I enjoy the show, but I have one question. If they are allowed one “tool” each, why do they bring a flint and steel and not one of those big BIC lighters?
I have no idea - ask the producers/script writers. I don't get the point - beyond the titillation factor - why those people are naked when the producers are just going to blur out the ‘interesting’ bits.
My point was in those days (74,000 years ago) everyone knew how to survive, not just self-proclaimed ‘wilderness survivalists’. Same situation today, not millions, but billions on billions would die.
Survivalists claim they are prepared for anything - anything known - the catastrophic effects of a super volcano eruption on modern civilization can only be posited from the historic geologic strata, and cannot be known or prepared form, beyond it will be bad, very bad for everyone - survivalist or not.
Many people equate volcanic ash with dust, but it is actually powdered rock. How does one prepare for one to three feet of rock per square foot suddenly deposited on one's roof? Breathing the rock dust will tear up lungs, and death will follow shortly - unless treated by the nearest existant medical facility, assuming it would even be possible to get to it.