Posted on 09/28/2016 1:15:58 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Oscar winners, sports stars and Bill Gates are building lavish bunkers — with amenities ranging from a swimming pool to a bowling alley — as global anxiety fuels sales and owners "could be the next Adam and Eve."
Given the increased frequency of terrorist bombings and mass shootings and an under-lying sense of havoc fed by divisive election politics, it's no surprise that home security is going over the top and hitting luxurious new heights. Or, rather, new lows, as the average depth of a new breed of safe haven that occupies thousands of square feet is 10 feet under or more.
Those who can afford to pull out all the stops for so-called self-preservation are doing so — in a fashion that goes way beyond the submerged corrugated metal units adopted by reality show "preppers" — to prepare for anything from nuclear bombings to drastic climate-change events. Gary Lynch, GM at Rising S Bunkers, a Texas-based company that specializes in underground bunkers and services scores of Los Angeles residences, says that sales at the most upscale end of the market — mainly to actors, pro athletes and politicians (who require signed NDAs) — have increased 700 percent this year compared with 2015, and overall sales have risen 150 percent.
"Any time there is a turbulent political landscape, we see a spike in our sales. Given this election is as turbulent as it is, we are gearing up for an even bigger spike," says marketing director Brad Roberson of sales of bunkers that start at $39,000 and can run $8.35 million or more (FYI, a 12-stall horse shelter is $98,500).
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Ultimately it is not civil unrest or natural disasters that they are hiding from. Who, then, are they hiding from?
Revelation 6: 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo , there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together ; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Underground bunkers won’t be of much help when California falls into the ocean.
That’s what I was thinking!
If they are waterproofed outside and tightly sealed they may float!
Azzholes have so much money they don’t know what to piss it away on.
“Underground bunkers won’t be of much help when California falls into the ocean.”
OH HOW ORIGINAL! I guess you put your fingers into gear before you fully engaged your brain! Now you can tell us about the “Iranian Amish” or some other equally stupid idea! Get a life!
Hopefully with Babra Streisand on her way to Japan when she found out Trump won.
Easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.......
is there no anxiety, depression, anger, etc among the lower classes???
don;t hear much about that online/msm so it must not exist...???
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Back in the early ‘90s my brother built a luxury fallout bunker for Alan Alda.
Liberalism is a very special kind of disease.
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Having to build bunkers after 8 years of Obama? What does that tell you?
That was a cute movie.
Bill Gates with a 10 million dollar bunker = normal
middleclass citizen with a years worth of food storage = redneck lunatic
Exactly!
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Algore came to California because he knows that it will out-last Washington DC, and Tennessee. :o)
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Alda ordered his bunker after just 6 months of Bill Clinton!
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Insane + wealthy = eccentric.
The beginning of the Morlock race.
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