Swedish preparedness pamphlet
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Did you actually select one of the amusing faces and then after it appears hits the post reply button?
( Very aware a thread with both conversations regarding Nuclear war, prepping and and emotiocons maybe accused by the narrow minded of thread drift.. )
All the local resilience forum groups I've looked at provide advice for bad weather, flooding etc. - no mention of nuclear war or any other kind of nuclear emergency.
Did you actually select one of the amusing faces and then after it appears hits the post reply button?
( Very aware a thread with both conversations regarding Nuclear war, prepping and and emotiocons maybe accused by the narrow minded of thread drift.. )
How dare you!
That is correct, It depends on the risk assessments, I know that my local LRF has plans in place to react to a release of radioactive material but that is a specific risk from a specific source. Im also guessing that a nuclear strike from a foreign power would not be a limited strike and would destroy any ability to react and respond.
The faces did not come up. I clicked on the single face and it did nowt. At that point and to make things easier, I made a decision never to make another joke on this forum ever again. Ps Ban the bomb
I was going to mention that. I recall a rather simple leaflet and something to fill in? I think I still have mine, behind a load of tins and a slab of shotgun cartridges.
I'm thinking of putting a nuclear bunker stacked to the roof in my back garden. Oh wait, I can't afford it and the nearest one is several hours away, and I have no security clearance or car. I'm screwed!
it was fairly simple, I think it was designed to not be prescriptive, just let people develop their own resilience to what was most relevant to them.
Household Emergency Plan
Extreme left of the three dot drop down bar. If I, the most luddite of computer users can do it, so can you!
Just give it a moment or two to load.
The idea is that if most people can manage on their own for about 3 days, then that frees up the emergency services etc to deal with whatever crisis is happening and to help those who are in most need of care.
When the idea of having a box of stuff in a wardrobe even if you live in a flat was first launched, a lot of my friends actually realised that they didn’t have enough to manage for 3 days and that they’d never thought about how to deal with that. A lot of them now do have a box of stuff, or at least a few more tins in the cupboards and means of heating food even with the electricity off. For a lot of people, the main headache is how to deal with loss of heating in a country where it regularly gets well below zero during the winter months.
The rest of my friends are like me and have far too much outdoorsy gear already.
Gas stoves and gas bottles are probably easier, but I think most people automatically think “Trangia” when they get told to get some means of heating food and water during a powercut.
I think this is the most important thing, and the COVID lockdown was a lesson to show how sometimes, s**t just happens. It's also not that long since a winter storm knocked out power in a lot of Northumberland for a week.
It's still a surprise to me sometimes to realise how a lot of people in cities live- e.g. takeout food delivered to the door and very limited cooking facilities.
For those of us who grew up in the 1970's (or for that matter lived in a very rural area in the 1980's), power cuts were "not unusual." Also not unusual was using a kettle on a gas stove and/or having a cooker which didn't need electricity to work (e.g. solid fuel range) and having an open fire/Parkray in the main living room. Shopping was often a weekly activity and a lot more food was in tins (or sacks of spuds in the pantry- I remember that when I was a wee bairn) as freezers hadn't really become quite as widespread as they are now. Nor were people totally dependent on electronic devices for entertainment as so many are now.
Add a few candles and some blankets and most people could manage the power off for a day or two without much "preparation" whereas these days, with lifestyle being so different, I suspect a much higher proportion of folks would be much less comfortable and be demanding help.
When the last coal fired power station closes next year, we could well see an increase in outages if there's a winter blocking high, so I can see why there's an attempt to try to introduce a bit of resilience. Some little things can make a big difference in comfort in such situations.
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I suppose that one advantage of having been born during the second world war is that we've seen it all before and have lead our who!e lives prepared for emergencies. Didn't really expect to see it again, though.
nope. i found it but it simply doesnt loadExtreme left of the three dot drop down bar. If I, the most luddite of computer users can do it, so can you!
Just give it a moment or two to load.
I really love this forum. You have guys discussing the horrors of nuclear war and in the next reply someone is wondering how to choose smiley faces.
1st World Priorities.
Prepping has got a very bad name, learning how to be resilient on the other hand is something useful, I have seen some garbage on social media recently about cooking with tea lights when you have a power outage, never mind the old chestnut with the flower pots. I expect most of us have more than enough equipment to cook and light during an extended power outage. An important thing nowadays considering we will all be forced over onto VOIP soon is to have a back up power supply for your router.
Do not despise the snake for having no horns for who is to say it will not become a dragon
