Posted on 03/27/2012 12:10:57 PM PDT by WPaCon
This just has to be a sign of the times. Record deficits and oil prices rising, and it could all get worse. So the National Geographic channel has begun airing a show named Doomsday Preppers, where viewers can watch end-of-the-world types prepare for doomsday.
Each episode highlights several people and their preparations for the end of the world, or, as they often put it, "when the stuff hits the fan." If you are a "doomsday prepper," the show has some pretty useful information, and if not, the show is still pretty entertaining.
Some of the calamities predicted by the preppers seem pretty far-fetched, like a shift in the earth's axis or an earthquake that divides the country's supply lines in half. But some of the calamities predicted are worth getting nervous about, like hyperinflation or a failure of the world financial system.
The preppers store or grow food, store water, generate their electricity, and prepare to defend themselves with handguns and homemade explosives. At the end of each segment, "experts" grade each prepper's plans.
Some of the prepper plans are pretty impressive. One episode involved an Arizona family who keeps a pool/greenhouse, with chicken above fertilizing a pool that contains quickly regenerating fish. A byproduct, duckweed, purifies the water and generates fertilizer for the vegetable gardens.
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This is why I started to watch. I no longer do. I found nothing useful in any episode. And I am not entertained by lunatic fringe idiots who spend $300,000 to protect themselves against solar flares.
It was neat but all I could think was that it was pretty stinky.
When the government is (quietly)buying up enough long term storage food to affect the market that tells you something too.
No guns allowed.
There is another show about bunkers and a bunker builder. Those are good too. As for the preppers show; some of them are doing what they can, others are clueless. The hippies they put one were doing good right up until the point they professed their trust in the goodness of their fellow man. The looniest was the girl in Houston who has a good size stash of stuff in her apartment, but her bugout plan involves walking out of Houston to the south.
Give it a rest.
Mormons are no longer any more of a target than African-Americans are...and have a whole lot less to justify any kind of inferiority complex.
But having lots of tilapia at your disposal? And knowing that it wasn’t raised in some third-world, contaminated, disease-infested fish farm? Gimme stinky any day :) !
Forget about the food shortages, just wait until they can’t get cell phone service!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably a good time to build a tornado shelter though. Even if stuff don’t hit the fan it’ll still make your family feel just a bit safer and secure. Good ole dad!
Oh boy. That's when the SHTF. Hordes of 18-25 year old females running around screaming incoherently as they wave their "Smart" phones in the air looking for service. No thanks.
Unlike the 'Doomsday Preppers' show every one in our group is concerned almost exclusively with economic collapse.
Cell phone, schmell phone.
There’s always Skype.
I’m stockpiling credit on my Starbucks app!
I can almost cast a line into a river from where I’m typing. All the fish I want and no stink from their walled in hot Arizona backyard. But you do what you need to do, I guess.
HOLY CRAP!
Did you come over on the Mayflower with JimRob?
;o)
It depends on the specific scenario, but it if the sh*t were to hit the fan in America but not Australia, you would most likely be safer in Australia, even without a gun.
We already have a very secure underground shelter/survival area, here on the farm. On the 2-3 occasions we’ve had to go there, the tornadoes missed the compound by 1+ miles, so we were fortunate.
Great minds... That’s *exactly* how I look at it, and *exactly* what I’ve done and why.
Ah, a river. I think my closest river is eight miles. I wish I knew how to fish.
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