Crafts and Life

Imagine you're out at work as usual, or on a day out, shopping or seeing friends. You're maybe twenty miles, or even one hundred miles, away from home; suddenly, you hear there's an emergency, and all public transport has been shut down with public broadcasts suspended. You don't know what the emergency is, but you know the shutdown is probably going to go on for quite a while. What do you do?

This book is about that situation: what might happen, what you might do, how you could take some simple precautions in advance that would do a great deal to safeguard your situation. There are no easy answers, but reading this book will help you understand the kinds of issues you may face, and the kinds of questions you need to ask yourself. Managing to get back home safe to your loved ones in a difficult time, in these days of long-distance commutes and general daily travel is an important, maybe a lifesaving, skill.

This is a UK based book centering on what would happen if we had another major disaster – the author bases the getting home bit mainly from London, and getting out to outlying towns (as the author says it is the major city both for workers and for tourists so an emergency bringing it to a halt WILL affect a lot of people).  The book does look at the worst case scenarios (no transport running etc) which as they say is unlikely to actually happen (we all hope!) but if nothing else this is a wonderful book if you plan on writing a novel based on a disaster!