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Terrorism
I'm attempting to take the govt's advice on how to prepare for a terrorist attack in context.
Now at home I always have plenty of food, so I'm not too worried about that. I have two litres of bottled water and I know I should have a couple more, but where's the line between a supply in case of emergency and preparing for WW3 paranoia? I've got water purification tablets (mainly for Guides), so I suppose I could purify water from the toilet cistern/bathroom sink if necessary.
I have plenty of medicines/first aid stuff - out of habit I suppose and I have paper lists of important telephone numbers.
I have a torch that lives by my bed - mainly in case of power cuts. I also have candles and matches in the house - mainly for Guides.
Where I kind of fall down on preparedness is in having a battery operated radio - I have a mini radio that operates on 2AA batteries, but its signal is never very strong (I get a lot of interference trying to listen to Radio 4 between Waterloo and Basingstoke) and it eats batteries. I've also got a radio/tape player and a radio/CD player which are mains operated but can be run off batteries if necessary. So would I be being unnecessarily paranoid to try and make sure I always have enough batteries to listen to the radio on one of those?
Now at home I always have plenty of food, so I'm not too worried about that. I have two litres of bottled water and I know I should have a couple more, but where's the line between a supply in case of emergency and preparing for WW3 paranoia? I've got water purification tablets (mainly for Guides), so I suppose I could purify water from the toilet cistern/bathroom sink if necessary.
I have plenty of medicines/first aid stuff - out of habit I suppose and I have paper lists of important telephone numbers.
I have a torch that lives by my bed - mainly in case of power cuts. I also have candles and matches in the house - mainly for Guides.
Where I kind of fall down on preparedness is in having a battery operated radio - I have a mini radio that operates on 2AA batteries, but its signal is never very strong (I get a lot of interference trying to listen to Radio 4 between Waterloo and Basingstoke) and it eats batteries. I've also got a radio/tape player and a radio/CD player which are mains operated but can be run off batteries if necessary. So would I be being unnecessarily paranoid to try and make sure I always have enough batteries to listen to the radio on one of those?