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Netflix is currently airing the complete season 2 of the History Channel's "Doomsday Preppers". Episodes from other seasons are available on a individual pay for play on several platforms such as Amazon.
Hmmm, maybe they ain't so crazy huh?
I want to see their cache of toilet paper before I draw any conclusions.
This.
The only sane ones were the ones trying to prep for a mega tsunami and they were trying to stash a 72 pack of TP in to their rubber raft that they were going to paddle through the intercostal water way inland in the few hours they'd have before the 1000ft high tsunami ends up washing hundreds of miles inland.
They'd totally make it AND they'd be able to wipe their butt for months.
Frankly they are mostly showing people with severe mental illness. Which doesn't mean prepping makes no sense. But if you listen to most of them, they are nuts for the most part. Sometimes they have good reason to be nuts. Most of them also are doing a terrible job with actual prepping or prepping in a way that makes no sense for what they are actually concerned about.
Take Maslow. He had a pretty good model for needs...It’s silly ( but probably scripted) to prepare for a specific disaster. I suck at predicting anyway. To paraphrase someone wiser than me : you don’t prepare for a specific event you prepare to lose systems of support. Start with the most likely loss. In almost every case it’s going to be a loss of income, whether due to job loss, illness, family situations or as we are seeing now pandemic. Save up an emergency fund so you can go x (whatever that may be for you)months without income. It’s not prepper sexy like a new AR, body armor or ham radio but unlike these I guarantee you will need this sometime in your life. After you have done than move on to system 2: maybe water, maybe food, maybe security? It’s your call based on your situation. I don’t think you have to do it quite as linearly as I suggest but I think it helps to think in theses terms. Meanwhile the rest of the doomsday preppers can prepare for the Yellowstone super volcano....
I like the guy teaching his son to shoot, and shoot safely,,, who shot his own finger,,,, with a rifle!
WITH A RIFLE????
If you said toe, I'da said oh. But a finger!
WITH A RIFLE????
If you said toe, I'da said oh. But a finger!
I remember watching that episode. Another was a single girl in some southwestern city whose plan was to put on a backpack and hike all night for good ol Mejico when SHTF. Yeah, that's a sound plan for a 20 something white female.
Frankly they are mostly showing people with severe mental illness. Which doesn't mean prepping makes no sense. But if you listen to most of them, they are nuts for the most part. Sometimes they have good reason to be nuts. Most of them also are doing a terrible job with actual prepping or prepping in a way that makes no sense for what they are actually concerned about.
I remember watching that episode. Another was a single girl in some southwestern city whose plan was to put on a backpack and hike all night for good ol Mejico when SHTF. Yeah, that's a sound plan for a 20 something white female.