Picture Show: Waiting for the End of the World[Bomb Shelters]

GOOD ^ | 22 July 2009 | Richard Ross

[the invisib1e hand]

if the world really does end, will a tunnel do you any good?

[cripplecreek]

I want one just because it would be cool.

[BGHater]

Dunno, but I bet you wouldn’t have to worry about the mortgage anymore.

[theFIRMbss]

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Yes we're gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It's just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
We've got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier

Introduce me to that big blonde
She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
She's got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
She's got the right dynamics for the new frontier

Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
'Til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas

Have you got a steady boyfriend
Cause honey I've been watching you
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier

Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
'Til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Let's pretend that it's the real thing
And stay together all night long
And when I really get to know you
We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn
Confess your passion your secret fear
Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier

[the invisib1e hand]

great tune. I never knew that first verse, but I sure got a kick out of the rest of 'em.

IGY comes to mind, as well.

[Travis McGee]

Interesting.

[mnehring]

But when you think back to the illogic of the Bush/Cheney administration....

LOL, the idiot has to make this about Bush/Cheney even though most of these are cold war era shelters and the most high tech are in Switzerland, a country that has for over half a century, built shelters for every single one of her citizens.

[Lurker]

Gotta love the Swiss. You know every single one of those shelters has immediate access to a G-3 rifle and a butt load of match grade ammo.

[Vaquero]

Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!

[mnehring]

Not only that, every single citizen is given a military grade assault rifle and undergoes required training at least once a year.

[Lurker]

Yep. You gotta love a country where the citizens go out on weekends to practice blowing up their own bridges.

This exchange is alleged to have happened sometime during WWII:

German General to Swiss General: "What will you do if I send a million men marching across your borders?"

Swiss General replies: "We will all shoot twice and then go home."

[Habibi]

This is the perfect solution to that guest room project that's been hanging fire for the last few years. The nieces and nephews would love it. It would be great as a storage unit as well.

Great article!

[Voter62vb]

“But when you think back to the illogic of the Bush/Cheney administration....”

As opposed to the logic of the Obama administration that is holding their breath until Iran sits down and talks. Harumpfff!

As opposed to logic of the Obama admistration that had all the media-back answers to the worlds problems yet presides over media ignored growing chaos and growth of unstable power centers.

As opposed to the logic of the Obama administration that sees the US as only evil and that disarming her is good for the world.

I would think shelter sales would be up...way up! But I guess those sales are based on watching the world according to Soros and CNN.

[NavyCanDo]

My In-laws (house built in the mid 60s) have one below their 2-car garage. Fits the same footprint as the garage so it is huge. Over the years though, it has turned into a storage room. By the time you clear all the stuff out of the room and stock it with food, the war would be over.

[bgill]

One of those has been on my Christmas list for years.

[NCC-1701]

"... By the time you clear all the stuff out of the room and stock it with food, the war would be over...."

A little re-working is needed:

"By the time you clear all the stuff out of the room and stock it with food, the WORLD would be over."

[Daffynition]

Excellent and interesting post BGH.

But I would die of claustrophobia first.

[GOPJ]

Doors of the public shelter near Zurich. Building code defines the specifications that are required of the shelters, though color schemes are optional. The entire population can be put underground in two hours. Bridges and tunnels throughout Switzerland are set with explosives to be blown in the face of an advancing enemy.

One more reason to believe the crusaders in the middle ages migrated to Switerland.

Anyhow there's always been two groups of humans - the "beach people" and the "cliff people". The beach people are happy - build their houses on the sand and think in terms of "today".

The cliff people (sheep dog types) built their homes on the cliffs and tell the beach people the sea might come up and kill them some day. To which the beach people ( sheep ) laugh.

Then one day, the sea rises up and kills all the beach people. Then after some years, the cliff's people's grand-kids start moving down to the beach again - where life is easier and more fun... and laugh at the cliff people.

Repeat,

repeat,

repeat.

It's why we have grouchy moralist around who keep repopulation the human species. The guy who wrote this is a descendant of some cliff dwelling sheepdog and he's having his fun... to which we say, someday the sea will rise up...

[DCBryan1]

nice....only thing missing is an ICBM silo in AZ.