[Caleb Ian]

Mount Weather is a real place; eighty-five acres located forty-five miles west of Washington and 1,725 feet above sea level, near the town of Bluemont, Virginia. In the event of all-out war, an elite of civilian and military leaders are to be taken to Mount Weather's cavernous underground shelter to become the nucleus of a postwar American society. The government has a secret list of those persons it plans to save.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) runs Mount Weather. When it has to talk about the place, which is rare, it calls it the "special facility." Its more common name comes from a weather station that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had maintained on the mountain.

[knak]

Cute. Welcome to FR.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Welcome to the "Threat Matrix". "Site R" is also a real place.

We welcome fresh minds and input here. Thanks for joining us.

[Velveeta]

Is Ted Kennedy on the list?