Like Democrats.
Nice summary.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realtor.com ...
Pig roasts in the back yard for a big block party.
Their culture and what they believe is a cult by our standards.
Forget pepper spray, carry pork spray.
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”)...
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...
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...
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".
Uh no, their place is the first place we hit. :-)
Ha!! I was going to ping you after I saw that!
But they proceed to turn wherever they land into what they fled. Like Democrats.
Nice summary.
Won't last long.
Yeah....whatever you do...don’t buy any guns or ammo, they’ll just be use against you.....SMH.
I prefer assault bacon. :)
Really? I thought I heard somewhere that you were P.J. O’Rourke.
Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive...
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.
Thx for posting it.
Can you provide details?
Thanks for the ping.
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.
Thanks. I’m glad to read the details. I’ll see if I can try the other bacon shelf stable stuff.
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