I cannot do a lot these days now, but I have now ‘eased’ the organisation of storage and back up of the house.Mainly for my wife and her likes and dislikes .I am rather particular about keeping storage and equipment bang up to speed. Given the fact our current political * leaders* are telling us ,indeed they prepare the thought of the entire population according to the news
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to store 3 days of food to help in emergency
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The situation makes us look at the *leaders* either sensible or as those cynical so and so …indeed.
We did consider yesterday, whether the shops we had entered over the last few weeks have been well stocked up above the sales displays on purpose for quietly keeping folks stocked for that political sh*t or the Russians are going to finally destroy us
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it seems that all of the supermarkets are almost *Christmas stocked *up on top. Take a look when you are out
I’m far from a critic of storage, as it’s a good idea domestically. Especially if you are in the fragile situation ( like myself) who if you don’t work you don’t earn ,and that is many folks nowadays.
So the food situation here is up to date up on the shelves. The freezer has meals ready to go - eat first of course if the power goes off. We use a lot of tinned food,so the merest use before emergencies will create replacement. It’s going to get no easier priced so we will put up and shut up.
Fresh food obviously is weekly but in an emergency we will eat or give away accordingly. The freezers are used but not over the top. It’s good to turn it over ,and especially as we move over to electric consumption which the country is being encouraged towards . If stuff like vegetables in the freezer get ruined after an electric cut then that will go into the compost bins. Ironically that aids feed to perennial veg in the garden
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So food is ok. Now we are all electric, which is great until it becomes cut, then the alternative has been properly sorted this last few months. As it is not gas heating we have ( although those with mains gas heating need leccy too! ) electric heating. The whys and wherefore suits us nicely with electricity ( and it’s not as dear as folks think either) . However in a power cut it obviously stops!
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So we have a calor gas heater that rolls around the house where needed . Great gear that! I’ve made sure it’s kept in good nick ,covered and waiting from my workshop on a truck barrow to wheel in. I have made sure now that there are three 3x 15 kg barrels for that. All new,all ready to go.A cold Winter will be covered in general power cuts. Our local solid fuel supplier is retiring now at ,as he puts it, “ when the law bans wood and coal”. Therefore we have changed. In the future power shortages will cause chimney churning smoke to rise where it is not allowed ,nor liked by neighbours who are somewhat jealous! Not a situation I would like .
After that is cooking. Camping gas ,the nice single burners used in the domestic area . Two of those,LOADS of bottled gas in storage too. After that my meths Tri Angia. Good and plentiful backing of fuel there too. Job sorted!
After that is lighting. Now this is interesting. My friend and me have been discussing this. He lives alone and like me he used to have a generator order to power freezers mainly in an emergency.We both agreed at our age particular,firing a generator could be rather an attraction to ‘naughty’ people as it were. Therefore we have both parted with those and gone over to the chance of losing the contents of freezers for the relatively small amount it is. Bringing us to lighting…
Lighting too in any area is an issue if too much/ too little in a crisis. Therefore friend and me have set up with modern and cheap LED . It can be switched on in order to be automated,or manual. It is not too intense and but the keeps area lit adequately. If after charge fails there is battery version of light ,LED of course. Between us we have boxes of emergency lights and batteries etc.
Water is the other one. Plenty is stored.On top is rain catchment/ filter / treatment,along with the brook if really needed. Mind you ,if rain water onward takes over,then society is in a mess!
That’s pretty much the *emergency* scenario. All prepped for,so that’s good.
In between my builder mates have been here fixing,fettling and sorting the house over little things I would normally have done myself. I’m rather happy that we are pretty tidy and bang up to date,as right now I am spending a lot of time in bed or hospital with my illness now,and I won’t get over it. My time left is now very limited.
So I’ll say thanks and cheerio for reading. I may put in a comment, may not. Take care xx
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.