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- Brent prepares his children and grandchildren because he fears an Electromagnetic Pulse, caused by a nuclear detonation will cripple the national power lines, possibly forever. Instead of bunkers, he has built a medieval castle and teaching his children and grandchildren new tactics of defense and survival. This was spun off into its own series, Doomsday Castle. Meanwhile, in Bear Grass, North Carolina, Derek Price also fears an EMP. He is using his privately owned amusement park, called Deadwood, so that he, his friends and family can survive. (en)
- Bruce Beach, a lifelong prepper, is focused on nuclear war and saving children in his 42 underground buses; Jeremy and Kelly, concerned parents in Salt Lake City, are preparing for the collapse of society due to peak oil; Bradford Frank of San Diego works around the clock in preparation for a worldwide pandemic that could end life as we know it.
Highlights: Ark Two Shelter - Peak oil - Water Resources — Antibiotics — Bug-out Vehicle - Bird Flu (en)
- Brad and his family are preparing to survive an economic collapse in their backyard bunker. Meanwhile, in Kansas, Kevin Barber has devised a unique plan to also escape an economic collapse: by permanently settling down in Costa Rica. (en)
- Texas prepper "Mr Wayne" bases his doomsday fears on a Chinese financial takeover and he has prepared many ways to survive such events. John & Cristina Sellers are hardworking Americans who want to protect what they have. Jason & Tanya have done their homework on how life and prepping can happen on a budget.
Highlights: Underground Storage — Reloading bullets - Explosives - Bartering - Gold panning (en)
- John Major has moved his family to Idaho for a more natural lifestyle; Janet Spencer, an author in Montana, decided because of her location to prepare for refugees fleeing from disasters in larger nearby cities; Jack & Jackie Jobe, though new to prepping, have made great progress in preparing for their future survival.
Highlights: Edible insects - Superfood - Dirty bomb - Survival Seedbanks — Food storage (en)
- Barry, Pink and Cole have the ultimate urban underground bunker right in their garage; Steve Pace, a hometown survivalist, is ready to take on long-term electric failure; Carolina resident Laura Kunzie is preparing for a massive airborne flu outbreak.
Highlights: Bunkers — Off-Grid Sanitation — Bug out - EMP - Hillbilly faraday cage - Bird Flu - Quarantine (en)
- Martin Colvill lives on the road with his wife as a "survival trucker" and looks to prepare for the upcoming economic collapse; Donna Nash is prepared to quarantine all her family members to protect against a global pandemic; Kevin O'Brien is concerned about losing his home due to rising sea levels created by global warming or a polar shift.
Highlights: Weapons training — Security systems - Home defense - Polar Shift (en)
- Jason Beacham is a 15-year-old boy who has been prepping for economic collapse since age 11; Big Al is a Tennessee musician who is prepping for a Russian nuclear attack with a secret mountainous bug-out location; former racer Braxton Southwick of Salt Lake City is prepping for a biological terrorist attack.
Highlights: Economic collapse - Bioterrorism (en)
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- Highlights: aquaponics, quad (en)
- Bryan Smith, remembering his eventful past has been prepping for an economic collapse. Meanwhile, Christine has been using her skills, organization and strictness to prepare for a mega-tsunami caused by the Cumbre Vieja volcano which could collapse and cause the tsunami which will wipe out the East Coast of the United States (en)
- Tracy Foutch adds armor to a school bus to use as a bug out vehicle. Dan Rojas uses a Fresnel lens scavenged from an old rear-projection TV to focus sunlight enough to sterilize water via distillation, and for cooking meat.
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- This episode was a recap episode of Season 2. (en)
- For Mike Mester, civil unrest is just around the corner and he aims to get everyone ready; Colorado computer programmer Preston White has collected over 11,200 types of seeds and plans for biosphere living in a Fukushima-irradiated future while friends Shane and others provide supportive help; Riley Cook spends his days working close to home and with the prepper society building underground structures.
Highlights: Nuclear disaster information — Biospheres - Seedbank - Animals for defense — Fuel storage - Food storage - Alternative fuel resources — Underground bunkers (en)
- Jeff Bushaw plans to fly his family to safety following the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano; Allen and Franco have built sustainable food production systems in preparation for worldwide food shortages; John Adrain has invented numerous security gadgets to turn his estate into a technological fortress safe from a wide range of disasters.
Highlights: Yellowstone Supervolcano - Global food crisis - Home automation - Aquaponics (en)
- Rob builds a system of elaborate booby traps around his home near Dallas. Greg builds a near-invisible bugout location in the woods.
Highlights: booby traps, camouflage (en)
- National Geographic brings the year together by looking at how some people have prepared in similar ways and tells the story of why the show as a whole works, teaching others that any emergency preparation is better than none.
Highlights: Underground bunkers — Food storage — Water — Firearms — Defense — Emergency Transportation (en)
- David Sarti, a YouTube "firearms instructor" and self-taught survivalist, is prepared for an electrical grid failure; Kellene Bishop of Utah has stocked only the finest gourmet survival foods in preparation for financial collapse; Kathy Harrison, "the Doris Day of Doom", has prepared her local community for a New Madrid earthquake; Dennis Evers brings the family together to survive global chaos caused by hyperinflation.
Highlights: EMP Information - Creative emergency cooking — Handguns - Self Defense - Self sufficiency — Community survival (en)
- Doug Huffman is prepared, teaching techniques for surviving a second depression based upon America's massive debts.; Dianne and Greg Rogers, dedicated parents in Canada, are concerned with future events affecting their home-life; Ed and Dianna Peden , of Topeka, Kansas are preparing to survive fully underground in their decommissioned Atlas missile silo when doomsday arrives.
Highlights: Fish, vegetable, chicken and rabbit production - Root cellar - Camouflage - Small arms (en)
- recap episode featuring the six highest-scoring preppers the first two seasons. They were: t5) John Adrain t5) Bryan Smith 4) Craig Compeau 3) Cpt. Bill Simpson 2) "The Colony" 1) Paul Range and Gloria Haswell
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- Tyler Smith, the leader of the "Marauders" featured in this episode, was arrested and booked on two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm because he was a previously convicted child sex offender and was legally barred from possessing firearms. During the episode, Smith also described his plans to commit armed robbery in the episode. Asked for comment on Smith’s arrest, National Geographic issued a statement stating: "We are aware of the arrest, and have decided not to air this episode until all legal matters are sorted out." The episode was eventually aired.
Highlights: Body armor, Costa Rica (en)
- Bob Kay, a nutritional scientist in Southern California, is prepping for environmental destruction due to massive earthquakes; politician Joshua Wander is preparing for a terrorist attack, teaching others about prepping and stocking up kosher foods ; Ryan Croft is prepping for a global financial crisis by cultivating alternative food sources like spirulina and earthworms.
Highlights: Earthquake - Terrorist attack - Xeriscaping - Edible insects (en)
- Freda, a modern-day descendant of the Hatfield Clan is living in the woods of Virginia, and is preparing to survive two things: Civil uprising after an Electromagnetic Pulse and martial law, following it. In Oregon, Mike Adams, a restaurant owner is preparing himself and his family for a nationwide terrorist takeover. (en)
- Kevin lives in eastern Washington and is prepping his family for a volcanic eruption using multiple bug-out vehicles. We also meet Captain Bill Simpson, who has built a bunker sailboat, made mostly of iron so that he could retreat out to sea in case of a massive solar flare which could send an energy wave, in the form of an Electromagnetic Pulse which could damage today's technology. (en)
- Lindsay, a radio host and a supporter of the back-to-the-land movement is preparing for a total failure of the agricultural and food system with her family and some friends. Meanwhile Jim D and his daughter is preparing for a cyber-terrorist attack which can shut down today's technology and even cause the power grid to shut down. He is using his bug-out vehicle called The Behemoth. (en)
- Paul Range and friends prepare for a polar shift; In California, Christopher Nyerges demonstrates urban jungle survival skills to be used in the event of a massive earthquake; Deep in the heart of Houston, Texas, Megan Hurwitt hopes to survive on her own and escape to Mexico after the Middle East suddenly cuts off its oil exports.
Highlights: Supplies — Shipping container homes - Bug-out - Wild edible plants - Firearms - Urban survival (en)
- Michael Patrick Douglas, a man of the land in Maine, shows off homesteading techniques he believes will become necessary based upon overpopulation fears; Larry Hall turns an underground missile silo into a bunker to make sure his family is safe during any event; Becky Brown is making sure she and others are ready for martial law.
Highlights: Family survival - Home security - Primitive tools and weapons — Sniper skills — Underground bunkers (en)
- Jay Blevins is a former law enforcement officer who is prepping with his family and neighbors for a global economic collapse.
Brian Murdock and his Colombian wife-to-be Tatiana are preparing to relocate from suburban Somerville, Massachusetts to somewhere in Upstate New York. Tatiana overcomes her initial reluctance to Brian's prepping ways.
Bryan and Lacey May are Indiana preppers preparing for an earthquake along the New Madrid Fault Line. They are stockpiling silver and gold to barter with, they have a large battery backup to support the wind and solar power they have installed. They also possess large stockpiles of food and other goods they consider prime for bartering.
Highlights: Social unrest - Economic crisis - Self-defense - Homemade Pepper spray (en)
- Lucas Cameron, a farmer living in Tennessee, is preparing for a New Madrid earthquake and the civil unrest following that. He is also joined by his group of friends and family. Even Kevin O'Brien, first mentioned in Season 1, has recently moved out and joined them. Meanwhile near Denver Colorado, Snake Blocker is preparing to survive like his ancestors, the Apache tribe, by living off the land in the event of a financial collapse. (en)
- Tim Ralston — A survival tool manufacturer , loses part of a thumb during firearms practice for the show; Jason Charles, a New York City fireman-turned-prepper, demonstrates urban survival skills; Jules Dervaes is preparing for the collapse of the industrial food system; Pat Brabble insists on surviving hyperinflation by planning ahead.
Highlights: GMO information — Shooting Accident - Bug-out bag - Close combat skills - Water storage - MREs - Urban agriculture (en)
- John Tucker builds a mobile apiary for bugging out with bee hives. Bret and Shane Maggio build a sniper tower with a zip line quick escape.
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- Steve works with a stern hand to prep his family for the potential threat. South Carolinian David Appleton is a comedian, but the idea of a devastating earthquake is no joke to him. His job doesn't always pay the bills, so David must dumpster dive to find supplies to make a DIY camouflage net to hide his preps. (en)
- The episode "Nobody Will Be Ready" features two men named David from Tennessee, both of whom are getting ready for a massive earthquake along the New Madrid Fault. David Mays is building a fleet of drones to help him survive in West Tennessee, while David Nash builds a 14-ton geodesic shelter out of concrete in Middle Tennessee.
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