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.
I had friends north of Burlington in Vermont that were without power for thirty days. I saw Jim Cantore broadcasting from a parking lot in Burlington...always a bad sign. We never got any freezing rain/ice where we lived (about thirty miles away), nor did we lose power. Cantore couldn't explain it...said it was just 'one of those things'. G-d took care of us.
It turns out to have been Randall Robinson writing for ‘the Huffington Post’, and he didn’t report cannibalism until the 4th day. He has since retracted it, but I do remember the media spreading his “report”.
“It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html
I think a cul-de-sac suburban street with cooperating neighbors would be almost as good as a gated 55+ place. Maybe even better (more physically able bodies). I like that idea much better than bugging out to the mountains or boonies.
19.5 miles up the road from me are many unoccupied summer cabins at 5500 feet altitude. I’ve thought of bugging out to one (with or without permission of the owner) if I have to bug out.
Yep. One of my earliest memories of media savagery was in the wake of the “picaninny” incident.
local media had a field day with EV. sad, he was a nice guy whom they decided to harass.
Agree, my brother and I thought it was good. A little tame, possibly to allow it a little wider audience.
Not really, prob had an electric can opener only....
He did, but only after about 8 days. I thought it funny that the dryer was what alerted the kid when the power came back on.....apparently he wa conscientious enough to turn off all the powerless lights. Lol
I would expect a yuppie like him to have a couple of electrics and three or four designer can openers in the drawer.
Thank you for the info and the replies.
Because, given a choice, canned peaches are waaay preferable to the green beans (Not to mention the ham and lima beans).
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