Scottish engineer spends thousands on 25-year survival supplies

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 16 Oct, 18:44 · Archive

Brian Forbes, 52, has spent £6,000 this year stocking two garden shelters with food and power banks to last 25 years.

Scottish engineer Brian Forbes, 52, has spent £6,000 this year preparing for a potential disaster by stocking two garden shelters with survival supplies. He has filled them with hundreds of tins, freeze-dried foods, power banks, generators, night vision goggles, walkie-talkies, battery-operated radios and headtorches, with enough supplies to last 25 years.

The Daily Mail reports that Forbes spent £5,000 building the two sheds last year and has stocked them with medical equipment, army rations and radios. He has spent around £2,500 on freeze-dried foods, £2,000 on power banks and £500 on a new generator this year alone. The sheds also have solar panels and their own power supply.

Forbes said he perceives the risk of disaster as higher this year, citing concerns about a crumbling power grid and water shortages. He noted that 40,000 people were on bottled water for a month this year. He defended his night vision goggles as a fallback for power cuts rather than other purposes.

Forbes's wife, Donna, 51, accepts his approach, but his three children, aged 15, 27 and 29, are sceptical. He said they think he is 'nuts' and 'crazy', but added: 'I do no harm to anyone else. I only need to be right once.'

How it is being reported

• My family think I'm crazy… but I've spent £11,000 preparing for disaster and have enough food to last 25 YEARSA Scottish engineer has revealed he has spent thousands of pounds to pack a shelter with enough food and power banks to last 25 years.Daily Mail · 16 Oct, 18:29
• British doomsday prepper spends £6,000 on tinned food and power banks to last 25 yearsEngineer and dad-of-three Brian Forbers said his children think he is ‘nuts’ for prepping for the worst, but he has vowed never to be caught off guard again after a brutal winter storm (Picture: Brian Forbes / SWNS) British people are advised to stock emergency supplies to survive extreme events…Metro · 16 Oct, 13:18

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