Posted on 02/09/2012 6:14:49 PM PST by Kartographer
The first two episodes of the new series were broadcast Tuesday night, and a total of seven “prepper” individuals/groups were assessed, including (in order of appearance):
Paul and Gloria Range, the “Retiree Preppers,” outside of Floresville, Texas “We’re preparing for a polar shift that will cause a sudden climate change and change life as we know it forever.”
Christopher Nyerges, the “Street Survivor,” Los Angeles, California “I’m prepping for a killer earthquake that could completely flatten the city of L.A.”
Megan Hurwitt, the “Young Urban Prepper,” Houston, Texas “I’m prepping to survive a catastrophic oil crisis.”
David Sarti, the “Hillbilly Prepper,” outside of Nashville, Tennessee “I’m prepping to survive an EMP detonation that will wipe out our nation’s transportation system.”
Kellene (and Scott) Bishop, the “Gourmet Prepper,” Orem, Utah “I’m prepping for a collapse of our financial system that will mean the end of the world as we know it.”
Kathy (and Bruce) Harrison, the “Doris Day of Doom,” somewhere in New England “I’m preparing for a black swan event like a catastrophic New Madrid earthquake.”
Dennis Evers, the “Godfather Prepper,” rural Colorado “I’m prepping to protect my family against global chaos caused by hyperinflation.”
Watching these first two episodes of the new television series, I thought back to something I wrote last year regarding the 2011 pilot:
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We just purchased 6 buff orpington hen’s this past fall. I have to tell ya. I love them. They were already laying when we bought them so that was nice to not have to wait a few months for them to grow from chicks.
We’re planning on purchasing more this spring and I cant wait.
The Buff Orps are a really nice friendly breed but I have a BAAAD GURL ...... her name is Ruby and she is my stalker ( Cora Cluck is my other stalker but she’s not nearly as naughty as Ruby is lol ).
In fact, today when I went to check water/ feed and gather eggs, that little brat jumped up and pecked me on the rear end.
She’s a hooligan but she makes me laugh.
We do a lot of camping when the weather is cooperative and I just figured that we’ll get another feeder and water device for them and have someone come at least once a day to check them, when they’re feeding my dogs.
I hope your wife gets her wish soon, to see the grandson ~
Blessings to you and yours ~ May your property flourish this year with a plentiful bounty ~
In the show I laughed when that New Englander said. “ People who just want to have guns are stupid. We don’t need guns. If we decide we don’t want certain people around we’ll poison them or cut their throats while they’re asleep”.
Guns are a tool. People kill people. Dead by knife or dead by gun is still dead.
Thanks for recap on you experience with the new hens.
Have considered Barred or White Rocks.
We are in the planting seed business and have lots of scratch from the seed cleaner. Even have a grist mill to grind it up.
When I do get the chickens I think I will plant a little millet to add to the screenings.
The garden did well last year only because I row watered it every 2-3 day. We had <3” of rain from Oct. 2010 to Oct. 2011. Our normal rainfall is about 25” per year.
Rain has been pretty normal since mid October, 2011. We are on track for a 25” rainfall year. Wheat crop looks good. Not much winter grass in the pasture, even with no cattle. That will change in a couple more months.
Put in 29 bare-root fruit trees in our orchard last season. Lost a number of them to sun exposure. (114 deg f. temps and 50 mph winds for what seemed months) More than 2/3 of them survived. Will be another couple of years before we expect any fruit from them.
My berries are another thing. Strawberries & blackberries did great. Got a few strawberries but the bed is now solid and we expect a good crop this year. No blackberries set the first year, we expect them this year, bushes look great, have them trained on a long wire trellis.
That segment had me and my wife alternately howling with laughter and screaming at the television because of their sheer stupidity. To believe people coming upon your compound would first agree to sit down to a meal and discuss an arrangement is lunacy.
The last words most of these fools would hear would be;
"Kill all the men then tie up the women and girls in the barn."
And interlocking fields of fire.
According to Dave, it started when he went to see a cardiologist. Not because he was on a nationally televised show.
That is terrible what happened to him. He had some very good words of wisdom about the value of communications and the need to cooperate with others to rebuild in a “doomsday” situation. I noticed that quite a few of the preppers on the show had a good sense of humor about themselves and the whole “doomsday” concept and he was one of them.
We’re still laughing about how the one lib guy said he would try to “charm” any invaders first. Not to mention the old hippie with the Eisenhower dollars, 10 knives in his backpack and cutting up his ‘greens’ on a Creosote railroad tie.
The guys at Southpark are gonna have a ball with this series!
We have to keep in mind that the point of this show is to
DISCREDIT
preppers as illegitimate kooks.
The left absolutely HATES any person or group that doesn’t have absolute faith in “the collective”.
What about his stone arrowheads? I’m sure a couple of broadheads might fetch more in trade. A fellow could grind down some steel and make a better edge for an arrow.
I dont know a whole lot about the barred or white Rocks but I do want to get some black copper marans and some black australorps and perhaps some “Easter Eggers” ....
We will probably get another dozen.
What kind of seeds does your business carry ? Do you have a website ?
Holy toledo Batman... less than 3 inches in a year. Now that is horrible horrible horrible for crops. I knew there was a drought but didn’t realize there wasn’t nearly a drop. And less than 3 inches is, in my opinion, barely a drop.
Speaking of fruit trees, we planted a few “dwarf” apple tree’s about 3 years ago and havent gotten a dern thing from them. In fact, I think they should be pulled out and start over. They just havent grown but a couple of inches....ugh.
We planted a few strawberry’s last year and got a few berries. YUM.
Best of luck with everything.
I expected to see that on the "update".
"Hi NatGEo. I got mugged and was left for dead. They took my stuff."
Did you see that poor skeleton of a cow at his place? If anything he should be turned in for animal cruelty.
The liberals, as always, were nuts.
Heads up to the woman with the gun hidden in the pea can - don’t tell the world your hiding places. Now you’ll have to move it.
The show wasn’t as bad as what I was expecting but there was room for major improvement. Still, I’ll watch it for any tips. Lesson learned is to put a sign up in your front yard with directions to easy picking liberal households.
[ Keep in mind this show is heavily scripted and “produced” by Nat Geo.
Megan said she was offered $1,000 by the producers to actually shoot the cat.
To her credit, she refused. ]
If someoen was bored enough they could troll Nat Geo and expose their agenda, I am thinking a “James O’Keefe” takedown of them.
It would have been great to have video evidence of them doing what is mentioned above and releasing that on youtube.
Of course since the Media is asleep it wouldn’t even be a blip on the news.
“What about his stone arrowheads?”
LOL.
The jokes about this show just seem to write themselves, huh? Stone arrowheads! Gimme a half hour in the local wrecking yard and I’ll come out with a spear made from an old hood ornament and 3 zip-guns. Two hours and I’ll be launching missles made from drive-shafts.
The producers must have taken an ad out in the “WANTED” section of the Free Press for any idiot that wants to be on TV to please call 1-800-IMA-RETARD.
You’re right, Sam. This guy wouldn’t last 5 minutes trying to “survive” anywhere near the beautiful and scenic LA river.
An Eisenhower Dollar is nothing more than 2” washer without the hole drilled in it. WORTHLESS!
Yep, he’d be one of the first “preppers” to end up in a East LA ‘SHTF Taco’.
Any doctor can do the same to any one of us, regardless of whether we’ve ever been on TV.
What was the deal with the cat, I didn’t watch the show.
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