I have really enjoyed the show - though I do have to keep telling myself this is TV & TV shows usually have some hokey moments. Not to mention the stuff that is inaccurate.

However, there has been plenty of survival related stuff.

Hawkins was aware of the coming danger & grabbed his family & fled the big city. (The folks who were wise & fled New Orleans are an example of modern real world survival thinking) Fleeing danger is the best course of action.

Hawkins PC was prepared for an EMP blast when nothing else in town was. Hawkins lectured his daughter to refill the bathtubs with water after she took a shower because they didn't know when the power would go back out. The glow lights he had stocked up, etc.

Another example is the town looting the abandoned locomotive for food supplies. All the bartering that is going on even if some of it is with the bad guys.

I think they have painted a much more rosey picture of what it will be like, but again it's TV. Oh, BTW, who is mowing all the grass around town? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />