Australia's First 'Walk In' Doomsday Prepper Store Opens

It's easy to see why some people become doomsday preppers in this day and age.

For the uninitiated, preppers are people who are stocking up now for the eventual apocalypse; whether that be in the form of total societal collapse, alien invasion, some tragic weather event or just something like a disastrous Brexit that results in food shortages.

But it's not easy or cheap to become a prepper as you need to get tons of food and equipment that will eventually keep you alive when all hell breaks loose.

Well, one South Australian bloke has decided to make it just a little bit easier by designing, what he calls, the country's first 'walk-in' warehouse for all things doomsday prepper.

Trevor Andrei sells everything from medical kits, to HAZMAT suits to face masks that can help you breath in the wake of a nuclear fallout.

He says he was spurred on to create the store after seeing North Korea's dictator threaten Australia.

"Last year, [Kim Jong-un] announced 'I could hit Australia and I can hit mainland US with ICBM," Trevor told the ABC.

"He wasn't saying that just for kicks, he was letting them know 'I can knock your eyes out'... that for me was the real catalyst.

"With us it's only been a recent, sort of increase to that threat level because of the Pine Gap early missile detection facility in the centre of Australia.

"That's what America and Australia uses to work out if somebody's lobbing nuclear bombs."

He's only been in business for around six months but he knows that interest in prepping will only increase because of uncertainty around the environment.

It's not necessarily just doomsday scenarios that are prompting people to head to his store, but people in remote areas that get affected by things like drought, severe weather events and a rise in the price of commodities.

Trevor continued: "Preppers aren't crazy conspiracy theorists, we look to reliable media sources to work out 'should I not go on that holiday and should I maybe buy another $1,000 worth of stuff to stock my pantry with'."

He says the core principle of prepping is to be able to have control over a situation. When aliens invade or the nukes go off, you're more than likely not going to have anything up your sleeve.

You'll certainly be sorry when you don't have two months of food and a breathing apparatus.

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Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie is a Trending Journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newsreader and journalist at the award winning Sydney radio station, Macquarie Radio. He was solely responsible for the content broadcast on multiple stations across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters unfolded. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.

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