Posted on 09/08/2013 4:15:12 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The pool in my backyard happens to be a Catalina pool. Although my house doesn’t have an underground bomb shelter... it does have a rather large lower level “pool” bathroom that is cinderblock on all four walls, and looks to have a concrete ceiling. We’ve often joked that it was probably a bomb shelter of some sort. My home was custom built in 1957, the pool was added in 1959.
This is my dreamhouse! I love just hanging in my basement away from the rest of the world....
Beat me to it, I was going to say the underground part looks exactly like the one in that movie.
“I loved that movie.”
Me too. It is probably in my all time top ten list.
“Were school kids doing nuclear disaster drills as late as ‘78?”
I remember doing them at my “new school” in 3rd grade. that would have been 79-80....I don’t recall any drills in later grades.
“We never did those nuclear drills. We had tornado drills, and the procedure was basically the same.”
Not for us. We went to a pretty good enclosure for tornado drills, but just hid under our desks for nuclear drills. It was probably the equivelant of saying “bend over and kiss your a$$ good bye..”
;-)
I know we were still doing drills in school at that date (’78) for air raids.
Well that would be true if you lived in a likely target area. However, once you get out beyond a 25 mile radius, there’s a shot at survival if you can get sheltered from the radiation, take the iodine tablets, and stay sheltered for at least 2 weeks.
Can’t remember now, the number of feet of concrete you need, but IIRC 3 inches of steel does the trick. Your shelter has to have venting, but radiation can’t turn corners, so you just have to design stuff with that in mind.
I don’t think the tornado shelter would have been very effective for the tornado or the bomb, so It kinda was a waste of time.
Well, yes, but there are people around who can do that, that aren’t necessarily our friends either. I just know that I didn’t feel one bit safer after the Soviet Union came apart and went into chaos.
“Where’s Liberace?”
Hopefully that queer died of aids!!!!
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