Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence

[pairatime]

For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency.

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[lied_ohne_worte]

They're now again making an up-to-date concept for civil defense as a whole, but that's not due to any indication that anything is going to happen right now. That update has also been planned for some years. By the time the last one was made, the thing that was on their mind was probably how our "friends" in the USA and USSR would have staged the first part of WWIII right here and thrown nuclear weapons at each other. Nowadays, the things that could happen are others including things that wouldn't have been possible in the Cold war, like cyber attacks on power plants and so on.

They also include planning for natural catastrophes; here, again, what with global warming things are getting worse and worse. We've had... I don't know, three or four "century floods", that is floods that should come once in a century, since the start of this current century.

Nonetheless, the Federal Office for Catastrophe Protection has had recommendations on what to do in case of catastrophes on its website for ages. I know because I looked some years ago. And they recommended having food and water for two weeks (now it's ten days, so they are actually reducing it), things you need if electricity goes out, and even what to pack if you are evacuated. I just bet that pretty much no one even knew about these recommendations.

[pairatime]

Must have been a slow news say if updating stuff like that got so much focus. But yeah things have changed over the last 50 years and really it needed to be updated and maybe get the information out there more. A couple years back the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) did this whole Zombie survival kit ad campaign, really it was a basic survival kit but they used the popularity of zombies to get their message out. It was cool.