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 don’t mind spoilers. Just because I freaked out, it did air already, so feel free to discuss any aspect.
I do worry about human depravity. Because if someone has no honor in living, I do not expect them to have any honor in a survival situation.
I did think it was a burn when the boyfriend, asked the father, if there was a bug-out bag for him. Nope. Sorry freeloader. That why it was so easy for him to give his girlfriend’s father’s preps away without compunction. He did not plan, save or stash. He only felt it was the right thing to do.
Sure you can. Desperate people make bad decisions, leaving them vulnerable.
/johnny
Texas has its own grid and has the wherewithal, geography and willingness to defend its borders.
Ah, for a return to the days of Evan Meecham.
I LOL’d at his stupidity...and breathtaking arrogance.
He had no idea that he was no longer “special”.
I believe in sheltering in place too.
This is my favorite survival series. I made my extended family watch it a few years ago and then tested them on it. I gave a US constitution to the winner (my mom) and sent everyone how with some good supplies.
http://www.spike.com/episodes/dxhbrm/surviving-disaster-pandemic-season-1-ep-109
(Sorry, I don;t know how to embed. The SpikeTV series, “How to Survive...” ran a few years back, they have entire episode available online.
All of them with Cade Corley (sp) are excellent. I recommend you gather your loved ones and watch them all. They include, how to survive a nuclear attack, hurricane, earthquake, airplane terrorist attack, and the one I tell the girls at my favorite shop to memorize, how to survive a mall shooting.
Example #1: the rich guy who has $17 per lb. swordfish in his freezer doesn't own a can opener.
Did they show the inner cities descending into chaos? If so should I assume all the rioters were white? /sarc
I have a couple white liberal friends who live in NYC and Washington DC. I’ve been tempted to tell them that if things break down they’ll have the choice of walking out early and being killed by racially charged mobs that want to kill them (but might be nice enough to let them choose their own lamp posts) or walking out later and being killed by starving mobs that want to eat them.
Remember: the members of the Donner Party all knew each other. That won’t apply in an urban societal breakdown situation.
What time was it on? We had the Packers-Vikings game on and switching channels to the World Series until fairly late (for a worknight).
1. He should have booby trapped the compound with ground clearing Klaymore like devices remotely detonated.
2. He should have had an escape tunnel from his bunker to a hill where he could snipe the intruders at will.
3. He should have had a LONG talk with the boyfriend explaining the entire situation BEFORE letting him come. The boyfriend could have been an asset (night watch etc) if properly conditioned.
4. He needed to split up his supplies and NOT centralize them
5. Proximity alert devices strategically placed
This is a partial list.
It’ll be a moneymaker for the gubmit, because we’ll compete to pay top dollar to reward our critters for their stupidity.
That's why Texas allows helicopter hog hunts... practice.
And women ate their children in the Ukraine. What madness.
I missed the first 30 minutes, so I set the DVR to record it on Tuesday.
I cleared the DVR about 10 minutes before it ended. I don't think I've seen anything so overhyped and underwhelming since Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's safe.
I'll never get back that 90 minutes wasted watching this POS.
No worries, my wife “freaked out” with the folks trapped in the elevators...she’s a bit claustrophobic, so I doubt a bunker is in the cards for us...she wouldn’t have any of that.
The “dad” was just extremely pragmatic, antithetical to the liberal do gooder. My wife thought that if they had “enough to share”, why didn’t they? Had to explain how it undermined the dad’s entire planning for his family.
And then how it promulgated into a direct physical threat to the family once the “neighbor” came back with his buddies to pillage.
She’s slowly coming around to the concept of survival vs. charity.
If your freezer store such delectables as swordfish, how can be expected to have a can of Dinty Moore baked beans for when that spur of the moment urge to go camping strikes?
I think they played the stereotypes well. But, did the dad have to leave his little girl. Couldn’t he just have surprised everyone with his secret storage of Food Insurance that he bought with his discount code from the Glenn Beck program?
That might be a legacy of C-Rations and the Vietnam war, canned peaches were highly prized, probably because they were sweet and with lots of liquid.
Even here in the states, canned peaches could be traded for some entrees.
Yeah, buddy. Write a book. These are great ideas to be fictionalized. I’ll sign up to buy the ebook version as soon as it comes out. Ping me!
Ridiculous scenario #2: The guy looking for food at the CO compound said his family was starving ... on DAY 3!
You know what made me nauseous? That pimply kid with the video camera on his head while he was filming himself in the bathroom mirror, that was disrespectful of his mother, the nurse. He never once thought to look for her after she did not return home. At least he shared his soda with the cat. By the looks of what he filmed, Austen has a police force with a short temper. They are the other part of the equation.
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