More Americans are signing up for survivalist training after dire warnings on climate crisis

The Texas women who recently signed up for Jessie Krebs’ survival course in Colorado were far from the usual outdoors experts she regularly hosts in her classes. Most of the US air force veteran’s clientele tend to be keen nature enthusiasts – trail runners, solo hikers, individuals who pride themselves on wilderness knowledge but want to make sure they don’t end up unprepared in emergency situations.

These Texans were nowhere near that description. But they’d just been through the winter ice and snow storm which effectively paralyzed the Lone Star state – and they were rattled.

The women, who signed up for one of Ms Krebs’ weekend courses at the Denver-area SERE Training School, had “been thrown askew, basically, by the snowstorm back in February,” Ms Krebs tells The Independent. “That really scared them – and they’re like, ‘Boy, the power goes out, what do I do?’”