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Old Yesterday, 22:27   #16
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Re: The Black Sky Event Plan

In the winter of 1990, I experienced a power outage that lasted several days, which also impacted on water supply pumps. No leccy, no power to the gas CH pump, no lights, no anything that needed mains power. Luckily, I still had a coal fire, candles, and a battery radio. Water came from snow and was boiled in a pan on the coal fire.

Cold baked beans and other canned foods straight from the can don’t taste that bad, for does cold canned rice pud.
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That's a good point about water, one hopes there's some good back-up for mains water delivery . . . there are many that don't have the space for a 'field latrine' in their gardens . . or actually have a garden
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Re: The Black Sky Event Plan

Would your home survive World War Three?

https://inspectorwalls.com/doomsday

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Would your home survive the apocalypse? Check it here (if you dare)

https://www.thetimes.com/article/a8a...2153ddba249400

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The website gives users an rating from A to G, ranking from the safest to least safe areas. Among other filters, it factors in a home’s proximity to missile targets such as MoD sites, geographical defences, the structure of the building and nearest A&Es.
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Would your home survive World War Three?

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it survived ww1 and ww2
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I live close enough to Faslane to be able to pop down the seaside and watch our nuclear deterrent sailing on the firth of Clyde. If the four minute warning ever does sound, my best bet will be to go outside and enjoy the sunshine.
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I think I'm pretty safe here, after all, any semi-intelligent guidance system on a missile would say to itself "bugger that, I'm going nowhere near that shithole"
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If London was "nuked" I would be "safe", however if we were attacked in a "multi-site" attack and "nukes" were used, well I wouldn't be typing probably ever again because I live in between 2 "high value" target cities, one upwind and one downwind, so I would be caught directly in the middle of the two.

So I can technically plan as much as I want but if "nukes" were used, my survival chances are less than 20% apparently.
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it survived ww1 and ww2
Pretty sure the other side didn’t have nukes then…

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I live close enough to Faslane to be able to pop down the seaside and watch our nuclear deterrent sailing on the firth of Clyde. If the four minute warning ever does sound, my best bet will be to go outside and enjoy the sunshine.
We are 12 miles south of Menwith Hill, so it depends on the wind direction at the time…

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I think I'm pretty safe here, after all, any semi-intelligent guidance system on a missile would say to itself "bugger that, I'm going nowhere near that shithole"
Depends how far you are from Waddington, Digby, or Coningsby…
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Both sites seem to put me mid band, a "Maybe" Survive.
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yes my home would survive
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