Adverse Weather Preparations

[Born Hunter 17,622]

1 minute ago, kinkell said:

Depends where you stay out in the sticks with roads totally impassable different scenario

Of course. But for 99% of the population, even rural, it's just a minor inconvenience. Even in those outer reaches where only shepherds and farmers live, they tend to be the folks with the machinery to clear roads and travel in adverse conditions.

[mackem 23,662]

1 hour ago, Lowther said:

People were out in there shorts ........................................ but we are Geordies.

 

[Lowther 185]

3 minutes ago, mackem said:

 

Quality that like haha! Too accurate 

[kinkell 787]

5 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:

Of course. But for 99% of the population, even rural, it's just a minor inconvenience. Even in those outer reaches where only shepherds and farmers live, they tend to be the folks with the machinery to clear roads and travel in adverse conditions.

Outer reaches have nurses can't get to work because they don't have four wheel drive.roads closed for days on end it's hard in some places

[rob284 1,678]

1 hour ago, walshie said:

I just read in Wales online that a Londis in Newport was charging £3 for a loaf over the weekend. They had lots left apparently.  The store manager (name witheld but I bet it isn't Elfed Davies) said he wasn't ripping anyone off. 

People will remember that and avoid using him, the fool.

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

i enough meat for over a month.

2 deer

1/2 elk

bits of moose

200 duck/geese breasts

bits of lamb , a few beef steaks,couple of hams and bags of frozen veggies.

shop is 1/4 mile away and is always stocked.

not much for tinned stuff hanging around,fckn missus did one on me without stocking the cupboards.

push comes to shove i have 18kg of kibble dog food for snacks

 

loads of raspberry jam by chance

[Born Hunter 17,622]

1 minute ago, kinkell said:

Outer reaches have nurses can't get to work because they don't have four wheel drive.roads closed for days on end it's hard in some places

I get that mate, but thats always been the case in those parts. For the majority of us it's only the odd road that is closed and alternative routes available. Comes with the territory of living in the arse end of nowhere, no?

I mean I say it isn't a big deal, of course to some it is, 'they' reckon 2000 have died because of it! I just cant see it was owt special for the majority of the country. I mean, it landed Thursday and today is totally gone for most of us!

[Meece 1,957]

2 hours ago, Greyman said:

It's not been as bad as you read mate, the weather has,nt got any harder but the people a lot softer, surprisingly hard to walk in snow in skinny jeans tucked into socks,daps and a Tshirt, I was fine in a decent pair of boots coat and my thermals and when there is no bread in the shop as every fuckwit has bought a years worth I just bought a bag of flower and made a loaf, we have become a soft ass nanny state were everyone cries to the government for answers to everything instead of just sorting themselves out, you probably have more snowfall overnight than we have had all winter difference being you just get on with it and we moan so much it seems like a national crisis 

I suppose that me and the Mrs  are a bit of an oddity in regards to how much stock we hold. This isn't because we are isolated or we are Ralph survivalist.  Mrs goes to the cash and carry and buys in about £4 ...500 worth of meat and other stuff from washing powder to blocks of cheese and bog rolls ect, ect. Along with the generators and vituaĺy every tool that you could think of we are well able to cope with almost anything. But when I was a kid it was very different. I had to walk a mile and a half each way every day in short trousers. Rain , hail and snow. When it was cold at home the Windows had frozen fern patterns on them inside in winter. The way people Carry on now is a joke. a woman walked from her home about two minutes from the local primary school and moaned at the head teacher because e the school was en and the kids toes were cold.  We had a couple of inches of snow and it didn't even cover the road for very long. Then there is a circus about panick buying. The kids say that when the zombie invasion  comes that they are all coming down here for the guns, the ammunition and the food. God in heaven knows  how some people would cope if we had a social meltdown.

[Greyman 25,111]

6 minutes ago, rob284 said:

People will remember that and avoid using him, the fool.

There was a bloke sat in the local pub selling bread for £5 a loaf and people were buying it, but who,s wrong him for being a crutch or them for being sat in a pub paying a fiver for a loaf, ?

[jiggy 3,207]

 By friday I was honestly about to ask green lurchers what is the best way to cook a 9 year old springer spaniel. I bet he knows too.

[Welsh_red 4,298]

What pissed me off was people who live in my town buying 5 or 6 loafs of bread and same with milk each . Shops 5 mins walk away . I went Saturday to get milk and bread and nothing in the store . 

[ChrisJones 7,973]

4 hours ago, Meece said:

God in heaven knows  how some people would cope if we had a social meltdown.

That's the bit the gets me too is people on the verge of killing each other over a quids worth of bread. It's insane and like you said there's less than an inch on the ground. I have a bag in case I get stuck while I'm out in the truck and that's a 72-hour kit.

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

1 minute ago, ChrisJones said:

That's the bit the gets me too is people on the verge of killing each other over a quids worth of bread. It's insane and like you said there's less than an inch on the ground. I have a bag in case I get stuck while I'm out in the truck and that's a 72-hour kit.

dare i ask whats in the 72hr bag

 

[ChrisJones 7,973]

4 minutes ago, Ted Newgent said:

dare i ask whats in the 72hr bag

 

Steel water bottles. Water. Berkey filter. Jetboil. MRE's. Tea bags. Coffee. Aeropress. Insulated overalls. Wool Cap. Shemagh. Duct tape. Wash-kit. First aid kit. Sharp knife. Shotgun slugs (I hit a deer a couple of years back and they come in handy)

My work bag is pretty much the same except for extra Glock mags!

All fits into two 25litre dry bags stashed behind the seat.

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

2 minutes ago, ChrisJones said:

Steel water bottles. Water. Berkey filter. Jetboil. MRE's. Tea bags. Coffee. Aeropress. Insulated overalls. Wool Cap. Shemagh. Duct tape. Wash-kit. First aid kit. Sharp knife. Shotgun slugs (I hit a deer a couple of years back and they come in handy)

My work bag is pretty much the same except for extra Glock mags!

All fits into two 25litre dry bags stashed behind the seat.

hmmm

couple of things stand out

sharp knife

duct tape

i would be concerned if i seen roll of poly and folding shovel lol