US Families Prepare For Modern Day Apocalypse

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US Families Prepare For 'Modern Day Apocalypse'

US Families Prepare For 'Modern Day Apocalypse'

I couldn't grab a link off the video = well defended, but by all means follow the link above and watch the video - Geez if I had the money for that!

Thousands of families are hoarding food and weapons in anticipation of an impending catastrophe, writes Sky's Dominic Waghorn. By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent

From the outside America may seem to be a land of endless optimism and confidence. But could it be in danger of falling apart?

An increasing number of Americans seem to think so, and they're preparing for the end.

They call themselves preppers. Mainstream suburban Americans hoarding supplies and weapons while leading otherwise perfectly normal lives.

It's a national phenomenon and it's supporting a doom boom industry worth many millions.

Braxton Southwick is a typical father-of-six in Salt Lake City, who believes the nice suburban neighbourhood he lives in could soon be swept away by some kind of modern day apocalypse.

Like other preppers, he's afraid of some impending catastrophe but also what that will do to American society.

"I think that is what I'm scared of the most," he told Sky News, "Not the actual events. I've already prepared for that. It's the aftermath, when there are no police, there are no military to protect us, we're going to be protecting ourselves."

The trigger could be a terrorist attack, a monetary collapse, cataclysmic failure in power generation, or a natural disaster. Preppers fear what comes next and have no faith in either their government or human nature.

"Once people use up all their resources, they're going to come after the people that prepared and had more resources. So basically we have to take care of ourselves."

Braxton and his wife Kara have a basement that will see them through Armageddon, literally. Enough dried and canned food to last six months. Enough guns and ammunition to turn their family into a small army.

And they have trained each of their six children, including the youngest aged 15, how to defend themselves with guns to see off the mobs of marauding looters they predict could come after them after their world collapses.

At the other end of America, another family are preparing in exactly the same way. In Virginia, Jay and Holly Blevins hoard food and weapons and run a network of like-minded families.

"We're not talking about folks walking around wearing tin foil on their heads," Jay tells Sky News. "We're not talking about conspiracy theorists.

"I'm talking about professionals: doctors and lawyers and law enforcement and military. Normal, everyday people. They can't necessarily put their finger on it. But there's something about the uncertainty of our times. They know something isn't quite right."

Jay is a celebrity in the strange but increasingly mainstream world of preppers, writing prepper books and touring America, speaking at prepper expos where a bewildering range of survival supplies and techniques are on offer.

Why is it happening? Partly, no doubt, because it allows Americans to indulge in some of their favourite pastimes: consuming, camping and buying lots and lots of guns.

And partly because fear sells, drives up numbers for cable news, and increases sales for everything from dried food to assault rifles.

But it's also arguably a sign of a country coping with economic decline. The end of the American Dream has left people more uncertain about their future, and their country's.

Katy Bryson is in Jay's prepper network. Prepping, she says, puts Americans back in charge of their destiny

"They're not in control of whether they lose their job or not but they are in control of whether they are prepared. So I feel like that's why the industry is just booming right now for preparedness," Katy added.

It is also a fundamentally American phenomenon. In a country built on the radical individualism of its founding fathers, people have an inbuilt mistrust in their government's ability to protect them.

Sociologist Barry Glastner wrote The Culture of Fear. He told Sky News: "Americans are fairly unique as world citizens in that we tend to believe that we control our own destiny as individuals to a much greater extent than we really do."

Ironically, he points out preppers may actually be reacting to their fears in the least effective way. Dangerous weather, terrorist attacks and economic collapses are all best dealt with by higher authorities, he said.

"Where there are real dangers, to take an individualistic approach is usually exactly the wrong thing to do. So the kinds of things that the preppers are preparing to protect themselves from are much better handled on a community-wide basis than they are in your own home."
 

Interesting to read about the 'prepper' thing, but I don't worry too much about it. My ancestors were born, grew up and lived in the Indian Nations, when there was no God west of Ft. Smith and life was very cheap, and they survived that pretty well. (do some research on crime in the Oklahoma Indian Territories and the crime of today pales by comparison.) I reckon just like them I can survive any zombie apocalypse that comes our way.
 

Keep the faith my friend! I AM SURE you will. If it comes to that, most will not. But I do think you have a leg up :)
 

The American Dream is still alive - it's just moved to another country - so don't despair, and get a solar battery charger so you can dig Baby dig when all those nutzos are running around shooting each other.
 

This stuff just cracks me up. A disaster best handled by the gov't? The whole Katrina fiasco comes to mind.

And it really wasn't that long ago that the gov't was recommending that people in the outlying areas build and stock up nuclear fallout shelters. A lot of people had them. And now those that build them are considered wacko's?

Fallout Shelters

Maybe, just maybe, it's our gov't that has gone wacko.
 

This stuff just cracks me up. A disaster best handled by the gov't? The whole Katrina fiasco comes to mind.

And it really wasn't that long ago that the gov't was recommending that people in the outlying areas build and stock up nuclear fallout shelters. A lot of people had them. And now those that build them are considered wacko's?

Fallout Shelters

Maybe, just maybe, it's our gov't that has gone wacko.

Thanks ,Interesting reading.
 

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