Blimey, is this topic "Zombie apocalypse conspiracy theory nuclear bomb sharknado paranoia" in disguise?

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I go away for a few weeks, and all "one flew over the cuckoos nest" breaks lose!

I'm off to Home Decor those fuckers need showing it's just bloody paint slap it on and shut up.

Stratters - I was planning on asking the council if they needed any gritter/plough drivers this winter but single motherdom put pay to that! Locking up is unheard of here. I nipped into the doc on Friday and ended up spending over an hour there. Keys in the ignition and handbag on the front seat.

Honestly, real life takes over for a couple of days and the world goes mad!

No, not the Preppers.

The rest of the stupid sods who can't understand that if you live in a town that bad weather probably means very little, but to those of us more rural it's a substantially bigger deal.

And I live in a highly populated Midlands county, we have a major motorway 3 miles away as the crow flies. But our tiny village of less than 90 people doesn't have a shop (nearest one 2 miles away) or a doctors or a handy 24hr petrol station (I have to go to the big town for that, 8 miles away).

We get flooded in roughly once a year. When that bad snow came in 2010 we were snowed in for a week.

My DS has type 1 diabetes.

If I don't prep it could have substantially awful consequences.

There is nothing wrong in preparing for bad weather.
But a whole topic?

I guess the snow does not last long enough, and happen often enough to have one of these to clear your long drives:
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Quite right, Quint -we don't have enough snow, often enough to e as prepared as some of the really snowy countries. So it doesn't make economic sense for the UK govt /councils /train companies etc to have loads of snow ploughs and other cleary stuff, and loads of staff, just sitting around, ready, depreciating.

And there the snow does impact is more rural, less economically important. So it moves down the priority list yet more.

So some people take precautions.

That's it in a nutshell. Not sure why people get so outraged.

Nobody is forcing you to read/post here. I don't go on other boards and exclaim "Oh, a whole board for Sky Fairy worship, are you quite sure you need that?"

You've had a lot of help and advice from MN in the past. And nobody has ever asked you if you really need to post another thread about it.

Indeed, if you don't like it the door goes into customise where you can hide the whole thing like magic like it doesn't exist

I was just going to apologize for starting this thread, as it was in bad judgement. Clearly people can post about what they want. I was just trying to be a bit humourous, but it was ill received. I did not mean to get anybodys backs up. Like I said, I can get preparing for snow and bad weathers.

BUT, I just have to respond to this:

And nobody has ever asked you if you really need to post another thread about it

You clearly have not read my threads Stratters! (I dont blame you)

My past threads are always brought up, even several years back, and I receive much ridicule and negative feedback. All the problems I had back then are flushed into my face with a "you found things difficult then, surely it will be as difficult now" and I end up trying to explain how things could be different, and get something close to character assassination in return. Then I go into a dark room and cry. So no, the few people who are critical and seem to follow me around like flies to fresh turd, stick in my mind, sadly not all those great and supportive souls (there are many dont get me wrong). So I use the site differently now. Not for support, I seek that real life. I am lucky that I have friends and family to talk things through with. Life is actually clearer and less confusing now that I have stopped using MN and its million voices for help and support.

But why is that such a danger now? What will be different this winter?

It was 17 degrees in London the other day!

It is 24°C in my garden right now. That does not stop this (see image from most reliable weather app I have used for the last 4 years) .... being a concern.

A normal winter sees us blocked down here for three days, twice a winter.

"Marauding Polar Bear" style of cold front might be considerably worse.

Which does not fill me with joy when the already aged and unreliable electrical sub station we get our power from has been staggering around in the leccy providing stakes since it got hit a few weeks ago in a Once in Lifetime storm. Which also killed my modem and Sky Box. That bastard.

I'd like to get through this winter as painlessly as possible, should it turn out to be an accurate forecast and A Great Freeze once again turns my rural oasis into a sparkly, pretty bubble I can't actually leave until there's a thaw.

It's not you quint, we've had a lot of nastiness pointed our way the past few days and we're still a bit bristly and without humour.

i'm getting really pissed off with the nosey twats who keep coming over here talking down to us who have an interest in prepping. here is a word of advice FUCK OFF. basically. you have to go out of your way to actually find the category for Preppers, so leave it the fuck alone if it irritates you. personally, i think it touches a nerve deep down inside which is why on the surface they are laughing at us but really, they envy the fact that we have a stored stash and they don't

quint clearly you're in no position to judge others given that you appear to be familiar with "sharknado"!

But if you're only taking about a possible week of snow why do you need antibiotics and shotguns?

No problems with quint, and actually this title was/is quite funny (its just our collective hive mood is somewhat sour at the moment!!), but i wonder what hq would make of us going into subjects that we find weird and calling them all mental, posting about it in aibu and making satirical threads all over mn about it?

Personally, i dont 'get' cats.

The antibiotics has been slowly and clearly explained as needed for a chronic, long term issue.

And I think about 3 posters have guns, and they're not for arming oneself agains ravening hordes.

We are talking about real scenarios. But does it hurt anyone to go "hmm, i wonder how our stuff would fare in an actual shtf apocalypse?"
Why does that hypothetical musing attract more dissenters than someone saying in the TWD tv thread that they plan to hole up in B&Q?

I need guns as we hunt.
Axes, chainsaws for cutting wood.
Tractor and atv for.clearing snow.
Wood stove and fire for heat and cooking.
Lots of knives, blade sharpeners for butchering and general life.
Medicines for general life with two toddlers.
Lamps, candles, matches, usb charger, so I can see and care for the kids during power cuts and contact work.
Food for you know eating.
Well just happens to be here but easier than melting snow I suppose.

What do you need every item in your house!

I have a filleting knife. Proper scary sharp filleting knive. I've probably used it maybe 3 times.

We also have a gun. Because DH shoots. People do actually legitimately own guns. Personally I prefer my hockey/polo sticks as a form of self defence. They've never been used, but I'm on my own most of the time as DH is looking after his parents a couple of hundred miles away; they make me feel a bit safer. I appreciate that's all psychological, and I'd never use them, but there's nothing wrong with feeling better about something

I don't have a shotgun or lots of antibiotics.

I do have 400 needles, 1200 lancets, 800 test strips and a months worth of insulin in the fridge. Is that acceptable?

I am feeling a bit sore by your grouchiness bertrand, and it has come as a bit of a shock as I normally enjoy your posts (esp. The feminist board ones).

Very few of us are actually organising ourselves for TEOTWAWKI, we are just doing the things we feel are important, just in case.

I imagine my flute could hit someone quite hard....?

My mum always used to keep a hammer under the bed. I wonder if she still does.

I dont even know what teotewanky means

I don't have guns or antibiotics, I do have a CPAP, tens, neurofen gel, Movicol and antihistamines.

I do, I have doxycycline, metronidazole, prednisone, Actiqu, and a boxful of regular meds.

The End Of The World As We Know It.

Yes, I will make those non preppers scared when they come for my beans and candles, a Movicol shake should get them moving.

' I still don't get why you need a whole topic about it though? Just get some cans in, stock up your freezer and make sure you've got a few candles and batteries for your torch. Job done! '

I feel the same about S&B. I have clothes and shoes and stuff to get me clean and moisturised, why bother having a whole topic about it?
To have the company of like-minded people, to share tips and new discoveries, to problem-solve in theory and in practice. To drop in the occasional fantastical reference with no thought to it becoming reality.
Yet somehow, we are the latest water-cooler target for the bored and unpleasantly spiteful.
Yes, we know that we'll be yesterday's news fairly shortly, and the mob will move on to the next group they consider weird and scary or sad. But it hets a bit wearisome.
What harm are we doing? Except to the hysterical Maude Flanders types or the total conformists who are suspicious of any who don't think like them?