I found a new Reality TV show tonight called Dooms Day Preppers

I came across this show tonight by accidentally sitting my fat pregnant butt on the Direct TV remote.  The Show is on the National Geographic Channel and the premise of the show is to showcase the lives of ordinary Americans who are prepping for the end of the world as we know it.  They are preparing for things like nuclear devastation, US financial collapse, over population, food or oil shortages.  I've never ever heard of this show and I watch the National Geographic Channel pretty regularly so I was intrigued when I saw it.  It comes on Tuesday nights at 9 pm so tonight's episode was a repeat.


Watching this show I was floored by the dooms day preparation going on.  I mean these people aren't playing around, they mean business when it comes to preparing for the end of the world.  The prepper's are creating self-sustaining compounds that will keep their families afloat (for some) up to 10-15 years.  They're housing warehouse supplies of dry food, water, can goods, paper products like toilet paper, guns and ammunition, making homemade soaps and toothpaste, teaching their children tactical weaponry skills to defend themselves just-in-case the compound/shelter is breached.

Others are creating self-sustaining farms where they are growing their own dairy, meat and vegetables.  They don't use anything from the outside world like electricity, food or even fertilizer and they live like this everyday.  This particular self-sustaining suburbia has linked with another doomsday prepper who is an engineer and he created a vehicle that runs on burning wood. WOW! His purpose for this is that if the world is collapsing around us the fuel supply is going to dry up.  Those of us (the regular folks) are going to be up craps creek because of our dependency on natural fuel supplies that are going to be too expensive to purchase in the collapse or are simply going to run out.

In tonight's episode they had a guy who created this weapon called the Croval.  His purpose for creating the weapon is that sooner or later no matter what you do as a prepper or non-prepper your going to run out of bullets for your gun so you need to have a weapon that you can use to protect yourself and your doomsday bunker/suburbia/compound.  This thing is straight BADASS! It takes 13 different tools and turns it into just one.  Think of it as a cross between a shovel, Rambo knife, hammer, bayonet, saw, machete, pick ax, crowbar, etc.. and it only weighs 5 pounds.  It will literally will cut through almost anything.  The prepper who created it in this episode tested out his new weapon on a pig because from what he says a pig's flesh is the closest thing we have to human flesh.


The whole show was really interesting so I think I'm going to start checking it out (when I can) but here is a quick clip of the Croval weapon. I wasn't able to find the clip on Youtube so I'm going to post a link to National Geographic's short clip of the Croval here.  In order to view it just cut and paste the link into your address bar.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/national-geographic-channel/shows/doomsday-preppers/ngc-the-croval/

Looking at the show definitely makes me start thinking about preparing for the worst (maybe not on that level but at least something).  What do you think, should we (regular folk) start making some kind of preparation for a doomsday?  Let me know what you think.