The rule of threes.

How are you preparing
jennyjj01
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Water:-
Taps
Lots of Bottled water
Lots of Bottled beer
Lots of Bottled wine
Full Roof collecting water butts & Sawyer straws & hundreds of purifying tablets
Easy Redirect of garage roof drain.
Clean Tarpulin for harvesting.

Meat:-
Freezers
Tins of meat and fish
Tinned and dried Meat substitutes
Crossbow and callous streak

Internet:-
Landline broadband
Mobile tethering O2
Mobile tethering Other network sims.
Dial-up modem, if I can remember how.

Heat:-
Gas central heating (Needs electricity)
Small gas fire.
Small electric heaters
Ah! 5h1t. Under-prepared.

Cooking:-
Electric hob, microwave and oven :( Without electricity, cooking and domestic heating gets tough, for me.
Coal effect gas fire that could be used to boil a pan, at a pinch *
Cheap gas barbie with 3 substantial gas bottles.
Little gas camping stove with a dozen or so cartridges.
Home made gallon-can rocket stove.
Tiny collapsible wood fired camping stove + cat litter fuel.
Thousands of matches and dozens of lighters.

* The big issue with non-electric cooking indoors would be real risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
This seems to a big expected risk to those currently struggling in Texas.
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GillyBee
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Re: The rule of threes.

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We have a battery carbon monoxide alarm for use if we did have to operate with no electricity and also to take if we are ever allowed on holiday again and rent a holiday home.
I doubt the little camping gas stoves are any more risky than our old gas cooker was - but better safe than sorry.
jansman
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GillyBee wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:15 pm We have a battery carbon monoxide alarm for use if we did have to operate with no electricity and also to take if we are ever allowed on holiday again and rent a holiday home.
I doubt the little camping gas stoves are any more risky than our old gas cooker was - but better safe than sorry.
Carbon Monoxide is a serious ,silent killer. Apparently,a good number of deaths in Texas during their bad weather have been down to carbon monoxide poisoning; running generators in the house!! :o
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ForgeCorvus
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CO detectors cost less then 20 quid (for a named brand like Kidd).
If you burn anything indoors, get one...... It could save your life.

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jansman
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ForgeCorvus wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:26 pm CO detectors cost less then 20 quid (for a named brand like Kidd).
If you burn anything indoors, get one...... It could save your life.

We now return you to your thread
As long as indoor burning has a FLUE. We have had members here SERIOUSLY consider indoor barbecues. Obviously contenders for the Darwin Award. :lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
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Jerseyspud
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Re: The rule of threes.

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Nooooo no indoor bbq

Got my camping stove but have bought a carbon monoxide alarm and already have my plan to use near a window
when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow

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jansman
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Back on track then. Cooking:
1.Mains fuel
2.wood stove
3.butane stove
4. Trangia
5. Hexi
6 Rocket stove.

Wouldn’t use a barbecue,too much damned smoke,and too big a fire.
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Nurseandy
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Mains electric cooker
Portable woodburner
Outdoors BBQ/firepit
2*trangia& 10 litres meths
2*gel stoves & 100*6 gel blocks
Kelly kettle with pan rest
Assortment of gas camping stoves with a few gas canisters
Caravan propane hob but hasn't been fired up for a few years so could be dodgy
Jerseyspud
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Shelter

My house
My sisters house
My other sisters house
when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow

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jansman
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Shelter:
The House
The Summerhouse ( set up as a bug out location)
Daughters house
In laws house
Absolutely NOT a tarp in the woods!
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.

Robert Frost.

Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.

Me.