[edpc]

How long before some entrepreneur dusts off this old idea? For those old enough to remember the 'Duck and Cover' days........

[BenLurkin]

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[DoughtyOne]

Your do-it-yourself shelter might help against a low yield nuke, but one of the Rusky or Chicom nukes would probably incinerate anyone in it.

I've not read up on it lately, but I believe you have to be underground by a considerable distance to be safe these days, on the order of thirty feet or more.

Hopefully someone that has studied up on this will come by and address this issue.

[HangnJudge]

http://www.survivalring.org/FEMA-HomeShelter-H-12-4-0(1987)-OCR.pdf

Detailed plans for below ground shelter...

[Cheburashka]

of course, costs have gone up since 1960...

[SampleMan]

Thanks but I already got one at the office.

[Paulus Invictus]

Err, missing is the air intake and how to stop the incoming radiactive air? This was drawn in the 50's and looks it. We were so naive then (I know. I was there). Our neighbor built a much better and stronger shelter just a few doors away. I know where I'm heading when Kimmo sends the big one. Trouble is, the new owners of the shelter and house above it are gays. What then?

[SouthTexas]

For those old enough to remember the 'Duck and Cover' days........

Plenty remember the drill, very few can probably practice it. ;)

[El Gato]

How long before some entrepreneur dusts off this old idea? For those old enough to remember the 'Duck and Cover' days..

Already happended. You can buy pre fabricated shelters, just dig a hole, insert shelter and backfill. Just one example. Useful as tornado shelter as well.

My grandmother had a good shelter, but she called it a "Cellar". She used it store eggs, potatoes, onions,etc. But it was underground. All it needed was to fill up the entrance steps with sandbags and seal up that opening, say with plastic sheeting and duct tape. Oh and of course a supply of water. Food it had.

[beyond the sea]

Do-It-Yourself Shelter

Duct tape (optional)

[RightWhale]

$200 back in the 50s.

[Fiji Hill]

Fallout Shelter

I'm gonna lock myself
In a fallout shelter
To get away from you.
I'm gonna bolt the door
Never come out no more,
Just to keep away from you.

Oh, you,
You, terrible you,
Tough, tough you!

I'm gonna lock my heart
To keep out radiation.
The kind you've got
Could blow out a nation.
And never more will I open the door,
Because I might get contamination.

From you,
terrible you,
Tough, tough you!

Well if you change your mind,
Just drop me a line.
Push it through the ventilation.

If you don't care, baby,
Slip me some air,
And I'll stay for another generation.

Oh, you,
Terrible you,
Tough, tough you!

Dore Alpert
(Frank D'Amico-Herb Alpert)
Carnival Records CAR-1002,
1962