Jump to content

  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo

Montsta

By Montsta,
in Huddle Lounge

Recommended Posts

Montsta Proficient

Montsta

Posted
Posted

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Mvp2014 Collaborator

Mvp2014

Posted
Posted

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..

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bronn Contributor

Bronn

Posted
Posted

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Tepper's Chest Hair
      Bryce Young 5th year option exercised

      By Tepper's Chest Hair · Posted

      Sometimes its fun to read the threads/posts.  The panthers could literally hire a groundskeeper and we'd have a thread "improving the field for no other reason to prop up Bryce Young".  Apparently no move is ever done to actually make the team better.  All a conspiracy to just focus on Bryce Young. Or suddenly daydreaming and reminiscing about Sam Darnold when he was hated more than Bryce Young.  Its really fun to do a message board search about Darnold during that time period.   Or thinking there is just a tree that grows QB, and you can just easily go up and pluck one.   
    • strato
      Bryce Young 5th year option exercised

      By strato · Posted

      Yeah okay. We as an organization have been more patient with him than many. And there has been a small parade of guys drafted since he was, also to bad teams, that have passed him. Some have lapped him. As a fan I am out of patience but he gets this year it is out of my hands always has been. I just hope the bar is higher than it has been for him.    FWIW, XL dropped two passes last year. He did do some other bad stuff, just saying. 
    • tukafan21
      Bryce Young 5th year option exercised

      By tukafan21 · Posted

      Except it takes those QB's a few years to develop because they needed to learn the mental side of the game and have it catch up to their physical attributes. Bryce was supposed to be a QB savant who already had a fully developed mental side of the game and that was going to make up for his lack of physical ability.  And his lack of NFL level QB physical traits has been clear as day to anyone who has watched him the last 3 years, mainly, he just doesn't have an NFL arm, he can't zip the ball into tight spaces or throw on a line down the field like is needed at this level.
×
×
  • Create New...