Sh*t happens why not get ready?

[Moondog55]

Immediate use food we can live out of the fridge and freezer for 3 days to a week, although some of the frozen stuff may be a bit dodgy by the end of day 7. After that about a fortnite of basic beans, rice and pasta. Water would last about a month if I filter and treat the water in the garden tanks.
LPG in the BBQs usually 3 * 8.5kg before I have to use the butane stove and about 10 litres of 50/50 kero/Shellite fuel for the MSR [ bought a bulk load at BCF clearance a while back] Having cooked in some out of the way places over 30 years I got used to always having a minimum of a weeks supply in the stores.
I know I'm an outlier tho.
Can't dig a bomb shelter here as the water table is too high so if the bomb drops we are probable dead, most other things we could cope with for a few weeks.
But the North Koreans probably have their ICBMs targeted on Pine Gap so Geelong is probably safer than Adelaide or Sydney if the British tests at Maralinga are any indicator

[Walk_fat boy_walk]

The BWA shark has seriously been jumped with this thread

[Moondog55]

I would say it is all about possibilities.
We are headed off on another cruise in 3 days
Cunard sent us a packing list and in that is the advice to bring along a spray jacket, a warm beanie and substantial warm shoes and clothing in the event of a need to abandon ship.
Also the need to have any essential medications easily grabbed
Not likely at all, but if it did, the extra clothing would make the 3 days until help arrived more bearable and life sustaining medications might help keep you alive.
If you're not prepared to assist in keeping yourself safe and healthy perhaps you deserve to be left behind, keeping in mind that in the event of an abandon ship Cecile and I would be left until last anyway as wheelchair passengers are always left until everyone else has been accommodated. Halls Gap had to be evacuated this week, I hope those residents had their grab bags ready to go