Your Best and Worst Preps of 2019!

[DrHenley]

there will always be some differences between what our American cousins may experience in the way of events and what we do here in Britain.
for instance we don't have tornado's or Hurricanes and earthquakes are few and far between

The tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes keep us on our toes and serve as reminders of why we need to be prepped. Well SOME of us anyhow.

 

[bigpaul]

I wonder why anyone lives in "tornado alley", seems a good place to avoid.
when we moved here 10 years ago we didn't pick it out of the blue, we added up the pro's and con's of living here, plus we knew the area well.

 

[DrHenley]

Chances of getting hit by a tornado in Tornado Alley are much much lower than a lot of other hazards bigpaul, like being in a house fire, automobile accident, accidental drowning, falling from a ladder, etc.

It's just that the tornadoes make the headlines while injuries and deaths caused by the more mundane things don't.

 

[Brent S]

Chances of getting hit by a tornado in Tornado Alley are much much lower than a lot of other hazards bigpaul, like being in a house fire, automobile accident, accidental drowning, falling from a ladder, etc.

It's just that the tornadoes make the headlines while injuries and deaths caused by the more mundane things don't.

Good point. Driving in a car is the most dangerous thing we all do, by far.

 

[tmttactical]

Biggest want but cannot have is a compressor to recharge the dive bottles that power my air rifles with.

Bill, Check out this compressor. More affordable and has very good ratings. Yong Heng Air compressor. Ebay listing.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/YONG-HENG-...=283270753885b728206844ac468e9986e180ceb30275

 

[KateMTx]

My best preps of the past years wasn't really one specific thing. Rather, it's been developing more of a focus and a plan, and successfully getting a couple of my siblings involved who are taking it seriously as well and working together with them.
My worst prep I think is more short term - I'm bad with saving money. But I can say that it was better this past year than the year before.

 

[tmttactical]

Best prep --- I converted my step son into a gun person and a moderate. Good first steps.

 

[bigpaul]

Chances of getting hit by a tornado in Tornado Alley are much much lower than a lot of other hazards bigpaul, like being in a house fire, automobile accident, accidental drowning, falling from a ladder, etc.

It's just that the tornadoes make the headlines while injuries and deaths caused by the more mundane things don't.

all I see is the people running to the hardware store 24 hours before the storm is due to hit, if its that often you'd think they'd have the stuff already.

 

[BillMasen]

FYI
The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes. ... However, the UK has most tornadoes per area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km², although these tornadoes are generally weak, and many other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area.
Tornado climatology - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tornado_climatology

 

[bigpaul]

never seen a tornado in England, all tornado's that come across the Atlantic are downgraded to severe storm by the time they get here.

 

[BillMasen]

never seen a tornado in England, all tornado's that come across the Atlantic are downgraded to severe storm by the time they get here.

You are confusing Hurricanes with Tornadoes.


Manchester July 2019
https://news.sky.com/video/manchester-freak-tornado-damages-cars-and-property-11766904
Devon 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/video...ter-tornado-devon-brixham-video-a8234096.html

 

[bigpaul]

I've never seen either in the UK, we do get high wind storms but they are not hurricanes or tornados.

 

[BillMasen]

I've never seen either in the UK, we do get high wind storms but they are not hurricanes or tornados.

Great Storm of 1987
Description
The Great Storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in England, France and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast.

And I posted two links in my previous post to Uk tornadoes of recent times.

Here is another link to the Tornado that hit Brixham in Devon
https://twitter.com/stormchaserukeu/status/968906327480258560?lang=en

 

[bigpaul]

86MPH WINDS are a severe storm and we have plenty of storms with high winds, just because it blew some trees down and some power lines, is no reason to get all panicky, even if Michael Fish did get it wrong.

 

[BillMasen]

86MPH WINDS are a severe storm and we have plenty of storms with high winds, just because it blew some trees down and some power lines, is no reason to get all panicky, even if Michael Fish did get it wrong.

Who is panicky???

 

[bigpaul]

people, sheeple.

 

[DrHenley]

We've been impacted several times by high winds. All three times the most damage was to a storage shed. Once was what was called a "straight line wind" that picked up a storage shed, lifted it up about 10 feet in the air and slammed it into the neighbor's house.

Even though we're nowhere near the coast, we were impacted by two hurricanes, but we got off light compared to the neighbors. One of them dropped a tree on a storage shed and the other sent a storage shed off to who-knows-where.

Even though I grew up in "Dixie Alley", the only time I have ever been in a tornado was actually at sea. Talk about fear factor, there is literally nowhere to hide!

 

[Maverick]

Going through Port Lavac Texas on our way to our vacation home in Port Bolivar Texas back in the early 60s when we got caught up in hurricane Carla, we lost the roof and one of the walls of roadside motel and lost our car, 2 years before that we lost our farm in the Panhandle outside of Sunray Texas by a tornado. Then I end up in a state that have earthquakes and volcanoes but in reality their are no place that is truly safe, one just preps for the geographics one chooses to live. At some point I'll be heading to the Midwest escaping the geopolitics of the West Coast.

 

[Selivan]

in 2019 I almost finished building a carport in a country house (dacha).
it's good.


but in 2019 I did not collect raspberries for cooking in the forest, since all the meadows with raspberries were overgrown with trees, and grass
This is bad.

 

[Maudite]

The worst prep, if it could be called that, was based more on curiosity then need. Purchased an ASI Pasimax 12 guage side handle shotgun. At the time, just a little under 200. Basically, a Benelli clone, which handles somewhat like a Benelli. The problem it has are two. First, there are no aftermarket upgrades, such as for the 870 and it's family of clones. The second, is the rear stock, the length of pull is too long. Gets worse in the winter, when wearing a heavy coat. If there was an upgrade to replace the current stock (along with the side handle), it would be a decent shotgun. Currently, it's just taking up room in the closet....