These preppers are prepping for the apocalypse. Sounds crazy, but there are millions of people who are readying themselves for the end of the world. And the army of preppers have made it big thanks to National Geographic Channel which airs the series called “Doomsday Preppers”.

This series has revealed some special cases where people spend hours, not two or three, but 50 hours a week prepping. The second season of this series aired this week detailing some Scottish prepping.

The series shows Stuart Fish prepping, and unlike the American version which saw arsenals of firearms and monster trucks, Fish is seen practicing an old fashioned means of living. Fish said:

I got interested in the programme when I saw the American series and I thought there was something missing.

With no disrespect to the prepping community, I think they were being very short sighted because they were all buying stuff from shops.

I thought, ‘What happens when those supplies run out?’

They all seemed to be thinking that society might not come back online, but missing out on fundamental skills.

Instead, you should be able to procure things from nature.

I’m not preparing for any particular disaster, but nobody can predict the future.

The Roman Empire didn’t expect to collapse. It’s good to practise skills in case. I could leave the house with just the shirt on my back and survive.

Everybody is a prepper to some degree, even if you just put bottles of water in your car – it’s just all about the degrees to which people get into it.

I wouldn’t class myself as a full-on prepper, I just practise skills that are handy to life.

It’s more about being a sensible prepper than a doomsday prepper.

[Source: Daily Record]