on becoming a zombie! But I will loot if necessary

Where do you stockpile that level of water?

Well exactly but I think in the event dh and I would make ourselves comfy with dc and call it a day. No point having a stockpile unless you also have the guns (or whatever you need to kill a zombie) to defend it.

Desperate people act like zombies. Trust me, Ive been there and seen it. 99% of the population wont prepare and make excuses.

Those who have prepared, have made contingency plans to safeguard their supplies from looters. If you think you can just come into a home and there will be cans of beans to loot, your in the nasty surprise. And most likely that persons your trying to loot had the same idea as you, they didn't prepare either. His/her cupboards are empty. After a few days of drinking unclean water, I wonder if you still can stand.

I am not scaremongering you, this is just my experience.

There's plenty of shops though, more than enough there

Vertical storage is one way even very limited amount of space can be used to put away what someone's needs. There are all sorts of "dead spaces" around the home. Under the bed, closet shelves, or your garage are a couple of ideas. Square footage of a home is 2 dimensional, as there is usually about 8 feet of space up to down between ceiling to floor. Even people living in tiny apartments find room to store up emergency needs.

Just store what you normally use. This way, you just use what you have got and you buy new items to replace the one you have used.

Damn. Now I can't decide whether to kill my hench neighbour for his stockpiled water, or try to get him to be a person I trust. He's quite good looking.

There is nothing wrong with making sensible contingency plans for unexpected events but that is a world away from the hysterical scaremongering spouted by the OP and Mr. McBride.

The advice to withdraw all your money from the bank and stuff it under the mattress is dangerous and likely to cause the problems the OP and Mr. McBride are warning about. It's utterly irresponsible.

XCChamps, you don't need guns in a society where there isn't any guns. Plus if the shit in the fan, there will be guns on the black market. And the commodity used to trade are antibiotics, food, warm clothing and sensible shoes. You can make friends with these few items.

It might cost you a few hundred pounds now and a lot of time going on line to get coupons, but if it can save your child's life I think its worth it.

Now every time there is a news report like this one, I do not worry. I can enjoy my life. That's all because I have made plans to insurance against a crisis.

mimilovell do you mind me asking where your experience of this kind of thing is from?

Mimilovell, I can well believe it, which is why I tend to think it's all pointless. I don't think OP has any basis in fact but I do think it would take a relatively small "disaster" to bring life as we know it crashing down. UK is probably one of the worst places in the world to have to try and survive it because of the number of people in such a small area. It's defeatist and I'm not usually but I don't have the kind of network needed to survive (and protect the stockpile) so would probably choose to end it all quickly.

That said, I do always have plenty of food in, in case of much smaller scale difficulties such as being without a car for a while. Not sure how it's possible to store enough water though. There are always a few litres in the garage but that won't last long....

Can I ask what the situation you found yourself in was? I think we know from recent news reports that people in lots of places in the world are finding themselves in this situation, right now (not the zombies, but real situations that are probably worse)

Will the internet stop working? That's my biggest concern.

Because in the event of a food shortage we need to share recipes of frogs, put up pictures of plants asking AIBU to eat this and other random things like how to make your own bog roll.

Must order water sterilising tablets.

All's gloom and doom today...

coffee I presume it will stop working, everything else will. Just blame the zombies

My cupboards are full of an ironing board, steam mop, Hoover and suchlike. My wardrobes full of clothes. Who has house space for hundreds of pints of bottled water, seriously do people live like that?

My emergency plan: kidnap Ray Mears. He's both brilliant and a total sweetheart, so with him on-side we will have a good chance of having enough to eat AND of persuading enough people to behave properly that we have a good chance of restarting civilisation.

Mine are full of hidden Christmas presents and baby walkers and high chairs etc.
I don't have space for anything. I do need a clear out though and there's always the attic, but I'm not sure its stable up there, haven't been up in a while.

The infrastructure of the Internet is designed to be robust, multiply redundant and capable of surviving almost anything. However your chances of getting a good 3G signal to access it would be slimmer.

I am already down to my last Easter Egg here.

Personally, I'm fine. I have the OFRS packed and if necessary I will eat my children.

Best thing I've read in ages :)