Episode 10 is titled "In The Hurt Locker". While other episodes of DP focus on surviving with a family or small group, this episode focuses on banding together with a community of like minded people.
- The 7 Trumpet Preppers have a group in Eastern Tennesse. They believe that Revalations depicts the end of days. An earthquake along the New Madrid fault line is one of the things they're preparing for. The group is very resourceful with each member having a specialization. They have a gasifier that converts wood into a petroleum substitute. They also have a vertical wind turbine to charge batteries.
- Kevin (who we saw in an earlier DP when he moved his family from FL to TN) joins their group.
- SnakeBlocker and his wife were also on this episode. He is Apache and she is a trained opera singer. Their plan is to stay mobile with few possessions and move to higher ground to live off the land. Practical Preppers gave them lower scores due to no food/water storage.
Episode 11 is titled "Preppers Paradise".
- The first segment followed a husband and wife team organic farmers. They also have their own radio show. "If the trucks stop, we only have 3 days worth of available food". They have planted a number of edible plants on their property to AE in case of emergency.
- The Behemoth is a large armor plated truck that one family plans to live in when SHTF. It holds up to 15 people and can run on propane or gas. Extra fuel tanks allow it to travel long distances without refueling. The family also has bug out locations and hidden caches throughout the US.
- In one of the stranger segments, we meet a husband and wife who moves from FL to NC because the wife was receiving telepathic messages from someone named Greta. Greta was instructing them to prepare for a comet hitting earth. She led them to her home-- a place named the Paragon Jewel. She even pre-stocked the house with supplies. What a nice ghost! Their older son is not with the program. All this talk of Greta and the automatic writing kinda freaked me out but I guess as long as you're prepping it doesn't matter why.
Info on the New Madrid fault and the last big earthquake to strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_New_Madrid_earthquake
The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes /nuː ˈmædrɨd/ were an intenseintraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16, 1811. These earthquakes remain the most powerful earthquakes to hit the eastern United States in recorded history.[1]These events, as well as the seismic zone of their occurrence, were named for the Mississippi River town of New Madrid, then part of the Louisiana Territory, now within Missouri.
There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 km2 (6,200 sq mi).
In a report filed in November 2008, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.[19]
The potential for the recurrence of large earthquakes and their impact today on densely populated cities in and around the seismic zone has prompted research devoted to understanding the New Madrid Seismic Zone. By studying evidence of past quakes and closely monitoring ground motion and current earthquake activity, scientists attempt to understand their causes and recurrence intervals.
The lack of apparent land movement along the New Madrid fault system has long puzzled scientists. In 2009 two studies based on eight years of GPS measurements indicated that the faults were moving at no more than 0.2 millimeters (0.0079 in) a year.[20] In contrast, the rate of slippage on the San Andreas Fault averages as much as 37 mm (1.5 in) a year across California.[21]
Thanks for the info Ryan. Now if I only had $1.5 million to purchase it. Where do these people get all this money? I'm not sure "Greta" would like me though. :)
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