I also am addicted & I think the show is doing a good job of bringing up subjects & problems, but agree that a lot of things seem out of whack, but it is TV.

He didn't grab enough toothpaste, but keep in mind that he knew how to make a homemade version. Survivalism is not just having a massive stockpile (though that is a great 1st step) - being able to adapt to your environment & making use of what you have to achieve your goals - that is true survivalism, IMO.

On the nuclear fallout the only conclusion I could come to would be that the radiation must have drifted north or south of them. Before the storm their radiation detectors weren't getting any readings. And right after the storm passed it also wasn't getting a reading. Even though they never addressed it properly (that I caught) in the show the conclusion I came to was that they didn't get any fallout. I agree that they did a poor job on this subject of fulling addressing it, but tried to make sense of it.

I like the fact that they are trying to solve the problem of electricty by getting the local existing windmills up & running, but they should have had crews of men cutting & hauling firewood two months earlier. All the elderly & families with young kids should have been moved to houses that were set up with wood burning stoves.