What are you prepping for?

[AuntBess]

There's a thread elsewhere talking about a huge prepping thread and I couldn't locate it to research my answer so I'm asking.

What are you prepping for?

Of course, I understand prepping with a few bottled waters and canned food for extreme weather scenarios etc, but apart from that, what else is there to prep for? Furthermore, nothing is ever so bad in the UK that you'd need more than a few weeks supply at the very most!

stratter5 you must live nearish me. I've been scratching my head about those signs, thank you for illuminating. I live in a town that was flooded 18 months ago, thankfully we weren't directly affected but I know plenty of people who were. We are prepped for having to leave the house at short notice. Also prepped for power cuts, snow and so forth. I read the aibu thread with my gob hanging open, I really so think some people think they are Teflon coated. They refuse to believe that anyone else's life could be outside their own ocado flavoured bubble. I've been around a fair few years under various guises and even someone as daft as me can easily see that not everyone here is white middle class Home Counties. Very odd , that thread.

Hah Rainbow, I had to ask on Chat, nobody knew what they were for. You'd think the council would pop a leaflet through the door, my best guess was directions to the nearest A&E, until I saw the Boston ones went away from the hospital.

I'm not far from Louth. V quiet and sleepy where I live, v England in the '50's.

I think there were a few posters who were just spooling for a fight, dull weekend in November, and nothing better to do. They kind of reminded me of that Monty Python sketch, the one with the knight 'stand up and fight, you pansy'.

Still, excellent opportunity to make note of the goady fuckers.

question, what was this prepping thread i keep reading about here that was on aibu? that, tbh, is the last place to put a thread on a subject like this. like ringing a dinner bell for all the regular posting opinionated alpha nasty bags , they are the LAST people that would get this and even if they did, they would never admit it. not that i am the type to give a shit if they do or not

I thought they were something to do with building wind farms or summat. I'm slightly perturbed to find out there's an actual signposted route out that no one seems to know about, I may follow them one day to see where I end up and am debating whether to tell anyone else

[grin]@50's vibe, I moved here from a city, 'twas a massive culture shock, but still here nearly 20 yrs later so can't be all bad.

Yep, I'm in NZ in a little town right in the coast. It's a 5 minute walk from my house to the beach.

Earthquake and tsunami's a very real threat hence the sirens we have all through town.

It's a very flat town and would be wiped out if a tsunami did hit.

Financially, we are ok at the moment but I know redundancy and job losses could come at any time so I really should prepare ourselves for not having money coming in at some point.

Dp thinks I'm mad so I'm trying to get prepared without going over the top. Not sure how that is working out so far.

Here jean. All the goady fucked came crawling out of the woodwork, latched onto one post from another thread, and ran with it. Lot of MH insults slung at posters on here. Ideal opportunity to update your Shit List.

You'll just end up here, on the Wolds. Apparently there are designated 'refugee points' where we will all be given a blanket and a cup of tea, whilst waiting for the flood to sweep the rest of Lincolnshire away.

I have no idea where our point is. Like the signs, nobody thought to tell us.

So basically you turn your back to Boston and head for the icicle wee hills, sound advice

I'll be ok for a blanket though, got one in the car, a hot cuppa would be welcome though as one would tire of water, dried fruit and oatcakes rather quickly and a cup of tea always soothes in times of crisis.

i found it stratter made quite entertaining reading, usual bitchy bollocks from some hormonal frustrated females spewing bile for no reason. what the fuck has it got to do with them if there is a preppers thread . i recon deep down it taps into a fear, or has awoken something within a few of them although it comes out as anger towards others to hide it. you have to be a prepper to understand. it's not just about storing a few fucking tins of baked beans in the cupboard. it is a mindset. it's about being realistic, being aware of scenarios, knowledge etc. dh hasn't got a clue about any of this but he doesn't need to have as i would have thought it out already. i have plans in my head as to different places to go, different things to do in different situations, weapons, you name it......mind you, i have always been a bit 'odd', he just puts this element about me as part of that but there is more to it than that...

That's an interesting idea.
Do you think a prepper would be standing in a holiday resort, insisting that they need evacuating Right Now but refusing to leave without their luggage? Or would they have more of a sense of perspective?

The Christmas Preppers have started...

Hi everyone. I've come back here as I'm worn out by all the bitchiness.

I love reading about all the far flung countries like New Zealand. Which coast are you on Delta?

It is interesting that preparedness is seen as really niche and yet there are lots of people posting happily on these sites and finding out new practical information.

I thought it was ironic how many were posting saying they had XYZ just in case, but absolutely were not prepping.

It's the same old posters having a ruck. The MN equivalent of bedbugs, annoying, impossible to get rid of, and riddled with bile.

But if you say you had all your Christmas presents ready and wrapped in September, that's just fine apparently.

But if you have a box of spare batteries and a full tin cupboard, you're a nutter.

I just love the assumption that they'll just go to the shops or get it delivered - because "Lucasz" in his minimum wage delivery role really gives two fucks about your anti-pasti and prosecco when he could be taking it home to his family instead.

One of those refrigerated vans of food would be first to be taken. Hopefully Lucas, will be sensible and let the looters -parents of starving toddler next door take the Ocado delivery, the people on the aibu thread will understand.

Where did Iris get this starving toddler thing from? And who called her a 'slaggy wanker'?

With the risk of sounding like a strange child I do recall making sure I had some biscuits and maybe a pound in my pocket for unforetold emergencies when I was very little, like 5 years old. Maybe I thought I'd get lost forever when shopping with my mum or something. Though when it did actually happen I'm told I very sensibly found my way back to our parked car and waited there weeping until I was found.

No idea, they were fixated on the toddler, not the non prepper ready to get her dh to stab or shoot preppers.

" LadyMaryofDownt0n Sun 08-Nov-15 20:06:06:
I'd love to tell them all (the hateful ones) to fuck clean of! Slaggy wankers

I got to the bit where we are all "thick" "

On the thread talking about attitudes to prepping. Wasn't directly at anyone but seems iris felt that it was meant to describe her specifically..

warmastoast brownies dictate - phone money and biscuit. Goes like this : walk home from brownies, phone mum from corner to say nearly home and have eaten bourbon.

brownies and Boy Scouts are proper preppers! Be Prepared!

Ah well, maybe it hit a nerve.

Well fuck me, I've found my people

I had no idea there was a board on here for this. I finally let my curiosity get the better of me after seening all these prepper thread titles.

Even in rl I've not come across anyone who 'gets' it , DH doesn't, which has over the years led to me not prepping as I really want too.

I grew up in a village that would be snowed in for a week or more and have power cuts at the same time. As a child I loved it.
We had solid fuel central heating off the open fire, a two ring and grill camping stove, paraffin lamps and candles. Plenty of food stocked, large water bottle in the under stairs cupboard, df use to do a massive food shop, if it was forecast heavy snow that day.

Later dh and me lived in a place that flooded, we were very lucky we were not flooded but the houses oppersite were, our sunk garden fill up 2 half foot to the back door and we lost electricity for a couple of days. The local shops were flooded out, as well as the a near by super market.

I .have a 2 ring and grill camping stove. A small petrol generator (they were on sale a few years ago at macro)
Tin foods and long life milk etc...

I have been looking at getting a portable gas fire/s.

I've not read the thread in aibu and not sure I want to.