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Taking whatever measures necessary to prepare.

Braxton southwick: My family is preparing

for a biological terrorist attack.

Bryan: For the new Madrid earthquake.

Wilma Bryant: For a series of f5 tornadoes.

Narrator: And protect themselves.

Man: Watch it, man.

Sh h awa

push him away.

Blevs: Stop right there!

Narrator: From what they perceive as the fast

approaching end of the world as we know it.

Daughter: Da

Braxton: Leave her alone!

Narrator: Next, we go inside the lives

of three committed preppers who have

devised extensive plans.

Patrick: Let's get the house secure,

get the doors locked, get the windows locked.

Brian: Come on.

We're bugging out.

let us go, babe

narrator: Gone to great lengths an

made huge personal sacrifices to

ensure their very survival.

Bryan: We carry usually 3-4,000

rounds of every single caliber of

ammo at all times.

Narrator: The experts will assess their preps,

to see if they have what it takes.

Jay: Here a very thin fabric that

holds together a civilized ciet

narrator: To survive.

Jay: Go!

Go!

Narrator: This is doomsday preppers.

Jay blevins is a young father of three.

Jay: Oh man.

You're too big.

Daughter: No, I'm not.

Narrator: Living in thsmaltownf

berryville, Virginia,

60 miles outside Washington D.C.

He and his wife, Holly, love the

tranquility of their neighborhood.

Here, they can raise their children in

a spacious home, alongside a close-knit

community of friends.

But behind the front doors of Jay's quiet cul-de-sac

there's growing fear about the future.

Jay: We're preparing for the breakdown of social

order caused by an economic collapse.

Are they shooting up there?

Go!

I believour life is different because we prep.

I believe it's a better quality of life.

I think it was a combination of things,

like September 11th, ke t tsumi o2004

a combination of experiences I've had as

law enforcement officer lead me to believe we are

susceptible to certain situations

th areut of our ntro

I want my family to be ready for

those type of situations.

Narrator: Jay believes the world will soon enter a

global depression, causing unemployment worse than

the great depression that could collapse

civilized society altogether.

Jay: When people can't get jobs and

then can't feed their families,

I think those are the types of things

that will really set them off.

You see people rioting and

you see people basically destroying things

because they're not getting their way.

There's a very thin fabric that holds

together a civilized society.

Narrator: With more than 5.5 million

people in the eated.C.Rea,

Jay fears that urban unrest could spill into

suburbs and overwhelm local police officers.

Jay: Once the mob mentality sets in it all

adds up to a situation that could be very,

very dangerous to try to survive in.

Narrator: Jay fears violence and looting could

potentially spill into his neighborhood.

So he's fortified his 4,000 square foot

home with things he'll need to stay

off the streets, like six months of food and water.

Jay: We believe strongly in sheltering in place.

You know, we have the home field advantage here.

We know wher r suliesre.

Hava lo of supplies.

Holly: I prefer that all of our preps

be kept in closets, garages and storage sheds.

Weike maintain some normalcy,

even though weo thisn thside

narrator: As a former police officer,

Jay's main focus is on security.

Jay: We keep a total of about 7,000

rounds of ammunion theedro.

Holly: Ok, so I guess we have a samuraswor

in this closet.

Jay: I love my kids so much.

I love my wife so much.

I don't ever want to see them hurt or to go without

and so if a crowd were ever to come to my house

for whatever reason, I would defend my family.

Narrator: Mob violence is considered highly

dangerous because it is so unpredictable.

To survive, officers are traid toyclehrough

multiple defense options, starting with deterrents

and ending with lethal measures.

Police call this continuum the circle of force.

Jay: Seven things that I believe are essential for

the circle of force are: Rifle, a handgun,

edged weapons, impact weapons, pepper spray,

martial arts and verbal commands.

Jay: Stop!

Get on the ground!

You can use different things immediately.

You can go to whatever option you

need based on the situation.

You encounter a person and they're attacking you with

a knife, you don't have to say something first.

You can go straight to lethal force because

it's being brought against you.

Narrator: Jay wants to avoid having

to use lethal force, if possible.

Jay: Who needs gloves out there?

Holly: I need gloves.

Narrator: So today he's workinwithollyo

install a n-vient rst line of defense.

One he hopes his entire prepping network

can implement to persuade looters to

move oto otr hoes.

Jay: He w our plan is t up

we have many families.

In fact we probably 20 families representing

75-100 people involved in our network.

In a shelter in place scenario,

the network puts boards over the windows and

doors in order to secure the first level and

then the network would work together to

secure the perimeter of the property.

So we're basically trying to get all the entrances,

all the entry points on the first floor because

those are the points that are vulnerable

to attack if someone is trying to get in.

Friend: Okay.

Rrat: Plood often usedo foify mes in

hurricane zones, because it is flexible

and able to absorb the impact o

0 mi per hour winds

y: I need the two-by-four,

who'got at?

Narrat: Buanching plywood boards to the

frt ofhe wdow, by bolting them to a

horizontal two-by-four,

gives the wood increased strength.

Jay believes it's perfect for preppers.

Jay: Push on it guys.

Narrator: Because a three-quarter-inch thick

piece cawithand peated blunt force

attacks without cracking or breaking.

Jay has custom pieces ready to go,

so that he and Holly can install them in all their

downstairs windows in half an hour or less.

Jay: If you hear beating on this window right here,

you'll know okay I got to go upstairs,

look down and see what's going on and

try to take care of that threat.

Holly: Okay.

Okay, I can do it.

Jay: They wouldn't last forever.

If you had an unlimited amount of

time you could probably chop or hack through them,

maybe pry them off.

Narrator: So now, Jay, Holly and their friends

are putting their fortifications up against

a number of weapons looters might possess.

Frnd: At's pretty good.

You're going to be there all day trying

to get in with a knife.

Jay: Wow.

There you go.

Friend: Three strikes and you're out.

Jay: Man.

Holl goo kae!

Jay: Wow.

That was a, I'm impressed.

Friend: Co onhard.

Katie: Come on, your kids are hungry.

Friend: Harder!

Friend 2: You can't hit it hard ough

toake it go through.

Hoy: Bthe me y hear them doing it,

you're going to shoot them.

Jay: Holly will be upstairs with

the .22, hopefully.

Holly: Picking you off.

Jay: Yeah, all right.

Good.

The way that we've designed this is that

we put the boards over just the first level,

so that on the second level we can

watch from there.

We can utilize the different weapons

we have to defend the homes.

Narrator: But rather than rain down lethal bullets,

Jay's moving up the circle of forceo a n-leal

measure, one used by 97% of American police

departments for crowd contro

Jay: We do manufacture our own pepper spray here.

If y hava grp of armed people outside of

your house I wanted to have an option to

encourage them to get of the property.

Havi hadeppespra used on me in the police

academy, I know it works very well.

I do recall one person actually crying for their

mommy when they were sprayed with pepper spray.

Narrator: E ba ingrednt olaw

enforcement grade pepper spray is capsaicin,

thactive component of chili peppers.

Today he's going to test his recipe on two other

members of his prepper network, revoand ic.

Byixinstorboug peppers with an acidic

binding agent like lemon juice,

Jay believes he can make a homemade brew potent

enough to cause temporary pain a bliness

Jay: And then the habanera sauce of course

is to burn your face off.

The ole ttle

friend: That's really going to hurt.

Jay: That's perfect.

Friend: That's not going to feel very good on my face.

Friend 2: So how are you going to deliver this?

I mean, are you going to splash it on me,

are we going to dip our face in there?

I mean what do you?

Jay: Well actually lemme go get it and

I'll tell you.

Narrator: For delivery, Jay's repurposed a

suburban mainstay that is inexpensive,

has a range of 30 feet and is inconspicuous

in a neighborhood filled with children.

Jay: Okay guys, so this is our sophisticated

delivery system here.

Friend: Water guns of, uh, death and fire.

Narrator: Jay's recipe should be strong enough

cause excruciating pain, burning and

involuary elli of the eyes and throat.

T Jay is basing today's test on the

lice rule of thumb that aggressors can cover

21 feet in one and a half seconds.

If the pepper spray don't op tvor d

ic to the ground before they caget

close enough to assault him, it's useless.

Jay: Stop right there!

What do you want?

Friends: We're taking what we need!

Jay: Stop right there!

Friend: We're going in!

We're taking what we need!

We're taking it!

Ahh, ahh!

Jay: Stop!

Stay down!

Friends: Owwww!

Uhhh, owww!

Jay: Pepper spray feels like having

liquid magma on your face.

Iend: Oh, it works!

Jay: Put your head down,

otherwise it's going to just go all over you.

Ready?

Friend: What is this?

Jay: It's the milk.

Friend: It definitely stopped

what I wanted to do.

Narrator: Jay's pepper spray worked,

but not fast enough.

Trevor and Eric were able to reach his position

before the spray took effect.

So he's ready to move up the circle of force

to more extreme option

to prepare for the possible mob

attacks he fears, Jay is building a

prepper response force of his own.

Now, they'll set their sights on each other,

for the ultimate test of home security.

Or: Former police officer Jay evinhas

turned his home into a suburban stronghold.

Jay: This can be a suburban fortress,

a place where my family can be safe.

Narrator: Behind these walls he expects to make

his stand against an invasion of rioting

marauders following an economic collapse.

But he doesn't plan on doing it alone.

In Jay's densely populated cul-de-sac,

neighbors could easily turn into

the mob he fears.

But Jay hopes to preempt this threat,

by recruiting his neighbors

into a prepping network.

Together, he believes they can defend their

neighborhood through whatever means necessary,

including lethal force.

Jay: We have a group here at the house

that meets once a month.

It's my network of preppers.

Prepping is a growing movement.

Specifically this year, I would say,

the group has doubled in size.

Narrator: Today, Jay has gathered his

prepping group to run the ultimate test of

all his preps: A mob assault on the front door.

Armed with pellet guns, Jay will lead one team

acting as a mob of home invaders.

Patrick, a certified firearms expert,

will work with Holly and a second team inside the

house to neutralize the marauders.

Patrick: Let's get the house secure!

Get the doors locked!

Get the windows locked!

You're using this wall as cover,

so when they come through they're not going to be able

to see you, so you can pop out and engage.

Narrator: Not knowing from what directi thettac

will come, the goal is to see if they can use their

eps take control of the situation.

They hope the boarded-up windows will direct

intruders toward the only avaible try int:

The ont or.

The plan is to turn it into a kill-box,

a bottleneck where intruders can be

shot down from multiple angles.

Patrick: Remember, they all still have to get

through the funnel of death.

They've got to get through that choke point.

Jay: All right guys, game faces on.

Man: Is this John's house?

Girl: Get off the property!

Jay: Oh hey.

We're just looking for John.

What are you doing?

I got pepper sprayed!

Are they shooting up there?

Go!

Go!

Patrick: Library, report.

Holly: Vca down in the library.

Patrick: Close the front door and lock it!

Aloperators into the family room!

Scenario's over.

Safeties on, guns holstered.

Muzzles down.

Narrator: In all, 50 shots were

fired in today's assault.

All three of the mob assailants were

"killed" witn 3 et ofhe front door.

Jay: Ah dude, I got lit up.

I came in straight and to the right.

Bullets seemed like they were coming from

the front and the side.

And got t abt I don't know, 14 times.

There was like four or five fatal shots.

Holly: As soon as I heard the front door

get kicked open, I was already ready for them.

And I got Jamie and then I got Dan and about ten

seconds later Ryan came to the door

and I, to the chest immediately.

So I got all 3, yay!

My only thought is to make sure that none

of these men get past me to my kids.

Jay: So the moral of the story is be the good guys,

not the bad guys.

In a prepper situation, it's good to have a

variety of different things at your disposal to

deal with the person that is attacking you.

A lot of times people think that preppers are

sort of a subculture or a fringe of society.

But if an economic collapse takes place,

I do believe that our prepper network

will survive.

Narrator: Jay, the experts,

practical preppers, commend you for adapting

the policemen's circle of force to defend your he.

Additionally, by working with a prepper network,

you diversify the skills at your disposal and

further protect your family.

However, while your security is adequate,

your food and water storage are insufficient.

Jay: I think we do need to get a little bit

more in our food storage.

Uh, but we also have in our network,

some folks that can do hunting and trapping.

Narrator: To determine how long you could initially

survive a catastrophe, practical preppers has

scored your preps in five categories of 20 points

each, for a total possible score of 100.

Food: 10 out of 20 points.

Water: 11 out of 20 points.

Shelter: You need a plan to heat your home,

8 out of 20 points.

Security: 16 out of 20 points.

In addition, your network of preppers is excellent

and will increase your family's odds of survival.

13 x-factor points.

Overall, you get 58 out of 100 points.

You have eight months initial survival time.

Jay: I think we're doing a little bit better in a

couple of those areas, but there is definitely

room for improvement.

We'll definitely take a lot of those into

consideration because we do wanna survive

a lot longer.

Since national geographic was here,

wee plted uit trees, a large garden and other

edible plants and have begun canning and will

continue to do so for long term storage.

Narrator: In spite of the centeceson a

European debt crisis, most economists believe a

near-term depression is unlikely and the odds of a

global collapse that would result in a severe

breakdown of society are remote.

In his effort to survive a potential third world war,

Brian murdock thought the one prep he needed most of

all was a wife.

But when he tells his new bride-to-be

that he's a prepper,

he might find himself a bachelor all over again.

Tatiana: Leave me alone.

Need to get out of here.

Who lives in somerville, Massachusetts,

a blue collar college town a few miles

north of Boston.

As a single guy in his twenties,

Brian was always out enjoying the city.

But these days he's settling down,

and focusing on more serious matters.

Brian: I believe there will be a

third world war in my lifetime.

It's inevitable that there will be

nuclear weapons in world war III.

I know that with every fiber of my being.

Narrator: Brian believes that an attack by the

United States on Iran will result

in a counterattack on Israel.

He sees the world then breaking into two

factions, each armed with weapons

of mass destruction.

He fears a serieof nuear tonations

could kill a third of all people on earth.

Brian: There were 50 million casualties

in world war ii.

World war III is going to be 40 times

world war ii.

And it's going to be 2.3 billion people.

One third of the earth will perish.

All it takes is someone to put their

finger on a button.

Narrator: Brian lives in a 1,200 square foot

apartment, three miles from Boston's busiest square.

A beginning prepping setup for this kind of space

would usually cost around $1,500.

But last year Brian sold most of his belongings and

spent the proceeds, around $75,000

to secure a new home, somewhere to bug out to.

Brian: In a year of being a prepper I've purchased a

motor home rv and 50 acres of land.

There's water sources on the 50 acres

of land that I own.

There's two ponds.

There's a dedicated well.

Narrator: As is recommended

for urban preppers,

Brian's bug-out location in upstate New York

is more than two hours from a city center

but can be reached in less than five hours.

But before Brian permanently mos ouof

somerville there's still one of part of his

prepping plan that's msing

today, that final piece is due to arrive.

Brian: It's a work in progress,

but I'm very close to having everything

pla fory prepper go.

Tatiana: I'm so eited.

Brian: Hello, baby.

How was your flight?

Tatiana: It was good.

Brian: Nice weather.

Kind of like Colombia, right?

I can't believe you're finally here.

Tatiana has made her first trip to

America to marry me.

Brian: How do you like my house?

Tatiana: It's beautiful.

Super beautiful.

Brian: Did you have any oblegettg

through immigration or anything like that?

Tatiana: No.

Everything was so perfect.

Brn: I think Tatiana will be the

perfect prepper wife.

Narrator: A year ago, Brian met Tatiana on a

dating website and then made two trips to

Colombia to get to know her.

He asked her to leave her life in Colombia behind

and come to somerville to be his fiancée

and prepping partner.

Today is the first day of her new American life.

Tatiana: A nice house.

Brian: Si baby, thank you.

This is a bedroom here.

Tatiana: Is this your room?

Brian: I believe the blessing of marriage

and the covenant of marriage is very

essential to prepping.

Narrator: When Brian met Tatiana he believed

he'd not only found the ideal partner,

but a powerful prep.

Brian: I had heard a lot of goothin

about her culture and the way of life.

It's very simple, there's a lot of gratitude.

A lot of the aspects of prepping

already resides within her.

Tatiana: Baby.

Brian: What's going on?

Tatiana: Can you help me to turn this on please?

Brian: Of course.

Narrator: In the past year he's learned that the

chances of surviving any catastrophic event greatly

increase when you have a partner who is also

invested in your survival.

But Brian hasn't told Tatiana that he plans for

them to one day leave all of this behind and

bug-out to his rural tract of land.

Now, Tatiana's learning that coming to somerville

was only the first part of her American journey.

Brian: So.

I've talked to you about uh,

things I'm concerned about,

you know if there was ever a nuclear attack.

You know, Boston we're three miles

from downtown right here.

I love you to death and as wstarour ves

gether, you ow I real wanto pitio

ourselves, you know in a place where if something

like this were to happen we'd be able to get out.

My house, it's been a great place to

live but I bought 50 acres, it's about

seven hours from here.

I feel that's the direction

that we ought to go.

Run for our lives, you know.

She's had to blindly jump off a cliff, you know,

to take the risk to come here to America.

Tatiana: I can't believe I came here die

you didn't tell me that before.

Brian is telling me a little about it.

Like, because things that are happening here

in your country, you know you're afraid that,

war is coming.

When Brian told me he was a prepper,

I thought that he was crazy.

In Colombia we don't do it.

It's like a new concept for us.

We don't know about saving food for the bad times,

you know because there are bad times

all the time over there I guess.

But when I marry Brian I will become a prepper

because I will support him in whatever he's up to.

He's very wise.

I will be the perfect prepper one day.

I hope.

Narrator: Fearing a nuclear attack on the

heart of Boston, Brian believes that he and

Tatiana must be able to bug-out and

head for his land at a moment's notice.

So before Tatiana has even unpacked her suitcase,

heantser t prepare a bug-out bag

free of any extraneous lurie

Brian: We'll ease into it.

We'll go through your stuff,

you know and kind of get an idea of what's good

and what's not, you know.

Did you bring a lot of stuff?

Got all mangled up, huh?

Tatiana: My creams, lotions.

Brian: Oh boy.

Baby, what are these honestly?

These are beautiful shoes for going out on the tn

but ah, if, if we really had to bug-out and

get out of town and we had to move quick,

do you think this is, I say that

with all due respect.

I'm trying to, you know, get you to think.

Tatiana: See now you're scaring me.

I came to America because this is a safe place

and now we have to run away.

Brian: I know, it's funny.

Tatiana: I don't know it's very emotional because,

you know I'm like nobody here.

I can't go outside, I don't have a job.

I don't have friends here.

It's sad because I'm leaving everything,

you know and I'm starting like a baby.

I tell Brian, you have to teach me everything,

like I don't know many things here.

And I'm leaving my family and my mom,

my daughter, my dad and that is hard.

You know?

Will I be allowed to have a razor?

Brian: Will you be allowed to have a razor?

Of course.

Why wouldn't you be?

Some aspects of her adjustment to America

that are going to be tough for her.

Even though Tatiana is unaware of it right now.

Time will reveal to her that she is a prepper.

Narrator: Before she's even had a chance to

absorb the shock, Brian wants to see how much

natural prepper instinct Tatiana possesses

and how much he'll have to teach her.

Brian: I think it's very important to teach her

necessary skills to protect us.

Narrator: So, just hours after she arrived,

he's decided to put Tatiana through her first

full-fledged bug-out drill.

But is Tatiana really ready to accept

the life of a doomsday prepper wife?

Brian: What are you just going to wait inside?

Tatiana: Yes, thank you.

Brink of nuclear war.

He's purchased 50 acres of land 375 miles away in

upstate New York and an rv and plans to bug-out

there as soon as possible.

But Brian believes it's essential his fiancée,

Tatiana, has all the prepper basics

down pat first.

So even though she's only just arrived in the U.S.,

it's already time for her to leave somerville behind

and experience her first bug-out drill.

Brian: Let's bug-out.

We're getting out of here.

Come on.

We're bugging out.

let us go, babe.

Tatiana: My sandal.

Brian: I got it.

I got.

Tatiana: My sandal.

Brian: Don't worry about it.

You're not going to need that where we're going.

Narrator: Brian's rv will operate both as a home

and a defense outpost for the couple.

He expects Tatiana will learn to use firearms and

guard the 30 days of food and

water he keeps in the rv.

Brian: So babe now that we're here at the land,

I'll be teaching you how to keep

the perimeter safe.

And you're going to have the opportunity

to fire your first handgun.

Get you comfortable with a firearm,

we'll work our way into uh working on the perimeter.

This is better than the living room isn't it?

You feeling comfortable here?

Tatiana: I have to see how it goes.

And I will tell you how I feel.

Brian: I understand.

Tatiana: Let's see if the bugs leave me alone here.

Brian: The bugs like light skin,

so I think you'll be okay.

Tatiana: Yeah right now the bugs are bothering me.

I need to get out of here right now.

Meet you inside.

Brian: You're just going to leave me

out here like that?

Don't you thk wee ing need to get

used to this if we're going to live up here?

Tatiana: Let's see what happens.

Brian: Well, I understand.

But this is, this is the north country.

This is god's country up here.

You know?

There's a lot of bugs.

I've got bug spray.

Tatiana: Okay, I will put on some.

Brian: What are you going to do?

Just wait inside?

Tatiana: Yes, thank you.

Brian: Ah, alright.

I'll get the fire going.

I'll get the uh venison on.

Tatiana: Okay.

Brian: All right?

Tatiana: Okay.

See you later.

Brian: Go to work on the beans and rice.

All right baby.

I love you.

Tatiana: I guess preppers are a little,

little bit crazy.

Don't get upset.

Brian: Tatiana got lile lrning to do,

but soon we'll be married and

I know we'll be happy here.

Narrator: After toug initl adjustment,

Tatiana is ready for her first shooting lesson.

One important advantage of prepper partnering is

always having backup.

St aworlwar ii soiersere assigned to

defend trenches and foxholes in pairs,

Brian believes it is essential he and Tatiana

e Bo ablto defend the rv.

So today, he's teaching her to shoot a handgun for

the first time.

Brian: So as you know, th is imptantart

of our prepping and central to the blessings

of being an American and the 2nd amendment.

I have a banana up there for you.

It was the closest I could come to a plantain.

I know you like plantains.

Want to give it a shot?

Tian I wl try.

Brian: Alright.

Tatiana: I don wan toffenanody,

but it's a little bit arrogant to think that

you're going to save yourself,

you know because I think if god wants you to you know,

that you're not alive anymore.

He will do it, no matter how many water,

how much water you have in your Van or

in your camper or whatever.

I hope you know that everything I'm doing

it's because I love you.

And I want to share everything with you.

Your life and all your experiences prepping and

all that, because I love you.

Brian: I appreciate that baby and I love you too.

Tatiana: Sometimes, I want to kill you.

Brian: I love you, too.

Tatia has already been prepared to be a prepper,

she may not know it but I think she'll realize,

like, "yeah Brian, you know, this makes sense."

This is who I am too."

It's a life-changing event when you meet the right

person to share your life with.

Narror: Ian, the experts,

practical preppers, commend you for moving

forward with your prepping plan and securing a

bug-out location.

However, the remainder of your preps could be

fatally inadequate.

Your food and water preps are nowhere near basic

levels necessary for long-term survival.

Brian: A hundred percent on the money.

I mean, your thoughts, Tatiana?

Tatiana: Si.

Narrator: Your shelter situation

is slightly better.

Having a mobile bug-out rv provides

shelter with flexibility.

Tatiana: Yeah, that's true.

Narrator: To determine how long you could initially

survive a catastrophe, practical preppers has

scored your preps in five categories of 20 points

each, for a total possible score of 100.

Food: You should have a hidden cache at your

bug-out location, 4 out of 20 points.

Water: 9 out of 20 points.

Shelter: Having no infrastructure at your

bug-out location will limit your ability to

survive long-term, 11 out of 20 points.

Security: 8 out of 20 points.

Your biggest advantage is your mobile home,

which can provide you with basic

shelter anywhere you go.

11 x-factor points.

Overall, you earn 43 out of 100 survival points.

You have eight weeks initial survival time.

Brian: Yeah, I'm glad you folks have been uh,

crystal clear honest about this.

It just reminds us of, you know,

the intensity with which we need to raise our game.

Tatiana and I have tiedhe kt anah,

we are moving in three days to that location.

We are getting out.

Things have heated up in the world.

At that time, once we are at our destination,

we intend to aggressively add to our

food and water storage.

Or: Since the 1980's,

the world's nuclear stockpile

eased 80%.

However, with more countries now in

possession of nuclear weapons,

the possibility of a limited nuclear exchange

remains a concern.

While earthquakes are a common fear in some parts

of the United States, they're not generally a

concern in much of the midwest.

But Bryan and Lacey may believe that if more

midwesterners were aware of the major,

active fault line running through the

center of the country, they'd be worried.

Brya evebody knows where the San Andreas

fault line is but not a lot of people know

where the Madrid fault line is.

We're preparing for the new Madrid earthquake

that would change the world as we know it.

Me and my wife, we prep.

We're a prepping family and

she's right there beside me.

Lacey: I think the male prepper is a stereotype.

I'm sure there's more women preppers out there.

Once I became a mother,

I definitely started to think about the future and

just having extra things that would be needed.

My nightmare is not having what I need

to provide to my child.

Narrator: The highest risk of earthquakes in

the U.S. outside the west coast is along the

new Madrid fault.

The fault runs 150 miles from Illinois to Missouri.

There are more than 200 measured seismic

events along the fault each year.

In 1811 and 1812, a series of nearly 8.0 magnitude

earthquakes rocked the new Madrid each one

roughly as powerful as the 1906 earthquake

that destroyed San Francisco.

In 1812, the new Madrid area

was relatively unpopulated.

Today, more than 10 million Americans live

within the fault zone.

Bryan: We're talking about just major cities

being affected by this.

There will be fo inse th

grocery stores after three days.

So if no one has preps,

they would basically starve.

Lacey: People who don't plan wouldn't know

what to do and so they would be wreaking havoc

on what is left of society.

Bryan: If the Madrid was to happen today you would

have essentially an ocean running through

the middle of the United States that

was probably 100 to 200 miles wide.

Let me show you this.

This right here is showing the,

what would happen after a Madrid earthquake.

Louisiana's going to be underneath water.

So it's going to stretch from there,

some of Mississippi's going to be underwater.

Arkansas, it's going to be cut in,

pretty much in half.

Missouri's got a smaller path of water going

through it but it goes all the way up to Illinois.

And up to us.

Lacey: And where do we sit on this map?

Bryan: We're going to be, we're up here.

They're predicting about 7 million people

will be affected by this.

Seven million people panicked,

is not a good thing.

Narrator: Bryan and Lacey want to start prepping for

the catastrophic quake and flood they fear

as much as they can.

They have income from the car stereo shop they own,

but they currently have no savings.

So in order to make more money to afford the preps

they think they'll need, Bryan and Lacey

have gone to extremes.

N and Lacey may are preparing for a massive

earthquake they fear will strike in t hea

of the U.S., tearing the country in two.

Bryan: If the Madrid faullineas thit,

we'd have to rethink h weot o goo across

the United States, because now we would have a

gigantic mass of water dividing the

United States.

There's going to be no way to truck supplies in

from the western half and most of our imports

come from California.

Narrator: Their fears have spurred them to try to

fill their home th engh splies to

one day ride out the end of civilization.

But Bryan and Lacey have no cash savings.

Lacey: So how are we going to get the things

we don't have?

That we don't have stocked up?

Bryan: We're going to need to barter for items.

I believe bartering should be done a lot more.

Bartering pretty much built the world the way we

know it as right now and then we got sidetracked

with paper money with no backing.

Narrator: Because he believes the dollar is

faing, ryan converts the bulk of his money into

eier sver gol to use for bartering.

Bryan: I mostly barter with silver.

Sometimes gold.

And I have it in all denominations from one

gram all the way up to ten-ounce bars.

Lacey: How much money do we have in silver?

Bryan: In silver we're right around

5 or $6,000 give or take.

I won't know exactly until I weigh it all up

and figure out the current price.

Narrator: Today most coins are made of nickel and

copper, but before 1965 a quarter was 90% silver.

Brian: So, alright, here's $5.

Narrator: An actual silver quarter is worth $5 today.

Bryan: Whenever I go to the bank and

get my change or through a drive through,

I always check all my coins to make sure,

see if any of it's silver.

Narrator: Bryan has been using his silver

stockpile to barter for some big preps.

Bryan: I've got about $700 worth of

solar panels here.

And the trade was about 23 and a half ounces of

silver in trade for these panels.

If the Madrid fault line was to hit we's

going back in the stone age for most of us.

You'd have to make power somehow.

We have these solar panels.

We also have a wind turbine.

Narrator: Solar and wind power are only effective

on sunny and windy days, unless you have some way

of storing the energy they create.

So Bryan has run wires to his basement where he has

gang together 40 tters to store the

excess electricity from his solar panels and

wind turbine.

Bryan: We currently have 40 batteries

wirein parallel.

Each battery's 100 amp hours.

We would be able to live for maybe two weeks to a

month without any interruptions if we

had no sun or wind.

Narrator: In his basement safe room,

Bryan also stockpiles other items for bartering.

Items like medication and alcohol,

which he believes will be rare and therefore

valuable after a catastrophic earthquake.

Bryan: I believe when the shelves go empty,

there will be a premium on alcohol as you will

t be able to find it anywhere.

I have taken the medicine from the pet store before

to treat my urinary tract infections or kidney

infections and they've worked out excellent.

Narrator: If a new Madrid earthquake

one day cuts supply lines across America,

Bryan thinks people will return to bartering

for the vital supplies they need.

But right now, Bryan and Lacey need to develop

other sources of income in order to be able

contue ppping r dosday

so in addition to their auto shop,

they breed andell beard drons.

Lacey: Bearded dragons, depending on what color

phase they are, can sell anywhere

from $25 up to $250.

Narrator: And they run an adult website.

Lacey: When Bryan first came to me with the idea

for an adult website, I thought it was a good idea

because at the time I had a friend that was selling

bachelorette accessories and things like that

and e was making tons of money.

Everybody's always going to buy adult toys no

matter what type of, you know,

what the economy's at.

Narrator: With thisddedncom

Bryan and Lacey have turned theirasemt in

a prepper pantry, stocked with enough food to feed a

family of four for ur years.

Bryan: Fema says you should have a three-day

supply of food.

We got over 1,400 days of food.

On all our pps cbine I uld say probly

have spent $60,000 to $75,000.

Any amount of money is important,

no matter what the amount is,

but for feeling safe and secure,

you cannot put a price on that.

Narrator: Bryan and Lacey e confident their

extensive home preps will allow them to survive the

initial aftermath of a catastrophic

new Madrid earthquake.

But theylso liev these same preps will make

them prime targets for the millions of people

expected to be displaced.

So Bryan has something much bigger in mind,

something he believes could mean the difference

between life and death.

Convincing its owner to part with it, however,

might be a tougher sell than usual.

Dave: With delivery it's $2,900.

Bryan: That sounds good.

Are you willing to take any barter?

Major earthquake along the new Madrid fault line in

the central U.S., which they believe will cause

major flooding in the heartland,

dilacing several million people.

They've spent more than $60,000

making their suburban home self-sufficient,

but they're worried their security cameras and

arsenal won't be enough to protect them from the

millions of refugees they fear will come

knocking after the earthquake strikes.

So Bryan and Lacey's current number one

priority is to establish a secure,

secret bug-out location.

Lacey: We've thought about getting a shipping

container to actually bury in our backyard.

Bryan: A shipping container would be great

because it would be hidden underneath the ground.

So therefore we could basically bug-out

and not be seen.

Bryan: So you want to dig about a nine-foot hole and

connect it through either a basement or a sub-floor

and have one or more ways to get in or out of it.

Narrator: Using shipping containers as shelters and

emergency housing is a growing industry.

In the event of an earthquake,

a shipping container is 100 times stronger

than a conventionally designed home.

Dave: It's all been repainted.

It's basically rust free.

It's got some added vents.

Bryan: Wow.

Dave: Hardwood floors.

Bryan: Boy.

That's great.

Dave: With the delivery it's $2,900.

Bryan: Do you want to do any bartering?

Dave: I'm open to whatever you got in mind.

What are you thinkin'?

Bryan: Well, I've got my older bug-out

vehicle and then I also have some gold.

Dave: Bug-out vehicle?

What does that mean?

Bryan: Well, a bug-out vehicle is a vehicle that

you would get out of dodge with per se.

You know, something that's 4x4, you know,

something not low to the ground.

Dave: Can tak a ok at it

brya yes we n.

'S an der explorer, but you know,

I gureorth couple grand in barter.

Da: Okay, I might want to hear it run and take it

for a ride, but I'm interested.

And then you're ing Todd se go?

Bryan: Yes, we are.

These are 24-carat gold, one-gram bars.

Each one of them at current value

is about $50 apiece.

So we need, you know, enough to cover 900 or so.

There's the last one.

Dave: Perfect.

It's like a credit card but it's.

Bryan: Good anywhere, anywhere will take it.

Dave: Anywhere, any time.

Bryan: Exactly.

If people don't prep on their own,

when the time comes, the government does not have

the resources out there to help everybody.

That was proven in Katrina.

They basically put everybody in a stadium

and left them.

That kind of proves when something thabig

and overwhelming happens,

that you're etty mu on ur o.

Narrator: Bryan, the experts at

practical preppers have assessed your preps.

You have enough ammo to defend your family in a

crisis, but your communications plan

is inadequate.

We recommend investing in a ham radio.

Bryan: That is something we've already

been looking into buying already.

We're also trying to figure out ways to do

other means of communication other

than ham as well.

Narrator: We commend your energstore

capabilities and power generation and your food

storage is exceptional, you could feed your family

for more than a year.

But you need a re-supply plan.

Bryan: And that is something that we thought

out d we are going to be doing.

Narrator: Practical preppers has scored your

preps in five categories of 20 points each.

Food: 15 out of 20 points.

Water: You need additional filtration options,

16 out of 20 points.

Shelter: Your location in an urban area is not ideal

for sustainability, 15 out of 20 points.

Security: 10 out of 20 points.

Your biggest advantage is your solar and wind power.

For this you receive 15 x-factor points.

Overall, you receive a score of 71 out of 100.

You have an initial 13 months survival time.

Bryan: I can live with that assessment, um,

there's always room for improvement.

Since national geographic was here,

we've started breeding more and more dragons.

We've produced hundreds of babies since the show.

We also have done enhancements to

our rain catchment system.

Also, we've started a few websites for preparations

to sell different kinds of preparation products.

Thank you.

Narrator: Earthquakes on theew mrid fault

occur once every 500 years on average.

Scientists believe there's a greater than 1 in 50

chance that the new Madrid fault will unleash

a major earthquake in the next 50 years.