dont even TRY and travel tomorrow!!

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(17 January 2013, 23:33)Metroyeti Wrote: I know charities help people outjust found it odd they called it a survival bag

All part of the general hyperbole, along with "red warnings", etc, over conditions that are not really that abnormal.

Last weekend, OH and myself took a hike over the local moors. We strayed a bit too far down a glen towards a river and got bogged down in, well, bog! There was a small isolated cottage nearby and as we were wandering about looking for a way through, an elderly chap came out and started beckoning us towards the dry path. We got chatting to him. Turns out he lives alone in the cottage. It has electrical power but that's all. Water comes from a spring and he burns peat and wood for fuel. There is no vehicle access. When he wants supplies, he walks along a rough path about half a mile to his nearest neighbour, who gives him a lift down to the village. He looked about 80.

Bet he doesn't need a survival pack!