May 2012 Weddings
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Doomsday
Just out of curiosity have any of you ladies seen the preview or ever actually watched the show Doomsday Preppers? What do you think of these people?
I keep seeing the commercial for it and just wondering what you ladies think.
Re: Doomsday
H LOVES THIS SHOW! I hate to admit it but he's a tiny bit of a prepper himself (on the bright side we didn't have to buy anything for Sandy or any other potentially bad storm).
Sometimes you can learn interesting things, like if you rub an egg with mineral oil they last longer. But they're all crazy. My favorite part of the show, is after the professionals have evaluated the families survival plan, they tell you the odds of what they're prepping for (earthquake, financial collapse, etc.) actually happening. It's usually slim to none.
I have never watched the show and honestly I see nothing wrong with prepping for a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or crazy freak storm. BUT for this crazy idea of a massive bomb hitting us I seriously doubt anyone will survive that. And why they need all this food that is more than likely already bad is stupid.
But that's just me!
I saw a similar show where the people were preparing for the apocolypse, or something crazy like that and everyone on the show was clearly crazy.
There was one family though that was being super smart about it, and I got a lot of good ideas from them. They weren't just hoarding food and guns and stuff, they were transitioning to a totally sustainable lifestyle, it was so cool! They bought a house with a below-gound pool out back, built a green house over the pool and grew all their own produce in their greenhouse. The deep part of the pool they grew tilapia because they reproduce so quickly and they had this whole system set up that filtered the water and piped it all around to all the plants in the green house to keep them watered, it was really incredible. They also collected rain water from their roof in rain barrels and used that for some of their water needs. They also had ways to generate electricity with renewable resources and were almost completely off the grid.
But they also had gas masks and other things, so they were still crazy, but smart for the most part :-P
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The sustainable living portion of it is actually my favorite part. I would love to live "off the grid." We live in a semi-rural county and a lot of people actually raise chickens, grow their own food, etc. Minus the gas masks, etc. of the crazy preppers I think that's pretty cool.
H watches this show! I watched it with him once where this guy buried 42 old school buses and made an underground village out of them. It was crazy. He had a decontamination shower and all of these boxes of pre-made food and water. He had no air source though and was only letting children into the shelter so that part was a little creepy to me.
His grand kids were helping him get ready for the end of the world but his kids thought he was a wackjob.
wtf?! that is SO creepy!
My BFP Chart Danger Love Blog
He said he was doing that because children could re-populate the world if it ended? I don't know. When he said that, both of us were like "uh...what else is on TV?" lol I know if the world was ending, I wouldn't send my kid into some weird underground bus shelter without me!