we had more snow than I was expecting this morning so rushed out at 6.30am with my dog before it got too bad and cos I had workmen in starting early, they turned up thankfully to finish the job or I'd have had no working shower all weekend and no floor in the bathroom! .. luckily they came and snow turned to rain so it had washed away by the time they left.
papers etc are saying we're due for big snowfall over end of March/Easter hols..anyone know how likely this is and what you doing to prepare just in case?
Snow Forecasts for Easter??
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Snow Forecasts for Easter??
Well the car is fully winterised (although I needed a new winter tyre this week due to a none repairable puncture)
Plenty of food in and the power cut last Friday let me prove the generator will run the gas central heating
How have your preps come along during the year?
Plenty of food in and the power cut last Friday let me prove the generator will run the gas central heating
How have your preps come along during the year?
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Re: Snow Forecasts for Easter??
According to the Met office there's nothing for us in the South. Still won't stop the papers running a 'worst winter for decades' story though
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Re: Snow Forecasts for Easter??
Nothing special as my general preps are just that and cover most eventualities. I will however be putting the twins next door on alert for a snowball fight. 
What have you done to prepare over the months you have been away, Katilea?
What have you done to prepare over the months you have been away, Katilea?
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since about last Sept I'd been getting a few extra tinned things, pot noodles etc things that would need one pan or kettle. I got some camping
gaz stoves for £14 each so got 2 and some gas canister things and a little set of camping pans/kettle. I've got a small kelly kettle too if had no power and had run out of camping gaz...so a kind of back up for my back up! ...or to use to boil larger or more frequent volumes of water cos the fuel is free (have a large bag of twigs/cones too and a long handled lighter, cotton wool and vaseline) such as filling flasks and hot water bottles every hour so could save the camping gaz for cooking meals so it would last longer. (if power cut went on for a long time due to extreme weather)
Got some food don't need to cook for snacks such as tinned fruit and carnation milk which I like, little jars of beef spreads etc that could be put on bread (whip out of freezer when power first went off to leave to defrost...always have a big multipack of crisps in ... love a crisp sarnie ..breakfast cereals and boxes of long life milk as well as the regular cravendale I get.
bag of plain cheap porridge oats as its filling and warm and milk doesn't take long to heat up. would probably warm up a pan ,pour some seperate to make hot choc for flasks and pour rest into a bowl of oats. I got some golden syrup in cupboard from pancake day and flour so pancakes be quick to make if have enough milk and eggs. (also nice to put a bit on the oats so get same as golden syrup flavoured oats but cheaper!
In winter I usually cook things like curries and stews anyway and freeze any leftovers so I could get one of those out of freezer if expecting a powercut to last past dinnertime, let it defrost and reheat on a camping stove. Think I could survive a powercut of a couple of days if extreme weather meant power lines were out.
got some small solar chargers which would be good enough to charge phone if I left them in the window thats getting the most sun and I'd just have to hope I still had some data left on at the time. I might get a £5 gigabag for just internet on phone as obviously the router wouldn't work if no electric.
Not sure about water for washing I'm assuming the pump would be electric even though its gas central heating and water boiler? I have got about 3 buckets I could fill with snow if we had heavy snow and bring it in to thaw then warm it up to wash with? though I'd hope it wouldn't get that bad but I have got waterproof trousers and coat and snowboots (and a small snow shovel) so I could crawl about in the snow in back garden if necessary filling buckets with snow and dragging them back into the house!
I'd got two lanterns but things have been moved about with sorting to redecorate and now I can't find the plugs that came with them! ..One is supposed to be able to charge by solar. Could do with an head lamp or something be easier when trying to move from room to room in wheelchair in the dark, especially if carrying things like flasks or food into another room. Lights on scooter may light up hallway until batteries goes down but indoor chairs don't have lights on them. (in case powercut was at night) ..can't think of anything else??
gaz stoves for £14 each so got 2 and some gas canister things and a little set of camping pans/kettle. I've got a small kelly kettle too if had no power and had run out of camping gaz...so a kind of back up for my back up! ...or to use to boil larger or more frequent volumes of water cos the fuel is free (have a large bag of twigs/cones too and a long handled lighter, cotton wool and vaseline) such as filling flasks and hot water bottles every hour so could save the camping gaz for cooking meals so it would last longer. (if power cut went on for a long time due to extreme weather)
Got some food don't need to cook for snacks such as tinned fruit and carnation milk which I like, little jars of beef spreads etc that could be put on bread (whip out of freezer when power first went off to leave to defrost...always have a big multipack of crisps in ... love a crisp sarnie
..breakfast cereals and boxes of long life milk as well as the regular cravendale I get. bag of plain cheap porridge oats as its filling and warm and milk doesn't take long to heat up. would probably warm up a pan ,pour some seperate to make hot choc for flasks and pour rest into a bowl of oats. I got some golden syrup in cupboard from pancake day and flour so pancakes be quick to make if have enough milk and eggs. (also nice to put a bit on the oats so get same as golden syrup flavoured oats but cheaper!
In winter I usually cook things like curries and stews anyway and freeze any leftovers so I could get one of those out of freezer if expecting a powercut to last past dinnertime, let it defrost and reheat on a camping stove. Think I could survive a powercut of a couple of days if extreme weather meant power lines were out.
got some small solar chargers which would be good enough to charge phone if I left them in the window thats getting the most sun and I'd just have to hope I still had some data left on at the time. I might get a £5 gigabag for just internet on phone as obviously the router wouldn't work if no electric.
Not sure about water for washing I'm assuming the pump would be electric even though its gas central heating and water boiler? I have got about 3 buckets I could fill with snow if we had heavy snow and bring it in to thaw then warm it up to wash with? though I'd hope it wouldn't get that bad but I have got waterproof trousers and coat and snowboots (and a small snow shovel) so I could crawl about in the snow in back garden if necessary filling buckets with snow and dragging them back into the house!
I'd got two lanterns but things have been moved about with sorting to redecorate and now I can't find the plugs that came with them! ..One is supposed to be able to charge by solar. Could do with an head lamp or something be easier when trying to move from room to room in wheelchair in the dark, especially if carrying things like flasks or food into another room. Lights on scooter may light up hallway until batteries goes down but indoor chairs don't have lights on them. (in case powercut was at night) ..can't think of anything else??
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Seems you're set then, so I'd stop panicking and sit back and wait for the white stuff and enjoy it from the window.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
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Re: Snow Forecasts for Easter??
Baby wipes for washing?
Alcohol hand gell for hand cleansing after visiting the loo? If using before using stove for cooking wait 5 mins for the alcohol to evaporate as its rather flamable
Dry shampoo to refresh your hair?
Look in tescos they have head torches for about £5
Or go outdoors have a big selection
http://m.gooutdoors.co.uk/search/go?vie ... Head+torch
As for a light on your chair if its tube steel made
http://www.tesco.com/direct/led-silicon ... d=674-8826
Alcohol hand gell for hand cleansing after visiting the loo? If using before using stove for cooking wait 5 mins for the alcohol to evaporate as its rather flamable
Dry shampoo to refresh your hair?
Look in tescos they have head torches for about £5
Or go outdoors have a big selection
http://m.gooutdoors.co.uk/search/go?vie ... Head+torch
As for a light on your chair if its tube steel made
http://www.tesco.com/direct/led-silicon ... d=674-8826
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Snow Forecasts for Easter??
Yorkshire Andy wrote:Baby wipes for washing?
Alcohol hand gell for hand cleansing after visiting the loo? If using before using stove for cooking wait 5 mins for the alcohol to evaporate as its rather flamable
Dry shampoo to refresh your hair?
Look in tescos they have head torches for about £5
Or go outdoors have a big selection
http://m.gooutdoors.co.uk/search/go?vie ... Head+torch
As for a light on your chair if its tube steel made
http://www.tesco.com/direct/led-silicon ... d=674-8826
didn't think of baby wipes and dry shampoo! I'll check out those torches too. Thanks
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Well done! You have covered so many things in a short time frame. I hope this gives you some peace of mind should the weather turn nasty.
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You haven't mentioned it but what about bottled water, it will either save you rolling around getting snow to melt or if there's no snow you still have water. The cheapest of the cheapiest cheap cheap stuff will do, 17p a bottle or whatever, either that or keep old bottles and fill them up from the tap.
It sounds like you've come on a long way though, well done, the other thing to do is make sure you've got enough fuel for your stoves, then you're peachy.
It sounds like you've come on a long way though, well done, the other thing to do is make sure you've got enough fuel for your stoves, then you're peachy.