Doomsday Preppers Season 2

tuwood - 2012-11-13 9:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

People who are fans of the show are too far on the fringe for my liking.

mrbbrad - 2012-11-13 8:54 AM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 9:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

People who are fans of the show are too far on the fringe for my liking.

lol, i resemble that remark. 

My DVR is set.

I think the coolest thing from last season was the pick up truck that ran on wood.

The FEMA website has a pdf on how to make one with all the plans.  I downloaded it, pretty interesting.  When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was transfered with a few others at the of WWII for execution by the Nazis, the truck ran on a wood fuel. 

mr2tony - 2012-11-13 12:37 PM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 10:41 AM

mrbbrad - 2012-11-13 8:54 AM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 9:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

People who are fans of the show are too far on the fringe for my liking.

lol, i resemble that remark. 

You and my brother should be friends. He has an arsenal, lots of canned goods and his basement is easily fortified. He lives in Omaha.

lol, i've only got a small 10x10 bunker.  We call it a storm shelter, but I know what it's really for.  ;-)

tuwood - 2012-11-13 8:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

Agreed

I am disappointed in this season so far.  I watched both eposides today and was not impressed.  I thought the show went looking for more "on the fringe" people then actuall intelligent prepping.  The 15 year old kid with the blades saying he is not afraid to kill.  As a parent I really have to question what the hell his mother is teaching him.

The girl living with her parents and having her own kid.  What an awesome outfit to work in, blue tank top that is too small and some big white sunglasses.  I need to check people of walmart to see if she is on there.

Then the bug out drill with the husband that married the twin.....what happened to the kids during the drill?

I don't know, maybe the rest of the season will be better

Joe

mr2tony - 2012-11-13 12:37 PM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 10:41 AM

mrbbrad - 2012-11-13 8:54 AM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 9:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

People who are fans of the show are too far on the fringe for my liking.

lol, i resemble that remark. 

You and my brother should be friends. He has an arsenal, lots of canned goods and his basement is easily fortified. He lives in Omaha.

Yes, Nebraska is one of the first places that will need bomb shelters and fortification.....because, you know, that's the place all the crazies are going to head to first.

I have a real hard time taking those folks seriously. Sure, it's there time and money, they can spend it how they like.... but sitting around all day coming up with what if scenarios???

The one guy that was like 350 lbs... really, you are prepared to weather a storm? At least he mentioned working on himself at the end.

Ya, a 15 year old... that's not normal. Sorry, it's not. He has issues.

What I don't like is the common assumption that after three days, civilization will break down and it will be every man for himself and everyone will just be passing their time raping and killing everyone... sorry. I don't buy it.

And I also don't like the loner me against the world mentality... sorry pal, you are going to loose that one. People will band up, stick together, strength in numbers, help each other. You can't just make it on your own. You will need help at some point.

Agreed.  Looks like they're really going out on a limb for fringe this year..  I have to say hubster and i seriously belly laffed at some of the clips.  Come on, country guy with his "Living my life as a Doomsday Prepper"  If you didn't crack a smile yer waaay too serious.  This is now DVRd as the "entertainment" selection of the week.

great point.   I saw a bit of the show in a hotel over the weekend so I"m not sure which season it was.  But it was a guy in california that seemed pretty smart.  He was training others with him and said the same thing.. that a lone person isn't going to do well.  You need to be in a decent sized group and train that group. 

I thought his main defense was interesting also.  Instead of fortifying against an assualt, he had many hidden bunkers where they could stay, so it was retreat, wait a bit then come back to retake his land when their guard was down.

Your exactly right, he should be on the Marine recruit watch list for the next Sergeant Major that will help defend this country in the future. 

Left Brain - 2012-11-14 11:38 PM

mr2tony - 2012-11-13 12:37 PM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 10:41 AM

mrbbrad - 2012-11-13 8:54 AM

tuwood - 2012-11-13 9:48 AM I generally enjoy watching the show, but most of the people are a little too far out on the fringe for my liking. 

People who are fans of the show are too far on the fringe for my liking.

lol, i resemble that remark. 

You and my brother should be friends. He has an arsenal, lots of canned goods and his basement is easily fortified. He lives in Omaha.

Yes, Nebraska is one of the first places that will need bomb shelters and fortification.....because, you know, that's the place all the crazies are going to head to first.

I was thinking the same thing. 

Ya, we already know what defensible structures are, and a bunker is not one. There was one on the "bunker" show that they were going to weather an assault in the bunker... with a ventilation pipe on top of it... SO let's see my choices... fart in it, cut it off, smoke you out, tear gas, chemical weapons... cyanide.... ya, great plan, let's fall back to a place they can kill me.

Even preppers themselves... how about forming prepper militias... that in the event of calamity you muster up and see where to go from there....  or hell, here is a novel idea... muster up and see what you can do for help.

The bunker I was referring to was a particular individual that had a lot of stores. He was going through his plan of how defensible his home was... sniper positions, barricaded, fortified positions and so forth... but his retreat was his bunker... so if all that didn't work he was going to fall back to a hole in the ground with a ventilation pipe... that is not a defensible position.

Obviously some sort of bug out shelter, hidden and remote, for you to wait something out, well that is different.

And with most stuff, lines are being blurred here with "pepper". Any sort of disaster preparedness is a good idea. Can you make it a week until help comes from a hurricane, ice storm, volcano???

And most of this country has to deal with such emergencies... tornado alley, East coast and Gulf hurricanes, Earth quakes in California, Ice storms in the mid west and South. Epic blizzards in the North East... in Colorado... we have no such things... a few blizzards have shut down the city for 3 days, but I can still get around.

There used to be "survivalists"... well in that respect, knowing how to "survive" in a number of situations is good sound knowledge. Knowing how to defend your self, live off the land, how to navigate not get lost... that stuff is cool.

A "Doomsday Prepper", preparing for some sort of doomsday scenario... ya OK. Sorry, if some sort of "doomsday" scenario happens... well good luck. Yellowstone will blow again, and most America will be dead. The worst thing that can happen right now is a severe mass coronal ejection from the Sun... that has happened and will happen again. It will knock us back to the stone age. No power for years, no food production, no water. Half the planets population will die in a  couple of months. The other half probably won't make it a year. Good luck preparing for that.

But nuclear holocaust, small pox, global pandemic, end of days type stuff... what ever. Life is for living. When it's over, it's over.

I promise to buy you a beer someday.