Ready for right wing papers to call us weak and compare us to the people of the blitz….in 2022 when we are not at war and have decided to sanction ourselves into the stone age
We need to take a simple reminder away from this situation that your accommodation is a life support system propped up by a volatile unpredictable system run by morons.
Plan accordingly. And no I’m not suggesting move to the woods and dig a bunker and fill it with baked beans.
I suffered a 4 day power, water and internet outage after some numpty managed to dig through a water main and power cable in our street at the same time (1 day to fix, 3 days to work out who was going to fix it first). It was eye opening. I keep enough crap around for a 14 day disconnection at any point in time now. That is food, water, couple of power banks, blankets, lamp and have a trangia stove lying around to warm stuff up with.
Well get ready for the odd idiot that leaves candles unattended.
We have BOB kits but that is more because I live in the middle of nowhere and get at least one power cut a year our home generation in the winter only covers about 70% use.
Ours has.
A hand torch for each family member. Batteries for a week.
Some LED lights that are solar charged.
Power banks to change phones enough for 1 phone for 1 week.
Playing cards, games.
Hand cranked radio.
Self heating MREs.
We have an oh hell box too for if things get longer than a few days.
To a certain extent this is sensible given power cuts do occasionally happen (we had a substation catch fire a while back.), but it does somewhat feel like some of the stories that pushed people to stockpile food a few years ago, where the consequence largely seemed to be people spending money they couldn’t afford to hoard things that they didn’t really need and then couldn’t make use of sensibly afterwards.
I thought fairy lights were electric anyway, those string lights you put up for christmas?
Another of those “nudge nudge” articles to put the subject into the public consciousness.
After seeing so many of these articles I am unable to work out what the chances are that we are actually going to have some sort of blackout. I know nobody really knows for sure, but is it very likely or are people just preparing on the off chance it happens?
Time to wheel out all of us from the 70s & 80s to tell you how easy it was even though we were all about 5 at the time
The blackouts are definitely coming, just like the food shortages that never happened, the manufactured fuel shortage that lasted 2 weeks, the drought that is suddenly a non issue anymore, the most dangerous virus known to man that has suddenly disappeared from the news, the £5k energy bills that never happened, etc etc…
Torch, burlap sack, snacks, good shoes… yep got my looting gear ready for the black out!
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Ready for right wing papers to call us weak and compare us to the people of the blitz….in 2022 when we are not at war and have decided to sanction ourselves into the stone age
We need to take a simple reminder away from this situation that your accommodation is a life support system propped up by a volatile unpredictable system run by morons.
Plan accordingly. And no I’m not suggesting move to the woods and dig a bunker and fill it with baked beans.
I suffered a 4 day power, water and internet outage after some numpty managed to dig through a water main and power cable in our street at the same time (1 day to fix, 3 days to work out who was going to fix it first). It was eye opening. I keep enough crap around for a 14 day disconnection at any point in time now. That is food, water, couple of power banks, blankets, lamp and have a trangia stove lying around to warm stuff up with.
Well get ready for the odd idiot that leaves candles unattended.
We have BOB kits but that is more because I live in the middle of nowhere and get at least one power cut a year our home generation in the winter only covers about 70% use.
Ours has.
A hand torch for each family member. Batteries for a week.
Some LED lights that are solar charged.
Power banks to change phones enough for 1 phone for 1 week.
Playing cards, games.
Hand cranked radio.
Self heating MREs.
We have an oh hell box too for if things get longer than a few days.
To a certain extent this is sensible given power cuts do occasionally happen (we had a substation catch fire a while back.), but it does somewhat feel like some of the stories that pushed people to stockpile food a few years ago, where the consequence largely seemed to be people spending money they couldn’t afford to hoard things that they didn’t really need and then couldn’t make use of sensibly afterwards.
I thought fairy lights were electric anyway, those string lights you put up for christmas?
Another of those “nudge nudge” articles to put the subject into the public consciousness.
After seeing so many of these articles I am unable to work out what the chances are that we are actually going to have some sort of blackout. I know nobody really knows for sure, but is it very likely or are people just preparing on the off chance it happens?
Time to wheel out all of us from the 70s & 80s to tell you how easy it was even though we were all about 5 at the time
The blackouts are definitely coming, just like the food shortages that never happened, the manufactured fuel shortage that lasted 2 weeks, the drought that is suddenly a non issue anymore, the most dangerous virus known to man that has suddenly disappeared from the news, the £5k energy bills that never happened, etc etc…
Torch, burlap sack, snacks, good shoes… yep got my looting gear ready for the black out!