Ice-Age 2020s

Reading this blog might be the most seriously you take this until too late. If that is the case, you will freeze to death. 

Surviving Rapid-Onset Ice-Age. 

Blankets across the windows. 

PREP: Get duvets and blankets. 

Pipes will freeze and crack. 

No water on tap. 

No gas central heating. 

Never burn resources excessively. 

Never burn plastic. 

PREP: stock up on firefighters. 

One fire to heat water and dry clothes on warms ten people. Ten fires of the same size wastes resources.

PREP: Get a metal cauldron with a lid. 

Glass will crack from cold. 

Brick up windows. Use cement if possible. 

Water will freeze in the cracks between the bricks. Use boards between frozen bricks and blankets across the windows. 

PREP: Stock up on soap.

Learn how to make soap.

Lye can cause blindness. 

Liquid soap is easier to make but is not easily portable/tradable. 

Your perfect survival space is a cave with a log-fire (a stove with chimney flume is best) and soap manufactory. 

Keep all rooms dry. 

Store all liquids at ground level. 

One warm-room for living in.

Other rooms (cold-rooms) are for storage. 

An air-lock room if possible. 

Managing Toilets.

There will be no more flushing toilets. 

The ground will be frozen solid. 

Luckily excrement and urine will freeze but it will stink and is unhygienic. 

Do all that outside in one place. 

Soap before returning indoors.

Converting a room to have an open-log fire. Cut a hole in the carpet or remove it entirely (it’s probably plastic, poison fumes if it burns: never burn plastic), expose the foundation cement of the ground floor. 

Drag rocks in to make a circle between the rocks no larger than twelve inches diameter. Clear space around the outside of the rocks, minimal twelve inches preferably at least thirty inches. 

Dedicate one corner or cupboard to keeping dry logs and wood in. Smoke-ventilation is a health & safety issue. Try to send it upstairs. Smoke will cause damage. Disable fire-alarms. 

Comfortable space around the fire for a group of people. Cushions and blankets, mattresses. Sleep huddled together for warmth near the fire.

Go outside and retrieve as much fallen wood as possible to dry-store in a cold-room. Bash insects from it before bringing it indoors. 

Killing trees is bad for our oxygen needs and their wood is too wet to burn anyway. Only idiots kill trees, it is not survival. Short Pine-needle tea is soap and nutrition (long or curly pine-needles are poison). 

Contact neighbours and express the fundamental importance of all moving into one room at a time to preserve limited local resources by sharing warmth and to discuss survival. 

Building a Water Filter: tutorials exist, acquire the necessary materials now. 

Prep to do before the big freeze:

Get duvets and blankets. 

Stock up on firefighters. 

Get a metal cauldron with a lid. 

Stock up on soap.

Spare tin-openers and various canned foods, stockpiled. Minimal of 2-tins-a-day-each-person rations. 

Build a water filter. 

Prep to do during the big freeze: 

Brick&Blanket all windows. 

Fire-pit in living room. 

Good Luck.