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Panic Room, Prepper, Survivalism. UK.
Whether you think the problems we will face will be occasional, civil unrest, looting and so on; or last a long time ...
I personally think that everyone will face some threat or other starting very soon ...
the survivors will be those who had somewhere well stocked and secure to hide prepared in good time.
You want it built well. Dry without a pump. Insulated enough not to require heating. Stocked with food and water. It might be fully ready for years before you actually hide yourselves in it. Perhaps it will be a gym and cinema with storage behind closed doors full of provisions.
Panic Room, Prepper and Survivalism are the idea that it is important to prepare for future events that will seriously and adversely affect your lives.
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I am minded by the examples of deer in Ashdown Forest (Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Aker Wood), and Giant Pandas in China.
Countryfile explained that deer numbers are the greatest now since the Norman Conquest and that deer in this forest need 80% culling to stop them eating food faster than it can recover and grow.
Do-Gooders, animal rescue volunteers and so on, are angry saying that numbers will be controlled naturally, even without wolf and puma predators, when the food runs out numbers will naturally reduce.
But those who manage the forest have filmed deer searching through housing estates at night. The deer are not going to stay in one place to starve.
Sir David Attenborough explained that the giant Panda is suffering from global warming and climbing higher into the mountains to find a cooler and more comfortable climate. But there is not as much food higher up - yet it makes the journey hoping there will be, because it cannot stay where it cannot bear the hot temperature.
The deer and the giant panda both explore new opportunities rather than die. The giant panda will soon exhaust all the food higher up the mountain. Perhaps it will soon be extinct. The deer will soon exhaust all the food in the Ashdown Forest then explore more housing estates and discover farmland with hedgerows and crops to eat. Deer will kill the hedgerows and eat our crops instead of us.
These are analogous, in my mind, to Africans and Asians risking their lives to get to Europe. No matter how crowded they expect conditions to be where they try to get to, they expect them to be better than they are where they left.
And if they exhaust the opportunities in one area. Meaning they have eaten all our food. They will move on to new areas.
Bear in mind, also, the plight of young people in Britain today who persuade each other that the reason they cannot buy and have to rent is partially because Conservative MPs are landlords and they prevent solutions becoming law. Our young have food and water, but they don't have security. They have good jobs but they give their income to the vastly wealthy landlord-class from whom they must rent.
Instinct is extremely powerful. Ultimately, instinct says fight to the death. Kill rather than be killed. Neanderthals v Homo Sapiens. Vikings during the Dark Ages. Israel now.
As at 31st March 2023, there were 47,500 migrants locked up in hotels and more in immigration detention. These numbers increase daily. Think about the desperation of Africans drowning in the Mediterranean trying to reach Italy. Thousands more get across and some with Britain in mind.
We clearly do not have enough Police because shoplifting is out of control. People steal daily from charity shops and every hour from convenience stores.
If 50,000 immigrants all break out at once, perhaps because they learn they are all to be sent to Rwanda, they would immediately begin stealing. Stealing to feed themselves and feed their families. Their families will view them as heroes, not criminals. They would rampage in groups, stealing from everyone in their way, fighting back against those who resist.
With law and order resources overwhelmed, half a million young people in our cities could follow suit, because social media is telling them to. Because social media is full of the idea that wealthy old farts in government are preventing young people from owning a home whilst charging them exorbitant rents as landlords.
Cabinet Minister Michael Gove put this in the open during February 2024 in an article he wrote. Reviewed here. 'The Housing Secretary said young people could turn to authoritarianism without solution to housing crisis'. That means young people could fight our institutions such as the Police, and the average age of a policeman is less than the average age of a landlord. Police and soldiers could join the protesters if it looks like the protesters will win.
When the stores were secured, or empty, protesters would look at the fine houses not far away. Especially when they need their next meal. They would compete for nice cars and fine clothes.
The migrants and protesters wouldn't find anywhere vacant for them to spend the night. What will they do, or take?
Who will survive this mayhem?
The most wealthy, of course.
I took this Gaffco Safe Room image from an article called What Is a Safe Room here.
I am surprised it shows the door opening outwards. I read somewhere it needs to open inwards to make it harder for an intruder to barricade you in then leave you trapped.
You might include your own petrol generator in case of power cuts. You would not want that petrol generator running all the time you had no mains power just to keep your basement pumping out leaked water, because you need to preserve your petrol supplies.
That is why the Basement Expert is essential to your preparations to survive.
The Basement Expert. Your basement totally dry from the concrete alone.
The remaining question is, do you want 25 square metres as in the example above, or 1,000 square metres to keep a small community going for many years, Terminator-style?
Yes, I already have a serious enquiry for a basement of 1000m². The client wants a big basement, two storeys deep, under his double garage and turning area. Plus replace his big house with a new house and two storeys of basement beneath that. And a connecting corridor two storeys deep with one storey of soil on top of it.
I had several enquiries this year from people who want a basement in their garden covered in thick soil. A new idea. Are these to be genuine nuclear bunkers with increased protection from nuclear fallout?
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What might be shown as a swimming pool on a planning application today, might later be your reservoir of drinking water to last 20 people several years.
YOU DON'T HAVE LONG. A NEW BASEMENT COULD NOT BE BUILT ABSOLUTELY WATERPROOF AND TO LAST SEVERAL CENTURIES WITHOUT CEMENT. IF GOVERNMENT OR A LACK OF ENERGY STOP CEMENT PRODUCTION, YOU ARE TOO LATE.
Conception to completion is likely to take 5 years. Most of that with concept design then planning.
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You might conclude that building a basement with my help looks a very much better idea than having a basement built to the usual poorer standards of the British Construction Industry.
Building safety group baffled and disappointed as it tears into developers still building to old standards.
You get more consumer protection when you buy a washing machine than when you buy your own home - Michael Gove.
At the Bau exhibition in Munich 2023 I found that survivalism is quite advanced.
You might like to follow these links.
BSSD Defence, Berlin, Germany.
Kolomaki, Czechia.
Building a basement for a Safe Room might be what you consider necessary to do what you can to avoid being a family fleeing with only what they can carry.
A few unpleasant lines from a book 'Sapiens. A brief history of mankind', 2011, by Yuval Noah Harari. From pages 58 and 59.
"pre-agricultural forager societies ... Periods of want and hardship were not uncommon, child mortality was high and an accident which would be minor today could easily become a death sentence. ... those unfortunates who incurred the hostility or mockery of their fellow band members probably suffered terribly. Modern foragers occasionally abandon and even kill old or disabled people who cannot keep up with the band. Unwanted children may be slain,"
The point, I think, is that when the poor and hungry feel empowered because their numbers are huge and the potential reward of taking over a nice house and everything in it so great, and security services can do very little about them ....
that new societies without old people, without disabled, and without those who stand out as different will emerge - unless the wealthy fortify themselves first.
You may not have a lot of time.
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