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.
We don’t have an electric can opener. Had a “good” one for a while. I thought it was a piece of junk and got rid of it. I have gone through numerous manual can openers over the year. And I also have P-38 can openers given to me by my father that date back to the Korean War. They work every time (hard on the thumbs though!).
I would have expected him to own six of everything. Then that effete useless twit suddenly became Jack Bauer when confronted by an attacker. You betcha!
I don’t like those staged docudramas. We watched about 30 seconds of this one, and it was enough for us.
>I thought the show did a pretty good job in showing how quickly human depravity shows up in a situation that presents a real threat to one’s survival.<
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It showed up quickly in a multicultural US society because of its lack of racial cohesion. Recall what happened in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
Europe, when it still had a racially homogeneous society, suffered greatly during WWI and WWII. Yet, the situations as described in ‘American Blackout’ was not the usual order of the day in Germany and other nations affected by the wars.
Of course, things will not be the same today should the SHTF and it will become a ‘culture’ eat ‘culture’ world just like it will be in America. Such are the blessings of diversity.
As an ex-concentration camp inmate I should know.
“I’m not saying kill all the stupid people, just remove the warning labels and see what happens.”
I agree. My take on it is go to the mountain retreat and let God sort it out in NYC and elsewhere.
You are welcome. Thank-you for thanking me.
I have a quick tip. I don’t know why I did it, but I have a 55 gallon trashcan (new) in the garage, that is easy to get to, and I have it labeled “Lights Out. “ It has things I would need for that kind of emergency in one place, to get me started assembling other emergency items from around the house. In it there are solar lights, which are safer than candles, those disco-era glow in the dark necklaces, to tape at the top of room doors and in the kitchen by the stove, and my hat with the built in led lights if I need illumination for searching.
Which war, hot or cold?
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I would love a secret basement with a trapdoor.
I think it is easier to clean a manual can opener under hot running water.
I know the army makes small inexpensive can openers, that you can stash with all your many small caches of canned goods.
But for me, some can openers are worth the money. Target has a good one that grips well and makes a complete cut.
DVR set for tomorrow at 7PM
Your report is very inspirational. I am so glad you gave voice to these stories. God bless you good people of Colorado. May we take your example and live them.
How the heck do you watch it?
Is it being aired over broadcast TV?
Cable?
PBS?
Is it available over the internet?
I tried till I was blue in the face last night to get a feed and it just kept screwing with me with all this Java and Flash crap that was taking FOREVER to load!
I’m just about completely fed up with the internet these days. Nobody out there ever heard of the KISS principle!
Simple is, most of the time, better!
Tell us how you broach the subject. What I have done, is loan out my copy of pATRIOTS to the husband’s of the families, who I knew liked adventure novels. It was a hint I gave years ago. I have never followed up.
“Also, didn’t you find it odd that the prepper dad put his 12 year old kid on “patrol duty” at night, in the dark after the family was threatened by a neighbor? I found that to be absolutely ridiculous. No prepper parent with any sense would have done that.’
Agreed. Anybody that has gone to that level of preparedness would have the whole famdamily gunned up and on alert 24/7. No 10-12 year old kid should be out at night by himself and especially unarmed. Another family member should have been with him.
Can you even imagine laying down and going to sleep at night with what had to be banjo music coming from the “neighbors”. In grid down you sleep during the day in shifts and are up patrolling your property all night. They could have easily eliminated those intruders at the fence. End of problem.
I know that was irresponsible, but if I were that boy, it would have been exciting, like playing Davy Crocket. But what do I know, I’m a scady-cat girl. But it was cool when he got the footage of his sister’s mangy boy friend passing out supplies.
“In grid down you sleep during the day in shifts and are up patrolling your property all night.”
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
I have YET to get an answer to my question!
IS it SUPPOSED to be shown on the website?
I went to the site and got no live feeds, just thumbnails of short segments. Not sure about the time. I tried at 9PM Pacific, afaik, that was when it should be on...
In the show they did have a neighborhood barbecue, but after the de-frosting food was eaten, they went back to their own homes, and quietly dieted heavily.
Speaking of generators. I remember BOR said he tried to use his new generator and it was a bust. HahA.
i once went 3 days without food (runaway). believe me your stomach hurts. i finally ate a bowl of cheerios. i didnt realize how i “ate” the food til i looked up and saw the expressions on their kind couples faces.
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