American Blackout

[jerrymrc]

They work great until the fuel supply runs out.

One of the local colocation outfits has gas turbine generators. Pretty cool stuff.

The old U-paks were turbine powered and chewed through fuel at an ungodly rate.

[rbeau30]

Meh, All these shows just like "Doomsday Preppers" are out there to entertain, so therefore they add as much drama into it as possible and find the most extreme cases to show. That does not mean that I cannot learn something from it to add to my plans.

Just a thought. I ignore all the stupid stuff and look for something I can learn.

[blacklabel]

I'll be watching.

[Omicron]

The teaser website immediately turned me off (pun intended) on this. Fox news broadcasting that the east coast is out of power followed by the rest of the country? What are they using to broadcast and who is able to watch? Even if those receiving are just to the few that are prepped, how are they getting that signal out? Power down means the internet is virtually off, and there is no way a generator will operate a high power antenna, certainly not across country. Watching the little news feeds, days 3 and 4 have the same dude in the background, bouncer one day, delivering a pallet of water the next. Day 8 has a hottie fresh from the hairdresser (again, power?) interviewing a prepper announcing to his neighbors "come and get it". And I am not searching for errors, just cruising the site. Bah. I know it is just entertainment for the stupid people, but.... they could have spent some money on and expert or two. I hope the show is better than the website.

It'll probably be as sensationalist crap as Doomsday Preppers is, making preppers look nuts and in general doing nothing to help people really realize they should be prepared. I'll probably still watch it, but don't have high expectations. Just hoping to learn a thing or two more in between the "extremism" Hollywood like to air.

here you go clod hopper v16 95 liters displacement 4000 hp ungodly amounts of torque 3.5 megawatt power output cummins qsk95

I want one.

[sellersm]

Not to derail the thread, but has anyone heard if the folks trying to make "Lights Out" into a movie have had any success with their funding? Now that's a movie I'd like to see and I think it'd make a great mini-series! Mix in a bit of Rawles' "Patriots" stories, and I think it'd be a winner! But not for the masses of sheeple probably.

[Wulf202]

They were in town for the survival expo.

[sellersm]

They were in town for the survival expo.

Did they say anything about the funding?

[Wulf202]

ARF htf has links.

[Great-Kazoo]

Not to derail the thread, but has anyone heard if the folks trying to make "Lights Out" into a movie have had any success with their funding? Now that's a movie I'd like to see and I think it'd make a great mini-series! Mix in a bit of Rawles' "Patriots" stories, and I think it'd be a winner! But not for the masses of sheeple probably.

They were in town for the survival expo.

Did they say anything about the funding?

ARF htf has links.

All the above. I had posted in the thread regarding the prepared expo the Lights Out crew was there, shaking hands and raising funds. Seems a bunch of arfcom members were used for the gun scenes.

[Irving]

AAA has a big diesel generator for power outages. I was there one time when the power went out and they immediately got on the phone to secure a place that would deliver diesel on the regular as long as they needed it.