DoomsDay Preppers, Should We be Afraid?
I grew up in rural America where we are fairly self-sufficient and most people have a "can do" attitude and they are not too worried about anything that they cannot handle.
We are able to fix most machines, create our own tools and survive any hardship.
Certainly not too worried about not being able to find food, water or shelter.
We like to continue to learn better techniques to make living in nature a little better. So when Doomsday Preppers came on last year I thought it would be fun and I thought that I might even learn something.
So I tuned in, and was amused to find absolutely crazy neophytes prancing around the woods, scaring their children, and probably the neighbors, and of course showing the world that they probably would not survive the end of the world, or even a weekend power outage.
I thought the show would end in December 2012 when these disappointed predictors of doom crawled out of their bunkers to find the world still moving along with little doom in sight.
But the show did not end, rather, National Geographic showed its humorous side and started a new spinoff, Doomsday Castle.
These folks are even worse, they wear makeup, or at least the cute helpless girls on the show do, and these folks are even more helpless and possess even less common sense than the previous participants in this experiment.
I do continually wonder how disappointed these people will be if after all this prepping the world does not end or at least experience some level of doom.
Another thing that I wonder is how do people who appear to be this nuts come up with the money to do all of these antics, hoarding tons of food and water, stockpiling weapons, building bunkers, etc.
The one thing is clear though, they are much better armed than real rural people, even my most enthusiastic hunting buddies do not have arsenals like these folks. My son commented tonight that these people should really be on a watch list of some sort with all of these high powered machine guns, bombs and other weapons.
People often ask us if we carry a gun in the woods to protect us from bears, wolves and mountain lions. Our reply is no, you cannot work efficiently in the woods while carrying a gun and the danger from these animals is greatly exaggerated.
However lately we are starting to worry about running into a real dangerous new type of wildlife; people in cammo with big guns and massive paranoia, known as Doomsday Preppers.
