French government expected to issue all citizens with survival manual

[Keith_Beef]

I'd expect they do have them, with all the laws around keeping things cold throughout supply chain and the potential losses that'd be incurred from having to replace a whole supermarket of chilled/frozen stock.

It's possible I am wrong and am just assuming too much of them though!

Over here, there doesn't seem to be a legal requirement for food shops to have their own back-up generators...

I suppose that big food retail companies might have contracts with electricity suppliers that "guarantee" supply and cover the value of lost stock or cover the cost of renting generators in the event of not meeting the contract to supply. Or they might have contracts with Liquid Air to provide dry ice pellets at short notice...

 

[MrEd]

In a previous career I was a junior manager at a major UK supermarket, part of my role was overseeing the big diesel generator we had on site, and doing monthly changeover tests, and weekly run tests. It powered the bulk freezers and chillers, shop floor freezers and chillers, every 2nd strip light in the place and the cash office room and alarm. IIRC the plugs and electrical fittings that had generator backup were a different colour (but I can’t remember what).
I can’t remember what size it was, but it was pretty large, out in a generator shed and we had enough fuel for 48hours on site in a combo of a bunded tank thing and 4 50gal barrels on a pallet and a manual rotary pump . It was only intended to cover short term power loss.
I am sure the fuel in the tank and the barrels was changed but it don’t ever recall it being done, I was there for about 4 years.
I don’t know if the same is done nowadays, this was 25 years ago, next time I go to my local Tesco I will have a nosey!

 

[ONE]

One of my grandfathers was fond of saying "What people don't know doesn't hurt them" it's not universally true, but in regard of "prepping" it's a pretty useful maxim.

 

[Keith_Beef]

‘Shipwrecked in the 21st century’: how people made it through Europe’s worst blackout in living memory

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