Doomsday Preppers

[xmas74]

Anyone watching this?

I've watched and found myself shaking my head during each episode.

[lpbk2713]

1. I watched out of incredulity for the most part.

Some spend many thousands of dollars on the remote chance that something of Biblical proportions might occur and they will make it to their remote hideaway and survive cooped up underground for who knows how long without cutting each others throats. I wouldn't want to eat some of that food that had been kept there for several years. And I wonder if they expect to live in a world of blue skies and sunshine when they emerge.

Frankly, if something catastrophic were to occur I'd just as soon go at that time rather than linger on.

[xmas74]

2. Same here.

One woman said she was prepping for a black swan event. Now that I could understand,just a bit. (If you include tornadoes, floods, ice storms, etc, in the list of black swan events, that is.) Of course, I'm thinking a week's worth of food-not a few years. She was one of the only people without weapons.

I wonder how many are militia-types who are into this kind of prepping.

[truebrit71]

3. I thought this was going to be simply a show containing gun-worshipping nutcases...

...but there have been several that have surprised me..

The various reasons that there people are prepping are quite amusing...but there have been some very useful tips in there for those that want to be prepared for a shorter-term emergency...

I really liked the most recent one with the family that grew most of their own food on 1/10th of an acre...really inspiring...then of course there was the N.Carolina gun-nut and his porcine "god-fearing" wife... ...

[xmas74]

4. I missed the 1/10 of an acre

but there are plenty of books and such out there about the subject. If nothing else I'd love to see a few people take that away from this show-that they can still raise quite a bit of their own healthy food on a very small lot.

The gun nuts are nuttier than ever on this show. Did you see the "party girl" in Houston who said that her boyfriend will shoot their cats?

[Renew Deal]

5. I posted about it in another DU group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1128637

I feel the same way you do. A friend of mine said "why would you want to survive some of those disasters?" I'm not sure I agree, but I see her point.

[xmas74]

6. Some of the disasters, no,

I wouldn't want to survive. Survival wouldn't be for all that long and the only goal in prepping is to prolong the inevitable when the alternative might be less painful.

[xmas74]

7. kick for tonight's episode.

I don't want to be the only person watching this!

[rusty fender]

8. I caught several minutes of it last week

One guy in NYC wanted to be prepared if Yellowstone blows and the ash drifts to the east coast. Not likely in several lifetimes.

The other prepper I saw was a guy who was buying all kinds of food. What amazed me was the amount of sugar he was buying--tons. I thought I was addicted to sugar, but this guy and his family takes the cake. He also bought tons of liquor although he and his wife don't drink. They will use it for barter and molotov cocktails. He and his brother even practiced their cocktail throwing arms.

All I could do was shake my head. And I missed the part about what exactly he was preparing for--probably the Apocalypse.

[xmas74]

9. It's on tomorrow night.

I missed the Yellowstone guy and he's the one I've wanted to see, ever since the first commercial!