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What I saw at the doomsday prepper convention
CNN Money ^ | 11/11/13 | David Z. Morris

Posted on 11/11/2013 2:17:35 PM PST by Kartographer

More and more Americans are spending money to get ready for an uncertain future -- gathering food, water, tools, and skills to help them weather anything from a hurricane to a pandemic. Contrary to images of deluded or gun-obsessed "lone wolves," many preppers are average consumers reacting to concrete worries, and their way of thinking is spreading, fueling an emerging lifestyle trend. That lifestyle is generating demand for a broad spectrum of products offering survival -- or even comfort -- when large-scale systems go down.

(Excerpt) Read more at tech.fortune.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: preparedness; preppers
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To: JoeProBono

CNN story on that bunker in Utah:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/06/tour-this-65k-doomsday-bunker-built-by-a-utah-survivalist-prepper/


21 posted on 11/11/2013 2:36:01 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Kartographer

Please add me to your Prepper’s PING list.

Thank you.

Gator113


22 posted on 11/11/2013 2:36:52 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: GeronL

Notice the flooring has a central section that is colored differently?

I’ve seen plans where this is access to storage.


23 posted on 11/11/2013 2:37:41 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Kartographer; Jim Robinson; Jim Thompson
Life Changes, Be Ready! was the work of Cindy and Jim Thompson...

Jim, that you??????

:)

24 posted on 11/11/2013 2:37:50 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: MrB

I count my blessings that we live in a rather remote area in a rather remote state, with a bunch of like-minded “Prepper” neighbors. It’s a good thing.


25 posted on 11/11/2013 2:37:51 PM PST by Rushmore Rocks
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To: The Working Man

bump


26 posted on 11/11/2013 2:37:58 PM PST by GeronL
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To: thackney

good point


27 posted on 11/11/2013 2:38:41 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Kartographer

wow, I wouldn’t really expect that from Freepers


28 posted on 11/11/2013 2:39:00 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL
It happens. Some freepers have had to be told to stay away from prepper thread by the management because they were so rabid in their hatred.

/johnny

29 posted on 11/11/2013 2:42:23 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: GeronL
Also a bit more to that one than shown in the picture.


30 posted on 11/11/2013 2:42:29 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow. That’s a really dangerous compound.


31 posted on 11/11/2013 2:43:50 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: GeronL; JRandomFreeper; metmom; greeneyes; Marcella; Bride Of Old Sarge; Old Sarge; yorkiemom; ...

Before anyone ask me to name names I won’t it’s been 6 months now since the last flame war with these people and I don’t need the headache, but I pinged a few follow FReepers who will confirm that what I said is true. Believe me more that a few were very vile in respect to preppers.


32 posted on 11/11/2013 2:46:56 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: GeronL

Cylinder.
Floor stores.


33 posted on 11/11/2013 2:49:19 PM PST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: thackney

What are the Christmas lights for?


34 posted on 11/11/2013 2:50:01 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

35 posted on 11/11/2013 2:50:43 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Kartographer

Has this author ever taken this tone and skeptical line of questioning to Obama’s socialist policies or the faith liberals place in them?


36 posted on 11/11/2013 2:50:56 PM PST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: GeronL

Going to be down there a while. They decorated early.

Or a low power, low-level lighting source on the cheap.


37 posted on 11/11/2013 2:51:31 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: gundog

Ok that is enough room for about a weeks food.


38 posted on 11/11/2013 2:52:27 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JoeProBono

lol


39 posted on 11/11/2013 2:53:13 PM PST by GeronL
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To: thackney

right. Probably!


40 posted on 11/11/2013 2:53:32 PM PST by GeronL
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