Frith2013 Mon 09-Sep-19 21:21:02

Ive always lived rurally.



Phone you can plug in (not cordless) for power cuts

Radio and batteries

Tough kettle and pan for the top of the wood burning stove

One of those phone chargers that you can charge (a block - what are they called?!)

Candles in jam jars so you don’t set anything on fire

Extra blankets

Shovel

Bucket of grit for when you’ve dug your car out



Obviously you won’t have a freezer during a long power cut (our longest was 5 days) so powdered and UHT milk

Tins of food that you can warm in a pan



Water if your water fails after a few hours (ours is sent up to our village with an electric pump which fails after a few hours without power)



The numbers of water, power out line etc WRITTEN DOWN, not saved on a phone that will go flat!

Good directions for emergency services for when they ask all the road numbers and you can’t think.



High vis vests (we all bought some in this village after an appalling fatal car accident where we were trying to stop cars adding to the crash - in the dark. It took police 45 mins to get here).