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Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo

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Has anybody watched this new series on NatGeo? Basically they show people who are preparing for various disasters (financial, natural, etc.) and the various things they are doing in anticipation of some global meltdown. I found it to be quite interesting. Some people stockpile guns, while this other guy basically has a job assigned to every one in his immediate and extended family such as hunting, communications, fuel prep, etc.

Another lady is more on the canning of food and growing your own self-sustaining food sources trip. She keeps bees to make honey, has a pretty much infinitely replenishing garden, and her and her family have like 700 cans of homemade canned foods and stuff and she will spend up to 7 hours a day canning and pickling food.

While I do think some of these people are a bit nutty, the subject fascinates me. My wife thinks they are all off their rockers, but I try and tell her if the poo goes down we'll last about 3 days before I have to start looting and killing neighbors for whatever they have. She thinks I'm nuts.

Good show, check it out.

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Has anybody watched this new series on NatGeo? Basically they show people who are preparing for various disasters (financial, natural, etc.) and the various things they are doing in anticipation of some global meltdown. I found it to be quite interesting. Some people stockpile guns, while this other guy basically has a job assigned to every one in his immediate and extended family such as hunting, communications, fuel prep, etc.

Another lady is more on the canning of food and growing your own self-sustaining food sources trip. She keeps bees to make honey, has a pretty much infinitely replenishing garden, and her and her family have like 700 cans of homemade canned foods and stuff and she will spend up to 7 hours a day canning and pickling food.

While I do think some of these people are a bit nutty, the subject fascinates me. My wife thinks they are all off their rockers, but I try and tell her if the poo goes down we'll last about 3 days before I have to start looting and killing neighbors for whatever they have. She thinks I'm nuts.

Good show, check it out.

That's cool, I wish I knew more about growing food and hunting. I have a flashlight, $1000, and a .45. That's my go bag..

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I could live out of my truck for weeks if I had to, with the gear I have in there...

I've always been a proponent of being prepared, and have posted numerous times about it here... If you like the subject enough, I'd advise you learn all you can from publications like Mother Earth News, Complete Survivalist (this one is newer, and still just starting up), etc.

Also, if you can, pack a backpack and just start walking one weekend. See how far you can go in a day, and if you can survive a night in the woods without anything other than what you can carry in the backpack... Not only is it good physical exercise, but it is a good mental exercise.

Learn to hunt/gather with basic primitive tools that you can make yourself... Own, and learn how to fire and maintain various firearms. Instead of hoarding money or gold, invest in something practical that may come in handy on a rainy day.

Picture a world without an economy, oil, civility, etc. etc. Imagine you've been impacted by a natural disaster. Put yourself in a "what would I do if?" scenario as often as you can.

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