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To: Aurorales
Okay, they were idiots.

Ken Zwick and Carol Hollar-Zwick knew their home came equipped with an underground fallout shelter when they bought it 1999, but they didn't actually venture into the bunker until a decade later, the local Appleton Post-Crescent newspaper reported.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wisconsin-family-found-1960-nuclear-shelter-article-1.1333040#ixzz34GbfcAeF

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20130501/APC0902/305010118/Neenah-family-discovers-backyard-fallout-shelter?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

46 posted on 06/10/2014 12:37:43 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

they were living in the place for ten years and finally got around to opening the large metal doors on their property? What does it take, ten minutes? What have they been doing.


50 posted on 06/10/2014 12:41:58 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: thackney
Cold War experts estimated it cost around $1,200 — or around $15,000 today — to excavate the area, build the shelter and equip it with electricity, plumbing, ventilation and a phone line.

Sounds like a very reasonable cost.

76 posted on 06/10/2014 1:28:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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