New prepper in London
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:33 pm
Hi,
I live in east London but am originally from the West Country. I've always been interested in hiking and camping and used to be in St John Ambulance so have some knowledge of first aid. My main concerns are:
1, Escaping London in an emergency. I've always lived in smaller areas before, usually in the vicinity of large wilderness areas like Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons. I'm not even sure what the accepted wisdom is in terms of whether it is desirable to escape London. Obviously in a potential nuclear situation it would be. The problem for me is work and family (they work too) which makes it difficult to think of dropping everything unless it's in an absolute crisis situation. The trouble is by the time it gets to that point you worry that the transport network will be clogged.
2, Where to go. Most of my family live in Devon and Cornwall which at first thought seems like a good place to head to... until you think of Devonport and all the military camps down there. Basically, I'm assuming that in a nuclear situation that area will cop it big time. I don't really have the finances to consider buying a bolt hole type of property somewhere.
3, Brexit. Who can predict what's going to happen in terms of food shortages etc but I'm definitely going to stock up. My main concern is more in terms of social order. It seems such deep splits have opened up in the country and every extremist has been given licence to come out into the open. You can obviously also see this potentially leading to the break up of the UK, the return of conflict in Northern Ireland etc.
I live in east London but am originally from the West Country. I've always been interested in hiking and camping and used to be in St John Ambulance so have some knowledge of first aid. My main concerns are:
1, Escaping London in an emergency. I've always lived in smaller areas before, usually in the vicinity of large wilderness areas like Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons. I'm not even sure what the accepted wisdom is in terms of whether it is desirable to escape London. Obviously in a potential nuclear situation it would be. The problem for me is work and family (they work too) which makes it difficult to think of dropping everything unless it's in an absolute crisis situation. The trouble is by the time it gets to that point you worry that the transport network will be clogged.
2, Where to go. Most of my family live in Devon and Cornwall which at first thought seems like a good place to head to... until you think of Devonport and all the military camps down there. Basically, I'm assuming that in a nuclear situation that area will cop it big time. I don't really have the finances to consider buying a bolt hole type of property somewhere.
3, Brexit. Who can predict what's going to happen in terms of food shortages etc but I'm definitely going to stock up. My main concern is more in terms of social order. It seems such deep splits have opened up in the country and every extremist has been given licence to come out into the open. You can obviously also see this potentially leading to the break up of the UK, the return of conflict in Northern Ireland etc.