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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Armageddon houses: Meet the 'preppers' who are stockpiling food and weapons because they fear the world will end
The Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world is less than a month away - but there are some Britons who are taking the doomsday prophecy more seriously than most.
Meet the UK's 'preppers'- people who are preparing for Armageddon behind closed doors.
Between them they fear a new dark age, natural disasters, a solar flare, and a world without law and order.
They spend their entire lives and thousands of pounds preparing for disaster.
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| Pete Stanford, pictured, paddles to his 'bug-out' location where he plans to hide when the end of law and order means he will have escape to survive |
They have built emergency store cupboards filled with food with a long shelf life, are stock piling petrol, weapons, and even condoms, have secret remote hideaways, getaway trailers ready to escape in 15 minutes, nuclear and chemical weapon suits and even an inflatable canoe.
One 'prepper', Edward O'Toole, has already abandoned ship and is living 'off grid' in Slovakia.
From former soldiers to a store manager who believes he can save a community of 'like-minded individuals' they are all featuring in a new documentary exclusive to the National Geographic Channel PREPPERS UK: SURVIVING ARMAGEDDON.
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| Prepared: Father-of-five Simon Dillon, pictured, stands in his store cupboard which is full to the rafters with emergency supplie s |
Mr Sanderson plans to sit out a disaster using his military survival skills. He said 'The provisions that we’ve got in place here allow us a slow and progressive transition to a simpler life.'
He added: 'Towns and cities are dangerous places. You know, an awful lot of people fighting for the same resources, you know, it's a dangerous place.
What you’re talking about is the biggest, the toughest, the meanest, getting whatever’s going.'
He would be prepared to kill to survive. Mr Sanderson said: 'The last thing you want in a serious situation is for someone to sneak up on you and steal all your preps.
I would do everything possible to avoid a lethal confrontation, but if we ended up in a situation without the rule of law, would I use lethal force to defend my family? Every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Absolutely. '
American ex-pat, Annie Durbin, who lives in east London, is a new recruit and believes she is one of the only woman preppers.
She said: 'The specific point that I became interested in prepping was in the summer of 2011, just after the riots. I thought, wow, you know, this is really serious. If this handful of kids can shut down London, you know, what happens if something really major happens?'
So she has stocked up on canned goods and grains which will last three months.
She said: 'I think, which I think, should be sufficient, because if the s*** did hit the fan, I would probably not be able to stay here very long anyway.
So I think that amount of food is probably about right.'
She has put together a 'survival kit' including her favourite 'commando knife' which makes her 'feel tough' and can be made into a spear.
Miss Durbin said: 'I can’t imagine I’ll need a spear, but you never know what’s going to happen.
That’s a handy dandy little item to have. Prepping is a statement of independence. You know, I’m taking the situation into my hands.
'I don’t like the feeling of being helpless. I felt so helpless when the stores were shut, when the riots happened, and I thought, this is pathetic.'
She has put together an unusual kit bags, telling the documentary: 'One of them is actually a couple of versions of the Qur’an.
Because I live right in the middle of the largest Muslim population in the UK.
'So you never know, it’s very good to adapt to your environment. And I’ve got baggies of all sorts of things. Oral hygiene things, a little hairbrush.
'Even if you’re out surviving, you still want to look nice, don’t you? Still a matter of self-preservation, taking care of yourself, I think that’s very important.
Especially if everything around you is collapsing.
'Apparently I am unusual being a female prepper. There don’t seem to be many others around. But I probably do think of issues that men don’t think of.
'I’ve got lots of condoms, and various lubes and things, because even in times of hardship, people have s**x.
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