Are you prepped?

Mad Max eat your heart out

I’ve a credit card with a large limit.

If you do want to keep a store of stuff you need to constantly replace-and-use, that is buy new stuff and use up the old stuff before it goes out of date. Similarly for OTC medicines - and if you don't use them regularly; that becomes replace-and-bin.

Long term storage of water in 5L bottles is not advisable; if they're particularly old they're already undrinkable. You need a sturdier product for long-term storage and even then, its not a great idea.

The only odder thing I've done is make sure I have the LPG jets for my gas hob (its on natural gas now, but the jets swap over with a 7mm socket); plus a regulator to allow it to go on to a normal tank. I imagine obtaining those tanks in some crisis situation will still be impossible - but there is a potential scenario of a long term outage to natural gas supplies due to damage or parts shortages while Calor tanks are still available.

I have some news for you .

These have been around for a little while now.

I wonder have the people who stockpiled loo roll made their way through the backlog (ahem) yet?

OP if you think for a second that the people of Ireland would let the government tell them what to do again you're sadly mistaken. What a load of absolute nonsense for two years. People are far smarter now.

I've been prepping for the last 20 years. Learnt a lot in the time, particularly what keeps and what doesn't. Certainly not going to survive a nuclear attack but have a stock of food that will last at least a month and can easily do without power. House heated by wood, gas stove + wood burning range (oven). Water heated by wood burner. Loads of torches, petrol and paraffin lamps (not to be mixed up) and a small solar system (600W) for recharging batteries. Live by a river and have a water filter that will help out if water is cut off. The only thing we'd really miss would be the internet if the power goes but with starlink a UPS and a solar powered top up even that can be kept going.

I can remember explaining to someone I worked for how to run their aga if the power went off. They didn't take any notice and spent a very miserable Christmas one year when the power was off for 2 days. One tiny bit of prepping would have at least kept their massive kitchen warm over Christmas and they'd have been able to cook Christmas dinner.

As far as I'm concerned prepping is to keep you as comfortable as you can be when things go wrong and until "normality" is resumed. Its probably as much a hobby as anything.

I have a "Go bag". Years ago I saw a tv programme where a guy was saying everyone should have one. He pointed to the london floods that occurred in the 60's. The basic idea is to have a bag that has some toiletries, spare clothes, some snacks and copies of important documents etc. I've also added a powerbank to it and a few other little bits and pieces. It's not designed to help you survive Armageddon, it's for natural disasters where you might be displaced for a few days. And with climate change it's becoming more likely that we could be affected by something like that. Every year we see more reports of european countries that are hit with something.

If the power goes down for months it means there's a nuclear war. Most people won't survive

There,ll be a shortage of food and fuel your local shop supermarket will be emptied in a few weeks the supply chain now depends on computer systems and the Internet shops depend on vans and trucks deliveries will stop it'll be like mad max only the fit and strong will survive even peppers have limited food supply's

Most goods in shops are delivered from outside Ireland supply's will run out

II think prepping is a waste of time

A thousand preppers go through their lives and pass on inconsequentially, leaving nothing but a steel prefab basement and a lot of tins of crap food.

And a lingering whiff of paranoia, of course.

Its not the human way. If the worst happens, stand up and fight, or die trying. Either way, you won't be left in the enduring misery of dwindling bottled water, tinned mackerel, and sleepness, fitful nights.

Did some prepping already today, took 50 out of an ATM, incase this worldwide IT glitch affects the Banks over the weekend, have 65 euro in my wallet now😁

That makes a very good point. There are those here (it is after hours after all) that totally dismiss prepping but we all do it to one degree or another. Why have a spare tyre in your car? Why have a spare set of batteries for the kids toys. From this thread you'd think that anyone that had more than a spare toilet roll is some kind it prepping lunatic.

If I lived in the center of Dublin in a block of flats I'd do far less prepping than I do but I live in a house that is a couple of hours walk from the nearest shop and is subject to flooding. We used to get regular power cuts (now our neighbors do, they are on a different ESB circuit 12 outages in 18 months) so we have good torches, lanterns and spare batteries, is that prepping or just common sense?

I started eating less fibre so won't need as much Jack's paper if there's a shortage

Even before Covid happened, I had a camping gas stove and cylinders, plus a stock of canned goods, dry goods like rice, power banks, candles, matches etc. Also some essential medicines like paracetomol and my prescription meds (as well as loo roll!)

I think it was because during the last big snow event, (2018?) I couldn't get outside my front door, the snow was at least half way up the door, and my car was completely buried, and that was in Dublin. (I also have mobility issues just to make things more complicated).

And though we luckily never lost power, we could have. But if we did, at least I had food for a couple of days and candles for light etc. So even if a serious weather event happened, I'd be okay for a while.