American Blackout Tonight

[Oh Shoot]

Get your attention? :)

 

Looks to be pretty good, tonight on National Geo, at 9 Eastern, repeated at 11. A fitting companion to the Walking Dead perhaps, the real zombie hordes that would arise?

 

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-blackout/videos/american-blackout-trailer/

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-sagers/natgeos-american-blackout_b_4158582.html

 

- OS

Edited October 27, 2013 by Oh Shoot

[GlockSpock]

Some interesting comments there in that first link.


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[Moped]

Who is watching?

[Moped]

Note to self; do not get stuck in an elevator with a nationwide power outage!

[rugerla1]

Missed the beginning, so set it to record the next showing. Thanks for the heads up.

[Wingshooter]

Argh... I'm sitting out here in Central Time Zone on a trip waiting for it to come on at 9pm (20mins to go, not!) I guess I'll have to watch the end then catch the next showing.

[zgunbear]

Been a good show. Good what if scenario

[Moped]

Anyone think the prepper had enough water to last 2 months with only 250 gallons? That was for a family of 4.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Dunno, didn't seem very realistic. Who is watching all those news shows and presidential pep talks days after the power is out and communications are down? Or is it just transmitted for the benefit of the world audience?

I think maybe it would be either a whole lot worse, or not as bad as in this depiction. Kinda like that WW III TV mini series "The Day After"-- It was purt grim, but not near as bad as the real event would have been. Kinda watered down so that typical folks could watch it at all, maybe.

Lots of the folks in this blackout seem unusually stupid and unresourceful, but maybe that is on-par.

One would (I think) see more natl guard and military sooner, but given it is presided over by Obama, maybe that is realistic as well.

[zgunbear]

In college I took a sociology class and the prof liked to say that America is 48 hours with out power from a major meltdown.

I think the inner cities would burn in just a day.

[Oh Shoot]

In college I took a sociology class and the prof liked to say that America is 48 hours with out power from a major meltdown.

I think the inner cities would burn in just a day.

 

Yeah, I thought the whole thing was fairly well done.

 

Lester, I got that that it was just more of "found/available footage" type intent, had to have some source for the "documentary" -- though I'm sure TV and radio would continue broadcasting as long they could, whole linkage from source to end user dependent on generators of course.

 

And yeah zgun, the only real unknown is whether it would actually take 10 days to get that bad -- like you, I'd halve that, or less. Hell, there might be cannibalism in ten days.

 

Within 30 days, probably kiss at least a fourth of the population off, as disease starts taking toll; probably be cholera and whatnot in populated areas by then. I image the largest number would simply die in place of shock and despair, for lack of better psychological terms.

 

- OS

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Maybe if one has neighbors, either burbs or rural, and one is well-prepped, pehaps camoflage would be useful. For one thing, be the first out begging supplies from neighbors. Thataway they wouldn"t maybe think of hitting you up, if they figger you are worse off than them?

[hlb14]

Watched the replay this morning and thought it was very interesting. Wish they would've followed one's journey to get home once everything started.

[whitewolf001]

Why in gods name is the kid with the video camera on night duty??? Ugh.... -_-

[Spiffy]

I watched it just now. Too much "happy endings" at the end.  If someone had a knife on my dad they wouldn't get any "hey drop the knife".  What I took away from it was city folks are hosed.

[Spiffy]

Why in gods name is the kid with the video camera on night duty??? Ugh.... -_-

 

Why did Dad just have a double barrel in the house all those "weapons of war" in his bunker lol.