Posted on 11/13/2012 7:09:46 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
"THOUSANDS IN Northeast still without power," read a headline on CNN as I was getting ready to write about Tuesday's Season 2 premiere of Nat Geo's "Doomsday Preppers."
Hurricane Sandy may not have figured in the end-of-the-world scenarios of the families profiled on the show, but unless you've been living under a particularly well-equipped rock, chances are there's something in your home that wasn't there a month ago, whether it's a fresh stash of D batteries or a case of canned soup
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“Recently Americans refused MREs in the Superdome because they didn’t like the taste. So they’re good enough for our troopers but the NO peeps wanted Popeye’s fried chicken. Rant over, past my bedtime.”
Too funny! Good night; be safe.
Southwest will be overrun by hispanics and taken over. Most of them that stay won’t make it.
No offense but you will not be able to use that generator for months after an incident. You will be an obvious target.
It should be mentioned that Doomsday Preppers is part of Nat Geo’s “American Outlier” series and as such, the folks featured on the show are intentionally a little further “out there” than your average prepper.
Everyone has something to teach you but mostly what I’ve learned from the few shows I’ve seen is to keep your mouth shut.
“If you have a good `bug-out bag’ then you are prepared to quickly evacuate.”
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Well, I think everyone is in favor of being prepared for
short term disasters and/or turmoil.
The prepper examples in the TV series are a bit extreme, to say the least.
Those requiring a years supply of everything would most likely be in a doomsday situation, requiring an army to save them from marauding herds, even if life would be worth living.
In the few Prepper episodes that I have seen, they are all in areas such as the western deserts. I would NEVER live in that type of environment to begin with. The environment looks so depressing.
I live on a beach, and within a mile of mountains with all the veggies in the world, and free flowing fresh water.
The climate is the same, year round.
Your simple bug-out bag would be all that is needed.
Yes, after Sandy, 9 days without power and that could have easily been longer, more fuel for the next time is on the list. My 8 day supply lasted into day 9, but one more day would have done it. I am now looking for a diesel generator that I can run on my Number 2 heating oil tank, which was filled the week before.
That’s a good idea; I use heating oil as well.
The problem with storing gasoline is that it is a chemical, and it breaks down; you have to rotate it (and as we just saw, it can quickly become scarce). Somebody else was posting that people shouldn’t assume they should stay in their homes; I’d prefer to watch over my property, but keep enough gas in the tanks to leave if need be.
Glad your contingency plan worked!
Honda generators are the best; we’ve used the smaller models in Haiti with great results.
That being said, I’ve seen some people advise skipping the generator and purchasing a large power inverter to use with your vehicle. Inverters are much cheaper than an equivalent size quality generator, and there’s no extra maintenance, fuel to rotate, etc. An idling car is not going to draw as much attention to your home. I wouldn’t want to let the car run around the clock, but it can be run when needed, even to let a freezer run for 30 minutes 3 or 4 times per day to keep your food from spoiling.
these people are kooks.
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