Surviving Apocalypse on a Boat?

Mark-1

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Have you ever lived on an island when the ferry has been cancelled for two days in a row? In fact a bad weather forecast is enough to clear the essential shelves in Tescos.

Well, personally, I *would* start hacking my neighbours apart just after lunchtime if I hadn't eaten all day, but I'd like to think I'm not typical. 😁
 

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Nattering to somebody now retired whos civilian job might have involved providing software and computor stuff to help manage our short range defences.
Asked about what one should do in the event, if one lived in Kent for instance , he smiled and said , You could jump in the car and start to drive down to the White Cliffs to watch stuff come across the Channel but suggested that it would all over before the Spitfires at Manston could get airbourne.
 

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I remember the ferries not getting into Lochboisdale/ Lochmaddy, always had to have available, tinned / UHT milk, flour to make bread, tins of various meats and veggies ...


Today,
We have our own well and sewage system...
If the bomb went off the pumps keeping the levels dry would stop, and we'd rapidly be living on a island.
Plenty of trees on the island for firewood, and we've over a years worth of coal / coal replacement in stock.
There's a lot of deer around, often in our garden, and there's plenty of fishing. We'd have crops to eat, there's normally potatoes, wheat or barley, sugar beet, and sometimes peas.. at this time of year sheep..

The nearest target for a bomb is 10 miles by flying crow..
So we'd just slowly die of radiation poisoning..
 
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