I an't wait until Hallmark starts their Christmas holiday movies, so I can feel good again.
“...when the government helicopters came in to herd everyone into a valley....”
When the copters come, it had better be to Capital Hill where they herd the congresscritters....
It’ll be a moneymaker for the gubmit, because we’ll compete to pay top dollar to reward our critters for their stupidity.
The good news is that liberal bastions start looting after 15 minutes without power, so they’ll start eating each other after a few days. After “Super-Storm” Sandy, I saw an interview with some young man (30’s) who was perfectly healthy and whining about the lack of services being provided.
He had been given some MREs with self-heat tabs, but he burned himself on them, so he was not going to eat those anymore and he was concerned about the dangers of these meals.
I almost wish we would lose the grid for two weeks just to clear out the non-viable primates who appear to be human, but have no tool-using skills. The only thing they seem to be able to do with their thumbs is text and vote.
There was one scene in it where a woman asks “Why isn’t anyone trying to help us?” Then she hears noises and thinks it’s help but it is not. I kept thinking typical liberal in New York. Cannot make preparations and thinks the government is the answer. She was a pathetic figure. Of course her significant other though it was potential lawsuit as the condo form did not make provisions for water, electricity etc.
The “Hippie boy” (as I called him) in Colorado, appeared to “get it” towards the end when the guy he was staying with went out to confront some people.
Don’t want to spoil it, but I thought they did a good job in showing the human characteristics and traits that would be on display during an event of this nature.
How it went from poking fun at a potential birth boom in 9 months to life or death scary after a few days.
From downright naivete and depending on the government (”Why isn’t anyone helping us?”) to those taking complete advantage of the situation, to those determined to keep the rest of “society” at bay.
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.
Not a likely scenario. I fail to see how a transformer can explode because of a computer bug. Maybe some outages, and rolling blackouts until the grid can be repaired, but flashing lights, not likely, tie breakers would just open up and power would go out in some areas.
Some of the reactions by the masses are believable, looting, thuggery, gang mentality, hording of what resources you could find, etc..
Last year on two separate occasions we went more then ten days without power. We lived! (of course wallmart is 5 miles away and they had power. ) It did give us an idea of what we were lacking in our emergency preps. We needed more Dr.Pepper.
Math is a stubborn thing. In four days after such a power blackout, cities would be stripped of food. No power for the pumps of the water supply. Or for sewage. The cities would descend into homicidal chaos, with people fleeing the cities to the countryside and all that entails.
“I prep, but I know my family is still very vulnerable.”
You cannot prep for what the neighbor will do after looking into the eyes of his starving kids. His failure to prep won’t enter the equation.
Texas has its own grid and has the wherewithal, geography and willingness to defend its borders.
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.
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.
No power? Just have a tailgate party and you’ll have more generators in one parking lot than you could count! lol
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.
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.
Yes, I watched. I thought it was interesting but it has too many plots and they all move at a snail’s pace. Ironically, I think the situation would be far worse than the way they are portraying it. The scenes with Obama were hurl-tastic.
I don’t like those staged docudramas. We watched about 30 seconds of this one, and it was enough for us.