American Blackout

[Rmplstlskn]

I chuckled and snorted in laughter all the way through... Loser couple: "I am going to sue the management! They have no plan and we live on the 43rd floor..." LOL!

Sad Prepper guy was so stupid and his family clueless, he had a decent thing going. Couldn't believe he went into his hole in the ground after seeing TWO people enter his property... Boyfriend would have his walking papers once it was clear he was useless rather than a useful, adult male with sheepdog mentality... Maybe by Day 1, I guess, at gunpoint... Adios Amigo! Home is that way...

Sadly, I think that show is not too far from how it would go down... Everyone recording their stupidity for us to find later, prying their useless iPhone from their now dead hands, to see how dumb they really were...

Glad I downloaded it and didn't have to watch commercials...

Rmpl

[Lowdown3]

Actually you do see a lot of the little gas generators for sale at Lowes marked "used" or "returned", they look new, probably bought as "insurance" during a hurricane, used maybe once and then brought back to the store.

Problem is, the cheap butts rarely discount them more than 10%. Not worth the risk in buying one that some dunskie home owner might have done God knows what with for that little of a discount.

Often times you can watch it, see how long it sits there and then make an offer. I've done that before on stuff and it works so as long as the offer isn't ridiculous.

Keep in mind also, Lowes and similar stores often times put together SOME parts on various things like wood splitters, power equipment, wheelbarrows, etc. I've never had ONE item they have done any sort of assembly on that was put together right. Check it over well in store.

[protus]

Buy the Used Generator then the day after the storm sell it back to them at a huge profit... Maybe next time they will keep it...

ive seen this happen once. neighbor gave/sold some ply wood,,plastic to another while making/cleaning out the garage ..2 weeks later ..hurricane hits...guess what kinda conversation the neighbors had.." hey do you still have that wood i gave you...."

[Tackleberry]

Buy the Used Generator then the day after the storm sell it back to them at a huge profit... Maybe next time they will keep it...

ROFL...... I like the way you think!!!

[Not_Yet_Prepped]

This sounds like a great opportunity to stop by their home when they have a garage sale to get a great deal on a generator.....

Buy the Used Generator then the day after the storm sell it back to them at a huge profit... Maybe next time they will keep it...

[Tackleberry]

The same folks who struggle run out buy a generator ....tarps etc....then five months later sell them due to them taking up space.

This sounds like a great opportunity to stop by their home when they have a garage sale to get a great deal on a generator.....

[protus]

My wife said some ladies at her work were talking about the show and decided they aren't prepared for an event like that or even a strom. I say this show is probably doing some good.

True.....

But.
Even down here.hurricane hits...all is crazy. The same folks who struggle run out buy a generator ....tarps etc....then five months later sell them due to them taking up space. If it gets one person out of a hundred to keep prepping its worked....only tine will tell

[bountyhunter69]

this show hopefully,woke up some people who have been asleep

My wife said some ladies at her work were talking about the show and decided they aren't prepared for an event like that or even a strom. I say this show is probably doing some good.

[Tackleberry]

My sister and her husband live in San Franpsycho and do you think they prepare or stock up for the next earthquake?!?! Not a chance! I gave them 2 five gallon buckets of emergency food for Christmas a while back. They thought I was nuts. Oh well! I pray for their sakes that "the big one" doesn't hit but if it does they will have only themselves to blame for not being prepared.

As the old saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink."

[hidden_waldo]

True.

Most people I meet and know think that a credit card and a cell phone will get them out of all issues. Some I have meet think that a 4x4, a gun and one friend in the country will solve any issues.

I make sure I moderate my conversation with these people.

Preparedness is more than a credit card, a working internet connection and a gun.

I think about the catch phrases in life "life is chess not checkers"; but that doesn't even cover it. Hell there is a group of people that don't even know the different between chess and checkers. So how can they relate between thinking one move ahead and multiple moves ahead; everything is, "I want it "NOW".

[Tackleberry]

Its actually called normalcy bias, people think that because it hasn't happened to them it can't/won't happen to them....or even when the flood waters come in through their doors they just go up to the 2nd floor saying to themselves that everything is fine.

I've heard of the term but I still think it is a nice way of saying willfully stupid. After events like 9/11 and hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Sandy people who refuse to acknowledge the need for being prepared stretch the limits of my compassion and understanding.

[EX121]

rvans if it got some out their to re-think the "It can't happen to me', mentality that will be good. Glad it may have given your wife a new look.
I talked about it to several non prepper friends and they said it was though provoking but a bit hikey.

[rvans]

Well, I did watch it and I got my wife to watch the replay directly afterward. Although several of the events seemed staged and the charters were stereotypical; it allowed me to get the wife to focus on the “what if”. So maybe I’m not so nutty to have all that food in the pantry and all that water in the garage afterall. Perhaps to many who frequent this site (and other sites like it) the show was silly and unrealistic, but to the uninformed perhaps it planted a seed. We can only hope that a few more sheep saw the light.

[Jeweltgirl]

Did you all for get about the penthouse couple? A can of Peaches.... WOW.. Or what about the "prepper" going outside alone to defend his fuel? And what about the kid alone when he hears a noise downstairs. Deep down inside I was hoping for a walker to jump out and eat him. Opps wrong show...

Over all lets say my TV remote back button is now wore out, Was hoping for something more.