Did you catch the new show "Doomsday Preppers" last night on National Geographic channel?
I watched the first one and recorded the second to watch tonight.
Just a quick rundown on the first show.
The first group, the people in Texas with the home made out of shipping containers. Wow. Those people have their shit together. 50,000 pounds of food! 22 seemingly well trained people! A good plan that has been practiced! I think when all hell breaks loose these guys have a good chance.
The hippie in California that will survive on the streets, under the radar, eating weeds. Ok. Ummm. He will be dead in about 10 minutes of any actual SHTF situation. He has no guns and no sense. Sure, knowing which weeds will kill you and which won't is a pretty good skill. Hanging out in Los Angeles in an apocalypse situation is just stupid. I might be a little generous with the 10 minutes.
The big guy with the yapping little dogs and the HAM radio. I think with some help this guy would be ok for quite a while. He has a nice supply of food and resources for growing more. He has a few weapons and practices with them regularly. His health is a huge concern. If he could recruit a few good former military guys or girls, he would be living large.
The chick in Houston with the big back pack. Hmmm, she will never make it out of Houston alive, never. Even when the "experts" reviewed her and said that her evacuation route was jacked up she disagreed. Holy shit, in her practice run she felt unsafe and tempted to pull her pistol. Imagine the streets full of hungry, horny scumbags looking for anybody with anything. Dead.
It was also kind of interesting that each of these groups had a different SHTF scenario in mind in their prepping. The first group would be prepared for about any likely, or unlikely, scenario.
I found it a little disturbing that the "experts" shot down all four of the groups reasons for prepping. You know, it wasn't that long ago that nobody saw the collapse of Greece coming, or the monetary meltdown of most of the EU. For these people to shoot down these scenarios as virtually impossible shows either some sort of a bias or they aren't paying attention to world events. There HAVE been EMP situations on this planet. There have been financial meltdowns. We have had oil shortages. All of these situations could come up, especially with the deteriorating conditions all around the world.
Just my take on it.
But, while I criticize some of these groups, most of them make me realize how inadequate my own preps are. It did give me some good ideas and a little better vision of what being prepared really means.
