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Does anyone live in a home with a Cold War era bomb shelter?
Posted on 08/21/2009 8:29:21 AM PDT by Nikas777
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To: SoCal Pubbie
You bring up a point. Nowadays everyone talks of a nuclear exchange as envisioned during the Cold War as wiping all life away in an instant.
The reality is that those drills could have saved lots of lives just a few miles from a blast site.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:05:37 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:06:56 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
To: kellynla
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:07:20 AM PDT
by
tapatio
To: Nikas777
WA
House built in ‘63
I’ve been here much longer than indicated on my profile.
Ask whatever.
Pay no attention to the critics.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:10:22 AM PDT
by
G Larry
( Obamacare=Dying in Line!)
To: ETL
To be honest. I don't fear a nuclear exchange with Russia as much as I do a nuclear jihadi or crazy North Korean attack.
The Russians are rational - the jihadis and North Koreans are kook burgers.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:11:00 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: G Larry
That is amazing to me that it is a 60s house since I assumed this was a 50s only phenomenon.
I am shocked that my request solicited a critical remark - I thank you for your reply.
Even though it is not my era I am very tuned into the America of the past and want to know as much about it as possible.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:14:22 AM PDT
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Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: tapatio
“Remember the Duck and Cover Drills at school?”
Yep...one of brothers was named “Bert” too! LOL
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:14:41 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: Nikas777
Does this count?
http://www.missilebases.com/properties
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:22:05 AM PDT
by
bt_dooftlook
(John Adams: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate)
To: bt_dooftlook
You can buy a missile base now?!!
Awesome.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: kellynla
Sometimes we'd have to get under desks until someone decided it'd be safer just curling up in the hallway. Hey, you wouldn't want to get glass shards from the windows before you were fried. I remember there were several homemade shelters in backyards when I'd walk to school. I'd love to have one now days. I'd even enjoy living in one of those abandoned military silo contraptions.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:26:17 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: bgill
l. I'd love to have one now days. I'd even enjoy living in one of those abandoned military silo contraptions. Ditto!
Thanks for responding with your recollections.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:27:48 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
My Grandpa built a shelter on his property with hidden air intake, toilet, pantry; large enough for our combined families to stay for the projected “2 weeks” of nuclear fallout after a blast. Plus shotgun to keep intruders out.
By the mid-60’s it had become just a large underground pantry.
Considering he was ~60 miles from an air force base in California, I think it was a very good thing to have.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:29:17 AM PDT
by
jasmine47
(All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you. (Gandalf))
To: Nikas777
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:30:28 AM PDT
by
MCCC
To: jasmine47
I find it amazing how handy that generation was - they could build anything by hand back then it seems.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:33:16 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: MCCC
That looks like the Penthouse suite of shelters!
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:34:01 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
In 1981 I inspected the last rations of the Cold War Nuclear bomb shelters in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area. The crackers were rotten, the water unpalatable and contaminated and the storage amenities were unusable. The inventories were kept by the Tenn Air Guard at McGee Tyson and spread in several shelters in the Knoxville area.
To: Nikas777
What's the "Cold War"?
What is a "bomb shelter"?
Why would I tell you anything like that noob?
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:39:28 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
To: vetvetdoug
Thank you for that amazing insight.
On youtube there is a govt film about living in a fall out shelter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Zgyp4HgNU
Were the items in the video similar to what you saw?
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I find this stuff fascinating.
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:42:00 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
We owned a place here in central Indiana that had a small reinforced concrete shelter underground below an outbuilding. It may have been for tornados also because the house didn’t have a basement. Not really sure about the details because the original owners were dead by the time we bought it.
It was damp in the driest of times and full of water in the spring. I had it filled in when we razed the outbuilding to build a new one.
To: mad_as_he$$
Are you insane or just an elitist? Or just joking around? I can't tell being a noob and all.
Did I sit at the wrong table in the Junior High School lunch table or something?
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posted on
08/21/2009 9:43:20 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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