Hi, I'm Steve from Lincolnshire.
I've been thinking about prepping for some years, you know how it is, you sit talking it through with your family and friends but never actually get round to doing it.
I feel the time is right to start doing something about it.
As I'm still very new to prepping and such I thought I'd ask you guys your opinions on my initial thoughts.
My situation is as follows.
I've moved from a town with a population of around 100k to a village of 1700, my immediate family comprises of myself, the mrs and 8 year old daughter.
I'm in my mid (cough) thirties, by trade I'm a HGV mechanic but for the last seven years I've switched to driving for a living.
Our village is small but fairly coastal, with heavy industry within five miles of our location.
The house backs on to farmland and despite being only a few miles from heavy industry it's fairly rural.
I'm just wondering what would be the best position to be in, either bug in or out with where we are?
I'm thinking bug in, we have plenty of ways out through farmland etc.
we've only just begun to start collecting things to put away such as water, tinned produce, medical supplies etc.
How many likeminded folks do we have in the Lincolnshire area?
Hi all from Lincolnshire
Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Hello and welcome to the Forum.
Great intro.
Great intro.
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Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Thanks, we'll be prepping for immediate potential issues such as short term utility outages, weather disruptions, potential heavy industry explosions / gas leaks / attacks.
I'm thinking bug in is our best option, over the next few weeks I hope to be joining the parish council and getting involved with local issues and checking out the local emergency plans.
There's a volunteer scheme for "local emergencies" that I'll look to join and see what the state of prepping is with locals in the village.
My mrs has lived there all her life so I've been made quite welcome.
I'm a big believer in things happening for a reason and moving out of a high population area (although by no means a city type populace) really felt like the right thing to do.
I've been doing lots of reading and studying of the troubles people faced in Bosnia during the conflicts there, A real eye opener.
My biggest worry is being separated from my family / home when a situation arises.
Being miles away from home is far from ideal with my job.
We've talked it over at home and we have a very loose plan in place.
In a proper shtf situation, We'll use our place to bug in with some members of both families and also another rural family members place about five miles away from our location. Hopefully with some form or radio coms between the two.
If I'm away at work it will be a case of getting back home by any means. Being a trucker I have about a week of supplies that I can carry about my person in kit bag form.
I'm thinking bug in is our best option, over the next few weeks I hope to be joining the parish council and getting involved with local issues and checking out the local emergency plans.
There's a volunteer scheme for "local emergencies" that I'll look to join and see what the state of prepping is with locals in the village.
My mrs has lived there all her life so I've been made quite welcome.
I'm a big believer in things happening for a reason and moving out of a high population area (although by no means a city type populace) really felt like the right thing to do.
I've been doing lots of reading and studying of the troubles people faced in Bosnia during the conflicts there, A real eye opener.
My biggest worry is being separated from my family / home when a situation arises.
Being miles away from home is far from ideal with my job.
We've talked it over at home and we have a very loose plan in place.
In a proper shtf situation, We'll use our place to bug in with some members of both families and also another rural family members place about five miles away from our location. Hopefully with some form or radio coms between the two.
If I'm away at work it will be a case of getting back home by any means. Being a trucker I have about a week of supplies that I can carry about my person in kit bag form.
Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Welcome! Great introduction by the way.
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Hello Steve.
Welcome aboard.
I'm from good old Lincolnshire too and like you bug in will be my preferred option.
Welcome aboard.
I'm from good old Lincolnshire too and like you bug in will be my preferred option.
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Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Welcome Yellow bellie 
from other side of T'Humber
anything usefull on Lincs county council website re emergency planning?
this side of the river its not looking too good on a local level
http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/EasySiteW ... lId=120321
from other side of T'Humber anything usefull on Lincs county council website re emergency planning?
this side of the river its not looking too good on a local level
http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/EasySiteW ... lId=120321
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Welcome to the forum Steve, good point about being seperated from the family too, certainly shows that it's no good only having one prepper in the household if they're away!
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Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
hello and welcome to the forum
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Re: Hi all from Lincolnshire
Thanks for the warm welcome
The thing with emergency plans in a local sense such as mine is that the folks who have the information don't like to share it, they like to have that something to wield over the "civilians "
Ive yet to infiltrate the local parish council, just waiting to hear back when where and how to get involved.
In a shtf scenario Id feel much happier if I had a like minded community around me.
Trouble is im not the most sociable fella when it comes to people, im having to confront my own issues and learn to be part of a team.
It's hard to do when your used to working on your own.
The thing with emergency plans in a local sense such as mine is that the folks who have the information don't like to share it, they like to have that something to wield over the "civilians "
Ive yet to infiltrate the local parish council, just waiting to hear back when where and how to get involved.
In a shtf scenario Id feel much happier if I had a like minded community around me.
Trouble is im not the most sociable fella when it comes to people, im having to confront my own issues and learn to be part of a team.
It's hard to do when your used to working on your own.