Nat Geo Prepper Show on tonight (Tuesday)

There must be a prepper gene. Saw a show today, must have been a rerun but I barely remember watching it when it ran first. It was the one with Peter Lawson and his 50 ft tube bunker.

Anyone see it last week? Another Fluby, this one in heels. She was selling a water purification bucket using a dialysis type filter. Overall it was a good show. The first guy was from Texas and worried about China. There was also a couple on the verge of a financial and nervous breakdown from prepping and worrying.  Also a couple burying junk silver everywhere on their property.

I'm glad he reminded me about the fish antibiotics... I checked my expiration dates and they were WELL expired...AGAIN!

I can relate to him as well. My husband thinks all the efforts I put into this are just a waste of time and money, and he just tolerates my "hobby". However, with the threat of solar flares now threatening to knock out power he's a little more tolerant than usual.   We watched the Doomsday Preppers show together the other day, and he thinks most of them should be locked up in an institution (on the other hand it makes me look quite sane in comparison). Anyone else have a spouse that thinks you're going overboard?

I never knew school buses were so strong. I was shocked by that part of the show.

Anybody watching the prepper show? I thought the Dr./Psychiatrist prepping for bird flu was interesting. He wasn't presented as a nutjob or anything, although his family really wasn't on board with him, he was prepping anyway. Been prepping for 10 years for bird flu I think it said, he got interested in it when he studied infectious diseases.

Anybody watch last night? Notice how many doomsday preppers are worried about economic collapse? The guy with the teenage army was interesting. He was right about defending the house from the outside.        The coulple from Canada should not be involving the kid so much. That kind of thing can affect a child.

I am going to put seeds away but ones that I can really use. My question is has this guy ever farmed? I am going to increase my growing area this year with some new containers to grow more vegies.

I really want to make a potato cage but don't know where I want one so that is for next year...if we are still here ...LOL!

Just yesterday, someone at work was talking about the Nat Geo show and poking fun at the people featured. I just smiled, rolled my eyes as if I agreed they must be nuts, and walked away because there's nothing to be gained by advertising the fact you're prepping to someone who probably will never get it

HA... Same here jacksdad! Co-worker asked me if i seen the doomsday preppers..He said that they were all nuts...I had to bite my tongue!

FluMom wrote: My problem with this show is each prepper is concerned about one specific thing like EMP, Economic collapse, Yellowstone going volcano, etc... Most of us are concerned about H5N1 but I am prepping for any and everything I can.

I think that whatever starts you prepping probably does define you to some extent, but if you then fixate on that one perceived threat it definitely limits what you're prepared for. It's almost like taking off the blinkers that most people wear just a little, but not all the way. That said, from reading everybody's posts over the months and years I'd guess most of us on AFT have tweaked our preps to some degree to cover more than just one emergency. Maybe I'm getting paranoid in my old age, but I see a lot more threats to our way of life that I did before I began to prep for a pandemic, but I guess pulling your head out of the sand makes it easier to see what might be on the horizon. Just got to get your head above ground first

FluMom wrote: ,,,showing people who have such specific fears we all look a little nuts.

I guess it goes with the territory - we think outside the box so it's inevitable that we're going to be labeled as nuts. By choosing not to be one of the sheeple living in a cozy little dream world where nothing bad could ever happen makes us card carrying members of a pretty exclusive club, and minorities like preppers scare people because of what we dare to believe. Start talking about really catastrophic things happening and you'll inevitably be labeled as one of those crazy doomsday people. Just yesterday, someone at work was talking about the Nat Geo show and poking fun at the people featured. I just smiled, rolled my eyes as if I agreed they must be nuts, and walked away because there's nothing to be gained by advertising the fact you're prepping to someone who probably will never get it

Who looks nuts, hehehe. There was one lady prepping for the flu. I think it's interesting to see what others are doing/how they are preparing even if it is something different. How self-sustaining they really are food wise, as far as growing their own and supplies on hand, self-protection. Even if they are a little out there we might get some good ideas or there might be something we haven't thought of that comes to our attention.