How well prepared are you?

[Guest sibon]

Ladies and gentlemen of the forum. Snowmageddon is almost upon us. The Met office are forecasting literally centimetres of snow, almost everywhere in the UK.

 

That amount of the white stuff is obviously a very worrying prospect and it deserves serious contemplation.

 

So, how well prepared are you? How many days could you be confined to you house without running out of vital supplies? Do you have a food store? Water supplies? Candles? Spare booze? Enough bog roll to weather the storm?

 

Of course, if it as bad as the Express are claiming, we are probably all in trouble.

[tinfoilhat]

100 litres of bottled water

8 loaves of bread

500kg of tinned goods

2 freezers worth of frozen goods

1 generator (plus 2x 10 gallon drums of fuel - 1 at a secret location

6 months of medication

Skis

Fully equipped 4x4 with living accommodation

Bug out bag

Torches. (12)

Candles (250)

Matches (1 box - bit of an oversight)

Quite alot of alchohol.

[wednesday1]

Snow plough bolted onto front bumper!

[Moosey]

 

Of course, if it as bad as the Express are claiming, we are probably all in trouble.

 

The Express have short memories! We had significantly more than a foot of snow in winter 2010. I remember walking to work and it was past my knees, so about 18inches or so.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_in_Sheffield_1_Dec_2010.jpg

 

There we go in fact. Remember it well, as the midwife couldn't get to us

[chem1st]

I got some incense sticks and a camera.

[Rampent]

100 litres of bottled water

8 loaves of bread

500kg of tinned goods

2 freezers worth of frozen goods

1 generator (plus 2x 10 gallon drums of fuel - 1 at a secret location

6 months of medication

Skis

Fully equipped 4x4 with living accommodation

Bug out bag

Torches. (12)

Candles (250)

Matches (1 box - bit of an oversight)

Quite alot of alchohol.

 

Need more info. Cannot just state that - it's a teaser

[Grissom]

Should be OK for 5 days without having to knock on neighbours door or eat her cats

 

Gas hob and oven useful in case of power cut or melting non-yellow snow for drinking

[monkey104]

A bag of grit, shovel, and the landrover just serviced and mot'd

[lilypiglet]

Sun tan lotion, flip-flops, and the BBQ's been turfed out of the garage.

I've seen the forecast for Sheffield change quite literally hour by hour on the 'net and TBH can't trust anyone of 'em.

It's easier for the forecasters to scaremonger snow and so then the Councils can say 'We're prepared'.

Nothing can be predicted in reality until around 12 hours ahead of events...

I'd love a Met Office job..predict ****e, smile and say 'Well we can never be 100%'

I'll look out of my window Monday morning and take it from there, my driveway already has rock salt down, I've decent tyres on my 4WD Subaru, I'll not make any unnecessary journeys, I have a tow-rope, walking boots, shovel, blanket etc in my boot...bring it on.

I'm planning on snowboarding down my road if it snows as it never gets gritted anyway.

[tinfoilhat]

Need more info. Cannot just state that - it's a teaser

 

Actually its quite a lot less alchohol than it was, hence the rest of the list might not be entirely accurate.