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Re: Preparing for E-Day
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:54 am
by DaveB
Seems we have strayed away from the point of this thread. In order to try and bring it back on track?
We are in the process of buying a dozen or so acres out in the countryside, next to a gazetted scenic wilderness area, where it will be much easier to stay separate from the 'great unwashed' who may wish to take advantage of the situation during any such event.
Actually I wanted a place out "beyond the back stump" (as it is called here) so that anybody who found us would have done so purely by accident. I had a place all picked out 20 miles down some of the worst, rutted, dirt roads I have seen in years, but the 'OC Home Command' (AKA 'she who must be obeyed') vetoed that suggestion. So we have gone for a place a bit closer to civilisation. Still, better than being in town when the - (to use that quaint American acronym) - SHTF.
Re: Preparing for E-Day
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 3:49 am
by Blu
DaveB wrote:Seems we have strayed away from the point of this thread. In order to try and bring it back on track?
We are in the process of buying a dozen or so acres out in the countryside, next to a gazetted scenic wilderness area, where it will be much easier to stay separate from the 'great unwashed' who may wish to take advantage of the situation during any such event.
Actually I wanted a place out "beyond the back stump" (as it is called here) so that anybody who found us would have done so purely by accident. I had a place all picked out 20 miles down some of the worst, rutted, dirt roads I have seen in years, but the 'OC Home Command' (AKA 'she who must be obeyed') vetoed that suggestion. So we have gone for a place a bit closer to civilisation. Still, better than being in town when the - (to use that quaint American acronym) - SHTF.
I hear you on that. where we live is a nice distance from town, neighbours are not too far away and there is plenty of wild life to supplement what we grow to eat and as well as the stuff my wife cans. I reckon if the S does HTF most of the city dwellers will be too busy killing each other over resources, I'm sure some will head out into the countryside but the way folks around here are I think our small community will be able to take care of ourselves against any trouble.
Between us we have enough firepower to arm a small army.
Re: Preparing for E-Day
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:22 am
by Swamphog
Blackstuff wrote:Why has the water gone off? The electricity would go before the water . . .
Once upon a time, most places had their water supplies powered by gravity; towns in the lowlands, fed from reservoirs in the hills. These days, the vast majority of drinking water is pumped with electric pumps. I used to work (briefly) for a company making synthetic lubricants, and did a survey of all the sites belonging to South West Water. I saw more electric pumps the size of a small car than you could shake a stick at - and not one site had a standby generator.
Where I live (just outside Buxton, Peak District) is, admittedly, 1300 feet up - but there's a water reservoir and pumping station on the hill above me; yet, if the booster pump in that station trips out, all I get is a slow trickle from the tap, and my electric shower won't work due to lack of pressure.
Fortunately, there's a stream 50 yards away which never dries up, even in the hottest and driest weather - and our average rainfall is 4 feet 4" per annum. In 2012, it was 5 feet 2"!
