Apocalypse-themed TV viewing

[justalurkr]

The first season of Doomsday Preppers found its way in my hands and I've made it my end-of-the-world viewing. Combined with ramping up my search for a condominium I can pay off in five years (when I hit the Rule of 75 at work,) this has led to some mighty strange notions.

Disclosures:
First, I bought my one person, 72-hour emergency pack during October, which was Georgia's Emergency Preparedness Month, so it had nothing to do with coronal mass ejections, the planet Nibiru, the Mayan calendar or that aligning with the middle of the solar system/galaxy/universe situation and everything to do with there being freaking earthquake faults under Georgia as well as nasty propensities toward flooding and tornadoes. (Srsly, WTF, Georgia? Where's all that bucolic peace and quiet we're led to believe reign here?) Second, while I enjoy reading a good post-apocalyptic yarn as much as (or perhaps more than) the next person, zombies always a plus, I don't want to believe. I want to continue on replicating the life of a Baby Boom Vintage Suburban American Princess for as long as my 401k and small selection of IRAs hold out, then leave it all to care for the cats, followed by assorted step and half nieces. In other words, Doomsday Preppers, I'm too old for your sh!t.

All of that said, how weird is it that I'd now like to buy a little plot of land, four to six used shipping containers, and get my Frank Lloyd Wright on? Burying the containers about half way would insulate them and provide a low tornado profile as well as infinite resale value to actual survivalists preppers. Doing this within the Atlanta city limits could even look trendy and industrial and stuff.

Tell me, flist...have I snapped?

EDITED TO ADD: WTF with LJ adding advertising links?? as of this edit the links over "emergency pack" and "continue" were added by LJ.

EDITED AGAIN to dink with the formatting on my links. If the advert link subroutine is kind of dumb, it won't notice that my links are in bold for easy identification. If it's smart and every link is in bold (it's already smart enough to link different words every time I look at the post) then A POX ON LJ'S HOUSE UNTO WHATEVER GENERATION.

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

It's fifty-fifty whether you're incredibly trendy or have just snapped.

Yeah, the link thing is truly strange

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I believe I'm incredibly lazy. The cost-effective way to do container houses is take on all the planning oneself, which is a dam' lot of work. I haven't figured out what it would cost to have a company do everything, but I'll bet "cost effective" is not a descriptor of the process.