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Another yellow plaque can be found on the side of a building that now serves as a Chase Bank in lower Manhattan.

The shelters were mostly repurposed rooms in existing buildings.

"The criteria were to find an existing structure that could serve as a fallout shelter then make a couple of changes to it,
put some supplies in there and put a sign outside the building to let you know they are there," says Schlegelmilch.

"You're looking for something that is surrounded by thick layers of concrete that radiation can't easily penetrate.
So a basement in the centre of a building, something without windows."

1 posted on 08/14/2017 8:04:34 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping - The threat of nuclear attack used to be thought to come from Russia, so New York City was fortified.
Times have changed with a possible threat from the Far East, and now West Coast citizens are concerned.

Do you have a plan in place, or a place to go to ?
Do you have a Plan B ?

2 posted on 08/14/2017 8:09:49 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Be the First on Your Block [1.16]

[The Cunninghams are inspecting the plans for the bomb shelter]

Marion: Don't you think we should move the bathroom somewhere else so that, when people drop in, it won't be the first thing they see?

Howard: Marion, we're not trying to get into Better Homes and Gardens. We're trying to survive a nuclear attack.

Marion: I know, but we can survive with good taste.

Fonzie: Like I always say, you live fast, you die young, you leave a good-looking corpse.

Potsie: Hey, that's cool.

Richie: Nick Romano said that in Knock on Any Door.

Fonzie: I think I said it better.

5 posted on 08/14/2017 8:16:25 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
The Fallout shelters in NYC, if it were to be hit with a H-Bomb, would only serve as tombs for those buried beneath the rubble if NYC were hit with a nuke.

The benefit would be if they were only concerned with fallout from an attack somewhere else.

6 posted on 08/14/2017 8:39:15 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

There used to be a shelter nearby but all the MREs were moved out long ago. It’s not completely sealed off so the bad stuff could potentially get you but I’m not very knowledgeable about that. Us old timers know about it but probably not the young uns. It’s doubtful the idiot LEOs would have enough sense to notify anyone on where to go.

We’d probably stay right here.


7 posted on 08/14/2017 8:39:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I’m probably an idiot, but I don’t have much fear at all. Very much at peace, actually. Like the governor of Guam, I have every confidence with Trump being at the helm.

I believe God put Trump in his position, and continues to direct him in the decisions he’s making.


13 posted on 08/14/2017 9:23:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

As someone who works in a building with a clear view of downtown Houston 5 miles away, my plan is to put as little possible between me and the fireball, as to make it quick.


14 posted on 08/14/2017 10:09:26 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I got news for you folks in NY City. You won’t have to worry about fall out. You’re #1 on every bad guy’s hit list.


15 posted on 08/14/2017 11:31:28 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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