Posted on 10/28/2013 1:38:42 PM PDT by lulu16
What happens when major portions of the United States loses power? How will people cope? How will people die?
From this forum, I heard of this docudrama and set the DVR. I only made it 40 minutes in until I started hiding my head under the couch pillows and at the one hour mark, I fled the room where my husband was watching. He put it on hold for tonight, because he wants to know what happens. I will hear it second hand from him.
At first, from the timeline, 2006, I thought this was previously aired six years ago. But then they should excerpts of Obama calling for calm. It was clever how they made it cinema verite like the Blair Witch Project, and a compilation like they have done for their programs on the timeline of 9/11 from different vantage points.
I have read many excellent books on apocalyptic scenarios,e.g. One Minute After, Lights Out, and do enjoy the genre. But his show was too much for me. That idiot slicing into the can of peaches with a huge carving knife had me skidding away. Why is it always the canned peaches? Another novel I read, the girl was eating a can of peaches at a swapmeet,after when the government helicopters came in to herd everyone into a valley to massacre them. The scene with the long-haired boyfriend meeting in secret to give away food to the neighbors was so infuriating. I know who he voted for.
So I have scoured the web to see if anyone was at the internet water-cooler discussing this grid-down dramatization. I waited until the original posters came back to offer a wrap-up. If, I over-looked their post, I apologize.
There could be a new server, like a crony-capitalist deal with one of Michelle’s Christmas guests.
Wasn’t the national media reporting that New Orleans had gone into cannibalism by the 3rd day, during Katrina?
If they get misplaced, I saw how you can take a can of tuna and rub it around in circles on cement until the top opened. (Never tried this, but would be fun to show others at a backyard barbecue.)
Also, this is a reason to buy screw top wine and twist off beer.
You are so right. Those days of yore when we of the West were self-sufficient. That imagery is captivating.
I am so glad they found you and helped you.
I have yet to see any television show that captures the reality of that. It's a heck of a lot of hard work.
It has compensations, like no telephones and no idiots to deal with, but it does take a lot of skills that you can't learn just by reading a book.
/johnny
Yeah, wife and I watched it. Rule 1 NEVER take your teenage daughters boyfriend to your BOL unless you plan on feeding him to the hogs. Rule 2 See rule 1
R U the Freeper that rebuilds automatic transmissions in his bathtub?
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Yes, both are quite convenient!
It was the “Ice Storm of ‘98”. Most of western Quebec including Montreal, and all of eastern Ontario, and all the way down to northern New York lost power. Crews came from everywhere. Our home had no power for 6 days. For some it was weeks.
How did we (the people) do it? We trusted each other. That is changing, slowly.
Guilty as charged. It's been a while since I've done that, but yes, I'm happily single and do what I darn well please in my house. ;)
/johnny
Mostly I have been mentioning gun or ammo purchases and dropping hints like “if it all goes south it’s gonna take all of us together to get through it.” I like your idea... Maybe I will start passing out literature.
Jonny, you could write your story as a children’s book, like a primer for young preppers. I am thinking that you include a young girl, named “Heidi,” who loves “the grandfather.”
/johnny
I’d say that would be a good rule for bringing a son in law, too. Or it could be a premise for a comedy, starring Ben Stiller as the trouble-making load, and Robert Di Nero in command of the bug-out. Special guest Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman as the compassionate ‘rents.’
She is really doing a great job getting the word out.
Yeah, she’s good.
MREs with self-heat tabs, but he burned himself on them..
Heck. I couldn’t get those darn things to heat up the tortellini.
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