Posted on 04/09/2012 11:52:50 AM PDT by Kartographer
Tucked deep beneath the Kansas prairie, luxury condos are being built into the shaft of an abandoned missile silo to service anxious -- and wealthy -- people preparing for doomsday.
So far, four buyers have plopped down a total of about $7 million for havens to flee to when disaster happens or the end is nigh. And developer Larry Hall has options to retro-fit three more Cold War-era silos when this one fills up.
"They worry about events ranging from solar flares, to economic collapse, to pandemics to terrorism to food shortages," Hall told AFP on a tour of the site.
These "doomsday preppers", as they are called, want a safe place and he will be there with them because Hall, 55, bought one of the condos for himself. He says his fear is that sun flares could wipe out the power grid and cause chaos.
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“Just ask various Japanese or Germans in bunkers.”
By the time the japs and krauts conquered freaking Kansas, there’d be nothing left of the country anyway.
People need their security blankets.
I wish we could afford one of those, but Dad & I built an expanded 40’x20’ version of this basic unit:
http://www.atlassurvivalshelters.com/
Also sounds like Mr Hall is going to be hard-pressed to get an ROI on that project, any time soon. I wish him well. When TSHTF, “getting there” is also going to be problematic if an owner lives far away. My Family’s “SU” (Safe Unit) is only 100ft away.
Very nice!
I’m with you on this. If we get hit with the “big one”, I’d rather go right away.
The only missile complexes in that area were the Titan II sites and the closest one to I-35 was 532-1, and it was 3.7 miles from the highway.
There were no ABM or anti-air sites in that area either.
Did I say I drove on the interstate?
Idiots. Far better to buy an isolated place no one knows about or can easily access. If everyone in the county knows about the food there, don’t you think the mayor, police chief, national guard, etc aren’t going to “inspect” the place for code violations and confiscate their food as fines?
It’s one thing to fight off lone desperados, quite another to fight the local authorities.
You are the end product of over two billion years of evolution. Don’t tell me your survival instinct petered out in the last couple of easy living generations.
:-)
I was going to ask if you made some detours.
That’s the way it is with most Americans. Our fore Fathers wouldn’t believe what a bunch of ‘wussies’ we’ve become.
Nice class warfare rhetoric, Bitsy. :-P
The idea is not to live underground indefinitely. The idea is to shelter in place with your family, if required.
Let’s say there is general social unrest due to a large-scale viral outbreak. (One possible scenario in which you might need to shelter in place.) You can put plastic up on the walls of your house and hope no infected people break in to steal your stuff - and possibly infect you - or you can have a nice underground bunker to retreat to until the situation stabilizes.
If I had the cash, I might take the one with the in-ground pool. ;-)
Read for later but seems interesting.....
That movie supposedly came out in 2008. I have never heard of it and they don’t show it on Netflix at all. I just watched the trailer and it looked pretty good.
If I had the cash, I might take the one with the in-ground pool. ;-)
Shucks, I was going to ask you to spot me a million so I could put one on lay-a-way. You’re in the same fox hole I’m in :-)
The silos may be empty, but have the Russians removed them from their target list? Probably not.
And even without the enemy above ground, you live in a constant cloud of RADON gas 24/7 down below.
Depends on the geology of the area.
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