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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 3, 2017 21:59:25 GMT 10
Mid-afternoon - You go to pay for your lunch at a local restaurant and they inform you that the EFTPOS terminal has gone offline. A minor inconvenience, but you have cash, so you settle the bill and depart. On your way back to the office you stop at an ATM only to find that it too appears to be offline. After a 2pm meeting you check your phone and comment - half to yourself - how odd it is that you haven't had a single email in the past couple hours. The CFO fills you in on the fact that the company's finance system went down a little before 1pm and email and internet services blinked out soon thereafter. How did you miss that?
The landline phones are still operational and your mobile phone appears to be fine (less internet/data) as you SMS your partner. S/he confirm that the internet is down at your house and that FOXTEL is out - but that could just be because you use an IQ box.
With no emails and no internet (all your files are in the cloud) you decide to call it a day. On your way home you call your sister to check in and she advises that her husband (ICU Intensivist) might be stuck at the hospital. Apparently they've cancelled all elective procedures and warned the medical and nursing staff that there is 'a situation' unfolding that may require them to remain at or close to the hospital for the foreseeable future. Sounds like the administration is worried about the ability of staff to get to work. Your sister says that she and the kids have been invited to join her husband at the hospital, but that she thinks that is overkill and will remain at the house - plus, they've got two dogs to care for.
Despite the fact that there is no EFTPOS, it appears that the supermarkets are operating judging by the full parking lot at Woolworths. They must be cash and carry.
You've got $25 in your wallet and $200 at home. The shops should be open for another few hours. No EFTPOS, Banks are offline and the internet is down.
What, if anything, do you do?
Further details will be revealed in the coming days...
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Post by blueshoes on Jul 3, 2017 22:37:58 GMT 10
Ooh exciting, I love these
We would give the real estate agent written authorisation to sell our house on our behalf (with a caveat that sale price needs to be above a reserve or no sale), then attempt the two day drive interstate to family. We were gonna do it soon anyway - Since our work/income is all www based, nothing to do for now so might as well go on holidays a week early...
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Post by Peter on Jul 3, 2017 23:01:48 GMT 10
Firstly I'd smack myself upside the head for only having $200 in the house...
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Post by paranoia on Jul 3, 2017 23:18:11 GMT 10
Firstly I'd smack myself upside the head for only having $200 in the house... What about all those files in the cloud??
Not having local backups is HUGE.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 4, 2017 19:49:32 GMT 10
Cloud shmoud, I don't store anything on it. With only $200 I'd go get a few bricks of 22 ammo then go back home, open the safe and turn on the TV (if it's working) for some news. Oh and I'd call a meeting with some of my neighbours to discuss that action plan we never got around to devising
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Post by paranoia on Jul 4, 2017 21:23:30 GMT 10
So to answer the scenario. I'd grab some fuel with the $25 if it wasn't too busy (if it looked like it was going to take more than 15 minutes I wouldn't bother)
Make sure the water tanks are all full.
Then really it's business as usual (minus the internet) would make dinner, have a cup of tea and then read a book.
To be honest simply having the internet down, a run on groceries (this isn't an indicator of much more than the internet being down) and a possible busy hospital wouldn't actually trigger more of a response than that.
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Post by spatial on Jul 4, 2017 21:25:22 GMT 10
Two preps I am a bit short on is dog food and fuel and yeast to make own bread. I have some yeast but it is getting a bit old. Fuel is for visiting friends and collecting firewood in the trailer and emergency bug out if required in the future. Dog food does not have a long shelf life, so not much stored.
Pone all the friends that I know that prep and invite them over to my house for a BBQ to discuss world events and plans, it will be a very late night but since wont be going back to work who cares.
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Post by Joey on Jul 4, 2017 22:38:15 GMT 10
No internet? Bugger better spend the $25 on porn mags lol Top up the fuel in the car and head home and start getting gear prepared to either stay or go and get the 12v fridge batteries on charge while there is still power to do so
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Post by blueshoes on Jul 4, 2017 23:02:24 GMT 10
It strikes me as odd that the hospital would offer to have family on site - this makes me think someone in the know thinks whatever is going on will be a few days at least not just a few hours... and probably involve casualties
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Post by remnantprep on Jul 4, 2017 23:02:43 GMT 10
I am buying $25 worth of chocolate and $200 worth of red wine!!
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 4, 2017 23:28:19 GMT 10
Dog food does not have a long shelf life, so not much stored. Every time the 1.2 kg cans of dog food are on sale I grab 6-10. Cut it with rice and I can make it last quite a while for my two dogs - combined weight 65-70 kg.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 0:56:27 GMT 10
Since I live it town I would go home an get the $200 and top up supplies, since I'm not desperate just whatever shit I feel might be going down.... cold or heat wave, or whatever. Then over the course of the next few days transfer food so all frozen stuff is in chest freezer in preparation for power going off and kitchen refrigerator not being needed. After about three days beyond the power going off it is time to move into prepper modeof bunkering down. All the time trying to maintain situational awareness and adaptable to changing circumstances.
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Post by Morgo on Jul 5, 2017 15:38:09 GMT 10
"warned the medical and nursing staff that there is 'a situation' unfolding " <---- Goes straight home, forget the shops, loading mags in case of zombies (sorry, couldn't resist)
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Post by fei on Jul 5, 2017 16:13:51 GMT 10
Pretty much same as everyone else -- make sure the car is fully fueled up, then go to the small local stores (avoid supermarkets) to buy as much rice, water and tinned or otherwise non-perishable food I can get; making sure I keep some cash back just in case. In the meantime, I'd ring my wife and ask her to drop into the bank and get out as much cash as possible, then ring me with the outcome (ie. if no cash is available, then something is definitely happening, so we immediately get ready to drive out to extended family in the countryside). One or the other of us to also pick up the kids from school, plus ring around family in other parts of the country to see what's happening in their areas.
Once everyone is at home and we have a good idea what's going down in surrounding cities (where the in-laws live), then we can organise whatever needs to be done.
I guess I want to see what the "Further details will be revealed in the coming days..." covers before making more exact plans.
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Post by grumble on Jul 5, 2017 17:39:52 GMT 10
well in this case I would turn on my old fashioned radio and see if there was any news and my portable scanner to see if there was any chatter of interest but truthfully at this point it simply would look and appear as a simple net glitch again and it does happen from time to time apart from the bit about telling nurse there is an unfolding situation that part would interest me ore than the net being down
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Post by spatial on Jul 5, 2017 19:57:51 GMT 10
It strikes me as odd that the hospital would offer to have family on site - this makes me think someone in the know thinks whatever is going on will be a few days at least not just a few hours... and probably involve casualties The big problem in Australia is only 2-3 weeks of fuel as most fuel is imported directly from Singapore. If world banking goes down and or war in Asia we are walking everywhere or back to push bikes and horses. Why would that affect doctors could be a pandemic - some medical staff might flee for their own and family protection....
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Post by Peter on Jul 5, 2017 22:18:29 GMT 10
It strikes me as odd that the hospital would offer to have family on site - this makes me think someone in the know thinks whatever is going on will be a few days at least not just a few hours... and probably involve casualties The big problem in Australia is only 2-3 weeks of fuel as most fuel is imported directly from Singapore. If world banking goes down and or war in Asia we are walking everywhere or back to push bikes and horses. Why would that affect doctors could be a pandemic - some medical staff might flee for their own and family protection.... Yep, you can count on medical and emergency personnel looking after their own families ahead of others. I don't blame them for that for a moment.
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Post by Ammo9 on Jul 5, 2017 22:52:14 GMT 10
If the local servo is quiet... -Fill up the hilux ($90 at the top of the price cycle if empty, which is never but we'll say 90) - fill one of the jerrycans which is empty at the moment (call it $25) -grab another lpg bottle ($50? Dunno what a servo charges for these) -the Shell has $7 slabs of water so get another few slabs. Say 4 slabs of water. So another $28
Thats $193 if my couch-math is correct.
So get a can of red bull then go home and do a bit of maintenance on my range toys.
EDIT: it's 225 cash not 200. Whoops.
Id buy blocks of chocolate with the rest. You dont wanna even make eye contact with my misso on a bad day if you dont have some chocolate to calm the beast.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2017 17:10:48 GMT 10
Morgo's comment has opened my eyes to the fact hospitals are gearing up and have been given priority information to get ready for something. That should mean something to us preppers, either biological threat or conflict is my best guess, and with the possibility of a biological threat I might stay away from the shops and people.
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Post by paranoia on Jul 6, 2017 21:39:17 GMT 10
This thread has got to be my favourite of all the scenario threads so far, purely for the small amount of information given with 'more to come'. Has given me way more to think about and I feel it's a much more realistic offering as these things are a series of events rather than a point in time and you don't have all the information before you start acting. Thanks Ziggy, love your work. Look forward to your next update.
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