Posted on 05/10/2016 8:03:06 AM PDT by DCBryan1
The apocalypse has become big business. And it’s getting bigger every day.
In the ’50s, homeowners fearing Communist attacks built bunkers in their backyards and basements, hung up a few “God Bless Our Bomb Shelter” signs and called it a Cold War.
But today, Americans en masse are again preparing for the worst—and Communists are just about the only thing not on their list. What is? Terrorist attacks, a total economic collapse, perhaps even zombie invasions. Or maybe just a complete societal breakdown after this November’s scorched-Earth presidential election.
But this is not your Uncle Travis’ guns-and-canned-foods-militia vision of Armageddon preparedness. While the fears of survivalists and so-called preppers are modernizing, so too are their ideas and methods of refuge.
The business of disaster readiness is getting higher tech, higher priced, and way more geographically diverse, with state-of-the-art underground shelters tricked out with greenhouses, gyms, and decontamination units in the boondocks and the latest in plush panic rooms in city penthouses.
Welcome to the brave (and for some, highly profitable) new world of paranoia.
“There’s a lot of uneasiness in society. You see it in politics. You see it in the economy. The world is changing really, really quickly and not always for the better,” says Richard Duarte, author of “Surviving Doomsday: A Guide for Surviving an Urban Disaster.”
Prepping “gives them a certain comfort that at least they’ve got some sort of preparations to … take care of their family if things start falling apart all around them,” he says.
Better be safe with a safe room
If the booming sales of panic rooms are any indication, more and more city dwellers these days are obsessively worrying about everything from home invasions to terror attacks. And they’re backing up those worries with cold, hard cash.
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Thanks DCB1!
Ping.
In places where Muslims are immigrating these are a must. Also a large supply of weapons.
They are moving in two doors down from us. Full veil and all.
PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE!!
And Bacon. LOTS AND LOTS of bacon...both to eat AND dip your bullets in.
Perhaps a neighborhood unwelcoming committee is called for. Let them know they are not wanted.
Crawl out through the Fallout baby...
For those that are building their house, the entire house can be made a panic room by building with Fox Blocks (http://www.foxblocks.com/). These are insulated concrete forms that allow the exterior walls of the house to be 4”, 6” or 8” solid concrete.
Time to fry bacon with all your windows open.
Lots of it. Every day.
Stupidest idea to me is a “safe” room in a high rise.
Plenty of time between now and 2040. A 100 mile diameter comet broke up and 2 mile diameter bits hit the ice almost 12,600 years ago beginning the Younger Dryas ending 1,000 years later when the earth past through the debris field - as in will again sometime from 1960 to 2040 - the world will again change. How much damage depends on the size and quantity of the black coated bits in the torus debris field.
None of your preparations will help - there will be thousands of years before any culture rises again - as it was before, so it will be again.
Neighborhood pig roast?
Tactical bacon does not taste good.
Good grief! You just harshed my mellow big time, Dude!
Uncle Travis! Dats YOU! :)
I am so screwed.
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