Doomsday Freaks

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I'm watching Doomsday Preppers and a guy preserved a whole pig carcass in his bathtub, and then hung it up outside so he could practice self defense moves on it, because he said it's similar flesh to a human. Where do they find those people? I'm all disturbed now. I don't understand why people would want to continue living life under the circumstances they describe. If I have to live out my days sprinting around and knifing rattlesnakes for dinner, hiding from the Russians, and filtering my own urine for water, I'd prefer that I die quickly.

Late night deep thoughts by papiercherri. I should go to bed.

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I agree. My neighbor who I otherwise adore has lately started stockpiling for her family of seven because the Muslims are going to take over America and kill us all. Dude, 1) Stop being so ignorant about religions other than yours and 2) If something were to happen I'd rather it be over with. Living all Walking Dead style does not appeal to me.

When Mom was in town neighbor asked Mom if she stockpiles. Mom told her, "Um, well, where I live we all live off the land and store food, but it's just the old fashioned way of doing things. Having wood heat, a well, and a freezer full of food and a root cellar full of canned goods is how people lived in the old days and it's just still done."

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I agree that I would rather die then live in a world where survival was a constant battle. I'm happy that H feels the same way. Though he jokingly talk about being prepared for the zombie apocolypse.

[knitty]

How do you keep a 60 day food supply? I figured out how much you'd need for three months* and it was crazy - far more than you could rotate through in a year, so you'd be throwing out stuff.

*I actually figured out two weeks worth for winter storm preparedness and then multiplied it out of interest.

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Nov 14, 2012 6:24:28 GMT -5 carrotsmakemefat said:

We have bug out bags with a 60 day food supply. That is for any emergency, not necessarily a doomsday situation. It is always good to have medicine, water, food, and basics just in case. It also allows me to avoid grocery stores right before a hurricane or snowstorm that said, we did get more batteries right before Sandy.

Oh, I'm all about preparedness. We had a wind storm back in 08 and then an ice storm in 09. We lived in the middle of nowhere and all the nearest towns were out of power- so no access to any stores. We had low gas in our gas tanks, literally no food in the house, no water since we had a well, a few tea light candles, and no oil for my one oil lamp . When we were able to make it to a store most of the stuff we needed was cleaned out. We are prepared now, although I'm not sure we could stretch our food and water for 60 days, but we have enough for at least a few weeks and also basic supplies.

We haven't dug an fox holes or installed any bunkers yet though, and we're also not stockpiling guns or ammo. lol

[lindyanne]

I haven't seen a lot of those but I watched that episode. I was even more scared by his "tool". And then the other guy that blew his thumb off teaching his youngish kids to shoot and was right back out there doing it again.

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knitty- there was a website called Wise Company or something that they kept advertising last night. They sell the dried food packets where you just add water. I'm also pretty sure that most places that offer camping and hiking supplies also sell the same type of things. I know Cabela's and Camping World sold them, not sure if they still do. They are small packages that last for a while.

[ejpint]

Zombie apocalypse? Kill me now. But something more realistic, like war, natural disaster, etc., that somehow severely impacts our ability to carry on with life as we know it, I'd want try to survive. That said, we aren't prepared for anything. No way in hell, though, are we going to be practicing self defense on a pig carcass. WTF.

[GailGoldie]

Nov 14, 2012 6:24:28 GMT -5 carrotsmakemefat said:

We have bug out bags with a 60 day food supply. That is for any emergency, not necessarily a doomsday situation. It is always good to have medicine, water, food, and basics just in case. It also allows me to avoid grocery stores right before a hurricane or snowstorm that said, we did get more batteries right before Sandy.

Anything to an extreme is going to be judged harshly. If the zombies attack and I live in a world like Walking Dead, I am fine with going to the other side to be in peace


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this is how we feel. DH has been "prepping" on a minimal level, more for things like what we just went through -the hurricane, no power for days, etc.

his prepping saved us with the storm- we had enough gas to get us through (when you couldn't find it at all around here) to keep our generator going long enough for our fridge to stay cold, and to use a small space heater.

We have since purchased a kerosene heater instead - and a few more things we wished we had after the storm. Nothing crazy- and not for a doomsday situation per say- but for situations like what JUST happened - and for us, wasn't even that bad. People in Staten Island are living in a state of doomsday - it's freakin' scary what is going on in some areas since Sandy - the media doesn't report much on it b/c it's "old news"... similar things happened after Katrina... All it takes is a huge storm to cause this kind of madness - just imagine if we have any kind of situation that the doomsday prepper freaks are talking about- even just a little of what they talk about on those shows can = horrible situations... yet, not something you'd all want to die over - trust me - after feeling the fear of not being able to get gas alone for a week... I am happy my husband has been preparing a bit. It certainly helped us already.