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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Lol!!!
I was thinking that was an amusing random choice of names....
Prepper ping !
I bet your a hoot at parties.
Aren’t we all?
Only here.
IMO Mexico, Iran and North Korea are capable of some kind of attack. The prospect of a strong nationalist coming to power within 8 months leaves them that window to act before they would see a more decisive response or the opportunity vanish.
Lock and load while you can. Anyone preparing is doing something reasonable and prudent.
Do4let them know if you ha e weapons, food or medical stocks, because when their SH-our-F your place will be the first place they hit.
Muslims can pretty much go anywhere else on earth and it will be an improvement over the Islamic toilets they call home.
Hollywood Weenies and urban leftists can run off to a dozen or more socialist countries when they get scared by a gun ad or a photo of a child going to church.
College pussies will have their "Safe Rooms".
But for freedom loving Americans there is no place else on earth to get away from the leftist/muslim/communist/homosexual insanity.
America is our last stand.
If Hillary wins (which I think is what will happen. But not by voting mind you but by fraud and illegal voting) there will be 8 more years of trudging along with massive debt and money printing. The world progressive movement simply can not allow a progressive to fail. If Trump wins, expect a massive catastrophic crash that will be pinned on his shoulders November 6th 2016. There is a reckoning either way, but it will not be delayed if a republican wins. It is necessary and will be painful but it has to happen. Just prepare yourselves for it.
Bunkers are for storing goods, not protecting life. That takes more strategy than crawling into a hole and hoping it will all be better tomorrow.
I'm not sure why, but I think that is one funny @$$ post.
:-D
Safe room?? They suggest a safe room?? LOL!! Might as well call it the “lunch room” because lunch is what you’ll be when the horde gets to you.
Sorry, you’ll never really now it, but I’ve got to steal that. Do I owe ya anything for the copyright?
That’s right! It has to fit on a sail boat, headed to Castigo Cay.
LOL! Truth to tell, I believe I ripped it off myself from somewhere in my travels! If I could give credit, I certainly would. But when someone is telling so many awful truths and comes up with (necessarily) depressing conclusions, this statement seems appropriate! :=D ....otherwise I might cry.
A sanity free room..
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