How are you preparing against the UKs posture of needing 3 days worth of food and water?
We have a 80 litre box with cans, pasta, rice. Pot noodles (all the filling, no calories). We just order an extra tin everytime, so no massive panic buying. We normally have bottles of water in the house anyway, so increased the amount.
Being a green person, I’ve got plenty of bits left over from ration packs. Have small camping cookers and jetboil.
Power, we have a Camping Solar battery and panels. We have power packs to charge phones.
What we don’t have, is a small battery powered radio.
Heating. Well, we have a metric ton of blankets, oodies and fleeces.
We’ve been thinking about this for a while and our current stockpile isn’t enough for 3 days - but similar approach - tinned & dried goods, we rotate stock and are building it up.
My main concern is water - bottled isn’t sustainable for any length of time so I’m considering a mill bank bag and an MSR purifier.
Solar & heat pump home, so potential to be self sufficient (not quite in the winter of it’s not a sunny day) but we deliberately mixed with a wood burner to give us options for heating.
We were having a chat about this with a client during the week; one of their staff has seriously drunk the Kool-Aid on the idea.
There’s more questions than answers with the advice provided. Why 3 days? What happens after? Is the potential disaster something we’d even want to survive (think “Threads”)? What radio signal would we even receive if we’re hit by a nuke or EMP?
Being as mobile as I am, this is also not something I can do that well. I could get a Lifestraw, but 3 days of tinned food would be difficult store in my car…
My working theory is that 3 days would be enough time to evacuate all VIPs and political leadership from the country, before enabling the plebs to emerge into a new Mad Max style world.
As a society, we’ve become too comfortable in a world of convenience and instant access; it’s reduced resilience.
3 days is enough for most issues to pass and the worst/still affected to be reached. The intention is to reduce the likelihood of panic buying/hoarding/other.
I heard an interesting theory that this was designed to increase spending in Q4, which will then be reflected in growth figures prior to calling a snap election.
Don’t want to come across as a prepper… but we started this process just after COVID when we witnessed the panic buying that took place then.
We’ve got the luxury of space and are reasonably self sufficient off grid anyway - which helps. The only thing we lacked was sufficient fresh water. Which has now been resolved; although we’re also now looking at a water purification system for rain water harvesting - as previously our intent was to only use that on the garden and animals.
What the government advice has done is triggered us to do is get a couple of holdalls for bugout bags - including printed A-Z road maps, thermals, dossbags, jetboils, 3 days worth of food, copies of documents etc. We’ve also got some new jerry cans of fuel and are being a lot more disciplined and keeping everything “topped up".
