Preparing for Emergencies and Catastrophes

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,452 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1083841#Comment_1083841

    Ah tee total i like ribena with loads of ice living the dream 😍

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 390 Empowering

    I'm with Catherine on the chocolate idea! Hopeless. I'm absolutely hopeless with the stuff! πŸ˜‚ And wine? I can't be bothered to waste the precious space or weight. That's what I was talking about in saying that we will each have our own way of preparing. Good to get started thinking about this stuff. That's in the next phase, Phase 2: Supplies.

    @jonf you're a trained soldier, right? Does this have an impact on how you prepare for emergencies?

  • jonf
    jonf Online Community Member Posts: 327 Empowering

    the wine was for saying prayers

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 390 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1083850#Comment_1083850

    πŸ‘πŸ˜Š

  • jonf
    jonf Online Community Member Posts: 327 Empowering



    Water

    Fuel and portable generator
    my knife always.

    Spare Batteries
    radio
    duck tape

    Candles

    Cable ties

    A whistle

    Torch

    Matches

    Water filtration device .

    Bin liners and Blankets

    Tampax, best for plugging wound or for lighting a fire.

    Coleman’s mustard powder and a little flour along with my first aid and suture kit.

    Non perishable food

    Toilet rolls. Never know when you have to go.

    Chlorine tablets.


    gosh the list is endless

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 390 Empowering

    I'm getting more overwhelmed and confused doing this with you guys than trying it alone. So I'm not going to do it here. I'll find other sources online and IRL. Thanks for your input.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,994 Championing
    edited November 18

    A bottle of Glenfarclas and then to hell with worry. πŸ˜‰

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 390 Empowering
    edited November 19

    Yeah, I can say to hell with it and do nothing. Or I can dream by staying on the Road Less Travelled By - the road I've always been on. I can dream that I can adapt to my physical disability and lead an enjoyable, full life. It's not a silly dream because that's what all life forms typically do - adapt. And I can dream that even though my emergency response of fight-flight-freeze never properly developed because of childhood trauma, at the ripe age of 61 maybe it is still possible to develop my emergency response. And I can dream that even though the world gets scarier and scarier in many respects, maybe I can still find a way to live in my home and outside of my home with manageable, healthy fear. And I know I'm not the only dreamer. All the people behind making our mobility devices were dreamers too. These devices weren't made to keep me holed up inside consumed by fear.

    In dreaming, I might end up no further ahead than by not dreaming, but at least I have tried, and I think there is merit to that.

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