Posted on 04/09/2012 9:50:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A down economy appears to be good times for at least one Colorado company.
Many disaster-shelter companies across the nation can't keep up with the demand from their customers, who all appear to be worried about the future.
The Colorado company was recently profiled on the show "Doomsday Preppers," hosted on the National Geographic Channel.
Owner Riley Cook says their phones have been ringing off the hook ever since, with people requesting everything from survival kits to advice.
As a major project, the company is currently working on a shelter that puts most homes to shame.
The nearly half-million dollar bunker is being built for a client near Chicago.
The Summit Daily News reports the shelter even employs high-tech lithium-ion batteries that cost $25,000 (U.S.) each.
The powerful batteries are the same ones used by NASA to power the Mars Rover.
Wow, I’d LOVE to see that! I bet y’all are prepared. I salute you. Not even up to your level yet.
A couple questions I have after looking at that site- how do you plan to get rid of the waste water and sewage? Is there a pump out feature? How safe is the air filtration? Can it operate during flooding or a range fire (for example)?
This one is a beauty, S. There is a 10hp diesel pump-out system for sewage/waste water underground via 8” pipe to a dry charcoal filtration pit (I designed all of the ‘life survival’ systems) 300ft from the main SU (Safe Unit) Complex site. Quiet and unobservable.
Air intake is very well-hidden and is protected by 8 M18A1 Claymores (also well-hidden boobytraps, and wifi computer- monitored along with entrance) around it. No one gets through to it, alive. Except me. Air intake is triple filtered and we’ve already been thru a small range fire; didn’t have to use the SU, as we/employees/neighbors were too busy fighting the fires, but I ran the S-Unit’s system and checked it intake w/ “EPA particulate matter cards” at inside vent: 99% clean. Works for us.
We haven’t been thru a flood but intake is 15ft above ground level, so unless it’s “Noah Time”, we’re okay.
Good point. An air vent should be camouflaged with paint and some natural elements surrounding it. The vent should be more secured than the front door.
Servicemen are bad enough in normal times. Not that I have anything of value (really, I don’t) but what I do have is mine and I don’t want to come in one day and find out a guy I paid to fix the basement furnace came back with his buddies and absconded with half my stuff. Many preppers store their supplies in the basement where these guys may be unsupervised. It would be wise to partition off the utilities from your storage area.
The city/county/state has information of this sort on all property owners unless you've done the work yourself. Information is power. It's a guarantee that some worker or exworker will come knocking. Our county used to post your home's footprint online until they got enough complaints to take it down.
Other than Costner getting 10 rounds (at least)off out of a Single Action Army Colt at the beginning. ;)
No matter. He got that bad guy square in the forehead. Still the best gunfight I’ve seen.
Is this the company?
http://securitydisastershelters.com/
I agree its a good one, but it’s rare for the movie gunfights to not have a bit of “poetic license” in them. Tom Selleck’s westerns have a great deal of authenticity in the weapons.
Good points. “Quigley Down Under” comes to mind.
Crossfire Trail is also good. The bad guy actor actually restores Winchesters as a hobby.
Some of the long shots in Quigley were at the limits, but a buffalo hunter at the siege of Adobe Walls made an 1800 yard shot with a similar rifle. Someone calculated the “bucket shot” is equivalent of hitting a shotglass at 65 yards with a pellet gun.
I wonder if you can use any of those here in Florida, where the water table is typically about 1-3 feet down.
That high a water table might be problematic, dd.
I designed our Family’s SU Complex w/ 1” ballast stone & 3/4” crushed bluestone, 17ft deep, 8ft wide, surrounding the entire structure, with 20 6” & 8” drainage pipes going down 20ft thru clay. It *should* withstand a flooding, but we usually don’t get enough rain to factor-in. Better to be safe than have a soggy mess, although the entire SU Complex is heavily coated and sealed and won’t ever allow moisture intrusion. I designed a dehumidifier into the heating/cooling system, but haven’t used it in 2yrs. Our wells are 300ft+ deep, so water table intrusion isn’t a problem, here.
I was wondering if those gas tanks might be the answer. I’m guessing the hardest problem would be keeping the ground water from floating it right out of the ground. I guess you could back fill around the container and hide it with heavy landscaping.
In a hurricane we can get 10-20” of rain in a day so drainage is crucial.
I’d almost think that the tanks would have to be anchored into bedrock/shale ledges with long stainless 1” cable-wraps to keep them from floating, in that much water, dd. What do you landscape with in that high a water table? Bald cypress (Taxodium distichium)? That’s one of the few plants who can withstand so much water at root level.
There’s really no bedrock, its only brittle limestone. I was rethinking the buried container and put it at ground level and then fill in around it.
Tons of oak trees, cypress in some areas of course, and palms. I actually have a red maple that is doing well.
Normally any kind of construction involves using pumps to drain out the ground water before digging.
I guess that’d work fine, as long as there are some other “mounds” (man-made or natural) in the area, since FL is a pretty flat place, isn’t it? Otherwise, it might draw a lot of attention, by itself.
Haven’t seen the Doomsday Prepper program so not sure if that’s the company mentioned there. But, Discovery Channel had a special on the other night that featured this company in Dallas.
http://www.deepearthbunker.com/
One of their projects on the show was to create a storm shelter that floats, for sale to hurricane-prone areas. It’s featured on their website, also.
They, too, have been inundated with calls.
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