Posted on 11/01/2014 3:45:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This Virginia entrepreneur will let you bury a survival bunker on his property—for a fee.
The half-page advertisement in the Sun Gazette, a weekly newspaper in Arlington, Virginia, contrasted sharply with offers for dog training and discounted window treatments.
Opposite an editorial about a local feud over building a streetcar to promote development in two areas of the county, the ad depicted the silhouettes of three backpackers trudging toward the horizon. In black all-capital letters printed across blue skies, “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY …” the ad proclaimed. White type, also in all capitals, advertised 160 wooded acres in which to bury underground bunkers stocked with food and water on leased lots. It touted having a private airfield and being just a tank of gas away from Washington, D.C.
“Is this for real?” my wife, Patty, asked.
It was a good question. The ad did seem cryptic and out-of-place in a newspaper with multiple pages of advertisements for million-dollar homes. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Arlington County had the country’s highest median family income, at $137,216, in 2012. And the Washington region as a whole grew three times as fast as the rest of the country since 2007, according to the New York Times....
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My first thought is - what a great way to get a free bunker on your property. Lease several and what are the odds if the SHTF that everyone can make it there.
Praise prez Obola!! His policies have finally created a viable business and a job. Selling “prepper plots!” After 6 years of America’s downgrading by him, he creates a job!!!
Don’t you know that businesses don’t create jobs? Hillary said so.
Hahahaha!
Ping.
Technically Odimbulb only created demand. This guy created the job. Jobs are created when a business grows to meet needs/wants for goods and services.
Kudos to this guy.
Lease to the right people not only to you get bunker but one has the making of a group that could aid in the over all survival of the whole group.
Odimbulb........freaking hilarious!! I must say your point is well taken. (as well as your Odimbulb for future use !! Thanks!)
The last place I want to be when the SHTF is clustered with a bunch of self proclaimed elites who had their butlers set up the bunkers.
>> what a great way to get a free bunker on your property
Downside: you have to let whackballs — even worse, whackballs with lots of money — run around on your property at their convenience. You KNOW they’re gonna want to come out frequently to “check on it”.
And you just know that, having a lot of money and being willing to shell it out for something like this, they are NOT going to be gentle, humble folk. Rather, giant PITA’s.
If I had 160 acres I wasn’t doing anything with and didn’t live on, that would be one thing. But my own place? No way.
A perpetual problem with such facilities is that they need a lot of design to do them properly. So a good thought problem is to begin with a nonsensical imaginary budget, say $100m, with the idea that you have to spend all of it building the facility.
The purpose of the exercise is “over-design”, to have every “bell and whistle” you could possibly want, along with energy, water and food supply, recycling of air, water and waste, ergonomics, security, entertainment, lots of redundancy, tools and spare parts, etc.
There is a method in this madness.
Biosphere II is a superb example of what could go wrong in a sealed environment that was supposed to be self balancing. Their carbon dioxide levels wildly fluctuated, many of the vertebrates and the good insects they brought with them died, and invasive insects, like cockroaches and ants were everywhere.
It cost about $100m, yet their design was poor and they made way too many assumptions.
And this is the real problem with any bunker. You really have to consider what you need, and what you don’t need, and what your limitations are.
And starting from the imaginary fantasy budget, you have to downgrade all the way to your realistic budget, which means that a lot of the stuff you thought you needed was superfluous, and that you have a pressing need for other stuff you hadn’t previously considered.
So the quality of your design, with a realistic budget, becomes a lot better.
In a real SHTF situation I can just imagine the "hired help" hanging around to take care of these imbeciles.
These clowns are the first casualties of a crisis that hasn't even happened yet.
Are they going to hire someone to survive for them, as well?
Wasn’t there a “reality” series a few years back about people who designed and built bunkers on Discovery, or TLC, or one of those cable channels?
“... quarter-acre plots, which rent for $1,000 per month and come with $400 in food.”
Makes no sense to me, I guess that’s why I’m not rich.
All the pre-paid lacy bunkers in the world won’t confer fortitude on the gutless.
>> Are they going to hire someone to survive for them, as well?
heh... good one!
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip ro bgill for the heads up!
They won’t survive as training and practice is something you have to do for yourself. They will have all this stuff and not one thought of how to use it. You can go out and buy an airplane, but that don’t make you a pilot!
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