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Power cuts, internet outages, mild inconvenience to your daily lives - how did you cope? Tell us your tales of pointless panic buying and hiding under the stairs.

thanks, ringofyre

(, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 14:15)
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Yup, pretty good I'd say.
Petrol in the bike, petrol in the car, petrol in the genny, diesel in the van, petrol in the stove, heating oil in the, uh, heating tank.

Plenty food in the cupboards - not much tinned stuff but loads of things like flour, pasta and crucially stuff to add to bland starchy food to make it taste nice. I'm not sure how I'd bake bread without electricity since my cooker is electric, probably build a brick oven out of paving slabs and concrete blocks.

Got plenty tools but mostly I need a saw, a drill and an axe.

Got an HF transceiver for long-distance communications, and UHF and VHF stuff for short-range (including satellite, which isn't really short-range at all).

Got plenty cover to the rear of the house (the zombies will shred themselves on the hawthorn bushes) and a good open aspect to the front so I'll see them coming a mile off. Well, maybe half a mile given the curvature of the hill, but still plenty.

Sorted. Bring on the zombies.
(, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 22:56, 5 replies)

You need a cricket bat.
(, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 7:25, closed)
Got a couple of shinty sticks
... and some 6' offcuts of dural antenna pole.

Actually, you could probably make a pretty good gas cannon with those.
(, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 8:01, closed)
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Water supply?
(, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 7:26, closed)
There's a well and a bore pump up at the farm.
It's not much of a pump since round these parts the water table is about 6" below the surface, and I'm only about a quarter of a mile from the Kelvin before it passes through any industrial areas.

I mean, it's not like water just falls from the sky, is it? Oh wait, this is Scotland, lack of water is the least of my worries...
(, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 8:00, closed)
You've got red on you...

(, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 8:03, closed)

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