Prepping for Doomsday: Bunkers, Panic Rooms, and Going Off the Grid

Realtor.com ^ | May 10, 2016 | Clare Trapasso

[SaraJohnson]

Pig roasts in the back yard for a big block party.

[A CA Guy]

Their culture and what they believe is a cult by our standards.

Forget pepper spray, carry pork spray.

[kearnyirish2]

The Section 8ers were included; the “zombie invasion” prep works for them as well (especially since zombies in today’s movies are much faster than the shambling ghouls of the original “Night of the Living Dead”)...

[GOPJ]

No one feared ‘communist attacks’... that's silly.

We feared nuclear bomb attacks from the USSR.

If the Japanese had the bomb in the 50's theidiot who wrote this would say we had feared Buddhist attacks...

[GOPJ]

Trump’s message about Hillary abusing women who had been victimized by her husband is working.

The liberal press is in full freak out mode...

[T-Bone Texan]

I actually have a nuclear fallout bunker under my lawn in my back yard.

One of the ways I could tell it was nuclear and not tornado is the presence of a foyer. No kidding - in the old days they thought that radioactivity traveled in a straight line, like sunlight, and would not go around the corner. Oh, wait, that's still true.

Another clue is that the ceiling is a full 3 feet under the lawn. Tornado shelters do not go that deep - it is more expensive and there is no need.

I have dated it (via an incandescent lightbulb in the bunker) to about 1965ish.

The owner plumbed it for electric. There are 3 sets of hooks for a family to sleep in hammocks, one on top of another. There are triangular gussets meant to reinforce the ceiling that look way too anemic by today's standards.

The entire thing is plate steel, and is both welded and in places riveted. It reminds me of underwater photos of the Titanic.

Apparently there are a lot of these in my overall neighborhood, and no one talks about them because the code guy will make you fill them in. It is a big liability.

In a time of crisis it will serve as "Coed Holding Facility".

[Georgia Girl 2]

Uh no, their place is the first place we hit. :-)

[SaveFerris]

Ha!! I was going to ping you after I saw that!

[JimRed]

Muslims can pretty much go anywhere else on earth and it will be an improvement over the Islamic toilets they call home.

But they proceed to turn wherever they land into what they fled. Like Democrats.

[Iron Munro]

But they proceed to turn wherever they land into what they fled.
Like Democrats.

Nice summary.

[McGruff]

Realtor preppers.

Won't last long.

[DCBryan1]

Yeah....whatever you do...don’t buy any guns or ammo, they’ll just be use against you.....SMH.

[Kommodor]

I prefer assault bacon. :)

[Kommodor]

Really? I thought I heard somewhere that you were P.J. O’Rourke.

Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive...

[Pollster1]

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.

Don't be silly; they have no chance of attacking us. It's not like we would let ten million Mexicans, with who knows how many Iranians, just waltz across the border and go wherever they want in our country carrying whatever they . . . Never mind.

[sauropod]

Thx for posting it.

[Redcitizen]

Can you provide details?

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the ping.

[tbw2]

High fat and grease, little “bacon” meat flavor, limp.
It is better if you can to have the pre-cooked shelf stable bacon and rotate that out or a lot of bacon bits in a shelf stable container.

[Redcitizen]

Thanks. I’m glad to read the details. I’ll see if I can try the other bacon shelf stable stuff.