Meh. I believe in being prepared, but not devoting my life to it. I have rice, oatmeal and lentils and enough vitamin pills for two years. These are all things that I use anyway, but since they can be stored for long periods I bought a big batch and then replenish as I go.
If I could, I’d buy a property where I could dig a well, because fresh water does worry me. I have a distiller, but it’s ueless without electricity.
But burying school buses in the yard is really over doing it. . .
I’m not sure what you think people should have done in London. Most of the attacks were on shops, not private homes, and you were much safer staying indoors than going out or attempting to take on the crowds in some fashion. Obviously in the case of the few homes that were torched the residents had to escape but again, what could they have done? Some disasters you can’t prepare for beyond “being somewhere else”.
Same defense that worked during the LA riots. Any news footage would pan down a street: burned-out business, burned-out business, Koreans with guns, burned-out business, burned-out business…
Koreans are more expensive in other parts of the country, though, and feeding them can be a hassle.
And they occasionally go rogue, too.
Very interesting quote from that article “This is America, where you can find a gun esier than mental health services.”
That’ll make you think. It’s maybe not even true; but if it appears to be true to the people in crisis, that’s all that amtters.
One man’s gun is another man’s mental health service. :eek:
That’s ridiculous, unless you set the bar real low for the definition of “a natural disaster”. The closest thing 99% of Americans will ever experience in their lifetimes is the power being out for a few days because of some weather event or tech failure.
Well, there was my first marriage…
Sign me up for the quick death, too. I’m not terribly interested in living in a world without cable and sushi delivery.
I’d think Yugoslavia in the 1990’s provides a better model for the actual event, better than Damnation Alley or The Omega Man.
I read about a Serbian farmer who traded in his tractor for a Warsaw Pact field howitzer, and went to a hill overlooking a Muslim town and had himselff a high old time lobbing in shells.
Considering all the gear sitting in US national guard armories and army bases, I believe the best survalist plan would be to join the army now, wait for everything to go to shit, and there you’d be with your equipped and trained militia. The Preppers’ compounds would be your orchards.
The Boy Scout part of me admires the preparedness of these people. Have what you need before you really need it, and live.
The reasons these people have for prepping, are often silly IMO, whether they be contrived by the show, or just theories of a crackpot.
What strikes me, is that the people profiled in this show spend TONS of money on what they do. I don’t usually equate wealth with survivalist thinking.
If these people are the only ones left after a massive disaster, anyone left is fucked. So are the offspring of any of the survivors.
Just chimming in to say I’d knock the shelf out of Megan.
Love this show. I’m also a prepper, not to the extent of the people on the show, because I’m po’. I’ll be damned if I sit around during a natural disaster waiting for FEMA’s sorry ass to come save me, though.
MOST of the things the Preppers are worried about are bogus. The magnetic poles switching places? Killer electromagnetic pulse?
And the huge underground fortress constructed from buried schoolbuses was creepy! Made me think of the kidnapped school children in Central California who were buried in a moving van for days.
SOME preparation is common sense. Make sure you store stuff you’ll actually EAT.
We watch the show purely for entertainment purposes.
~VOW
Just make sure to pack an extra pair of glasses. It’d suck if you had a bunch of books to read and you broke your glasses.
or if all your books were on your Kindle and you didn’t have a way to charge it up.
that giant Volcano that is under Yellowstone is overdue to blow. so - how far away should I move? but, then, I move to California…where The Big One is also overdue.
on the whole, I think the best bet is to assume your days are numbered - because they are - and get on with whatever it is you love best. if Prepping itself is what you love, well Bless Your Heart.
I’m leaning towards reporting this…
What say you dopers?