Just caught up on all episodes of Doomsday Preppers season 2 to date (episodes 1 thru 5). For those of you not familiar with the show, it airs on the National Geographic channel on Tuesdays at 9 PM ET. Each episode includes 3 separate stories about a prepper and his or her prepping plans. This season preppers are evaluated on 5 factors including: food, water, shelter, security and “x-factor” and estimated amount of initial survival time.
What I've learned:
- In the event of a divorce, it's good to have a prenup that lists who gets what supplies.
- Hyper redundancy is my new catch phrase.
- In a pinch you can drink rattlesnake blood.
- Preppers with medical issues need to take special care in planning (such as keeping insulin cold and stock piling medications).
- What good is having a bug out shelter if you can't get to it?
- Remember the "rule of 3s". You can survive-- 3 minutes without breathing (drowning, asphyxiation), 3 hours without shelter in an extreme environment (exposure), 3 days without water (dehydration), 3 weeks without food (starvation)
- How to make pepper spray-- chili pepper and lime juice delivered via super soakers.
- If you don't have money for prepping, start an adult website (not!) and raise lizards (maybe).
- It might be a good idea to let your mail order bride know ahead of time that you plan to live in a RV in the woods instead of an actual house.
- Do not fire your AR-15 in a blind and cause your buddy to temporarily lose his hearing.
- How much money does John for episode 5 have and does he live in that big house all alone? I want to go prep with him. PS When he bugged out he didn't take his other dog.
- I'm not sure about flying a plane after a volcano erupts but its a great skill to have.
Wikipedia:
Episode 1 "You Can't Let Evil Win"
Johnny O is prepping for terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants.[9] This episode was aired as a special preview of Season 2.
Highlights: Nuclear reactor attacks - Emergency evacuations - Bug-out Episode 2 "Am I Nuts Or Are You?"
Jason Beacham is a 15-year-old boy who has been prepping for economic collapse since age 11; Big Al is a Tennessee musician who is prepping for a Russian nuclear attack with a secret mountainous bug-out location; former racer Braxton Southwick of Salt Lake City is prepping for a biological terrorist attack.[11]
Highlights: Economic collapse - BioterrorismEpisode 3 "Bad Times All The Time"
Jay Blevins is a former law enforcement officer who is prepping for social unrest following a global economic collapse.[12]
Highlights: Social unrest - Economic crisis - Self-defense - Homemade Pepper spray Episode 4 "The Time Of Reckoning"
Tom Perez has spent over 12 years prepping for widespread chaos following dirty bomb wielding terrorist attacks.[14]
Highlights: Dirty bomb - Terrorist attacks Episode 5 "Taking From The Haves"
Jeff Bushaw plans to fly his family to safety following the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano; Allen and Franco have built sustainable food production systems in preparation for worldwide food shortages; John Adrain has invented numerous security gadgets to turn his estate into a technological fortress safe from a wide range of disasters.
Highlights: Yellowstone Supervolcano - Global food crisis - Home automation - Aquaponics 
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