I find that a bit tough to believe. This is Sedan Crater at NTS, a underground detonation that was scaled to mimic a 1 Megaton surface burst.
Posted on 05/20/2013 4:14:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The latest real estate boom to sweep America comes with all the trappings of luxurious living: custom-built swimming pools, gyms, full-length basketball courts, and even airplane hangars.
The only catch is that this time, the features are all buried underground.
The boom in bomb shelter sales over the past 15 years has taken the spartan 1950s notion of a fallout shelter and given it a makeover, according the owners of three companies that make and sell shelters.
Now, custom installations can create 100,000 square foot underground dwellings that could hold dozens of people for months or years.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Pls Ping your Giant List...
wtf? A bomb shelter with a plasma TV? What are they going to watch? For that matter who are they expecting to drop bombs?
Pools? Of course when you need chlorine or acid for your pool, you can just cruise over to the heavily irradiated Home Depot for a few gallons or call in the mutant zombie pool maintenance guide.
Methinks they’re really afraid of a Zombie Apocalypse.
They’ll probably watch DVDs. Would sure beat staring at a blank wall and arguing.
A bomb shelter with a plasma TV? What are they going to watch?
These are better SHTF units than bomb shelters. Pools, BB courts etc are a waste of space and $. But builders will accommodate them, for the bucks.
We used to call them tombs.
The 1st pic on 2nd page of slideshow is a tomb:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/slideshow/inside-nuclear-fallout-shelters-19185600
The other are interesting.
Agreed that these are more SHTF units than bomb shelters. Lived in Switzerland for a while, every building had a bomb shelter - a real one. From a WSJ article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304231204576405700994655570.html ):
“A Swiss shelter must withstand an impact of a 12-megaton explosion at a distance of 700 meters (765 yards).”
One of the international schools we visited had a rather large shelter that was used as a weight room - the law required it be capable of being cleared of most of the non-essential stuff within a number of hours so it could hold the people / food required for the particular building.
“wtf? A bomb shelter with a plasma TV? What are they going to watch?”
Same as now.... Twilight, DWTS, American Idol — on DVD.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to carriage_hill for the heads-up.
pools can be a large source of fresh water and the amount of chloring needed for a pool that is kept out of the sun is maybe a 5 gallon pail of dry powder good for 4 months.
“...12-megaton explosion at a distance of 700 meters (765 yards)...”
Yikes; that’s a close and powerful blast.
How deep were they? Do you remember?
Pools and B-ball courts have wide span roofs.
Doubleplus ungood for resisting blast overpressure.
They’re also building-in airplane hangars, which would also have wide-span beams. Those things are a waste of space, water and $, IMO.
—Of course when you need chlorine...
Not underground, algae doesn’t grow in the dark
Might make a good heat exchanger for the heat pump however
as well as alternate water storage / potable water
Don’t let the kids pee in the pool however...
I find that a bit tough to believe. This is Sedan Crater at NTS, a underground detonation that was scaled to mimic a 1 Megaton surface burst.
I agree, they had to be talking about 12 kilotons not megatons.
Hiroshima was about 12 kilotons.
The US does not even have 12 meg warheads anymore.
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