The UK may be officially in drought, but the heavy rain over the past few days has caused some problems around the country. There are news reports of flash flooding in towns and villages across Cumbria, with one village suffering flooded homes and a collapsed bridge into centre as well as a fractured gas main. [...]

Hello all, Here is something we came across the other day that we thought would be worth flagging. Some incredibly bright engineers have invented 24 hour concrete shelters for use in crisis situations, while still at university. You can find out more by clicking on the image below – very impressive stuff and hurrah for [...]

Whenever I talk about emergency preparedness, food storage or 72hr kits, people often laugh and ask me why I would bother with it as nothing bad ever really happens here in the UK. Unfortunately, history tells a different story and there is a Wikipedia page which lists all of the natural disasters in the UK, [...]

Continuing with the clean water theme from our last post, the Emergency Food Storage team have been discussing how lucky we are in the developed world to have almost unrestricted access to fresh clean water at the turn of a tap, and how crazy people can get if the water is switched off for just [...]

1. Creative Shelters From the inflatable dome theatre (shown) to 1000 seater blow up theatres – check out what the markets of camping and events planning are bringing to the table for effective disaster relief. [Link]   2. HTI HydroPacks Capri Sun for Disaster Relief - The HTI HydroPack is like an empty Capri Sun pouch with [...]