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I do have some experience with how society would currently cope with a prolonged power outage due to some exercises that have been run over the last couple of years.

What people don't understand is if there was a major power outage, either regionally or nationally, not a lot is going to be working. Mobile phone towers will stop working within an hour, as most have no backup power. Normal telephone lines now depend on the internet and will stop working immediately. Petrol station pumps will not work. Shops will not be able to open and would likely be limited to taking cash only if they did open. THen they would need to be re-supplied somehow.

Water supply would last a little while, but if you cant pump diesel to transport to the generator that pump water around the system, then the water system will fail, and with the state of our rivers, if you are able to get water you will need to purify it.

So, having a few staple foods, a supply of fresh water, water purification methods, spare batteries for a portable radio and torches, cooking facilities of some description that doesn’t depend on mains gas or electricity may be a good idea.

And all this doesn’t even look at how the NHS, Police and Fire Service would cope. For example, the Police use a digital radio system, which would pretty much stop working in the event of a major outage.

Anyway, each to there own, some will take a few precautions, the rest will panic and wished they had ;)
 
Im not an end of the world, zombie apocalypse 'prepper'....but I don't like to be 'unprepared' for situations. By that I mean I've always got a decent about of fresh bottled water, batteries, first aid kit, fire extinguisher, medication, useful books etc to hand. The list could go on.

It's unlikely we will experience a full blown invasion (although it doesn't seem impossible these days) but it's always good to be prepared for small scenarios like power cuts, failed services, infrastructure attack/collapse.

I don't think that's irrational or unusual, it just seems sensible to me.
 
Bighit said:
It was bad for a lot of people Richard. As you experienced , The Council started taking the Coal fires out houses in areas who were badly affected and the SNP and the Greens wanted log burners banned from new builds or conversions 🙄.
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And yet unlike wind turbines which never pay for their "Carbon Footprint" burning wood is completely carbon neutral.

Less, far less money in it for them though, wonder if that has anything to do with it?🤔
 
Inca said:
They look an interesting trio.
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Mark Palmer said:
I think it is mildly amusing that during the cold war, the govt built shelters for politicians and councillors all over the country, but nothing for the people, with the expectation that the survivors would willingly obey the high and mighty when it's safe for them to stick their heads out of the hatch 🤔
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And all the shelters are now abandoned broken into and vandalised or full of water and no good to anyone
What a fcukin waste of tax payers money
 
Twoplusfour1 said:
I don't need to prepare for anything. My neighbour down the street is an avid prepper and hates violence. I'm much bigger and stronger than him so in essence, if it comes to it he's prepped for me.
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I've seen you watch me with my many bags of shopping. Eyeing them up like a lion does with a gazelle 😂
 
stevieframe said:
And yet unlike wind turbines which never pay for their "Carbon Footprint" burning wood is completely carbon neutral.

Less, far less money in it for them though, wonder if that has anything to do with it?🤔
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They're working on it - they want you to use "ready to burn" certified fuel to comply with their new legislation.
 
waisted skirt said:
If you class always having a supply of good coffee beans as being a prepper then yes I am. The thought of waking up and being bean free makes me break out in a cold sweat.
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You'll need electric to grind them and a supply of water, all of which would most likely not be available
 
It's just the usual bullsh*t put out be certain sections of the media that do it to try and stir up controversy and as click bait to get people to visit their sites or read their sensational rubbish.
Does anyone seriously think that Russia is going march across Europe sweeping all before it .
Putin may be little more than a dictator and an arsehole as well but the man is not stupid.
Cyber attacks are possible and more realistic threat but they can oprate both ways.
 
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I can understand keeping a ceratain amount of food on standby so to speak especially if the live out in the country particularly in winter time when conditions are bad and roads are not passible or treacherous.
But most households where there's a family do that anyway do they not as most of those households have a freezer.
But as for prepping to survive a possible nuclear attack that's simply fantasy.
Chernobyl happened 39 years ago last April when one of it's reactors blew up scattering radio active particles all over the surrounding countryside and farther a field into europe aided by the wind.
The immediate surrounding area is still off limits to people because the radiation is still at an unacceptable level 39 years on.
And even farther away from the reactor most of the area is still uninhabited because radiation levels are too high for long term inhabitance.
Remember too that the radio active particles that were emmitted when the reactor blew up though highly toxic were low level compared to what would be emitted by a nuclear/hydrogen bomb of perhaps a few megaton or even just one megaton.
We've all seen the devastation what the two atomic bombs did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But compared to current nuclear bombs they're puny.
I believe the smallest of today's nuclear bombes is 50 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
So anyone thinking they're going to sit out and survive a nuclear war needs to stop fantasising and start living in the real world.
 
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I don't think most preppers are prepping to survive a nuclear war - they are mainly interested in reducing reliance on the state to bail them out and increasing resilience in the event of a breakdown of social order (shops looted and empty) or sustained loss of infrastructure such as power or water. Given the way parties on all sides of the spectrum are hell bent on racing towards net zero, despite warnings from all around that this may not be the best idea it seems prudent to insulate yourself from the most immediate effects of such a situation. In the 70s it was pretty normal to have a stock of candles for power cuts - this is where we are heading again. With the Environment Agency warning of a potential 5 billion litre per day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 and the predictions of an energy “crunch point” in 2028 where demand for electricity could exceed the grid’s capacity by 7.5GW at peak times, as Hartlepool and Heysham I nuclear power stations will stop producing energy in March 2026 and Heysham II and Torness two years later. This will leave just one nuclear plant, Sizewell B (installed capacity of 1.25GW, which is 1GW de-rated) due to be online for the rest of that year.

Taking heed of these warnings seems to be very much living in the real world.
 
Yes i started this thread about prepping to see what others might have started to stock pile etc --i don't think it whould do that much good IF they did drop a bomb or bombs --but if it go's pair shaped with attacks on the infrastructure of the country "which many have predicted could be going to happen with sleeper cells- which they have said are already around" it cant do any harm to have a few things set aside --this thread could be a asset to anyone thinking about putting things aside- what -why- when --nothing to do with a post apocalyptic zombie rising!!!!But you have seen Shawn of the dead!!!!!!! Head for the Winchester Ha! Ha! Ha!Hunting gifHead bang 65Hunting gifHead bang 65Thankyou spinning
 
Taking out several bits of infrastructure at once, say a substation, some pylons, water pumping station, a railway bridge or two and maybe knock a couple of jets out of the sky it would cause absolute chaos, especially if similar attacks rolled out across the country for a couple of weeks 😳
 
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