Preppers in the USA - Emergency supplies, survival kits and bunkers | DW Documentary
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- Ines Pohl went on a journey into the world of preppers. She visits a Fortitude Ranch secluded deep in a forest. It's a place designed to harbor several families for months at a time. She also visits a company that build shelters in people's yards. The people she visited have a common fear - and share the certainty that the state won't help them when push comes to shove.
It’s a journey into another aspect of America’s soul.
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Been a prepper for a while. It saved me when I lost my job due to cancer. It saved me as more and more health issues came about. It saved me during lockdown during the pandemic. When everyone was freaking over toilet paper - I already had it. I didn't have to buy a single thing. My preps have saved my cat from not having special food he needs to live due to the severe cat food shortage. My preps are now helping me survive the insane inflation we are experiencing. You don't have to go crazy. Put back a few extra things that you use on the regular. Most Americans have less than 3 days of food on hand. That's just plain stupid- especially during these times.
Glad your cat made it
Exactly! Preparedness IS NOT about a total apocryphal nightmare, it's about being ready to protect yourself and family in case of natural disasters, or even mini-disasters like what is going on in Kentucky, or like you say, unexpected illness or situations where the disaster is almost entirely personal, and affects no one else. Being prepared has it's roots in the Boy Scouts, whose motto is, "Be Prepared". Not in a bunch of wild eyed maniacs, who think they will restart humanity after a worldwide pandemic, war, or alien invasion. Preparedness is common sense, and being unprepared is just being naive.
SHTF can be personal or regional, not necessarily the collapse of civilization!
@@shuumai Oh wait a week!
Just a comment on the Toilet Paper Stockpile; do you remember when your parent wiped your bum with a damp cloth and dried it ? It still works if you do it to yourself as an adult ! No need for toilet paper ! Amazing !
Been a Prepper since I was 16 in the 70's and then came the Army for a few years. Now I'm 63 and well prepared, helping my friends and teaching others! No man is an island friends. Community is so important!
Can you help me get started?
@@bronsynsaena641 Well Bronsyn, first thing to do is start learning a lot of things. You don't need a lot of money to start, but you have to be willing to learn fast. Join the local Army reserve for starters, or take basic mechanical courses or even how to courses! Put aside a bit of food and water every pay or whenever you can continuously, and don't forget a means of preparing that food. Most important, keep your plans and preparations to yourself unless you are several people learning together about prepping. And very important, watch good level headed Prepping channels like City Prepping, Sensible Prepper, Alaska Prepper, etc. Don't go for the " Scare the heck out of you", sensationalist prepping channels! Hope this advice helps a bit! Good luck with your prepping!
@@trekker8033 Thank you for your time🙏🏽💯 I’ll be getting into that as soon as I can. Appreciate your time and advice🙏🏽
@@bronsynsaena641 Thank you back Bronsyn. I neglected to mention how important it is to have First Aid skills and kits ready to go. My bad! I am currently still certified in Red Cross Level C with CPR/AED. That life you save may someday save you.
@@trekker8033 thank you so much for your time and advice, taking note of everything and we’ll get into as soon as I can. Thank you🙏🏽
Poor characterization. Being prepared for emergencies is not a bad thing. I live in Florida where we frequently get destructive hurricanes. Preparedness is a way of life for me.
I couldn't agree more.
You do understand that DW is leftist and does not want us prepared, therefore ridicule these, right?
100 percent agree with you. Lets see how people like that fare in the chaos.
@@1-501Infantry hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahaahhahaha
Good thing am in central Europe
@@sovietunion3964 I wouldn't be too proud or excited about being located in Central Europe. That's just depressing.
People that live through hard times learn to be prepared. Try going a month or two after a hurricane without power and most things most take for granted not available like clean water, electricity, working toilets. It just makes perfect sense to have generators, solar power stations, portable 12v freezers, water, fuel, propane, and canned food to get us through a month. If that makes us preppers, so be it. I call it simply wise preparation for hard times that come from mother nature every year. If it helps us a little in a failing economy, even better.
An important consideration is a security plan. Having the materials to survive is great, but you have to make sure someone else can't take the stuff you have. If you have power, some kind of sensor grid is good or cameras with IR is good, but you also need to have people to maintain security.
@@sbrazenor2 yeah, honestly that's where it would fall apart if things got really bad. Because not only would you have to look for external threats, but also those who are supposedly your friends.
I’ve been a “prepper” for many years, keeping a month or two of food and supplies has always been who I am. I wouldn’t call it fear. For thousands of years humans have stored food for hard times and all of a sudden things are good for 100 years and we’re the weird ones or scared ones? It’s only human nature to eventually go to war, especially when resources get scarce. And look at what’s happening right now. Energy and food along with every other resource are getting scarce what better reason for governments to go to war? I’m not scared, scared will be those running to stores at the last minute but by the time the news lets you know it’s already too late. So why not start early so it’s cheaper and better planned?
I agree, in fact when I will have a family I want to implement this strategy. Having years of supplies is crazy and useless, but having a few months of them is wise
I agree went myself in 92-3 to Bosnia as a UN peacekeeper and seen with my own eyes what people do to themselves when everything collapses. The further away from other people the better. Don't rely on others rely on each other. Buy now when prices still doable. Caned, freeze-dried, dehydrated food stored in dry conditions is the way to go when you want +25 years and have hardly any stress about keeping up with the expiry dates and the continuous need to restock and refresh your food supplies.
People don't realize we prepped so we have nothing to "fear".... Stay safe folks.
Fear is what made us force an untested nonvaccine on ourselves. Seeing were headed down a bad path and acting accordingly is logic not fear.
@@AlbertoGirardi747 it would be nice to at least have abt 2 years worth in my opinion of dried goods like rice beans. a few months in most bad situations wont cut it
I have always kept lots of food and provisions on hand at home. When I was young I was raised in not ideal circumstances and I went hungry a lot. Lived in a camp for four years with no power or running water and usually not enough firewood. This was before I was 10. My childhood motivates me to prepare for the worst and to be resourceful. Seeing the world as it is today makes me glad I grew up hard when I was little.
Me too.
I love you y’all talk down about American preppers yet laud the actions of European preppers.
I hear it's gonna be a Long Cold, Dark Winter in Europe due to the War in Ukraine.
Qui Qui Misour, La Governmenta Will Keep Us Peaseants safe, sì?
Its the guns that make the media hate the American preppers lets be honest lol
From EU and finding all prepping interesting. Americans on average are probably more used to the idea of self-sustaining; in many European communities however the thought itself can be an insult to the trust in society that one should have to take care of everyone. Not everyone…
Typical leftist behavior
My family and I aren’t really preppers, but we’ve always had canned goods and medical supplies stocked. Ever since the 2020 Pandemic, we’ve doubled our supplies, including toilet paper and hygiene items. I work in a Kroger, so I’ve seen the chaos of the pandemic first hand.
I love Kroger
Medical supplies are very important, I recently bought surgical tools in case me or a family member has glass shards or shrapnel in their bodies and no one would get to me to help. Make sure to also have a suture holder and sutures, and learn to use these. Actually I recently read that most civilian deaths in Ukraine occurred to bleeding out (blood loss), since Russia loves it's artillery rounds
Yes natural disaster are common.
LMAO NOT EVEN GOING TO SAY ANYTHING LMAO
Try graved salmon and make your own prosciutto. Preserving food can be fun - no reason to eat plastic food.
Self-reliance is a necessity to survive in this world.
True
It never hurts to be prepared.
There's a clear opportunity cost to these expensive, high-effort projects though. All the time and money invested in them could have been spent on anything else - if nothing happens, then the opportunity cost seems pretty brutal to me.
@@Schoritzobandit True. With what is happening with the world lately still never hurts to be prepared. It doesn't have to be as extreme as what these guys are doing. It is easier to do if you have money or disposable income.
Unless you work at Kroger!
Best prep plan is connecting with community and having essential back-up of medicines, emergency kit, food and water for 7-10 days.
When it’s time to go - it’s time to go - somewhere magical:)
People will not tolerate greed.
Get ready to stand long line, when the bank runs start here. ATMs empty, and cash at the store etc.
Just move.
Please have emergency cash to pay bills for as many months that your money is locked in the closed banks and ATMs. Stores will want cash. an cash will be devalued.
I am 79, but moved to Querétaro,Mexico in 2021, because USA is too deadly and expensive.
I moved to Mexico at 79, because USA is too expensive and deadly.
My grandpa built a home bunker in Cambodia. My dad told me they were fortunate since they had the means to set it up. During the Vietnam war there were a lot of ‘collateral’ damage with bombs being dropped by the US military. My dad told me his best friend that lived nearby didn’t survive but his family did. And it was thanks to the bunker on their property. There’s nothing wrong for wanting to make sure you and your family is safe.
I always thought preppers were crazy and never worried about anything since we have a farm with livestock and a large garden plus a small orchard. I'm not so worried about safety or stockpiling weapons, etc., but I as a farmer I can tell you that the state of our food supply is pretty bad. Not enough small farms sprinkled throughout the country, everything is centralized. Everyone with access to a patch of land, even a small backyard, needs to learn to grow something. When I started, I had just that: a patch of backyard and a desire to grow affordable organic food.
We grew over 50% of our needs in vegetable in a few years time. You can do it too.
This day and time with all that is going on in the world, you are not worried about the safety of you and your family? ! That's beyond belief!
This is the best way to prepare for things like a Collapse
The main issue I have with them, is their individualistic approach of prepping.
In a post-apocalyptic setting, community means everything.
It's expecially groups that are going to survive.
Individuals not so much. It's not about beïng Chuck Norris.
@@Skoda130 indeed. Best way to prep is knowing how to do something valuable for a community. That could be very well to provide physical security against foes, but hardly the only one or the most important.
Thank you for this reply :)
Our Federal Emergency Management Agency recommends this among other things. "Being prepared means having your own food, water and other supplies to last for at least 72 hours." When I was a kid, everyone had things like kerosene lamps in case of long power outages and tornadoes. I don't know if most families still prepare like they did in the 70s when I was a kid.
The pandemic was a real eye opener for me. Seeing people fight over something as innocuous as TP scared the hell out of me; just thinking how people would behave if water, food, and electricity was disrupted for any length of time.
I still have a ways to go, but I'm doing what I can to prepare and learn basic survival skills (in spite living on the outskirts of an urban area) and to ensure my family and I have at least 6 months minimum of provisions and supplies at any given time.....there should never be a stigma regarding emergency preparedness.....better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
True
The thing that most if not all preppers oversee is their level of physical strength. It’s nice you have all the gear and food but what good will it do if you can’t move a mile with at least some of it on foot. You have to train your body too not just hoard stuff
That's why they hoard fuel too
Right on.
Correct! Moving by foot is also a form of survival. Therefore, walk or run a mile weekly, train for it before it happens.
Exactly. These preppers will all be fine...as long as they're at home when society collapses. What if you're not?
@@hiroshi138 I would guess, because I have this implemented, that they have have bug out kits in each vehicle. I have two vehicles, a travel trailer, and a camper, each with a substantial kit in them, including extended fuel tanks that never go below 3/4, so that should something happen when I’m at work or out of the area and I can’t return home, I’m good to go for at least a few days to a few weeks.
We have started stocking up on essential items just recently. Maybe not so much for a nuclear attack, but, an extreme pandemic, or natural disaster. I can't afford to buy an empty semi trailer and have it buried, but I can afford to buy a few extra items of long term food each time I grocery shop. What made me think more about this is, people in Sweden, of all places, are taking this serious. Thanks, John
VERY wise of you!
I'm disabled and don't have a lot of money.i buy a few extra cans of food and a gallon of water every time I go to the store.i also just started getting large bags of powered milk.i put Christmas bells on my windows and doors.i have 2 dogs to let me know if someone is snooping around.
These guys see far than most people. After the covid closures, I have copied their ways.
There is a difference between fear and prudence.
Ask yourself if governments have plans for continuity why shouldn't your family?
Exactly
Great point !
Interesting that Sweden is requiring everyone to prep now and practice scenarios.
In light of recent political issues in the US, I think a lot of doomsday preppers don’t look so crazy anymore. But in all fairness, I’m more worried about natural disasters causing me to have to shelter in place. The Texas ice storm really opened my eyes. I live in Missouri and we get bad ice storms but I never thought of what would happen if I was forced to shelter in place more than a day or so. I recently inherited my grandparents house and I’m in the process of renovating it. It’s a brick house built in 1899 that hasn’t been updated since the 1910s. One of my must have updates is now a wood burning fireplace. I want to be able to create my own heat if we lose access to natural gas and electricity. If things get really bad, I’d be able to cook over it as well. And because this house was built before “open concept” was a thing, the rooms are smaller and actually have doors. I have 4 fireplaces in my house and I’m going to get two of them fully functioning again.
Also, get a solar generator. I have a small one I use to run fans, lights, power tools, and charge up smaller appliances while I’m at the house (the power is off right now). Once I get the power on, I’m going to start saving up for a bigger solar generator to run bigger appliances on. I’m also creating a “safe room” in the house. I have a lot of bedrooms, might as well do something cool with at least one of them.
As of right now I wouldn’t call myself a doomsday prepper, but I would like to be prepared for a bad storm system. I would hope my country could keep its crap together and not implode anytime soon. That would be helpful.
I agree on all the above .
self-fulfillment of right wing nut cases
Texas has had a week long power outage and hurricanes that have taken week(s) to recover from.
Tyler, your plans are A+. Especially the wood stoves - they have high efficiency stoves now that give the most heat for your wood supply, and emit far less smoke and particulates. I love mine.
Just got to get that wood stocked up. Not everyone has access to wood or for sale. In Tx..thankgoodness we do.
Here in the Philippines, you need to stocks some of supplies specially in the typhoon seasons. We always secure 3 months worth of food and water. We always do FILO in our water and food. We also need to be prepared in landslide and flashflood prone area. So prepping is a kind of things for us but majority are not doing it. Sadly, not all of us can afford a stockpile of foods due to money reasons.
Yes. Being a prepper is something Filipino would very much welcome.
I was in the philippines for three years during covid. To me the hardest thing about storing extra food is the weather and my electricity was sporadic. But I love the philippines ❤
I have lived thru Several Hurricanes at my age. Electric and services can be down for weeks, prepping is just what you do. No fear needed, just being smart. Take it for granted your GOV can't help you.
Everyone is a prepper in some type of way. Spare tire? Pantry? Fire extinguisher?
Always good being prepared especially in some states, we have hurricanes and flooding issues in Texas, been thru several hurricanes and 2 floods, very important having food supplies & water.
It doesnt help when someone has experienced the fear and wasnt ready. Texas is a great example. Makes me think of an old friend of mine that turned prepper after the freeze. I mean I dont blame her. Its good to be ready
A conservative is only a liberal who got mugged... I bet not too many liberals were singing kumbya during the blackout.
@@keithmoriyama5421 no they were scared to death, waiting for help from their counterparts 😂
Pope Pius II was astonished to discover how militarized a society of Medieval Germany was in 1444, he stated "not only every noble, but even every burgher in the guilds has an armory in his house so as to appear equipped at every alarm". War and preparation for combat permeated much of civic life in ununified Germany. Even small villages where houses were tightly bunched together to fend off attack desired self-sufficiency and continually pursued it with vigor and enthusiasm. Redundancies and coordination were the means and ability to know who your allies were and this is still evident in the German towns on the landscape today. Most homes in Germany are still bunched together in village enclaves and many have forgotten the real reason why.
As half German I can see many modern Germans may not understand this American mindset portrayed here. but remember this is not hyper paranoia, it is ancestral passed down from generation to generation for ensuring natural defense for over 3,000 years.
Germany invented preppers.
Million times this. The culture has warped so much in the last century people do not understand why it was such a big part of our lives. We forget these things at our own peril.
But also the US has more natural disasters than any one country in Europe. We'd be nuts to not prepare for tornadoes hurricanes floods and fires depending on location.
The Germanic Marshal spirit lives on in America.
Me thinks Joseph was but even before him was Noah. Soooo
been a prepper since i was in elementary, we used to live in a a remote island so i had to learn early how to store food, identify herbal plants/edibles. when the covid pandemic hit and the enire country was quarantinned we had enough supplies for 3 years that it didnt feel like a quarantinne at all. its not out of fear to prep, rather a necessity specially since early humans have been doing it in prehistoric times.
Fear is crucial to survival. It’s a motivator. Fear isn’t a dirty word.
I was a bit surprised to find no mention of celebrity billionaires prepping, and building luxurious bunkers on top of it. That's no small thing.
Haha just imagine what Bezos’ bunker looks like. I bet it’s swanky and he probably has dozens of them.
I’m not surprised. There’s a level of bias in these DW “documentaries”
Na, they’ll already be on the moon when the SHTF
It's a harmless activity.
Keeps you off the streets.
Kinda fun like being a boy Scout.
Very handy if SHTF
Thank you for writing such a succinct and clear explanation. The media really loves to portray this as some sort of extremism but it really is just a fun way to feel a bit more secure and have less reliance on the Government.
@@kenelmblakeslee2917 If your not aware DW is owned and operated by the German government as an external propaganda outlet. They aren't even allowed to broadcast in Germany. The U.S has outlets like this as well, radio free Europe and voice of America are the two that mainly broadcast in Europe. We also have the "private" media outlets that spread propaganda globally.
They make a lot of documentaries portraying the U.S in a bad way, I'm not sure why the U.S allows them to broadcast here.
@@kenelmblakeslee2917 DW just came out with another "Prepper" video, but this time it's Swedish women scared of Russia.
Notice the difference in reporting.
“Keeps you off the streets” no offense but what if you just stayed off the streets anyway?
@@magesalmanac6424 What if Black people just didn't commit murder using guns?
Why do you call it fear? Choosing to take measures in case any type emergency is RESPONSIBLE!!!!!
It’s a heard mentality thing. The heard thinks nothing bad can ever happen.
Be honest. there are sensible preppers, and then there’s the full blown whackos.
I used to watch prepper videos on youtube just for entertainment. It's important to have supplies that you can survive on and help others with too.
Meanwhile in Sweden, they teach Children how to survive as curriculum at school. I think this needs to be taught for its importance
Then the rioters also gets trained....
@@mxplayer2134 rioters? Not every disaster will be because of rioters
In sweden if you walk 10 miles outside of the city you will be eaten by bears.
@@zaxarispetixos8728 that's hot
after Katrina and Maria, everyone should be a prepper, not enough credit. people think "civil war" but in reality you should be thinking wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, flash flooding, heat waves / power failures.
Yes.
"Civil war" (1776), like the kind Alex Jones and his ilk like to threaten people with, implies that society has devolved to a point where civilians like us are firing at police officers and federal agents. I'm not sure if most of those "patriots" or anybody else wants that reality...
I agree. We need to get back to the basics of taking care of ourselves. We cannot depend on others and especially not the government.
I live in hurricane country and every summer brings the potential for an apocolyptic event, so we prepare to go without power, sewer, fuel and water. I stock food, water and other necessities including weapons and ammunition because there will be NO POLICE AND NO SECURITY for a significant amount of time.
For those of you who hold preppers in contempt, ask yourself: are things getting better or are they getting worse? Does your government cover your back or does it stick a knife in it? Is your life getting easier or is it getting harder? Is society getting more stable or less stable?
Can you survive?
Why you live in this area in the first place if your house can get flooded and destoryed it is cheaper to move.
In early 2000’s Western Quebec/Eastern Ontario had a massive ice storm that knocked out power over the entire region for weeks. My neighbors were dairy farmers and had to dump milk because delivery was impossible although they could use tractors to power milking equipment. Outskirts of big cities had no power for three weeks and neighbors worked together to mount gas powered generators onto pickups and they went house to house to give a couple hours of electricity. A working food pantry was a must then. Municipalities had no power to operate sanitation equipment or sewage disposal.
Practically, being prepared for the unexpected makes sense. Yet the very reality of so many individual citizens and households devoting so much time, expertise and resources to their own mutual demise is precisely what will bring about the harm they wish to avoid. Instead of pooling time, expertise and resources to build a resilient society, with a shared vision for the future they preempt their common doom by planning to abandon each other in advance. The future is what we make it, it has always been thus. Preppers think they are being realists, but the interviewer is right, and the tragic irony is not lost on her. They are building protection to escape fear, not building safety to have hope.
Keep thinking that way and you will be among the first to go.
@@captdread2013 Don't worry: you, me and almost everyone else are absolutely hopeless and helpless in a Nuclear Holocaust/Volcanic Winter scenario; doesn't matter what you believe about it.
@@maxmordon7295 LMAO of course you go to the most extreme examples and perhaps you think all "preppers" all think and do the same things. Hilarious.
@@captdread2013 He/she or whatever it is, cannot see that the corporate media dictates the narrative simply by projecting these people in a certain way, and/or focusing on the most ridiculous predictable behavior as if that is everone. Even VICE did a better job and allowed some of the interviews to be as they are without lib projections.
That's a nice story. Back during the Depression this scenario was the case but today, nope. Not all preppers are the same, there are different types and if you knew what you were talking about, there are "preppers" who speak out against fear mongering because yes it exists --- just like how it exists on the mainstream TV e.g. Russia Russia Collusion and OMG Jan 6th was worse than 911 lmaooooo
I've been a "prepper" since 2014 and it's about self reliance not fear.
When I get in a vehicle, whether I put on a seatbelt or not, I'm not afraid. When the smoke alarm battery dies I replace it but not out of fear. When I buy a home I get insured but not out of fear.
That gives us a glimpse of how blessed we are right now
This is yet another amazing documentary by DW! I love how Ms. Pohl reports in a way which is respectful to everyone: there is no mockery or judgement of one side of an issue or another, and she's not trying to sensationalize anything by interviewing people who are well at the margins of the issue. With most coverage on the US now, it feels very polarized (and polarizing). Ms. Pohl expertly asks the right questions and tells a compelling story for this group of people without letting it degrade into a political statement.
I love how unprepared Preppers are.
Even if we ignore that Conspiracy-Debunk-TH-camrs are a Thing and one of many, many ways to stabilize Society, we are left with so much more.
Theres not only a Website with the self-explaining Name Skill-Share, which you would think woud be the Main-Sponsor of all Prep-TH-camrs but it isnt even comon-sense to be updated on Famines and Worker-Rights and Big Issues via 'Some More News'. You'd think Preppers would be THE Advocates of Vaccines and Climate-Change-Measures, but nah.
Showing your Children, in Classrooms or outside, Videos of Hbomberguy and UpisNotJump abotu Climate-Change, aint the Preppers Strategy.
@@loturzelrestaurant what are you even saying. Just jibberish? Or was there a point to that? You so realize most people don't want to be a leader. Most people want to be left alone.
@@loturzelrestaurant Brother this may come as a shock to you, but there are folks out there who are preparing *for climate change*!
I watch Some More News and am familiar with Hbomber and the rest. I ask you this, are you familiar at all with SolarPunk? Because that is exactly the sort of vision we need.
Granted yes, a vast amount of channels focused on prepping may neglect essential things like community or do not teach basic skills one might really need, or they may engage in fear-mongering in order to sell a product. Such is the nature of things online.
That said, there are folks out there who are preparing with the kinds of things you say in mind
@@outboardgull5285 None of that comes to me as a shock?
I love SMN?
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I used to think they were all nuts until I saw how Americans behaved at the start of the pandemic. If anything worse than COVID ever comes around we're all in deep doo-doo.
I remember working at a grocery store and seeing a couple fist fights over toilet paper and canned goods. Next week I started buying firearms and whatever supplies I could. Best case scenario for over buying in panic like I did will be I won’t have to use them. Worse case scenario, I’ll have something
Yeah.
If ebola or rabies got around though the human population, major disaster.
@@AlmaVasquezjr The original SARS was 100% fatal. If it ad the ability to spread liek COVID, forget about it.
@@CyanTeamProductions Same, and I'm essentially an anti-gun person, but I realized that first week or two that those people all probably were armed and wouldn't think twice about coming after their fellow Americans for supplies.
@@MattTee1975 Yes that’s true, even those who aren’t armed will also come when they are desperate enough. Our government is both really strong and incredibly fragile.
I only became a prepper in 2013 and I slowly got my entire family involved but we were all pretty much preppers I lived poor as he11 on a farm in Kansas we always had a garden, farm animals, and a very big pantry so transitioning to prepping wasn’t that hard. I encourage every one to prepare even if it’s not for a total collapse we have all been out of the job and it can be stressful. By the way don’t bug out there will be millions of people trying to hunt the same rabbit as you.
Yeah I'm with you on that last lol. Everyone thinks they're gonna go all Bear Grills and live in the woods & off of the land, but they're gonna find it'll be quite crowded out there very quickly. Not to mention, whoever's corner of the woods you end up in, might not take kindly to strangers just posting up & camping out on their property. Best bet is to stay home as long as possible, where you know the area and (hopefully) those around you. Community is key
Been reading some comments, Reality is that some preppers have learned to prep due to personal disasters like myself loss of domicile 2X in 6 months years ago due to natural disasters in Texas. It changes you. You think outside the BOX. You have lists, your checking them. It really simply becomes a way of life. It is better this way. We are closer to the ground, closer to resolve in the light of a tragedy. We sometimes live check to check, but that because we found deals we needed to resolve an item on a list. We have plenty of food and supplies, medical supplies, tents etc. We grow food, we live a very relaxed life knowing if something happens, we will be fed, warm, clean and housed, oh and "SAFE" because we have ALL of the above safe and sound ready to go anytime, anywhere. The govt will not be able to help all of you, you have to help you. The govt is so full of themselves...get off of the grid and live a happy peaceful life why? because you know you can handle just about any event!
What is good way to keep foods in refrig to stay cold as long as poss. I read freeze water bottles a head of time an then put in refrig to help keep cold...
@@MuffinstoMangos So what I do is clean out a 128 oz vegetable or other oil bottles, the tall and thin square types after you wash it out, fill it with 4 to 6 inches of water freeze for a few hours. BUT DONT SET IT STRAIGHT UP OR THE BOTTLE MAY BURST< lay it half sideways or on its side leave lid off too. and then take it out and break ice and add water refreeze. What you are trying to do and it takes a little practice with different bottle plastics is trying to hard freeze the water into a block and not break the bottle from the expansion I usually have to add water after i break the ice a time or two to the bottom about 6 times I am adding 1-2 inches of water till it freezes without breaking bottle. I sit bottle upright at the end about the last 2-3 inches. You dont want to freeze to the top. Always leave an inch or two at the top. then your ready to place these tall thin bottles in a cooler or in the refrig next to your milk etc. I have 3 ready to go now, I will be making a 4th... its Texas and Aug is our busy Hurricane season!
Why do you hate the government so much?
@@brittgayle467 ask them....
@@brittgayle467 why do trust them so much?
The thing is that a certain degree of preparedness is always good to have around, and it really showed the past few years, when there were shortages due to Covid or the Ukraine War. People who suddenly bought an overabundance of supplies usually did so out of greed or out of panic, as they suddenly realized that they wouldn't be able to survive even just a couple days without access to such conveniences like stores and power. Most governments offer suggestions regarding emergency supplies in case of any situation, but most people don't know that handful guides and suggestions exist.
On the other hand, particularly among the more extreme prepper community, there's also a number of individuals who use such groups and mindsets to foster extremist thoughts, which is dangerous - especially if firearms are added to the mix.
Last but not least: Prepping should not just be an accumulation of gear. The most important thing is to train with the gear you have, because a well prepared and skilled individual with a knife can do more than someone with a trunk full of gadgets they can't utilize.
True. I just gave myself a paper cut Opening an envelope. It hurts like hell. Gotta go to the er now. I hope I survive.
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This will take place between November and December 2024. There will be a meeting between the leaders to make war on the one who was seated on the horse, this is Putin and his army and those who are against the NWO. Probably Something very big involving the UN or WHO or the US president or China?... and Bill Gates for the creation of (pand.), the false prophet (Bill Gates) who “foresaw” (pand.) and who has “predictions” for a new (pand.) more severe and that convinced everyone to receive the mark of the beast, the endless mince. Comment made on July 13, 2022.
"Anti" covid measures. Not covid
@@r3dp1ll I don't know about you, but in our facilities, we currently have a lack of staff due to large amounts of positive cases, so no, due to Covid.
@@Rabascan It's because they are told they are not allowed to work on site / can stay home. It's not based on science.
A "positive case" doesn't mean much. Especially when based on an extremely sensitive test.
Even the inventor of the PCR method said it shouldn't be abused.
Replace the word COVID by flu (roughly the same mortality rate for the common flu some years) and ask yourself how it sounds.
When they did a review of preppers in Sweden, DW had a very different tone.
If a full scale nuclear war broke out, think I'd rather enjoy the light show, rather than try and hide from it. A post nuclear world wouldn't be a place I'd wanna live in
Right under it would be good.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter
Shame we don't have similar companies here in the UK offering things like this
I see an opening in the market in the UK for this what with the way things are going. Would be fascinating to see this pitched on Dragon's Den!
@@polly6336 definitely. It can't hurt to be prepared for what might happen and I'm sure alpt of people in the UK feel the same.
This stuff is a great money maker. Fear is a great way to get people to part with their money.
@@polly6336 just start a webshop and a youtube chanel.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 I'm not a prepper, just saying there's an opportunity there for someone.
Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall 😆 waiting for the worms to come. 😆 perfect isolation here behind my wall
A friend had no power for 3 days because of a tornado in Bavaria. (And I went through the same after the Northridge earthquake). No government agency is coming to your aid in such situations and we've all seen what happened to people after hurricane Katrina and in Mississippi now. Anyone in any part of the world can experience power outages and/or lack of safe drinking water etc because of storms, earthquakes, floods, pandemic, war, cyber attack on infrastructure ...Point - FEMA (USA) & BBK (Germany) recommend everyone have a 2 week supply of food, water, candles, emergency radio, first aid kit and more. Personally I say 30 days (so you can hopefully help others). That's just plain prudent IMO, not fear based. Hope for the best but prepare for (fill in your area's issue). Peace y'all.
America! It can be inspiring and beautiful. It can also be dark and ugly. It’s soo many things, but it’s ours. It’s our America.
I agree with the peppers, especially after surviving 911 and Hurricane Sandy. I always spoke about events to my children when they were young. They know how to live on the land and the importance of living off the bare necessities to eat. Even I purchased survival food and I push my friends to do the same thing and those that own homes, I say buy their own generators in case of black outs. Anything can happen at any time. Prepare now so you’re not worrying later.
Hoard what you eat, eat what you hoard. Plus bathroom products, key drinkies. Works well if there are supply chain/inflation issues. If you are suddenly going to live off rations (you've never eaten) and try fishing for food, dream-on. Simply perfect and manage consumables, so you can build up a few weeks supply and rotate. No sudden changes of lifestyle. More time to craft hand-made softpoint rounds. (I did not just say that). In short, be realistic, sensible, and familiar with your options. Wanna bug out in a tent? Live in a tent for 3 days and nights every 6 months. Keep those imagined 'skills' current. Not easy when you normally live in a condo.
I think any realistic prepping must take place away from urban areas where they know how to farm without electricity and store food without electricity. A good example is root cellars.
I feel like it’s a hobby and if people wanna build bunkers and store up food and what not go for it. Now that I have a bigger house and more space I plan to have some stores. But I think people can go a little overboard and I also don’t like living in constant fear that somethings going to happen just takes away from the present. But that’s me. Part of my prepping is having community and a relationship with those around me not isolation.
There are some that have fun doing it and then there are the crazys and the paranoid. Might be a good thing if the crazies lock themselves away.
Edit - I forgot the ones doing it for the money.
Yes it is like a game for these people
I'm totally prepared! I have those waterproof playing cards!
Lol
Given the massive rise of inflation on consumer goods across the world this year, it's great to be a prepper. Having a year's worth of food in stock helps you save a lot of money.
I grew up on a ranch in Arizona, we had two wells, cattle and horses. Closest store about 60 miles away. We have been self sufficient our entire lives. This is just common sense, having a week or two worth of stuff in your house
I enjoy videos like this you should do another one in a couple months
Yes!
I live in a remote tropical place only accessible by boat. During our rainy season, we lose power often, and sometimes for weeks. Being prepared isn't about living in fear, it's about making smart decisions to get through hurricane season with food, water, and a modicum of comfort. I don't have a bunch of ammo or anything like that, but I have enough to feed me and my animals through natural disasters that affect daily living pretty much every year., as well as normal household and hygiene items and medical supplies. It has also been a great hedge against inflation as prices have continued to rise.
Those survival kits reminds me of the thousand of jailed journalists in vietnam now such as Tran Huynh Duy Thuc , Pham Chi Dung , Nguyen Tuong Thuy , Pham Chi Thanh , Can Thi Theu , Le Dinh Luong , Truong Minh Duc , Nguyen Trung Ton , Pham Van Troi , Hoang Duc Binh , Tran Anh Kim , Pham Van Diep and the new green environmentalists Nguy Thi Khanh.
What?
Can you please elaborate a bit?
One of those people listed is probably a relative or something. FYI- No one in the West gives a ....
I'm a prepper myself, mostly only food but if nothing happens I will not lose my investment : I will have long term food...but with the situation right now, it's my salvation for long term freedom
A great example of the paranoia driving this trend.
@@ems7623 If an ice storm takes out the electrical grid for a week, what's wrong with having enough food, water, heat, and medical supplies to survive until the lights come back on?
I've had to go through that situation. I stay prepared for it to happen again.
What the fuck is it with all the hate?
@@ems7623 with food prices rising across the globe, it's becoming reality.
Not sure if it's fear, more preparation just in case. I'm not afraid, just realistic that ppl are losing their minds and anything is possible. I moved out of the city into the country because I don't want to be in a major city if/when something crazy occurs. Also with such an artifical lull in natural activity it's only a matter of time before being prepared for an emergency will come in handy.
When I was a young boy my grandpa used to always keep 3 months of food ready, he grew up in the great depression, fought in WW2 and when asked why so much food he said "You never know what will happen"
Being prepared is really being less fearful. If you are prepared a lot of stuff won't worry you anymore.
I have realized in America fear sells. I moved here 8 years ago and quickly got sucked into the fear and defense mentality. The idea of survival and freedom is what made me now have a bunch of guns and ammo that will probably never be used.You have a few people selling stuff and stocking fear and two parties with greedy politicians tearing us apart. You can spend all you want toprepare for a doomsday that may or may never come but everyday we are dying from violence, obesity, bad diet and unaffordable drug pricesthat affect everyone but we are too blind to realize our neighbors are not the enemies.
Well said..sometimes I think I have "too much guns/ammo" but I guess you just never know..Covid caught everyone off guard and people went insane during the lock downs ..it turned into real -life walking dead scenario 🤣...people fighting Over toilet paper 🧻 SMH🤦♂️
Too many people just take it too far. I'm prepared for a disaster within reason. I have 2 guns. Not 50. I have about 5 days of food stores. Not 5 years. I have a modest fuel efficient vehicle. Not a fleet of gas guzzlers. I have cloths that will keep me warm and comfortable in the elements. Not military uniforms. As an American born and raised here, way too many people here just take a decent idea to the absolute extremes.
$6,000 for just the backpack hmmm.....I'm dead!
When I used to crew on boat deliveries, my uncle always said to carry a “ditch kit” (backpack with swim fins/water/food) in case you have to ditch
On land that's called a get home bag.
It's always good idea to have a few extra weeks of food and supplies
Narrator really said “RA-15”. I can’t 😂
Curious to see this new RA 15 rifle!
Easy, hold it to a mirror.
@@heikechilds2816 A rifle is not a firearm?
the conclusion at the end that the reporter have made is brilliant! 😆
On the backpack: My option based on experience is when you get to a certain age, you should have a travel motel/hotel bag near packed. When you get that phone call that there is a family emergency and there is an older member in the hospital, you don't want to be wasting the mind-space trying to think "what should I pack?".
This same bag could be the seed of the list of "what to throw into the car" if a fire caused you to have to leave your block in less than 15 minutes.
Families should practice fire drills just like schools.
Having a bag in your car and tools is a good idea. You may be able to fix your car when it brakes down, or walk from that spot to help, (not all rural areas have cell service).
For those who think is just a "nonsence fear" good luck in the food lines in 2023.
I'm not a full blown prepper, but I do have extra water, medical supplies, a few weapons, etc. I don't believe society or countries will ever collapse to the point where it's the end of the world, but I do believe in more realistic scenarios like such as a big earthquake, power outage, war.
True some of this stuff is far-fetched lol...having a "few" guns ammo, medicine, food is always a good idea..covid caught everyone off guard lol...especially the toilet paper 🧻 shortage 🤣
What a great tower you've built !
Prepping for a couple of weeks without food/water/power supply is a good idea in many areas of the US, we tend to have nautral disasters like wildfires, hurricanes etc.
Here on the West Coast we're prepped for the big offshore quake that could wipe out roads, rail, etc. as well as water and power supply. It might happen tomorrow, or not for the next 50,000 years.
However trying to live out a nuclear winter in a bunker, or fighting off hungry gangs of marauders from behind a stone wall with an AR 15, sorry mate, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. They'll approach from cover, from many directions (like behind your house), and at night.
Yeah...I was thinking that. You have a couple guys stand out front and distract while you send a few people around the flanks to check for other guards and establish flank positions.
I agree, best scenario is not to be seen at all and be able to hide for a few years and for the food logistics network to stop. In the United States more than 80% alone are going to die of starvation if there is a major breakdown
Thermal night vision works great... Yes, at some point any place is able to be overrun with enough people, and starving people are pretty bold, the best we can do is make others pay a terrible price attempting to steal food ect. 15-20 trained people that know the terrain can put up a pretty heavy defense.
"The only thing we have to fear is: fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt 🇺🇸
Not that the quote is wrong, but FDR was a tyrant that helped guide America into the Great Depression, thus setting up the narrative that the government saved us all and pulled society out of one of the worst periods in our history. Not fearing is simply being rational with what you have and can control, preparing for the obvious financial catastrophe that the world is being guided into is not being fearful, it's doing the obvious thing that will help you and/or your children in the long-run, and not to mention, learn a ton of awesome skills in the process.
@@MrLibertyFighter Maybe you should attend American schools - and learn that the "great" depression began in 1929. FDR took office in 1933 - after a disastrous (Herbert Hoover's) Republican administration.
"Democrats: Cleaning Up Republican Messes - Since 1932".
The Republican response to the Great Depression was starvation. They used Ronald Reagan's healthcare slogan: "Walk it off, buddy...". 💫 🐥 💫
@@Austin8thGenTexan I'm sure your confidence in American schools has much to do with your seeming admiration for FDR, but I have little time for such laughable "history". FDR obviously didn't start the whole debacle, which is not what I claimed, that was a set of debacles that formed a perfect storm, chief of which was the instituting of the federal reserve system beginning a couple of decades earlier...but FDR most certainty was a part of the government's insane (from a normal person's viewpoint, elites like FDR and his puppet masters obviously are not included in this category) set of "solutions", something uninformed and/or ignorant people blame on Hoover. I said he helped guide, because his policies and "leadership" were, without a doubt, the key behind why it became so severe and why the thing lasted as long as it did, which is why government could then come in and claim to save everyone, and say nice phrases about fear. His policies that caused the suffering and misery millions went through were some of the most insane and destructive policies (to average Americans for sure) that have ever been instituted... likely having something to do with his hanging out with his fascist sympathizer advisors.
@@MrLibertyFighter I took a look at your playlist: you obviously are into this full throttle. Public schools are the backbone of our American culture. Religious fanatics can homeschool all they want to, but the majority of people have received good educations and citizenship skills in our public school system. The Democratic party has always pushed forward instead of backwards. Our backwards "Dixiecrats" left for the Republican party back in the '60s and '70s - the racists who hated civil rights and LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Now they (somehow) think it's okay that George Floyd was murdered in the street by our police. Yes - some people have sunk down to that level. Are you willing to give up your Social Security when you get old? Democrats fought for that - Republicans fought against it. The same with civil rights, the GI Bill, and the 5-day work week. I don't even know what the "Republican party"is these days - except a bunch of malcontent loud mouths - and the blonde greedy narcissistic gas bag who leads it. Who wants to go back to 1952? They do. 🤷♂️
I am 65, and don't want to return to those days - even though I am white, a southerner and my great-grandfather fought for the Confederate Army. I refuse to become an angry old white man. 😡
@@MrLibertyFighter Which history book are you reading? Or do you just listen to Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh spew their twisted views and opinions over the radio?
(Oh, wait - big fat Rush is dead) 🥀
FDR's peers accused him of being a "traitor to his class". It's in the newspapers of the time - read it for yourself. Just because it's your opinion doesn't make it true. You obviously have more faith and belief than I do - that these people could organize a "conspiracy depression". It was unregulated banking and crazy stock market rules (or lack thereof) that caused it. Many, many rich people lost their fortunes. Do you regulation always ends in chaos - much like our electric grid here in Texas. Greedy Republicans stormed in and deregulated Texas electric companies. Now they have run them into the ground in order to benefit the stockholders. Why does everything have to be a conspiracy these days? 🤷♂️
It's good to be prepared for whatever happens because while we do have government agencies & programs (that) will take time to help after disasters or instability. We American citizens have to be ready for what happens as much as possible.
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Smart reporter being prepared 👌. 👌
That tower is great way to be spotted from far as hell, giving up your position, which is stationery lol
But other dudes home is beautiful lol he can do whatever he wants as far as his wife is concerned
if there is one thing we learn from history, it is that we DON'T learn from history. Be one of the few that do and prepare.
It's good that you're covering this. I can understand why people are afraid and think it's a good idea for people to get a prepared in a common sense way for things going sideways. I think that the danger with a lot of solo preppers is that they can go to extremes and can get paranoid about everyone and everything when the reality is that none of us can hope to survive a serious event when SHTF alone.
Agreed. If things go south people will still need to band together with their local community. Solo prepping puts you at a disadvantage. Unfortunately whether you live urban or rural people don’t seem to bond with their local community like they did decades ago
@@magesalmanac6424 I think thats in part due to the rise of the internet, and in part due to a profound loss of community spaces. Most people go to school or work and go home, but there should be a better third space, to meet people and form relationships. (The bar is a poor substitute).
American culture is extraordinary individualistic and atomized IMO
I am sure you would be surprised to know most prepers/those prepared aren't solo. I feel like that's just what gets pushed as it makes the idea of being prepared loom crazy
@@danieltoft2116 it's great that you know groups of preppers who work together. Sadly, that hasn't been my experience.
Old Scout here. "Be Prepared" has been my credo since age 12, now 68, and ready.
Good report. And he is prepping. A lot of people are. Costco sells survival food online. It's a sign of the times.
After a nuckear strike the air and the ground is irradiated hundreds of years...do you want to spend all your life in a bunker without sunlight? How long will the food last? 1,4,10 years? In the lockdown 2020 we had to stay only some months inside was that fun? Do you want you stay there 10, 20,40 years? Thanks a lot, I do no want to live under this circumstances! There is no future!
Someone should ask Finland why Helsinki has bunkers for 600k people and no-one pointing a finger at them for fearmongering! (And it's far from the only such country.)
Nobody ever said it would be fun new spirit. But its stupid to watch your loved ones or kids starve. When u can make it comfortable for a while at least. Yea nobody would want to be here after nuclear war. But that may not be the case. May be emp. So dont sit there and say oh i dont need to prepare cause youd be the first one begging for food
Don't forget Americans are driven by emotions. In all aspects of life, fear is a good seller.
*Humans
Well the New York PSA about what to do if a nuclear bomb hits doesn’t help anyone feel safe
Riiiight, and the rest of the world is entirely logic-driven...
@@louispitagno9422 Obviously.
Don't forget, Europe is fucked.
It would be a very good idea for more people in Central & Western Europe to learn to prep too... given the current volatile economic situation of rising fuel, food, & electricity prices. And the war happening just "outside their yard". More importantly, with the extended dry season, forested & rural areas can easily become a raging fire...
Im not a prepper, but i use to travel walking by my own with only a backpack. That "survival axe" or "advance medical aid kit" turn out to be useles. Its more important to learn how to use things and adapt into every situation instead of rely on cool equipment.
Prepping is just another iteration of Nerd-dom....all with its own toys and gadgets and social media sub-culture.
If you're prepared then you don't need fear
That's a key thing that people who make fun of people that prep miss. Its anxiety reducing when you know your prepared in a world that's looking more and more unstable on so many fronts. You hope to never have to use it BUT knowing you have it just in case reduces stress which is good for the body and mind.
I'm learning to be a homesteader, it's healthier, more secure and in the event of an emergency i have a source of food/water/security. Preppers are more of a militant, stockpile and move sort of crowd. Homesteaders are more of a productive, improve and build sort of crowd. I sit more on the homestead side, but with more guns. I grow food and im learning to preserve it, ive got a rainwater collection system and i just think its better because its cheaper and more sustainable.
#DiabolicDo What will you do with all the dead bodies you've killed.? Who's going to move them ? What if you just injure one or some of them, will you sort out their wounds ? Are you prepared for it all.
The first guy you interviewed has really good credentials. I'm not a member because cannot bug out quick enough to get to its location. Streets can be shut down in 30 minutes in mid size city. So bugging out is not an option.
Things are getting worse, things will get worse, it’s better to be over prepared than not. Worse case scenario for someone who is over prepared is nothing happens. The worse case scenario for someone underprepared can sometimes be beyond imagination
We dont prep for fear
We prep for future
I would prefer to not survive a nuclear apocalypse.
Either be close enough to be dead or be far enough not to be seriously harmed ...
They're not talking about a nuclear scenario. More like in case of emergency
Same here. The blast would be the quickest and most painless way to go because what's left will be hell on earth.
@@mufasaiam7794 At least one of the guys is (practically only) talking about nuclear war.
There are videos on TH-cam from the height of the Cold War, look up "duck and cover": if it weren't so insane it would be hilarious. There's also a great satirical song by Tom Lehrer: "Who's Next?" which captures the nuclear hysteria nicely.
One of the advantages of being old is remembering that most things were there before in one form or other ...
What about a total, complete collapse of the economy? It would help to be armed and self sufficient
Wow, this bunker is like a tiny house 😃
The CDC says to have a go bag and 3 weeks of food, correct? A level of preparation is what our great grandparents did to get through the winter. 3 months of food seems like a good idea
Really?.....maybe for an impending Hurricane or other natural disaster....I think you mean FEMA, dude
@@goobfilmcast4239 your probably right about that F.E.M.A thing.
Most of these bunkers will end up being nothing more than sarcophagi.
also this bunkers that u pay an annual membership looks like a scam to me. If the worst happen, why to share it with ppl that pay u in the past? u will share it with neighbors/locals and family members that u can trust or useful ppl that can contribute to this community like doctors , soldiers , builders farmers etc... just m opinion .
Very true.
I would love a nuclear bunker but more for the fun of being able to have an underground room for parties or an entertainment room / den. It would be cool.
The ones they show here maybe yes but there are really good ones out there with many ways out etc
yup lol.
@@Combat-Mindset Don't tell them, damn. Let them think all bunkers are all scams. Let me tell you this is a matter of resources. Let the lemmings be lemmings. lol
I died last year from Covid. This is my spirit typing a dire warning: There will be a Doritos shortage in 2023. Get to them while you still can. Muuaahh! Muuaahh! 👻
3:00 thanks for the tip, my mother in law is coming over the weekend. now I know how to deal with it
Sitting in my tropical bolt hole here in pacific coast Mexico. I’m growing Manzano tomatoes, aubergine and garlic chives. See how it goes.