Snow warning in sept????

[katilea]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -231638632


ok I'm panicking.. have a total phobia of snow as a wheelchair user it renders me totally immobile and since 2010 when we got that bad snow and I was NOT prepared and snowed in 2 weeks solid the first sight of or mention of snow sends me into a panic!

why? well last week it was sunny I've done my food shop and had got salads. It's my dogs birthday at end of Sept and I'd bought him an outdoor obstacle course which he might not be able to use... bought him an indoor game off ebay as back up and hope that can get here.. Meanwhile I can just order more tinned food in for next week and just hope its not snowing here on that day!

What else do I need to be prepared to be snowed in? I'll be alot less panicky if I think I'm prepared.. I'm thinking a treadmill so the dog can get his exercise as I won't be able to get the chair up the drive even to the grass opposite us and maybe I should get one of those camping stoves and camping type food in case of a power cut? none of it would arrive until next week and only if it doesn't snow as bad here as predicted, but I'd be ready for the next lot of snow at least!

At least we're eating well tonight I have ingredients for a chilli con carne in and some brandy and coke! I say 'we' I mean me and the dogs!.. They will get some mince, carrots and potato that I cook off first before adding anything they can't eat such as the onions, peppers and chilli sauce!

My next worry was my old dog as I was about to make the dreaded decision soon after we'd had one last party with my youngest dog but if we're snowed in then the vet can't get here and the pet cremation service can't either! GO AWAY SNOW!!!!!!

[Yorkshire Andy]

I wouldn't panic just yet our local gritters have been out local council tweeted they were training drivers and taking them for service and repair ......


On a decent camping stove you can do plenty of meals and not restricted to specialist camping rations ....

Get one that uses butane and propane mix or propane as butane freezes at 0 degrees

If you have mobility issues I'd look into a camp kitchen... As it will be nice and stable and not "top heavy" like many backpacking stoves are....

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Go-System-Gas-c ... nav=SEARCH

Then a propane bottle and regulator from your local gas supplier I use BOC and Callor worth noting that propane should not be stored inside....

[katilea]

I wouldn't panic just yet our local gritters have been out local council tweeted they were training drivers and taking them for service and repair ......


On a decent camping stove you can do plenty of meals and not restricted to specialist camping rations ....

Get one that uses butane and propane mix or propane as butane freezes at 0 degrees

If you have mobility issues I'd look into a camp kitchen... As it will be nice and stable and not "top heavy" like many backpacking stoves are....

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Go-System-Gas-c ... nav=SEARCH

Then a propane bottle and regulator from your local gas supplier I use BOC and Callor worth noting that propane should not be stored inside....

If you can't keep them inside to cook with with how do I cook with it inside if my electric goes? Looking for something that would go on my worktop and still cook something or boil a kettle if electric went?

I was thinking of something like this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Camping-Fishi ... 23547a5d6d

[Yorkshire Andy]

Stored and use are different things have you got a shed?

I don't store any fuel in the house gas can go bang if it leaks


The stove you linked to uses butane below about 4°c it will begin to stop working

Whilst initially expensive for bottle deposit calor gas works out cheaper over time best of 4kg for £14

http://m.gooutdoors.co.uk/calor-calor-p ... ll-p132720

Vs disposal one use cartridges

[katilea]

Stored and use are different things have you got a shed?

I don't store any fuel in the house gas can go bang if it leaks


The stove you linked to uses butane below about 4°c it will begin to stop working

Thing is If I've kept it in the shed and it snows overnight I can't get from my back door to the shed to get it if path is covered in snow. so it's then no use to me and I'm still stuck. I can't get in the shed either with chair to set it up to cook in there if that's what you mean? I was thinking of storing it in wardrobe in spare room with camping stove or hall cupboard, with white light torch or lantern. Are none of them safe to store indoors?

if so what cold meals do you store in case of powercuts? ..with nothing to reheat them? .. only other thing I can think of..I think I saw some kind of device that allows you to cook food by warming it in hot water??? My boiler is gas so chances are even if electric went off I'd still have hot water from taps and shower I could fill a container with? I don't know if it needs to be special sachets of food though?

[Yorkshire Andy]

https://www.campingaz.com/UK/p-26404-bistro-300.aspx

That might be ideal as it uses butane propane mix...


I'm a bit risk averse but a few of those cartridges shouldn't pose much of a risk just dontvstore then over the oven or in the electric cupboard

Sorry to be brief I'm Ment to be working

[katilea]

https://www.campingaz.com/UK/p-26404-bistro-300.aspx

That might be ideal as it uses butane propane mix...


I'm a bit risk averse but a few of those cartridges shouldn't pose much of a risk just dontvstore then over the oven or in the electric cupboard

Sorry to be brief I'm Ment to be working

lol..thanks... don't get in trouble! I like that little stove, the video was useful to see whats needed to work it and it doesn't need matches or anything to light it. I'd probably keep them in the wardrobe that's in the spare room, as its used for storage only the heating is never on. The wardrobe isn't near the radiator anyway. I could always cook on the floor in the doorway.

I'm sure when we went camping years ago though the cooker was inside the tent and awning! ..we didn't have to be outside to use it? Also had a camper van with a cooker hidden behind the front passenger seat at one point and that needed matches to light it!! My parents did all the cooking though as I was just a child then so I can't remember any specifics of how they worked!

[katilea]

I've just discovered on here something called the Kelly Kettle, without using matches how could I light it? would one of those long handled gas lighter things work? not sure what they're called but an auntie used to have to reach the back of her gas oven and light it before you could do it with a switch on the front! (many moons ago!!)

something like this battery operated?

http://www.wayfair.co.uk/KitchenCraft-M ... 5813657863

I've got plenty of paper and can easily collect small twigs over autumn as I'm out everyday with the dogs and get a little box of twigs and stuff. There's no gas cylinders to worry about, but lighting it with matches would be my challenge, unless a lighter like the one above would work for lighting paper and twigs?

[Hamradioop]

I've just discovered on here something called the Kelly Kettle, without using matches how could I light it? would one of those long handled gas lighter things work? not sure what they're called but an auntie used to have to reach the back of her gas oven and light it before you could do it with a switch on the front! (many moons ago!!)

something like this battery operated?

http://www.wayfair.co.uk/KitchenCraft-M ... 5813657863

I've got plenty of paper and can easily collect small twigs over autumn as I'm out everyday with the dogs and get a little box of twigs and stuff. There's no gas cylinders to worry about, but lighting it with matches would be my challenge, unless a lighter like the one above would work for lighting paper and twigs?

Yes that would work to light a Kelly kettle.

[Wales1]

What about a hexamine stove? I'll be honest I have zero experience with them but i'll be ordering a couple up and adding them to my preps they seem to be retalining online at around a fiver with a pack of tablets. Maybe somone on the board could tell me if the solid fuel bricks are more stable than gas cartriges?