"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:47:14 -0000, Jim Webster wrote:

Also, people seem to hoard-buy things like bread rather than dried
foods.

actually in area where they are dependent on pumping stations to get
them water,

That's only a problem if they are daft enough to have one of those combi
boiler things and no 50 gallon cold water storage tank in the loft.

Lets see there is probably about 250 gallons of cold water storage here,
historical, mains water didn't arrive until about 20 years ago...

We have a fairly comprehensive set of backup cooking, lighting and some
power along with a stock of dried/tinned food. When the power goes or we
are snowed in we are fairly comfortably self contained for several days.
The food might get a bit basic/repetative after a while but it will be hot
and we will be warm. What more do you *really* need? Nothing.


our house to too old to do the central heating/boiler thing, putting pipes
through the walls would be a nightmare, so we have a few storage heaters,
but as I suspect with you, the electric does go off reasonably often (three
times last wednesday night but thankfully only for short periods, so we are
geared up for it.
Our worst was six and a half days without electric (when there were the big
floods in Carlisle) which can be pretty depressing in January, but at least
we still had running water

Jim Webster