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I've watched a few episodes of Doomsday Preppers, and I'm appalled at the lengths people go to prepare for a catastrophe. Why are people doing this? Are any of you preppers?
Can you read the threads of the forum? That'll pretty much answer your question of who is, and who isn't.
I've watched a few episodes of Doomsday Preppers, and I'm appalled at the lengths people go to prepare for a catastrophe. Why are people doing this? Are any of you preppers?
I have ~2 months worth of food and water along with the usual stuff that FEMA and the local emergency officials say is good to have on hand. Yes, that's more than likely over kill but it is nice to know if there is an earthquake I'm set and have a little extra to share with my neighbors should they need help. I do not consider myself a survivalist/prepper because those wackos are almost always planning for the end of the world which is what moves them from sane people following sound disaster preparedness guidelines to mentally ill nutjobs who fervently hope and dream of becoming the next Mad Max.
Rational wiki perfectly describes why survivalist/preppers are nuts and why they're not just normal people dealing logically with fact based risk assessments.
What are the chances of an event happening? A widespread blackout is highly unlikely being that power companies have backup infrastructure in an event of a power outage.
You sound like a someone that hasn't sown two weeks without power and seen a mad dash of about 200 cars (yes mad dash, not a organized line) of people at a gas station that led to full on fights.
Fights in grociery stores over the last gallon of water, 2 days before a storm, even though there is a full aisle of soda ready to be bought dumped and refilled with tapwater.
Yes there is insurance, infrastructure and fema will fix it all!
When the rality is fema takes a week to come, insurance companies go under, and its not uncommon to see blue tarps on people's roofs for over a year.
Sure, and not everyone wants to be as prepared as some of the people on the show.
What I don't understand is the level of criticism that they receive.
How are they hurting anybody?
If anything, they are helping society because they won't require public assistance - they are independent,
My theory is that liberal politicians feel threatened when people become self sufficent.
It means that those people don't think that they need the liberals to take care of them from cradle to grave.
If liberal politicians can't do that - then they feel unwanted - and purposeless.
Actually, that is the message that they should receive and process.
The only ones that bother me are the ones who force their family into a lifestyle they don't support, and bankrupt themselves for a situation that, odds are, will never happen.
I think that's the criticism from most folks. But hey, if you're bill gates, and you want a million dollar bug out location with food and water for three years, go for it. But if your joe schmo, might want to live within your means. Life's to short to spend everything on a long shot.
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