[jester]

This is the second season of that program. The first was on CBS and based in an abandoned wharehouse in Los Angeles.

That was the 3rd episode I beleive. They also repeat on Sats on the Discovery Channel.

You forgot one big thing about their windmill, they are using the alternators they salvaged from cars to generate the power which is pretty good thinking, the gears and such are to give it the propper turning ratio, again some good thinking.

One thing I had pondered as well, why they haven't tried such a thing with the canal as well.

As for being raided, they have been raided at least once an eposide, some pretty brutaly too, with a mob of several dozen, who stormed their house and stole most of their supplies as well. And this season they are a bit more brutal than the first, they made physical contact slamming some of the members to the ground hard enough to scrap their heads and the raiders used liberal dozes of pepper spray too. It all illustrates what the lumberjack girl said in the closes credits, "we're just the general store to them." they just don't take their own security seriously.

Also, in a prior episode, they found half a dozen rotting hog carcases which they rendered for their oil to run the diesel tractor in their yard to give them power and charge their batteries. Not a bad idea either.

The program has ALOT of interesting ideas that could be used for the odd GM who wants to have the PCs as a member of a community trying to get started, or for the PCs to encounter a group of intelligent people who are trying to build their community.