Meet a prepper
Above, Megan Hurwitt poses for at a Doomsday Prepper photoshoot.
“I’m prepping to survive a catastrophic oil
crisis.”- Megan Hurwitt
Preppers come in all shapes and sizes. Such is the case with Megan Hurwitt, a metropolitan party girl living in the fourth largest city in the country: Houston, Texas. To see her driving through the sunny downtown streets in her Mustang convertible, one might not suspect that in her nearby apartment Megan has an gun collection, a seed bank, and an intricate plan for evacuating the city.
Megan revealed that she carries a compact “go bag” with her at all times. Inside the small bag you’ll find a compact mess kit, survival knife, compass, flint, pepper spray, family photos, as well as a few other hygienic essentials. I was surprised to learn that it even had a card with important financial, identification, and medical documents in case she has to leave in a hurry. Throughout the show Megan liked to call it her end of the world purse.
After shooting the show one day Megan invited the Doomsday Prepper crew on a trial run of her escape plan through the moonlit streets of downtown Houston. Fearing that the country is in threat to a major oil crisis in the next few years, and knowing that roads/highways might quickly become inaccessible (as they did during Hurricane Ike), Megan plans to backpack south through the city to an awaiting vehicle. It showed the challenge to be passing through town efficiently, safely, and undetected. Though the path proved to have more hurdles than she anticipated, the journey itself was certainly visual for us to capture, set against the night skyline.
crisis.”- Megan Hurwitt
Preppers come in all shapes and sizes. Such is the case with Megan Hurwitt, a metropolitan party girl living in the fourth largest city in the country: Houston, Texas. To see her driving through the sunny downtown streets in her Mustang convertible, one might not suspect that in her nearby apartment Megan has an gun collection, a seed bank, and an intricate plan for evacuating the city.
Megan revealed that she carries a compact “go bag” with her at all times. Inside the small bag you’ll find a compact mess kit, survival knife, compass, flint, pepper spray, family photos, as well as a few other hygienic essentials. I was surprised to learn that it even had a card with important financial, identification, and medical documents in case she has to leave in a hurry. Throughout the show Megan liked to call it her end of the world purse.
After shooting the show one day Megan invited the Doomsday Prepper crew on a trial run of her escape plan through the moonlit streets of downtown Houston. Fearing that the country is in threat to a major oil crisis in the next few years, and knowing that roads/highways might quickly become inaccessible (as they did during Hurricane Ike), Megan plans to backpack south through the city to an awaiting vehicle. It showed the challenge to be passing through town efficiently, safely, and undetected. Though the path proved to have more hurdles than she anticipated, the journey itself was certainly visual for us to capture, set against the night skyline.