I agree.
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.
Thanks. Calm heads like yours are needed in my over-heated thread.
But did you enjoy drinking room temp Dr. Pepper?
No power? Just have a tailgate party and you’ll have more generators in one parking lot than you could count! lol
Yes, and instead of survival of the fittest we can delcare it the removal of the dumbest!
I'm not 'bugging out' anywhere or 'prepping' for anything, not that I'd expect to need to anyway for whatever reason the teevee is scaring the hell out of people.
If you live in a city that is used to brownouts, that would be a plus. In Panama City, Panama, they plan for that contingency.
(I know, this trips the assistance of a friendly freeper, who will teach me how to encode.)
This way the toilets still flush, even as you cower in your penthouse, listening to the screams down below.
GPS coordinates please :)
Two things struck me.
One was that everyone had problems, no matter how much they prepped. Even the most prepared had issues to deal with, albeit different issues than the dunces.
The other was how much money the prepper dad must have spent on the cameras, survival food, bunker, supplies and in the end was almost killed as surely as everyone else. He could have sheltered in place just as easily and maybe more effectively.
I agree.
I did pick up one good idea from the show that I hadn't thought of before. Have a small "give away" supply of food for marauders to take while the real stash is secreted away.
LOL I did find one thing very believable; 0bama had no idea what to do.
My give away would be tainted to further thin out the herd.
And the thing is, if he was some skinny effete intellectual who came over looking for some Grey Poupon, I’d understand. But he looked like the type who knew his way around a Costco palette.
But make sure the kids are asleep. They might have nightmares. Let them have their innocent childhood, while you quietly stock toilet paper in the garage rafters.
How in this day and age was everyone so hardy, so civil, so prepared? Canadians really are extraordinary.
That’s an idea I have heard of before from Doomsday Preppers. I wouldn’t do it unless I were certain it would only be eaten by the thief who took it.
Yeah ... you are probably right. I would never prep like that and all my firearms were lost in that tragic boating accident.
I read a story the other day about a ‘prepper’ in Egypt who had a fortress, a wall, a safe room and tons of food in his basement
The crowd targeted his house and chased him into the basement where they raided his stores and eventually broke into the safe rom and killed them.
A man who escaped made it to a neighbor who had NO visible means of protection and nothing that looked like it was valuable, everything was hidden
I am going to save money on fences and put it into hidden storages
The most unrealistic thing to me was the overall absence of neighbor helping neighbor. Having just been through the thousand-year floods in CO I know for a fact that by far most people immediately look to see how they can pitch in and help.
Would the chaos that was shown happen? Sure! But that was all they showed in the program.
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