[Travis McGee]

Alas, Brave New Babylon.

[rfreedom4u]

While I applaud this family for doing this I see no board games or other form of “primitive” entertainment for the kids? Eventually the little ones are going to get bored.

[Uncle Chip]

Thanks for the publicity == now everybody knows where to go when they run out.

[andyk]

Just started watching Revolution - the first season is available online.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I still think the two most important things to have for a *particular* disaster, is a timetable and a manifest *unique* to that kind of disaster.

The timetable has two parts: how much time do you have to prepare?, and how long do you expect the situation to last?

For example, you wake up in the middle of the night and you home is on fire. Your timetable is simple, get your family out of the house and grab your “grab bag” before you run out the door or window. Get a vehicle if you can. Estimated recovery time: a minimum of six months to a year.

The manifest is trickier. If possible much of it, like rarely accessed but critical documents, is stored offsite, as in a bank deposit box, or in a buried cache in your yard. Everything else is likely a loss.

Granted, a different disaster will have entirely different parameters. The worst disasters tend to take years to even build up, which gives you years to mitigate it, but recovery may be a decade or more. Very different timetable and manifest.

[DuncanWaring]

Also posted last night, with 141 replies so far:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000129/posts

[greyfox]

Thank God I’m a country boy!

[Albion Wilde]

They just set themselves up for a raid by HS.

[familyop]

I wonder how many folks making comments here know that the British article above this thread generally equates preppers with psychotic mass murderers?

[familyop]

From the British article behind the link.

"The show hasn’t met with broad approval within the Prepper community, perhaps because it sheds light on a more sinister side of the movement, one that generated headlines when it was reported that the mother of Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza was a Prepper."

"Nancy Lanza, Adam’s first victim, was shot four times before her son embarked on a killing spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School, murdering 20 schoolchildren and six teachers before taking his own life."

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"without electricity, governments are toppled. Into the vacuum step ad-hoc militias, armed and ready to enforce their own rule of law."

Wrong. This the most untrue, and yet the most universally accepted, assertion I see among preppers. Think of the fedgov. Think how HUGE it is. It is not going to simply disappear one day because there is no electricity. They have EMP hardened equiptment, and plenty gas (millions of gallons in reserves) and generators to run it. Even if it didn't it still wouldn't just disappear like a puff of smoke.

If anything the government will expand, exponentially. It won't protect citizens from riots, hurricanes, tornados like many head-in-the-sand general populace folks would expect...But it will still be there, ready to gobble up and consolidate any power that it can.