Megan Hurwitt on Doomsday Preppers
by Terrance Franklin
After doing some research I discovered that Megan was misrepresented rather drastically by the makers of Doomsday Preppers. She's really an ordinary girl who preps on the side like you or I, but the editors took liberties with some of the more severe things she mentioned in passing. Susceptible to derailing this write-up I am going to save each objection for the section it's covered in.
1. Oil embargo
Based on the interview with Megan after the show, this was one of the numerous scenarios she was preparing for, with the others considered too boring for television. Whilst the thought of an all out embargo is quite far fetched, there is definitely plenty of reason behind being worried regarding oil.
No matter whether OPEC countries prefer us to have it or not, the provision of oil in the earth is limited. Peak oil was a theory put out by one of the major geologists of the 20th century, M. King Hubbert. His work with statistical models is still used today to estimate the oil production of a particular geographical location. Hubbert himself was able to forecast the peak of US oil production (in the mid 70s) as earlier as 1956.
The concept of peak oil uses this type of model for the earth as a whole. Numbers differ on when the peak will be reached (if it hasn't already) however regardless of when it takes place we are in trouble because of basic economics. With growing need for oil and decreasing supply, access to oil will become progressively more challenging. This extends to all factors of international business, transport and manufacturing of plastic items and may cause the havoc National Geographic was trying to show as outrageous.
2. Crazy people and prepping in the city
Megan brings up an excellent point when she talks about how society will fall after supplies become depleted, that can essentially be in 3 days. This has been observed before fairly near to home with the state of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina - good people and American citizens turning to looting and damage in distressed times. How good you believe your neighbors are goes out the window whenever their children are feeling hungry.
Even though she had the room to stockpile supplies, she does not have ways to defend herself in a city with thousands and thousands of starving mouths. This is the truth for most of us who reside in cities (myself included). It might be better to concentrate on bugging out compared to pantry prepping in the conventional sense
3. Physical prep
In line with her bug out driven survival plan, Megan is sensibly going through physical preparation. I like the fact that she does body weight and calisthenics based training instead of exercising in a health club. Mobility is the name of the game and almost nothing will build that speedier than moving one;s own body.
Another good practice (particularly for her) would be rucking. For anybody not familiar with this is actually marching with a jam-packed back pack, very common in the military. Meg was having trouble with strength when she tested her bug out however this would have helped her out.
6. Raw fish and vitamins
Megan has an eye out for vitamins when she chooses eating uncooked fish instead of cooking it. There is a whole nutritional motion around this referred to as raw foodism that is based on the health advantages of eating like this. However, in a true survival scenario I feel the danger outweigh the advantages. The loss of vitamins due to cooking is partial, however getting a food borne illness, specially while bugging out, can be potentially deadly.
7. Shooting full beer cans
If there's one thing that made me turn my head over anything else in this show, it was the shot of Megan shooting full beer cans. I have noticed a few insane things in my day but watching a Texan waste beer like that is just too much to bear.
8. Ounces not pounds
My favorite quotation of the sequence so far has to be Megan talking about ounces and not pounds when it comes to bugging out. With a strategy like this, urban preppers must take attention on decreasing the quantity of products they have got. While homesteaders and pantry preppers are focused on volume, urban and bug out preppers should focus on economy. As we can observe with Megan's level of strength during her dry run, despite in depth conditioning there is a severe difficulty in bugging out. You had better assume that every ounce matters when you are trying to get from dodge.
Thank you for reading! Terrance Franklin writes about survival and nutrition on a number of sites on the web. For more information on doomsday preppers, be sure to check out <a href="http://doomsdayprepperswatch.wordpress.com/">here</a>. And for even deeper reading, follow the link at <a href="http://doomsdaypreppers.hubpages.com/hub/doomsdayprepper">doomsday preppers</a>
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