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How many of you are preparing for nuclear scenerios (war, leak etc.)

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The monsoon is getting serious in Uttarakhand, with heavy rain, landslides and flash-flood risks in different parts of the state.

Let's use this thread to keep track of what's happening and, more importantly, share what we're doing to prepare.

If you're in Uttarakhand or have family/friends there, share useful updates about your area — road conditions, rainfall, flooding, landslides, power cuts, blocked routes, etc.

Please mention the location and time of the update and avoid sharing unverified information.

🎒 What are you keeping ready?

For anyone living in or travelling through areas at risk, a basic emergency kit can include:

- 🔦 Torch/headlamp + spare batteries

- 🔋 Power bank

- 💧 Drinking water

- 🍫 Ready-to-eat food

- 🩹 Basic first-aid kit

- 💊 Essential medicines

- 📻 Battery/hand-crank radio if available

- 🧥 Rain jacket / warm clothing

- 🔥 Lighter/matches kept waterproof

- 🗺️ Offline maps

- 💵 Some cash

- 📄 Copies of important documents

If you're travelling, don't forget that your vehicle itself is part of your emergency kit. Keep fuel topped up and avoid taking unnecessary risks with flooded roads or landslide-prone routes.

🧰 Share your prep

What do you normally keep ready for a Uttarakhand monsoon emergency?

Maybe you have a more complete 24-hour, 72-hour or vehicle emergency kit. Share it below. It could help someone else build their own.

And if you're actually in Uttarakhand, please contribute updates regularly as conditions change. A road that's open in the morning can be blocked a few hours later.

Let's keep this thread active. Stay safe.

Video : Practicing with my medical kit using Tripole headlamp.

Even the most basic things cost absurdly high. Almost everything with a bare minimum quality costs about 2000 rs minimum which is pretty expensive for an average Indian.

Knives, tools, flashlights, bags, medical kits, safety gear, compass, water filters, MRE, nothing is available unless you're ready to spend four digits on every single thing.

Sometimes it all feels futile.

1. BKN Emergency keychain light

2. Tripole Lumos-R

3. Loopdot

4. Wurkkos HD03

5. Square COB light

...is that it's showing free shipping.

Hell yeah brothers 🍻

Phone Flashlight is very weak.

Book knowledge is one thing. But actually seeing the numbers go up, actually 'seeing' something we can't see, that feels mesmerizing.

Kudos to Robert for making such an amazing thing. We don't have much available in India but I'll be measuring what I can find. Safely and legally. Foods, stones, medical devices etc. Anything you guys recommend ?

It disappears almost immediately as soon as the sensor is moved even a little away from the banana. There's virtually no change in the accumulated dose, but the difference is clearly visible in the CPM readings.

This happens because bananas naturally contain potassium, and a tiny fraction of that potassium is the naturally radioactive isotope potassium-40 (K-40). The levels are extremely low and completely safe—it's simply natural background radioactivity.

I've read about this in books before, but seeing it happen in real life feels surreal.

What else should I test? Let me know what you'd like to see in the full review.

Wurkkos rated it for 330 hours (13.75 days).

Mine kept going for 472 hours (19 days, 16 hours).

The datalogger crashed. Two reviews got delayed. I even found a spider web near the sensor before the flashlight finally gave up.

No matter what you throw at us, we won't compromise on our testing. 😤