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Emergency planningMay 2025Notes and queriesReaders reply: If you were prepping, what would your top five items be?The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on

subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week’s followed the Spain/Portugal outages14 May 2025 12.51 CESTApril 2025Cash,

emergency food and wind-up radios: How to survive a power outageCitizens across Europe have been getting advice about emergency planning, which may feel more urgent after blackout on Iberian

peninsula29 Apr 2025 19.16 CESTMarch 2025Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens26 Mar 2025 17.53 CETBritain’s food supply is precarious – and

Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?George Monbiot16 Mar 2025 13.30 CET…… commentsIf disaster strikes, will there be enough to eat? Britain should be prepared – but it isn’tTim

Lang11 Mar 2025 12.00 CET…… commentsTwelve soldiers remain in Lismore hospital after army trucks rolled in northern NSW9 Mar 2025 04.07 CETTrump administration cancels classes at National

Fire Academy amid funding freeze9 Mar 2025 00.28 CETWhat we know so far about Tropical Cyclone Alfred: when and where it will hit, school closures, category now and suburbs at risk7 Mar 2025

06.07 CET‘Prepare for the worst’: northern NSW warned Alfred’s impact could rival devastating 2022 floods5 Mar 2025 01.55 CETFebruary 2025Trump’s shocking plan for Gaza is an all-too-common

approach. This is what must happen insteadLucy EasthopeFar too often, developers treat rebuilding like colonising a planet. Instead, Palestinians must be at the heart of everything, and the

sooner the better, says emergency adviser Lucy Easthope12 Feb 2025 12.00 CETOctober 2024We’re still finding dead neighbors in North Carolina. We need helpMorgan L SykesHurricane Helene was

devastating and so far the government emergency response hasn’t been nearly what we had hoped8 Oct 2024 12.00 CESTJuly 2024The correct response to a disaster like Covid is to plan for the

next one. I don’t see Britain doing itLucy EasthopeThink local, listen to the experts and get diverse voices in the room, says emergency planner Lucy Easthope25 Jul 2024 13.34 CEST……

commentsJune 2024I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionairesEmma BeddingtonSince the pandemic, remote properties have been marketed for off-grid

living. But a life spent gardening and eating cormorants is not for me, writes Emma Beddington30 Jun 2024 15.00 CEST…… commentsMay 2024Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a

few tins of beansMartha GillOliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats26 May 2024 08.30 CESTDecember 2023‘We

never drop below 30 toilet rolls’: the Britons stockpiling for a crisis6 Dec 2023 18.54 CETTell us: do you stockpile items to prepare yourself for certain scenarios?5 Dec 20

23 11.50 CETNovember 2023The rural network, VictoriaThe Optus outage underlines the need for emergency mobile roaming Mark GregoryAustralia lags behind New Zealand, the US and Canada in not

allowing mobile roaming during disasters – but the ACCC has cleared the way8 Nov 2023 15.00 CET…… commentsSeptember 2023What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war

game in London to find outHere, military personnel, Nato staff and others are facing off in a simulation. The winners? Those who stop the world plunging into catastrophe. The losers? Us, if

they get it wrong30 Sept 2023 12.55 CEST…… commentsJuly 2023NSW government quietly drops partial merger of SES and Rural Fire Service proposed by flood inquiryLabor looking at ways to

improve ‘interoperability’ between the agencies instead of unpopular amalgamation option19 Jul 2023 17.00 CESTApril 2023Brief lettersTouched by a tragic first world war taleBrief letters:

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