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across the country there is a growing

darkness a belief that the end of days

is near i'm preparing my family for the

total destruction of the power grid the

yellowstone super volcano a financial

collapse load

ordinary americans from all walks of

life are taking whatever measures

necessary to prepare when survival is

the goal it's into the spider hole and

protect themselves go fast fast fast

fast

from what they perceive is the fast

approaching end of the world as we know

it

i'm gonna use like this

next we go inside the lives of three

committed preppers who have devised

extensive plans

what we've got here is 50 000 pounds and

it'll last two people for 20 years gone

to great lengths i eat what most people

would call weeds and made huge personal

sacrifices to ensure their very survival

but you know what

when it hits the fan she's gonna starve

to death and i'm gonna go

experts will assess their extreme preps

and decide if they have what it takes to

face armageddon we built our house out

of 40-foot steel shipping containers and

to survive

this is doomsday preppers

paul range is retired from his corporate

job and lives with his wife gloria

outside of floresville texas

they enjoy eating barbecue with friends

relaxing on their back porch

and

preparing for the end of the world as we

know it

let's go let's go we're bugging out

i'm a prepper because i'm preparing for

when it's the fan what we've got here is

about 50 000 pounds and it'll last two

people for

20 years

paul and gloria consider prepping for

the apocalypse a full-time job

they dedicate 50 hours a week to storing

food

building up defenses and designing

gadgets all to improve their chance of

survival after the end of days it's not

a hobby it's a lifestyle it's just in me

i don't know how to live any different

let's get going this sunday is no

different

a normal retiree activity like playing

golf is not on the agenda

instead they are testing the strength of

their home against incoming gunfire i

don't need mine as big because i hit

better

that's bad by shooting live rounds at

the walls this test is necessary to find

out

how effective

the house is against small arms fire

with the town of san antonio only 35

miles away

they fear that the end of the world will

bring desperate and armed civilians to

their doorstep people will show up and

want food and you cannot feed the entire

world

so we want a full hundred yards and

that's gonna be right out here to

simulate civilian fire they are testing

the 22 22-caliber rifle one of the most

common guns in america

okay weapon's hot

commits firing

dead-on it went through it i heard it

and that 3-8 steal the result of this

test whether a bullet will go through

the wall or not could mean the

difference between life and death for

those inside a house under siege

hopefully we won't have new holes in the

house

yeah we got uh one round here one around

here one round here one round here just

a slight bend

the test is a success

okay

some people would think that this was um

not normal behavior but it gives a whole

lot of peace of mind that rounds are not

going to be going completely through

i haven't been crawling crazy to my face

except for a couple of my kids you know

that doesn't worry me i mean this is the

lifestyle that we live and if people

don't like it they don't have to come on

the property

all of paul and gloria's preps are in

readiness for one extreme worldwide

event

a complete magnetic polar shift we are

seeing an increase

of earthquakes um that i think are

probably associated with some earth

changes

scientists agree that the earth's north

and south magnetic poles are constantly

moving location by up to 25 miles a year

and every 300 000 years or so prehistory

has shown that they will actually switch

completely

the last polar shift occurred 780 000

years ago leading some people to believe

we're overdue for a global flip-flop

that could have devastating consequences

the worst case would be a massive

earthquake type thing where the

continents did a fast shift most all the

buildings would fall down and collapse

paul believes that a polar shift will

also cause the continent's land masses

to shift north and south along the

earth's mantle

potentially moving antarctica towards

the equator and texas towards canada the

earthquakes have been stepping up lately

and by next year i'm thinking the

rattling will continue and intensify

everybody should be prepared

a typical house would be no match

against the devastation paul and gloria

fear so they built their very own

doomsday fortress the range compound

we built our house out of nine 40-foot

steel shipping containers

they are designed to carry about 58 000

pounds each

and be stacked eight high so that's an

incredible half million pounds of weight

that these things can sustain

shipping containers are normally used to

transport tons of commercial goods

across the ocean but recently their

ability to withstand heavy abuse and

their low cost around four thousand

dollars each has made them a desired

building material for dedicated preppers

essentially i'm in a welded steel box so

i'm not worried about my container

shifting in an earthquake

when i walked up to it the first time it

was just

wow this is really something we've done

we have

a structure that totally houses that

will totally feed us

and totally protect us the compound is

based on the layout of a medieval castle

a square fort that encloses a safe

courtyard and allows them 360 degrees of

protection

from the ground we can see about 800

yards in every direction from the roof

we can see about two miles

so we have clear fields of fire for out

to a thousand meters so that gives us an

area that we can see people that we can

see predators

but they cannot protect the compound

against everything

some believe a continental shift could

potentially move texas to a different

point on the globe completely changing

the climate if we shift north winters

are going to be harsher we have to

assume

that we're going to have crop failures

the prospect of a future without readily

available food drives paul and gloria to

cook not three but eight meals a day

allowing them to put aside enough food

each week to survive an extra 11

post-apocalyptic days what kind of

chicken you're making the chimichanga

base oh chingachanga base

and we're gonna can that yep the 25

pounds of chicken they preserve today

has enough protein to sustain four

people for six days we're preparing for

family and friends we're not just

preparing for the two of us

gloria's favorite doomsday candy is made

from fresh corn dehydrated so it can

last for over a decade dried corn is a

very good morale booster and treat food

it's extremely sweet kids eat it just

like candy eight gallons of fresh corn

dehydrates into a one gallon jar so two

weeks supply for four people

and at night

the day's hunt is butchered so it can be

smoked and stored this dough could

potentially feed 22 people for a week

all of their food is added to

the pantry

a container with a 58 000 pound capacity

and right now they're running out of

space

i would say we have in excess of fifty

thousand pounds of food

corn worth seven hundred

in this room it's our main pantry and we

have everything starting with pastas

wet canned goods spices

fema guidelines suggest that three days

worth of food should be stored in your

home in case of a disaster

for paul and gloria that is just a drop

in the bucket we could make it for 15

years for 22 people

but back here in the cans they have the

20-year shelf life or more right

food storage was like an insurance

policy we figured that our food has

actually gained 400 in value since we

started so instead of investing in a

401k that just now lost 27 000 in the

last three weeks we have actually gained

in value of 400 percent so for me that's

a good investment

paul believes that a rapid continental

shift would cause earthquakes that will

knock out the electrical grid

and rupture gas lines

so after the day's food preps are

complete he spends up to seven hours a

day working on alternative sources of

energy

when the grid goes down i just flip a

switch and we're in power this machine

on the roof called an upwind machine

you're putting out about 650 of the 750

watts that the machine is capable of of

handling paul has built and installed a

system of small windmills and solar

panels making the compound capable of

being completely independent of the

national grid instead of having one huge

solar panel array and one huge wind

generator we've opted to spread that out

so if i have a wind generator failure

it's not going to affect

my entire system wind and solar are just

two ways that paul worked to doomsday

proof his energy

the third way

is just as effective

but not quite as clean the methane is

run by the pig poop

and actually our poop too

methane is a highly flammable gas

produced from human and animal waste

sewer line comes in from the house and

then from the pig pen and in to the

methane bio digester

despite its origins methane is actually

an odorless gas

this gives us a cooking fuel that is not

a wood product in the case that the flag

went up and society went to hell you

could smell wood smoke from several

miles away and i don't want to be that

person that's burning that wood smoke

the structure is actually taking care of

me

we're prepared here we have water we

have food we have means to grow things

we have our animals here we have all the

power requirements that we want i can

get a good night's sleep knowing that

i'm protected within these walls

paul and gloria have built a prepper's

paradise that they believe will see them

through 15 years of hell on earth

but if staying put becomes too dangerous

they also have a plan b that will take

their prepping to a whole new extreme

paul range and his wife gloria haswell

are convinced that the world's

continental land masses will soon shift

north or south along the earth's mantle

causing catastrophic earthquakes that

will flatten our cities

and crush our infrastructure

even if we shifted two or three degrees

it would still throw everything in the

chaos

there will be a series of devastating

earthquakes and i just want to be ready

determined to face the apocalypse with

reinforcements paul and gloria have

picked a team of 22 friends and family

who will live and fight alongside them

we're just going to do a little target

shooting and a little range safety today

some of the team assembles at the range

compound to hone their prepping skills

and solidify their plans

all right make yourself ready load

range is going hot fire one ready

the time that i realized

that i needed to prep

was in vietnam

i was there in 1975 when it fell

the chaos was just unbelievable

i just don't want to be stuck in that

type of situation

you may fire it well

so because of our military experience we

leaned a little heavier toward

military type

we have probably three quarters that a

marksman

i was a marine in his army

yeah for both grunts

i was on iraq

there's no infrastructure at all it's

gone down all right show me the weapon i

don't like being helpless and now i feel

good because i have a plan good job

stevie boy and i feel prepared

38 not really there are some couples

there are some with kids

move to wherever you're comfortable at

go to town the children are the future

excellent form all right shotgun boy

and the nice thing is that uh children

growing up in that type of environment

are not going to really know anything

else

but building stocking and manning a

bulletproof compound is not enough for

paul and gloria like many preppers they

want the complete insurance of a plan b

our goal uh no matter what happens um

except for in the in the case of

something really extreme happening is to

actually stay in place but if we had to

we could uproot and operate really

quickly let's get going let's get moving

in case the range compound is

compromised they have formulated an

extensive evacuation plan a bug out that

will take the entire team to a second

location 12 hours north

and today they will test it out

we're running a drill to make sure that

we can load up in under an hour

and bug out they will drive specially

customized bug out vehicles

second hand school buses we've got a

house sitting on wheels

we took all the seats but a few out we

have a way for at least four to six

people to sleep

within the confines of the vehicle

paul knows from vietnam that being able

to bug out quickly could mean the

difference between life and death

timing is everything all right guys we

have uh 55 minutes to get the bus loaded

up let's get going

those cans those cans

their aim today is to leave the compound

with their animals approximately 10 000

pounds of food and 310 gallons of water

in under an hour let's put these boxes

over here the tail gunner's gonna be

there all right let me have the carbine

please

and we're gonna lean the carbine in the

corner we believe that we can survive

for about 10 years with what we're going

to take with us

come on goats we're bugging out

our animals are actually trained

to bug out come on

come on goats

hurry hurry hurry

you're gonna get left behind

we've got water we've got food and

kitchen equipment we've got the medical

supply we're ready to go all right guys

let's get going

go go go go

let's go let's go

pulling out

the convoy of buses will travel to a

pre-designated safe point two and a half

hours from the compound

from there they will go on to their

final and secret destination

we have a specific time of the day

that we are going to leave because we

want to move through some areas in the

dark and we want to move through some

areas in the daylight we can get to

anywhere within the state without having

to actually pass through a big city

a school bus was actually designed to

roll over and everybody inside come out

intact

when we feel that we need to pull over

for the night then we are going to

actually circle the wagons

the pioneers going across this country

circled their wagon for extremely valid

reason by replicating the pioneers and

creating a square with four bug out

vehicles paul's team can spend the night

in the safe central haven defend it on

all sides

with a minimum of four guards you have a

defensive position

paul and gloria's team have successfully

bugged out to their save points within

the appointed time

we can be really proud of the fact

that that plan worked i knew you could

do a good job

i think that you need to be responsible

for yourself and for your family and to

do anything less is a criminal act

the experts in disaster preparedness

practical preppers have concluded that

you have multiple sources of water

and extensive food stores and that your

home defense and emergency evacuation

plans are excellent

also your energy and fuel alternatives

are exceptional you have an overall

fantastic level of preparedness

however keeping your 15-year food supply

in one area is a grave risk leaving you

vulnerable to losing it all with one

direct hit or one strong attack that's a

fair assessment that would be a good

idea to diversify the food into multiple

locations our thought on that was that

probably if our food supply was

compromised by us being overrun this

position we wouldn't really care at that

point because we'd be dead

since the original filming we have added

several things in reference to splitting

up our food storage we have actually

stored a little bit more food within our

bug out vehicles and we do have caches

along the way of our bug-out route so

that's some of the things that we've

actually changed

christopher niergash is prepping for a

killer earthquake that could completely

flatten the city of los angeles

faced with overwhelming destruction he

plans on taking to the hollywood streets

foraging to survive but will the experts

be impressed by his lone wolf approach

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christopher niergesch runs several

farmers markets and teaches grows his

own food and loves to hike in the hills

around la he's a regular down to earth

californian

except i'm preparing for the possibility

of a devastating earthquake in the city

of los angeles

it would be the height of stupidity to

be aware of earthquakes and watch the

news and see what happens and not make

some preparations

i live here in southern california this

is earthquake country

the san andreas fault runs like an 800

mile long scarred down the western coast

of the united states and mexico

it's up to a mile across and at least 10

miles deep

a gigantic earthquake along this fault

line would rip the state of california

apart

some people do say we're past due for an

eight on the richter scale which would

be devastating in the next 30 years

geologists believe that the probability

of a major 6.7 or higher earthquake in

southern california is nearly 100

a truly massive quake could kill

thousands and leave millions homeless

what do you think the scenario would be

in los angeles

for example today when the lakers win a

game the local thugs are burning cars

and breaking into windows and looting

stores to celebrate

major quake will bring panicked chaotic

behavior by people

christopher's plan after a quake

includes being able to survive under the

radar on the chaotic city streets

everybody has a different take on what

they think preparedness is if somebody

likes to hole up in a place and hide i

believe that that is the antithesis of

survival you've got to split you can't

stay there you have to be on the road

christopher regularly tests his street

survival skills right in the middle of

the concrete jungle his only supplies

those he can carry in his bag most

people call this a bug out pack but i

just refer to it as a survival pack

tools are what's important this is from

a chainsaw the wire saws in the

backpacking stores are junk oh a sling

there are birds and ducks and things and

if i had to potentially i could catch

some meat for dinner with my sling a

knife

can never have enough knives

i have never seen a survival kit

manufactured that i liked

some twine because it's made with

somebody else's needs in mind you are

the best person for making your own

survival kit you know what your needs

are your family's needs your terrain

what your situation is going to be

if there was a major quake there's quite

a few things that will happen

simultaneously electricity is going to

go down every transaction is electronic

you won't go to a store and be able to

buy stuff certainly not with a card it

behooves you to have cash and coin on

hand

along the la river the homeless guys who

come here at night are very territorial

so you may have to engage in some

serious trading

so one of the things that i suggest

carrying in a survival pack like this is

articles of trade these are a roll of

eisenhower dollars so people will treat

this as if it's worth more than a dollar

when they want cash but christopher is

also prepping for a time when his cash

runs out and he will have to be able to

trade and barter to survive homemade

arrow points it could be used for making

arrows they could be articles of trade

under certain circumstances they are

intrinsically useful

a massive earthquake in l.a could

decimate highways and limit supply lines

christopher believes that food will be

in short supply

he prepares regularly foraging for his

food in the parking lots and concrete

underpasses around the city

a lot of the greens that i eat for salad

or additions to soup and vegetable

dishes

they are what what most people would

call weeds

we're along the la river and we've got a

freeway next to us

and you'd think that there's no food

here at all

but the fact is there really is food

everywhere food is not in short supply

it's uh brains that are in short supply

here's one example of an edible plant

it's called lambsquarter or wild spinach

frequently i'll go out and we'll find

greens and we'll make a salad in the

wild i'm going to take just a few of the

tips for a lunch later

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in just a two acre area christopher has

foraged 10 different plants that can be

used to make his salad

just chopping it all into bite-size

pieces

my survival kit usually has salad

dressing

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one of my motivating reasons for getting

into botany in the first place was that

if there was a widespread disaster i

could eat

i know that i'm never going to be hungry

for the rest of my life because there's

plenty of food everywhere even if there

are no stores

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if the big one hits the city's hospitals

could be severely damaged understaffed

and overflowing with patients

christopher's botanical skills allow him

to treat wounds with just what he can

find growing in the city the willow tree

is found everywhere where there's water

see this is a medicinal plant when you

take off the fresh bark their cambium

layer contains a high amount of salicin

or salicylic acid that's aspirin what if

i get into a knife fight what if i had a

wound on my arm you don't want

infections you want to stop the bleeding

make it a little bit moist

press it onto a wound and i would bind

this on tightly onto the wound and leave

it there for a while to get the effect

of the aspirin or the salicylic acid

settling down for the night in the

dangerous and quake devastated city

means being able to light a fire fire is

as critical and i could even argue

more critical than food

i can remember going into the woods with

book matches and stick matches and in

the rain and in the wet and the cold

that's just not good enough

christopher carries fire starters at all

times and can even create a fire using

just scraps

the hand drill method uses a stick to

create friction and sparks in a notch of

soft wood in the old days when native

americans left home like we might leave

home and you can't leave home without

your credit card and your cell phone

they had to have some kind of a knife in

the fire starter those were like

absolutely critical tools for survival

and for day to day functioning so we

finally got our fire

we can cook our food we can purify our

water

we can make tools we could signal

we could stay warm

we could stay alive

i've survived in the urban environment

my whole life to be able to go into

nature and create something that you

need

that's invaluable

i mean you can't buy that

if the world came to an end and

civilization collapsed i do feel

confident that there is a sufficient

number of people out there today that

are doing and practicing these things

that civilization will arise again

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christopher our experts in disaster

preparedness practical preppers feel

your extremely well-rounded and survival

skills

and gathering wild resources would prove

invaluable if the big one were to hit la

however

although you are able to live off the

land

you must accept the possibility that

during an earthquake the wild areas in

l.a may quickly become depleted i

completely agree

we recommend that you store more food to

prepare for this possibility

i would tend to agree

that you can never have enough you

should always have more water than you

think is sufficient

and you should always have more food

than you think is sufficient also in a

true crisis situation you will be well

served to carry guns for your protection

and choose a safe bug out location in

advance that could be used as a

fortified base

he actually does not know what possible

plan i do have like that but

it's a valid point and i am in complete

agreement thank you

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so now that

okay so now that national geographic has

been here what have i done differently

well i have looked at what i store and

what i do and i have tried to make a few

minor adjustments but i look at the

skills that i try to develop and the

friendships that i try to cultivate and

i feel that those are key areas that are

always in need of development for long

term survival i get out there and work

to create the kind of society that you

really want to be a part of

and i feel that's what i have done

as a result of this national geographic

visit

next

houston party girl megan hurwitz

prepares for a worldwide oil crisis that

she believes will devastate the entire

nation

megan hurwit is a young uninhibited

independent woman living in houston

texas

she is a web developer who loves her

cats

her convertible

and her cocktails with friends

and

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i'm preparing for a catastrophic oil

crisis and when it hits the fan i'm

gonna be fitter than you are

i love houston i've always been a big

fan of our city skyline good eats and

good drinks i like to drink i like to

have fun with my friends i like to go

out

to the world may it not end but if it

does we're prepared

i also believe that we're going to have

an oil crisis in my lifetime

the united states is the largest

consumer of oil in the world and megan

believes that when an oil crisis occurs

the united states oil reserves will be

quickly used up

oils used to make a lot of the products

that we use today

it's used to power our cars and to power

the 18 wheelers that take us food

if the middle eastern countries suddenly

cut us off for gas

we would be very very quickly in trouble

houston scott's just about three-day

supply of everything including oil and

food all of that would go off the

shelves almost immediately

megan fears a global oil crisis will

hurl the country and her city into chaos

in a matter of

days we're gonna starve

that's going to send everybody into a

panic

they're going to run out to all the

supermarkets and buy up everything that

you need to survive

people are going to start stealing other

people's food you're gonna hear gunshots

a lot of them people are gonna start to

kill each other when people's kids go

hungry they're gonna come after you

your lives would be in danger my life

would be in danger and it would happen

within a matter of days

megan lives in a 700 square foot

apartment

which makes prepping for long-term

survival a challenge

there are so many problems prepping in a

tiny little urban apartment we have no

space for preps we've had to fill up

every nook and cranny with canned goods

and water we've had to dedicate a lot of

space in our second bedroom

we've got mres

most likely this will feed me for three

months i have a veggie bank and an herb

bank it's important to have seats

because if the stuff really hits the fan

you're not gonna have any way of

buying food

these are the safes

this one's for smaller handguns and

pistols this one's for full rifles

i've got guns bullets lots of bullets

lots of bullets

i used to be a lot more shallow i still

love high heels and i love fashion but

i'm also thinking about is there

anything that i can conceal a weapon in

is there anything that i can hook a

harness to is there anything that i can

store a gun case in

i plan to bug in anywhere from two to

four weeks in this apartment have my

preps that i have here to feed myself

and to keep myself hydrated wait for

everybody to panic and leave and then

bug out as soon as everybody's left i'll

be walking out of houston to a bug-out

vehicle an undisclosed location

i'm going to mexico

survival kitty wants to be cute that's

his plan of survival unfortunately cats

are not as useful as dogs when it comes

to survival situation my boyfriend's

plan for the kitty cats if the fan is to

put a bullet in their head

they had a good life we've spoiled them

rotten and he insists that once we get

to the bug out location we'll

we'll take more in

sorry timber

right there right in the brain stem

i've only been called crazy for prepping

once but she was really malicious about

it but you know what when it hits the

fan she's gonna starve to death and i'm

gonna go

expecting a middle east oil shutdown

megan has devised a way to evacuate

houston

but how will she hold up in a real-time

bug-out simulation i think that was one

of the mistakes that i made this time

and what will the experts ultimately say

about her urban survival strategy

megan hurwitz is a vibrant 20-something

who spends her spare time taking full

advantage of houston's nightlife she is

also preparing for a global energy

catastrophe that she fears will cause

complete chaos

which will make bugging out her only

chance at survival

bugging out basically means taking the

goods that you need to survive putting

them in a backpack and walking out on

foot this is my go bag

my go bag has 24 hours worth of preps

that i keep on me at all times it's

really easy to carry around it's very

inconspicuous it's meant for an

emergency situation where i will be

coming back home feminine products are

really important to keep spares of i

keep pictures of my social security card

my driver's license my passport and

birth control right now we have 160

condoms

so it'll it'll last us you know four or

five days

this is my inch bag an inch bag stands

for i'm not coming home

and it carries everything that i would

need in order to survive

long enough to get to my bug out vehicle

the great thing about this bag is that

it carries a lot of stuff but one of the

deterrents is that it's extremely

obvious this bag would be saying please

mug me take my stuff and leave me for

dead

megan believes that the crippling

economic effects of an oil crisis will

increase crime exponentially

today she goes shopping for a bug out

bag that might reduce her risk of

becoming a statistic

i'm looking for a better bug out

bag i need something a little bit more

discreet than a camping bag i'm

preparing for the worst as we all should

and so i'm looking for something with an

external frame that i can hook bags to

so i can carry untraditional shape gear

this particular unit as you can see

it hides everything that identifies it

as a backpack it goes within the ceiling

compartment

then it looks like a regular out of

share or regular

as i mean instead of you carrying it

like that when you do get to the point

that you have to have so much overweight

and expansion within the bag

and you can barely easily convert it

into a bag i want one of those okay

like you have no other stuff on you

what's the one thing that you would need

pepper spray is probably the easiest

thing that a lot of women will carry

think of this the adrenaline is flowing

but guess what

it's not flowing in you until you're

touched it's already flowing once you've

been contained or held then the scenario

changes you're going to have to have the

mindset if it ever happens i'm going to

survive

i have some skills that i can trade i

have some useful preps that i can trade

and i think that i would survive on my

feet for uh three or four months before

i'd have to resort to less than savory

means of supporting myself

you don't want to end up having to

yourself out in order to live and really

that's what a lot of women would face

megan plans to escape houston by hiking

out of the city with her 40-pound inch

bag in preparation she works out four

hours a day six days a week to make sure

she will be able to complete the journey

when the oil runs out the cars won't

work the planes won't fly the trucks

won't drive

and i'm a

machine i have to make every part of me

work at peak efficiency i'm preparing

for a time when i might have to fight my

way out of the city

i'm gonna have to do a lot of climbing

up and down buildings

trying to get away

evasive maneuvers

so uh it's good for the ankles to kind

of practice up you don't want to snap

one when you're doing your actual bug

out because there's not going to be

anyone to help you

and you're going to run into people who

may have nefarious purposes

megan will need more than just brute

strength to survive

today she works with survival specialist

larry phelan to learn important skills

megan came to me today to learn more

about survival if she has any problems

with you know the upcoming issues with

the collapse of our society or whatever

what can i do exactly if i lose my knife

a knife is very easily made with a rock

the edge

wow break those off like that and clean

your fish

so right now i'm following along the

vertebrae don't head that way too much

you got to get down until you get the

right spot there you can feel that bone

touching your rock

cooking the fish will actually decrease

the amount of nutrients and the calories

that you're going to get so eating it

raw is actually preferable and i'm about

to do that

fishy but very very very fresh

if chaos engulfs houston as megan

believes she feels she needs additional

security which one you're shooting at

when the hits the fan

don't be the one standing in front of

the fan

you better be prepared to defend

yourself

any specific tips for how to deal with

the situation as a woman you just have

to make sure that they hear authority in

your voice you want to make sure they

understand that i am not your average

moment i will pop a cap in your ass and

you're not taking my nice

the ar is a good choice for her you're

gonna have a hard time beating this gun

for fighting people

one of my biggest issues is that i have

trouble loading the magazines quickly

give it a spank

in a combat situation that would

actually really slow me down and be a

detriment to me well and that's why you

need to darn sure practice that

the ar-15 is my favorite

i sure as hell wouldn't want you

shooting at me

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megan is prepping for a catastrophic

global oil crisis that she believes will

occur in her lifetime but when she is

faced with a practice bug out will she

be truly prepared

and what will the experts practical

preppers think of her preparations and

her evacuation plan this pack's getting

pretty heavy

megan hurwitz is preparing for a global

oil crisis which she believes will lead

to a total breakdown of civilization

this party girl turned prepper practices

shooting regularly just put the gun up

and does intense workouts

in the event of an oil shutdown megan

fears that all motorized transportation

will be useless making the 50 000 miles

of houston roadways

a giant parking lot

she believes her only chance to escape

to safety

is on foot

bye kitties behave yourself

tonight all of megan's preps and

training will be put to the ultimate

test a practice run of her on foot

evacuation plan

it's gonna be 10 to 12 miles depending

upon what i have to go around and what

obstacles i'm gonna have to travel

through

the best time to do this would be right

at dusk that way i'll have enough cover

of darkness

but i'll still be able to see

there's a good chance there won't be any

power so i'll be

completely in the dark for the most part

i'll be starting from the heights and

making my way down montrose

and straight through the city

if i hurry i can be there in three hours

if there's blockades he could take me

all the way to four or five

when i do this for real

all this is gonna be dark

there's a few areas that i walk through

that uh are not the most savory

there were a few points when i thought i

might need to pull out my handgun

some of the sketchy errors i was a

little worried about getting mugged

it's happened to me before it could

happen again

i could handle myself

from here we're gonna head out of the

city

until i reach my bug-out vehicle and

then i'll be able to drive to my bug out

location

i'm about six miles from my final

destination

and i've covered about six miles of

ground you do

you should always carry spare pair on

you

kind of getting tired

ah this pack's getting a little heavy

my feet feel like they're about to fall

off my ankles

so it's been a long

long six hours

hike uh took twice as long as i thought

it was going to i'm just going to

continue to follow

the brook out of town in a real bug-out

situation it's best to follow the sewer

lines and the rivers because they're

inconspicuous

there's a somewhat fresh stream of water

that can be purified

it's usually below the water table it's

away from the streets it's really the

best way to go

i think next time i'm going to carry

less gear maybe i can invest in some

lighter

lighter gear

when you're doing

a real bug out you want to be carrying

in ounces not pounds and i think that

was one of the mistakes that i made this

time

all right i'm exhausted but i'm losing

time and i'm almost there

not much further

i'm by no means an expert at any of this

stuff

even with all the preparation and all

the skill sets i'm trying to learn and

all the foresight that i'm putting into

prepping to hit the fan next week i

probably wouldn't make it if it hits the

fan in five years i'll probably be okay

megan

if as you predicted there's a global oil

crisis in your lifetime

the experts practical preppers feel that

your food and water storage will leave

you woefully unprepared to remain in

your apartment for any length of time

that's about all we can afford

and your plan to leave houston will be

your only alternative

improving your self-defense skills and

physical conditioning and having a

prepped out bag are all important steps

however

you should have at least two alternative

routes i believe i have a smart route

for evacuating the city but i haven't

given much thought to a secondary or

tertiary plan that's something that i'll

be looking into very shortly

also the experts review estimates that

your bug out vehicle has only enough gas

to take you 300 miles

at a minimum mexico is 320 miles from

houston the experts advise that you

store additional fuel in your vehicle or

have hidden caches along the way i may

not have enough gas to complete the

journey but i believe that there are

opportunities to acquire trade for it

along the way

since national geographic has left

i enlisted myself in the us military

in the hopes that i would be able to

help

my fellow civilians if times were to

grow darker than they are now

and i've actually completely revisited

our bug out location i don't think i

want to head down to mexico because of

the

violence that's prevalent in that area

my advice to people is get it together

because

anything could happen

how likely are the events featured in

this program

the earth's magnetic poles swap about

every four hundred thousand years but

there is no evidence that a swap is due

soon and it wouldn't impact the earth's

tilt rotation or seismic activity there

has never been a complete cutoff of

foreign oil to the united states and

it's not likely

top importers are allies canada and

mexico also the u.s produces about half

the oil it consumes and it has more than

a month's supply in the world's largest

government stockpile

and the possibility of a major

earthquake a magnitude 8.0 or higher

could hit los angeles in the next 30

years but the chances are less than 3

percent

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