You can do a lot of internal remodeling. Such as fortifying the ceiling of the basement, designing a safe room area downstairs and stockroom. The problem with many houses today is that they will burn. If you have a brick or stone house, you need to make steel or aluminum covered panels that you can screw into your window frames and fortify any wooden doors so they won’t burn.
You will need to install a roof that won’t burn, like a steel roof. So they can’t burn you out and it will provide extra external protection.
Same thing with your garage.
Now if you have another place to bug out to, you need to pack up and get out as soon as possible.
Thanks for the ideas. I especially like the safe room and storage room ideas. I’m not bugging out...too old to start over, been here too long, family here. I suppose some kind of neighborhood watch could lessen the need for some of the more extreme at home defensive measures?
VON KLUTZ
(smiling modestly)
It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors
could provide power almost indefinitely.
Greenhouses could maintain plant life.
Animals could be bred and slaughtered.
A quick survey would have to be made of all
the suitable minesites in the country, but
I shouldn’t be surprised if several hundred
thousand of our people could be accomodated.
Every nation would undoubtedly follow suit.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY
But who would be chosen?
VON KLUTZ
A special committee would have to be appointed
to study and recommend the criteria to be
employed, but off-hand, I should say that in
addition to the factors of youth, health, sexual
fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of
necessary skills, it would be absolutely vital
that our top government and military men be
included, to impart the required principles of
leadership and tradition.
— Dr. Strangelove