General Chat

Yep, got my earthquake kit by the door.
Water food etc. etc.
Tent and cooking equipment also handy.

Deb

Yes - I have been flooded very badly, lost nearly everything but I managed, and I could do it again. This goverment should look after the people here in the UK first, but fail too so very often. As for the disaster over sea's, Well the goverment they have are not even helping it's own people, so what does that tell you?

Wrong or right I do not know but I was taught that charity begins at home and then spreads itself to others. I do try to live by this because it seems to work for me. So .
1. family help first
2. 3 charities which have meant a great deal to the "whole" family, the Salvation Army, The great Ormond Street Hospital and the Life Guards along our coast.

Would I survive a disaster, well it depends on so many chance things. for example i am terrifed of drowning and cannot swim..yes I have had over 80 lessons and stoill can't swim so I could drown BUt who knows maybe I would survive,
loosing personal items, well family photos and hand written letters from distant past are important but not enough to risk a life.
Starve well I would try not to but we can survive on much less than we think
Financial well having been very poor and then rather well off only to loose everything in the last financial carsh about a 18/19 years ago yes I can survive and have done so by climbing the ladder all over again BUT I can also live very happilly with out much.
I survived the disaster of divorce..

I guess it all depends on the disaster...
my main concern is would I survive the loss of an adult child who is serving his country....I guess I would have to simply to honour him.

I think I have moved away from your first point so sorry about that but he word disaster can mean so many things
B

Yes - I have, and I could do it again.


xxxxxx mick

Now clothing from the shed , there's a collection of silly hats, gardening gloves, the green wellies , a clear plastic cape and the mobility scooter, I could cut a dash in that ! but no knickers LOL

I after a fire here will keep urgent things in a bag by the door but as I would only grab my dogs and phone if I could. the only things I will keep in bag is pet passports, harnesses and leads,and a spare phone with all numbers on phone not chip and a copy of dad's photo. ...Oh and a spare pair of knickers incase it's late night lol everything else I could replace

During the volcano episode , my chemist was scratching hard to get supplies, yes it did make me think. I keep a tin box in the garden shed for special things , should the house go bang ! ever the optimist !!!

Lindsay It does make you think though, what in the case of a disaster would you grab and what could you hope to be given in the way of help.

not without a ready supply of meds and insulin, none of my girl guide survival training would be of much use.

Joy I have a sibling who would/will see me in debt and not help me out although she forgets that half what she owns is mine or the debt she owes me.,
Sorry but not all families pull together

Joy I have always said we should look after our own 1st.

Rose I will never take away from you the good that you have done. There are many who would love to have the chance to pay building insurance, there is many who would like to know what it is.

I have always protected my home ..and by the way what is a tele I still don't have one. lol but my home hasn't always been 'Mine' just rented or borrowed so is it down to me to insure a rented house?

love or hate
if our own are in trouble or need
we need to take care of them first

Interesting concept Joy

and what when you have siblings that hate each other .

Rose the Everglades was a mistake to use I admit ..althought some do end up homeless
you say
"No one in the UK lives outside in filth and squalor when there are floods...ok it's not their home.... but they do always get a roof over their heads, sanitation is the first thing tackled and we have insurance ( and anyone who doesn't pay for that here is a fool...I lived on a flood plain..which hadn't flooded for 70 years but thats not the point ) . Had it flooded would I have re-built? no not there.. for various reasons."

I say don't they .....
We appear to have forgot some people, the lower paid who can;t afford insurance, do remember some live in good homes inherited.
and what of the street people in those areas they are hardly going to insure their cardboad boxes but they are as valid a posession as the rag in 3rd world.

my opinion is

we should be more tribal and look after our own first

Joy that was the base of my question ...no country offered millions not even your own so how the eckers cn they find millions at a later date

because we/you the brits will get up and rebuild, They forget about them who will have lost all and commit suicide. or those that are forced into tented accomadation and have to start again

So should Britain offer help to other countries before their own ?

yes i think i would survive ok

but i to have a qusetion
we gave millions to Pakistan for the flood victims
BUT how much did Pakistan give to the flood victims of Cumbria

not a good title but enough to make you read I hope,

So many countries have had disasters and UK has sent money ....The everglades just get up an rebuild, the 3rd word countries just put their hands out and wait for others to rebuild.
It's a 2 part question should the UK fund floods in other lands when they haven't yet rehoused their own flood victims,
Agreed their needs are worse

2nd part ..is would you cope if you was flooded out , would you re-build or move