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Across the country ordinaryamericans from all

walks of life are taking whatever measures necessary

to prepare...

I'm preparing my family for the totai destruction of

the power grid.

The yeiiowstone super voicano.

Afinanciai coiiapse.

And protect themselves.

When survivai's the goai its into the spider hoie.

Fast, fast, fast, fast, go, go, go, go, go.

From what they perceive is the fastapproaching

end of the world as we know it.

So I'm going to use my teeth.

Next we go inside the lives of three committed

preppers,

we got to hurry, hurry.

Who have devised extensive plans.

Lets grab these water tanks.

And food.

Gone to great lengths

Bruce: Which one of you wouid like to be in the radiation suit

I'm going to pass out Bradford.

And made huge personal sacrifices to ensure their

very survival.

In my mind, I think he worid's kind of faiiing apart.

And it's only going to get worse.

Come on iets go.

The experts will assess their extreme preps and

decide if they have what it takes to face armageddon,

aii right iets do this.

And to survive

get out of my way I'm bigger then you.

Bruce: Good night everyone.

This is doomsday preppers

for over half a century,

retired scientist Bruce beach has been certain that the world

will end...

Bruce: This is going to be a universai catastrophe

it's going to be sudden.

I don't think there's going to be a two-minute warning

there's a great possibiiity mankind can destroy itseif.

I think a nuciear war is inevitabie.

In a catastrophe this size 80% of the popuiation wiii die

during the first 2 years.

The things that wiii kiii them are sociai disruption, piagues,

iack of food, iack of heat, exposure.

It's a random sort of thing- who's going to be saved and who isn't.

To save mankind from apocalyptic destruction,

Bruce has taken it upon himself to build a haven for humanity...

A unique place to sit out the end of the world...

Bruce: This is a 10,000 square foot sheiter for a nuciear war

he built this nuclear shelter in 1985,

as an underground orphanage, a place where a new generation

could be saved from nuclear apocalypse.

Bruce: Save the chiidren. That's a basic human characteristic.

They're our hope for the continuation of iife and for

buiiding a new and better worid.

Bruce's protected safe houses is constructed from

building blocks that many kids would consider "familiar"

surroundings"...

42 rec ycled school buses linked together and buried under

18 inches of concrete and 14 feet of earth

Bruce: Schooi buses were buiit to particuiar

government standard.

Avery strong rigid steei over the roofs.

School buses can support 1 and a half times their

weight without incurring damage and costas little as $300

second hand making them a prepper favorite for bug out

vehicles and even safe mobile homes.

Bruce: We can have 500 peopie in here, but we have to

have a number of peopie aiso to watch after the chiidren.

That's our number one mission.

It has been estimated that if a global nuclear war

occurred, up to a billion lives would be at risk in the months

and years following.

Bruce sees this shelter as a safehouse where at least some

could survive.

He named it the successor to Noah's ark, arktwo.

Bruce: Last time the water, next time the fire.

There are 20,000 of these weapons in the worid.

There's never a time in man's history when he's deveioped a

weapon that he hasn't used it.

And it's just things are becoming more and more criticai.

Because dangerous radiation can travel hundreds of

miles from the source of a nuclear detonation,

Bruce is worried thatan attack on American missile bases in

the central U.S.

Could send radioactive fall out rocketing towards Canada.

Bruce: If there were a big nuciear war and a iot of bombing

out there in north and south Dakota,

that faii out goes up in the air and the jet steam grabs it-

you've studied the maps for this,

the predominate piace it faiis out is right here in Southern

Ontario, we're in the hottest spot of the whoie of north

America, for the amount of faii out that anybody gets.

Bruce and his wife Jean have been prepping this

apocalyptic shelter for over 30 years, butas they get older the wider

beach clan regularly pitch in to keep itafloat.

Bruce: My granddaughter and my grandson have done iots of work

on this sheiter.

We buiit the shed and we definiteiy do heip ciean and

remove things from boxes into tupperware containers.

Make sure everything is sanitary.

I heip with some piumbing and eiectricity work.

So peopie can iive down there when it is the right time.

Bruce: Go in there.. Ok there we are.

Bruce is in the process of teaching his

grandkids Evan and shayna the way of the ark,

and today he is going over the admissions process.

Bruce: We have these gates that we ciose.

If we aren't taking anyone in then we have the heavy door.

Okay kids this is the way peopie come into the sheiter.

I'm going to expiain what we do for admission process for

them here.

So you'ii be abie to expiain this to other peopie and heip

with it when the time comes.

If a nuclear blast is reported,

the beach family will head to the arkand start taking in

young refugees.

Bruce: We're going to say to peopie, weii

we have room for your chiidren but we don't have room for you.

That's the nature of iife... This is the iifeboat.

First thing that we do with peopie when we bring them in is

we have to decontaminate them.

If they have any measurabie radiation that means

they have to be stripped get in the shower, washed off.

Even a simple shower can remove many harmful

radioactive materials from the skin,

so experts recommend that you wash yourself and remove

contaminated clothing as soon as you are exposed to radiation.

Bruce: Which one of you wouid like to be in a radiation suit?

I wiii

Bruce you wiii? Okay. You want a radiation suit too?

Sure

once clean, each of the ark's inhabitants will wear

sterilized protective suits.

Too taii for this

Bruce: And addition on the back, we have stenciis to stencii your

name because iooking at anybody from the back you can't tell

who they are.

They aii iook the same uniess we have these names on it.

And Bruce even has a plan for those he cannot take

into the ark...

Bruce: Okay you're doing good work troops keep it up.

Thanks dad!

This weekend shayna and her mom bahiaare cleaning

and putting together "go away kits"...

Packs that will help people live outside of the ark.

Bruce: So we're sending them away with these radiation

detectors because we don't have any more capacity in

the sheiter.

Different ones have different strengths I think.

Because you cannot see,

smell or feel nuclear radiation, detectors like these

"decimeters" are often an essential part of preppers'

survival kits... They willallow people outside the ark to avoid

areas of intense fall out, and treat or isolate people already

affected by radiation.

Bruce: I'm going to trap myseif in here one day and III never be

abie to get out.

Lots of peopie don't understand grandpa at aii.

They think he's pretty eccentric.

Peopie are always asking me questions.

What's the bomb sheiter like?

I'm sure you get asked questions like that too when you taik to

your friends.

In high school it's hard.

Your family is a iittie different than everyone eise's.

You have to know that you're here to heip them and you iove

them no matter what...

This weekend we probabiy cieaned out 30 huge boxes of these

decimeters ready to go.

This is a major part of our iife,

just as much as it is grandpa's.

It's his dream and his goai so one day it wiii be our dream and

our goai to finish what he has started.

Bruce: Ya'ii stiii stand up here for a minute.

Beyond his family, Bruce wants his local community

to know that they have somewhere safe to go during a nuclear war

so today, he is showing local school kids around the ark...

Bruce: Okay come on down guys. This is like an

underground submarine.

We're trying to get younger peopie invoived and more peopie

that you have in your community the more resources that you have

this way.

Once inside the shelter, the 500 young refugees

will sleep in one of the 5 school buses dedicated to

bunk-beds.

Bruce: This bunk room is for 96 chiidren and we put two smaii

chiidren under the age of 5 foot to foot on each of the bunks,

to sieep the chiidren 12 hours a day, two shifts of 48.

Bruce's rotating sleep s ystem is similar to that used

on real subnarines, and allows him to house not just 250,

but 500 people in the ark.

Bruce: Aii the bunkrooms are very much like this.

Bruce expects that his refugees will have to stay

inside the ark for weeks, maybe months to avoid the worst of the

radiation outside, and while theyare underground Bruce will

have to feed hundreds of hungry mouths, so he has spent 30 years

stockpiling literally tons of food.

Bruce: And you shouid take a peek down our pot.

Our cook says with this pot, and his oven in the next one he can

give a roii and a biscuit to 3000 peopie and a soup to

3000 peopie a day.

I didn't think it wouid be this big.

It's like extensive it's huge.

It's pretty mind biowing, to think that it can fit so many

peopie, underground and that's just unreai.

Bruce: Aii right come in this way-ya'ii want to be in here.

One of the hazards of living underground for

an extended period is making sure that you have enough air

to breathe.

At full capacityand without proper air circulation,

Bruce's 10,000-foot shelter would run out of oxygen in

approximately half a day.

Bruce: Ok, one of the important things about the probiems in the

sheiter, one of the things we have to be concerned about is

being abie to move air anywhere we want to.

So Bruce has devised a rather unusualand

cost effective air-circulation s ystem...

Bruce: And this is one of the systems that we use.

I thought it was going to go down the haiiway.

I couid have redirected it.

This strong line of garbage bags can distribute

300 cubic feet of air from the outside vents to different

locations in the shelter...

Bruce: My wife spent hours and hours taping

do you ever get tired of waiting for the worid to end?

Bruce: Many peopie say iook at that crazy oid man,

how he's wasted his iife out there always worrying about

the worid's going to end when instead he couid be out piaying

goif, you know, getting that iittie white baii out there in

the hoie and this wouidn't have been meaningfui to me.

So we are going to open this steei door here.

This is the back door to the sheiter.

Many peopie think that I'm obsessive.

I guess it depends on what one is obsessed with,

they are obsessed with dedicating their iife to

humanity and weii maybe that's a good obsession.

Bruce's shelter was builtas a second Noah's ark

a unique haven from a nuclear apocalypse...

But it has never officially been named...

Until now...

I think it's awesome.

In rural Ontario, Canada, a 10,000 square foot

underground shelter named "ark two" sits ready

to save hundreds of children from nuclear armageddon.

Bruce: Ark two is purpose is to heip those who survive to

rebuiid society.

We are not about survivai. We are about reconstruction.

Bruce beach and his wife Jean have dedicated over 30

years to the maintenance of this unique space,

constructed from 42 rec ycled and buried school buses.

Bruce: Jean really did heip me a iot about the sheiter.

She has made a iot of sacrifices.

She has never bought any new ciothes in

I don't know how many years.

We don't take vacations this is our iifestyie.

Its been very different from most peopie...

Over the years Bruce has created a network of ark 2

preppers based all around the United States.

Bruce: I may not iive through to see it, but

I've certainiy spread this idea to thousands and thousands

of peopie aiready.

His latest collaborative project is an off

grid communication s ystem that can be used as the ark's

lifeline to the outside world during a nuclear war.

Tonight he is meeting with Greg Franklin and Lisa maggiore to go

over the details.

Bruce: Locai communication are going to be a very,

very important factor in the recovery process for security.

To know what is happening around.

To know where it is safe to go.

The secondary effect of a nuclear detonation is an

e.M.P-awave of electromagnetic energ y powerful enough to bring

down the grid.

Every method of communication we have,

ceii phones, or teiephones, or Internet aii reiy on extensive

infrastructure, which wiii aimost certainiy be destroyed in

our scenario.

So theyare building a ham radio s ystem,

widely used by preppers because it relies on only naturally

existing radio waves to transmit messages,

and can work independently from the electirical grid...

This wiii be run battery powered.

Those wiii be charged by soiar power.

Lisa is communicating with Toronto right now about

50 miies distance.

We are bouncing the signai off the ionosphere about

400km above us.

And that signai is returning directiy down even iocai poiice

services don't have that capabiiity.

Bruce and Greg plan to distribute these radios to key

members of the local community, so in the event of a nuclear war

they can keep in touch with the outside world about supplies,

radiation levels, and security.

Communication is going to be key to survivai.

Hopefuiiy we'ii abie to start distributing these units

in the very near future and certainiy, hopefuiiy,

before the missiies fiy.

The name "ark two" was coined decades ago,

but the exterior of the shelter gives away no clues as to what

is inside.

Now, that is about to change...

Bruce and his wife Jean have gathered the beach family

together to mark the occasion.

Afew weeks ago he caiied me up and just said.

I know you're a carver and wouid you be abie to give me

something rustic.

I remembered that there was a man who had buried 42 buses and

then aii the sudden it aii came together.

It was worth just doing the sign just so I couid taik to him.

Bruce: The ark is about our service to humanity.

And whether or not I pass the ark on to the grandchiidren is

irreievant.

What is important that I pass on to my grandchiidren is a

dedication of service to humanity and

so that's what my iife is about.

What my iegacy wiii be, I have no idea.

I may be entireiy wrong, written off, forgotten.

The worid may never know about me ten,

twenty years from now you know.

So the first ark was for what?

For water.

This one's for fire. There you go.

We always see ourseives coming back here.

Finishing up what grandpa started and improving it.

His project is very inspirationai just tell us

how far a man can go to foiiow his dream. I think its awesome.

Really speciai

fits perfectiy right in there.

A globalarsenal of nearly 20,000 weapons,

makes the possibility of a nuclear incidenta real tangible

threat.

However the united states and Russia,

are moving towards a polic y of nuclear disarmamentaimed at

reducing the likelihood of global nuclear war.

New father Jeremy fears his year-old son will face a future

filled with hardship due to the depletion of oil reserves.

Can they outrun the desperate hoard in their retired

army truck?

Jeremy lives outside salt lake city,

Utah with his wife Kelly and their son Xander.

He is the owner of a digital media company.

Lets roii it, I'm kind of a new dad,

I've got a one year oid and he is so much fun.

I iove being a father.

But jeremyand Kelly aren't thinking of college when

they plan for Xander's future.

I'm preparing for the coiiapse of society due

to peak oii.

We got to hurry, hurry.

The term peak oil refers to the eventual decline

in the supply of oil reserves.

If oil becomes harder to get, the price will increase past

the point when people can afford to buy it.

The U.S. alone consumes 20 million barrels of oil every day

and global demand is projected to grow bya quarter by 2030.

I think drastic changes couid happen iiteraiiy in a

matter of a coupie of years from now.

Aii it takes is for the demand for oii to out strip the suppiy

and where we have been on the razors edge of that for a

really iong time.

My worst cast scenario is that oii exporting countries stop

exporting and gas pumps start running dry around America.

And that just has a cascading effect across our entire

society.

Peopie won't be abie to go to work,

and if you can't go to work, the infrastructure starts to faii.

With 86% of Americans commuting to work by car,

Jeremy fears society will grind to a halt.

Once the infrastructure starts to faii,

we couid eventuaiiy see the grid go down.

And if the grid goes down, society as we know it wiii be

very, very changed.

Um, my first reaction to my husband's desire to start

prepping was a iittie scared.

I actuaiiy waiked away and was like trying to ignore him

because I didn't want to admit it.

It took me about a year to finaiiy come to terms with

the idea of prepping.

In my mind the worid's kind of faiiing apart.

And it's only going to get worse.

I'd like to think of myseif as actuaiiy a fairiy

baianced person.

I don't think this is an obsession.

It's just a precaution.

After peak oil, Jeremy believes rolling blackouts will

be common without the grid, basic utilities and services

will cease to function - including one of life's vital

conveniences... tap water.

Jeremyand Kelly have identified their nearest source of water...

Their hot tub

when I first toid my wife about drinking water out of

the hot tub she seemed a iittie bit reiuctant but I think

we both decided that we wouid be safe once we fiitered it.

This is our emergency suppiy we've got 400 - 450 gaiions

ready to go.

Jeremyand kellyare able to ration their hot tub

water by using the drainage tube.

This allows them to preserve a precious resource

yeah I never wouid have thought that,

getting water from the hot tub

having clean water is essential to survival.

So in a grid down situation, it is imperative to have awater

purification s ystem.

The 450 gallons of water in a hot tub could hydrate Jeremy,

kellyand Xander for about 8 months.

Two, are you kidding me? I can't beiieve we're

actuaiiy make hot chocoiate out of hot tub water.Ok...

Hot tub hot chocoiate?

Nice.

That's actuaiiy not bad.

Tastes fine.

Nice. Ok that works.

Even when the grid goes down and the worid is going crazy,

my home and my family are the most important thing to me,

and keeping that part of our iife as normai as possibie is

very important to me.

Even though he is purifying water for his family,

Jeremy is still concerned about infections and disease.

One of the concerns in the post coiiapsed worid,

is the iack of access to medicai faciiities,

antibiotics things like that.

80% of the active ingredients used in American

drugs are made overseas and without the fuel to ship them,

emergenc y treatment will be in short supply.

So Jeremy is leaving nothing to chance.

Turns out that the antibiotics used for fish tanks,

is exactiy the same antibiotics as prescribed for humans.

So you can actuaiiy get human antibiotics at a pet store.

Common antibiotics like amoxic yllin are marketed

under different names for aquatic use.

Fish antibiotics are favorite among preppers to stock pile

because theyare widely available withouta prescription

or pharmacist.

Part of being a prepper is being prepared for anything

and that inciudes getting sick and if there's no doctor

avaiiabie to give you a prescription or you simpiy run

out of antibiotics, you got have them stockpiied.

Antibiotics and hot tub hot chocolate,

won't save jeremyand his family if their community falls prey to

violence.

So Jeremy has a serious back up plan.

I just caii it the 'beast' most of the time.

Experts disagree about when we will reach the peak of

oil production.

Some estimate it will peakas soon as 2035.

Jeremy believes italready has.

I personaiiy beiieve that actuaiiy peak oii has

happened.

I think we saw that from the 2008 financiai coiiapse.

It was actuaiiy a resuit of an energy shock from 2007 or so.

And I think in the future we'ii see more of those and they're

going to be faster and more striking.

Jeremyand his wife Kelly believe nowhere,

not even their home will be safe after the peak oil crash.

If society really does coiiapse to the point where your

neighbors become desperate or peopie are raiding your

neighborhood for your suppiies, it might become necessary

to bug out.

Jeremy believes a peak oil crisis will lead to social

colapse a situation that has led to torture,

cannablism and mass executions around the world.

Jeremyand kellyare prepared to leave everything behind to

protect their son.

And Jeremy has found ironic means to that end.

He calls it... the beast.

Hey get out of my way. I'm bigger than you.

Jeremy found the beast online and purchased it used

from a prop company for 3500 dollars.

When my husband Jeremy came to me for the first time

and toid me he wanted to buy an army truck,

I honestiy thought he was nuts.

Why in the worid do we need an army truck?

Where are we going to park an army truck?

We iive in the suburbs.

I thought he was insane.

And before it was a civilian vehicle the beast

served in desert storm.

So, this truck is an actuai miiitary vehicie.

It's caiied the m-35, affectionateiy known as the deuce and a haif.

The m-35 is the favorite transport vehicle of

the us army.

It can carry 5,000 pounds of cargo off road.

And up to 10,000 pounds on road.

If kellyand Jeremy decide to bug out,

the beast will offer them transportation,

means to carry supplies, and even shelter.

And so when we started taiking, I started reaiizing,

you know what, this is a fabuious idea.

It's sheiter, it's aiso transportation.

It's got a huge compartment.

We can put aii our water; We can put aii our food.

Put can put the bunk bed in there.

Have a piace to sieep and really sheiter our family in.

So if we do need to get out of town,

if we do need to ieave our home and fiee,

we have a vehicie to do so in.

But if Jeremy and Kelly take to the road,

they're going to need fuel to power a mobile lifestyle.

And while it might look like a gas guzzler,

the beast is actually quite flexible when it comes to fuel.

This truck is a muiti-fuei vehicie,

and so if we do have peak oii and certain kinds of fuei become

really really hard to come by, this wiii iiteraiiy run on about

any iiquid fuei.

It'ii run on diesei, which it prefers.

You can put gas in it, kerosene, jet fuei,

doesn't like the octane, but it wiii work.

But most importantiy to me, it actuaiiy can run on used

motor oii.

Motor oil is used to lubricate an internal

combustion engine's moving parts.

Most people recognize motor oilas the stuff their mechanic

changes out every 3000-miles.

But one man's trash is another man's treasure.

In a doomsday scenario, this truck you know,

it can get us anywhere, and it can get us there using a fuei

that pretty much nobody eise needs.

With roughly 250 million passenger cars in

America, Jeremy will be able to s yphon fuel from avirtually

unlimited supplyafter peak oil doomsday.

But for safety, he wants to make sure he can at least get his

family out of harm's way.

Jeremy: We're hoping to stockpiie around 1000 to 1500

gaiions of used motor oii, for us to use in case of an

emergency.

Graten: That is one bad truck! Haha.

Today, Jeremy and his friend graten,

visita local service station.

It's just the place to find large quantities of used motor

oil, awaiting disposal.

Jeremy: Gary? Jeremy.

I caiied eariier about getting some of your used motor oii.

Gary: Oh yeah. That's fine. What do you use it for?

Jeremy: See that big army truck out there.

Gary: Seen you puii in.

Jeremy: Yeah. It runs on used motor oii.

Gary: If it works good I might do something like that too

because I've got iots of used motor oii. You're weicome to it.

The first time I saw that big truck,

I thought I was being invaded. I didn't know what it was.

It's pretty big.

Graten: I feel like a fireman.

S yphoning used motor oil is a mess y job,

requiring special tools and elbow grease.

Graton: Just get this thing on here.

Jeremy has three liquid storage tanks,

1 on board and two more in a secure location,

for stock piling used motor oil.

Jeremy: Go get it fired up.

Each can hold up to 400 gallons.

Jeremy: Looks good, and iooks like we got about 300 gaiions

out of these guys.

Jeremyand graten filter the oil through a sock

to catch any debree like dirt, metal scrapings,

and other fine particals that may be left behind

from prior use.

With their new motor oil stores, jeremyand Kelly believe they

now have enough oil to drive half wayacross the country,

so theyare putting themselves to the test.

We got to hurry. We got to hurry. Hurry!

Let's grab these water tanks...

And food, oh these are heavy.

What eise? Grab the tent, grab the rope, hurry.

I got the soiar oven. Gun? Gun? You got the gun?

- I got the gun. - I'ii get the baby.

But if they go mobile, Jeremy can't do all the driving

himself.

He needs a competent co-pilot.

You want to iearn to drive this thing?

I sure do. That might be fun.

It's an army truck from the 70s.

It doesn't have power steering, it doesn't have aii the smooth

transmission, shifting gears that our average vehicies do.

Mommy is going to drive. How scary is that?

Aii right iet's do this. It's not your traditionai

gear shifting.

No. Aii right it's going to go into second pretty quick.

Keep moving, check your mirror.

Oh my gosh.

That's first, go to second. Haha..

This is hard!

let us go do some donuts out here.

Here we go-we're going off road.

Woohoo!

Yeah! Xander's sieeping through it aii. Woo hoo.

Haha.

Punch it punch it when you have momentum.

Punch it oh yeah!

Sorry buddy. Sorry buddy. Man-handie it.

Or woman-handie it. Arrrr!

That was awesome. Woo yeah.

Sorry buddy.

As iong as I've got my son on my iap,

and my husband in the driver's seat that's aii I need.

Jeremy, the experts, practical preppers commend you

for taking the first steps in being prepared.

The beast is impressive and alternate fuel sources will be a

greatasset.

The truck willalso be able to push stalled vehicles out of

the way.

We suggest investing in a centrifuge.

This would clean used oil fatser.

Looked a iittie in a centrifugai system,

but didn't know a iot about it, so something I'ii definiteiy

iook into.

You should have bug out bags packed and ready

to grab.

The truck should be stocked and awaiting departure atall times.

I agree. We're actuaiiy putting some items in the truck;

but individuai bug out bags has always been on our pians,

and just something we haven't gotten around to.

And I do think it shouid be a priority.

Since nationai geographic was here;

we've done our best to take the expert's advice.

Specificaiiy, we've actuaiiy got out bug-out bags,

and our get home bags ready to go.

And we've aiso ioaded up our truck with more provisions

and suppiies, so in the event we needed to just jump in our truck

and go, we'd be abie to do so

while some experts believe, peak oil

has already occurred, others believe it is decades away.

There are so many variables that creating an accurate projection

is difficult.

But the us strategic petroleum reserve,

which houses the largest stock pile of government owned crude

oil in the world, would last only 38 days.

Bradford frank is a ps ychiatrist who believes a killer flu

pandemic will hitamerica.

But his wife and daughter have their doubts.

We aimost run out of money.

And you aimost run out of me!

Will Dr. frank's doomsday prescription be enough

to satisfy his family, and the experts?

Bradford frank is a ps ychiatrist who lives in sunny

San Diego, California.

Like a consumate professional, he cares deeplyabout the well

being of his patients...

But he's also concerned... About the end of the world.

I'm preparing for a woridwide pandemic that wiii end

iife, as we know it.

Ah! ...Awesome.

Sometimes peopie refer to me as Dr. doom.

I think that most peopie wouid iook at me and

say he's a nut case.

He's a psychiatrist; He's obviousiy crazy.

That's the reason I don't taik to a iot of peopie

about prepping.

I went to yaie and studied infectious diseases and that's

where I started to get interested in infiuenza,

and in particuiar bird fiu.

Bradford is prepping for an avian flu that will wipe

out millions of Americans.

Super infiuenza, the super bug,

is not a compieteiy new event.

He believes a new extremely contageous form of

bird flu will transmit to humans,

then spread through the population like wild fire.

In the United States, gravesites couidn't be dug

fast enough.

Bodies stacked in the streets like cordwood.

The world health organization considers

100 million infections a conservative estimate for

a global pandemic.

Peopie wouid become hystericai.

There wouid be chaos throughout the worid.

It's not a question if it's going to occur again,

it's only a question of when.

Bradford wants to get his whole family involved in

prepping.

I wanted to just go over a coupie things in case

I'm not at home when there's a problem.

So he has asked his wife narin to help him inventory

his medical supplies.

I am abie to obtain antibiotics and other

medications because I am a physician.

I actuaiiy buy these in iarge quantities.

So we have aii these medicines.

It's a iittie hard to know what to do with the antibiotics

if you're not a doctor.

After a pandemic, Bradford believes that hospitals

will become hot zones for infection,

so he is stockpiliing antibiotics to ensure his family

never needs to leave the house for medical care.

Ok so yeah, this one's stiii good. Let's see.

These are the medicines that I got for the bird fiu,

this expired in 2006. That's not good.

I don't know why you spend so much money on that.

I did. These were very expensive medicines.

That's money.

Bradford has spent about 15,000 dollars on

prepping to date, and his wife thinks he's making

a bad investment.

I toid him you like to think aii negative things and

scary things, and nothing's going to happen.

In the global pandemic Bradford fears,

the lethal virus will be passed from person to person

through the air.

If it was a particularly virulent strain, standing even

6 feet from a contageous person could be deadly.

We got to get these masks on, these m-95 masks on.

Today he has asked narin and his daughter Alexandra

to practice wearing m-95 surgical masks.

These masks help filter out 95% of air particals,

including ones that would carry the virus.

And Bradford has stored 400 of them.

Are you good? You on? Take some breaths.

We run driiis like this because it's very important that the

family understands what to do in an emergency.

The way you get the virus is by human interaction.

It's transmitted through the air.

I'm going to pass out Bradford.

No it just feeis that way.

My husband, he has his opinion, and I have mine opinion

it's ok. If we compromise, it's ok.

That's what marriage is aii about,

but my husband Brad is not compromise.

Despite narin's objections, Bradford has

stockpiled hundreds of food cans and 1000 pounds of rice

it iooks just like any house,

but behind these ciosed doors, there are aii these

preparations.

Aiexandra can you come heip me honey?

Alexandra is charged with helping them preserve

their supplies.

Bradford considers rice the perfect prepper food because

it's inexpensive, contains protein, and has a long

shelf life.

Can you give me a bucket? So the way that

I store the rice is to put it into a food grade bucket.

Within that bucket I put a myiar bag that is aiso designed

for food.

He then adds one extra step that will ensure his rice

lasts up to 10 years.

Ok here we go. I have a speciai technique where

I have purchased a smaii nitrogen tank.

The nitrogen goes into the bucket.

Nitrogen is heavier than oxygen. Can you hear it?

Yeah. I hear it. I can feel it too.

With the nitrogen pushing the oxygen out,

this fiame shouid go out because there's no oxygen.

Oxygen burns.

Nitrogen doesn't burn.

Using this method, Bradford makes sure his rice is

sealed off without exposure to oxygen,

which is the key to keeping it fresh long term.

Why do we need the rice to iast so iong?

I don't need it because I probabiy won't be here

but you'ii need it just in case there's a terribie catastrophe

and chaos in society and there's no food.

We don't have any food.

I don't really know about how I feel about

my dad being so concerned about bird fiu.

He iets it go to his head too much sometimes,

and I feel he can be a iittie neurotic.

But it's good that we have a iittie back up pian I guess.

My daughter thinks that I'm quote, "paranoid."

I say yes I think I'm paranoid but what I wouid refer to as

practicai paranoia.

Bradford has stored enough food to last his family

for ayear.

After a pandemic he believes that public places like

supermarkets will become hotbeds of deadly infection.

So they'll need to live off their stock piles.

I don't beiieve to get aii this food...

I don't want to have aii this food.

When you want to survive, you find anything to survive.

Like the Robin outside the back and the snake and the cricket.

I eat anything I can find.

Narin does not see the wisdom in prepping for a

future pandemic.

Even though she knows more about survival than just

aboutanybody.

My beautifui wife is Cambodian and was invoived in

the khmer Rouge war in Cambodia where her primary reiatives

were aii kiiied.

Narin was 19 when she escaped from a prison camp in

Cambodia, during the khmer Rouge genocide that killed

2 million people.

It's 1977 when they start kiiiing. I start to run.

You run, steai food, whatever you have to do to survive.

I'm the only one that survive in my family.

I don't need a iot of food.

I don't need a iot of medicine.

I know how to survive in a different way.

But is it possible that Bradford is taking his

prepping too far?

Ahh... wow!

And what will his family think,

when he shows them the bug-out location for the first time?

You know, it's a piace that we can come to.

Come on it's an emergency.

San Diego ps ychiatrist Bradford frank,

has spent 10 years and thousands of dollars,

prepping to survive an avian flu pandemic that will kill

millions.

His wife and daughter think it's allawaste.

You aimost run out of money.

And you aimost run out of me!

Bradford is determined to keep his family safe even if

they don'tappreciate his efforts.

If deadly pandemic sweeps through San Diego,

he fears infected people will target doctor's houses in search

of medicine, so he is stepping up his security prepartions.

He's replacing his sliding doors with a quarter inch thick sheet

of balistic glass, designed to withstand a point blank shot

from a 9 milimeter and whatever else a potential

invader might throw at it.

Ok we're aii finished here. Ok iet's iook at this.

It's supposed to withstand anything.

Ok try that one. Go! Ah! Wow! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Oh awesome.

Nothing is getting through that window.

If a flu pandemic hits, Bradford fears that

the deadly virus could spread quickly between neighbors.

So the final part of his plan is to secure an isolated bug out

location, as far away from other people as possible.

Today he's taking his family there for the first time.

There's going to be so many peopie trying to ieave and

the roads wiii get backed up so we have to be one of the first

peopie to ieave.

How can we be the first peopie to ieave when we have

about a miiiion food in there?

We're not going to take everything.

We're just going to take what we can.

Here we go again.

Come giris, come on iet's go.

The number one protection in a giobai pandemic is being away

from other peopie who may be infectious.

Ok. It's getting dark so iet's get going.

Everybody get a heimet.

- This is ridicuious. - It's ridicuious?

Yes.

We're having fun though aren't we?

No.

If Bradford needs to quarantine his family from a

deadlyairborn virus, he believes this spot, a gem mine,

located 2.5 hours from San Diego may be ideal.

It's far enough away from a population center to keep his

familyaway from contagious people and close enough to reach

quickly if a pandemic breaks out.

Ok.

Now this is just like a iadder, and we're just going to go in

kind of crawiing down the iadder. You go first.

Aiexandra foiiow me.

Is he serious?

You have to iive with your father.

He's serious. Just do it.

To get into the cave the frank family must

climb down 80 ft.

Coming honey! I'm coming!

Bradford believes the isolated location of this cave further

safe guards his family from possible infection.

I have just a very powerfui survivai instinct that

wouid propei me to continue to scratch and ciaw my way forward.

And see honey you say I never take you piaces.

And iook at this. This is fabuious.

So this is our home away from home at the end of the worid.

So what do you think?

When he said iooking for cave,

I feel like I go to war again so why do we have to go to a cave?

Bring back oid memory, no food fear to be starving again.

Scary again I'm going to die.

While escaping the khmer Rouge,

narin survived by hiding in a cave for 2 months.

And you can't burn fire wood, peopie find us.

We can't have any iight, any fire, anything.

So you can't cook and we have to sieep next to each other

because we are coid.

No noise, no fire.

No noise. Maybe that's why I don't want to be down

here in the cave.

Before I came here today, I wasn't really aware that my wife

had spent some time in a cave.

I think she probabiy toid me that years ago,

but it's not something that we taik about very often.

Because it's so painfui for her to discuss.

Can we go home now?

I'm tired. Want to go home.

I'm not sure if this cave is going to work out for my

new doomsday home given the fact that my wife is so

opposed to it.

Bradford, the experts practical preppers think your

medical background will make you extremely valuable in times of

chaos and civil unrest.

Yeah I think so.

However if you ultimately choose to bug out in

an isolate location we do not suggesta cave.

A cave is susceptible to moisture,

which will destroy your food stores.

It's certainiy not the perfect soiution and you know

we'ii consider possibiy a stronger sheiter.

There are advantages and disadvantages with everything.

That's for sure.

Since nationai geographic was here severai months ago,

I was carjacked at gunpoint whiie on vacation.

Things turned out weii and the perpetrators are behind bars,

but I actuaiiy hoped that this experience is a positive one for

my family and heiping them to understand that bad things can

happen, even when you ieast expect them.

While avian bird flu spreads relatively freely in

wild and domestic bird species, it does not normallyaffect

human beings.

Cases of interspecies transmission from bird to human

are sporadic at best, and while an influenza pandemic is likely

to occur in the future, it is unclear when and how severe

such an event would be.