Dooms Day Preepers ?

[imaginefj]

It would also be good to pack some silver and gold coins for bartering.

True.

You can't eat silver or gold and it doesn't do much.

 

[DrivebyTrucker]

I think it's scripted. I noticed a lot of bad acting with the Douglas's. The guy with the buck skin shirt in Maine.

 

[KuRUpTD]

I think it's scripted.

I'm shocked ~!

 

[sir_mike]

True.

You can't eat silver or gold and it doesn't do much.

That's true but you might be able to use them for gas, food, etc. from stores or from others!

 

[brewcitymike]

I have to wonder about the real estate guy building the 'survival condo' building underground in the old ICBM silo. My main wonder is about the fact that he mentioned that the people living there will all have jobs in the structure such as security, working in the 'lounge', general store or the other manned facilities withing the building. He said how they will be able to stop at the numerous stores, etc to socialize just like coming home from a regular job and stopping for a drink or what have you. So does that mean that everyone who moves in will never leave the building? I'm sure some of these folks are buying a condo assuming they will go to it after or right before a disaster,attack whatever, but it seems like the designer plans on everyone who lives there, staying underground from the time they move in. he talked about how they put the ceilings at 10' instead of 8' cuz it will help people feel less constrained during their stays and how they are putting in a 500K gal. water reservoir for when the tenants run out of their own water supplies. It almost came across like there would be a deadline for buying a unit cuz after a certain day they're sealing themselves in or something,lol. He doesn't mention anything about people coming and going from the site ever, only them coming and going within the building,hmmm??? IMO if I had a 1-2 million to spend just on preparations for 'doomsday' I'd just buy a chunk of land in the sticks, set it up off grid and self sustaining, and stock it up with a good amount of necessities instead of buying a unit there. Cuz if the Shit REALLY it the fan and they outlasted their water reservoir and the supplies in the general store and they couldn't leave to re-up then you are still around a bunch of people who could turn against you to save themselves, and to make it worse, you're stuck underground with them. The designer said he had 3 million invested in the project so far, which seemed really low for something of that nature and magnitude, but if I had half that amount of money I'd make something just as nice but only for myself and my loved ones.
The guy with the buckskin clothes was pushing it, feeding his children roadkill. that's risky in any situation but to do it for the hell of it is just bad parenting. And he made a good point of not wanting to rely on guns cuz ammo will be one of the first things to disappear when the SHTF but c'mon, your solution is to use throwing sticks for self defense I know he had a couple Cold Steel hawks too but he can't expect his young kids to fend off starved enraged looters with hawks and sticks. Again-bad parenting. I would make sure to have enough long range weapons so that my children where hopefully never in the situation that they themselves had to fight "hand to hand" with intruders. I'd invest in some real perimeter alarms and defenses...NOT BIRD FEEDERS, WTF?? Yes bird alert to even the smallest and quietest of threats but that sure as sh!t don't mean you're gonna hear or notice the birds if your 50 yards away, in the house with the windows closed. Hell I'd go black market and look for some M18A1's, or at least set up some good old fashioned punji traps and other boobie traps. If the breached the perimeter and made it to the house then I'd try to have something big and intimidating instead of a bunch of small stuff. Something like a Mag 58, M1919, or a Ma Deuce if I was real lucky , something that can spray large fields of suppressing fire and very likely force a retreat by the intruders. I wouldn't ever want to rely solely on firearms, but it would be a long time before I resorted to throwing sticks. There are long or cross bows, knives, molotov cocktails, hell even nun chucks or ninja stars would be a lot better than a stick It seems like each show is getting a bit more 'out there'. A 'mobile' prepper in a semi, and now the doomsday condos I hope there are some wilderness survival people eventually, though it might be hard to do for the show since most of those people just like to be prepared for whatever and don't actually fear ridiculous threats like the other hoarders..I mean preppers The only likely scenario discussed thus far that worries me a bit is a pandemic.epidemic. Considering how since the late 90's we've had SARS, Avian Flu, West Nile, Swine Flu, and Mad Cow(this I might be wrong about) and here in Milwaukee in the early 90's we had an outbreak of Cryptosporidium which killed at least 60+ people and had people hitting all the stores for bottled water, filter, etc. I remember my parents boiling water in huge chili pots almost non stop.
It seems like a lot of the channels now make copy cats of popluar shows from other networks ie: storage wars/auction kings, ax men/american loggers, Flying Wild Alaska/Alaska Wing Men and so on. So maybe Discovery will make a more realistic version about survivalists/preppers. One can hope

 

[Mudbug007]

So maybe Discovery will make a more realistic version about survivalists/preppers. One can hope

Your wish has been partially granted. Discovery has come out with their own show, not sure how realistic it will be. It's called "Doomsday Bunkers". Just remember, you asked for it. No one to blame but yourself! LOL

 

[brewcitymike]

Man, that's not all what I hoped for,lol. I was thinking something more along the lines of survivorman meets preppers. Kinda like that special History channel had a couple years ago with ex recon marine Rudy Reyes called Apocalypse Man where he showed ways to scavenge/survive/live in a post apocalyptic setting(sadly enough the "post apocalyptic" setting he was in was modern day Detroit) My thinking was a show like that that not only shows how to prepare for, but also how to get by after a catastrophic event. Oh well, I'll still watch a bunch a crazies building and stocking their bunkers

Your wish has been partially granted. Discovery has come out with their own show, not sure how realistic it will be. It's called "Doomsday Bunkers". Just remember, you asked for it. No one to blame but yourself! LOL

 

[Kirk D]

I almost always watch "survival" shows..., even the BAD ones :foot: , like "Doomsday Preppers". Christopher Nyerges has a YouTube showing what National Geographic wants to record, instead of what the preppers can say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQD4DuK81k

 

[trebs]

Dont presume that people wont go crazy, just be prepared. As for the doomsday preppers, protecting a years worth of food with a hipoint pistol is like putting used tires on your indy car. And have a spare gun or two to loan your neighbor, they may help save your hide some night.

 

[MrApple]

I don't buy the notion that in a major crisis that people will just go crazy and start killing and eating each other. Famine after famine, holocaust after holocause, most people would rather starve to death than behave violently towards their brothers.

I completely disagree. You only have to look at how crazy people act when there is no need to act crazy (ie. Black Friday Sales) to see how badly they would act if things truly fell apart. Most people are so utterly in their own little world that I feel lucky if I don't have to dodge these self obsessed individuals at Walmart or the grocery store. You must have more faith in our fellow man than me.

 

[KuRUpTD]

Also, I think that focusing on shtf preparation is a way of focusing one's free-floating anxiety about the uncertainty of life and giving oneself the psychological comfort of feeling a sense of control. On that show, the fellow whose health was so poor he could barely walk, as he waddled about with his M14, is a case in point.

That fella has been found to be mentally unstable

Mr. Sarti received a letter from the state of Tennessee declaring him a "mental defective" and was informed that he had lost his "privilege" to carry and own firearms.

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[Mudbug007]

That fella has been found to be mentally unstable

He sure was, but what is more disturbing is how he was railroaded by the Doctor and the County Sheriff's Dept. about going to the ER in the first place. Then the State of Tennessee decides to pull his "privilege" of owning a gun. If they'll do it to him, they can do it to any of us....

 

[Erasmus]

Ouch.

I finally saw an episode. I guess it's OK.

 

[slight]

He sure was, but what is more disturbing is how he was railroaded by the Doctor and the County Sheriff's Dept. about going to the ER in the first place. Then the State of Tennessee decides to pull his "privilege" of owning a gun. If they'll do it to him, they can do it to any of us....

We all need to make sure we stick up for our right to own and ucarry firearms. Where I live it takes 911 30min to get here..