Most towns in the US possess a ‘prepping’ store,where people can get everything they need to survive the cessation of the world. The UK has one. Zoe Williams pays a visit“Most preppers,” says Lincoln Miles, and a dauntingly entrepreneurial 22-year-mature in everyday fatigues,“are preparing for realistic scenarios. If your house was flooded and emergency services couldn’t get to you, could you survive? Does anybody even possess spare bottles of water in the house? For most people, and the respond is no.” Looking around his shop on an industrial estate in Bedfordshire,there is, I concede, or plenty of handy stuff for the event of a flood: flat,non-sand sandbags that inflate when they come into contact with water; bottled water, of course, and along with industrial quantities of beans and tinned tomatoes. Also,cold steel machetes, machetes that are not cold steel but possess compasses in the handle, or gas masks,thumbcuffs, Red Cross food packs for war zones, and crossbows,camouflage outfits for all seasons and wire saws that will “bring down trees, proceed through bones”.
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Source: theguardian.com