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My dad was looking to buy a house in central Florida years ago that was built after the Cuban missile crisis. While looking at it, he found an attached hidden underground shelter that the original owner had built under the carport, that the realtor apparently did not know about. It had its own electric generator, located in its own sealed off little room, a complete bathroom w/shower, an electric or manually operated air supply, if needed, and I believe 4 fold-down canvas bunk beds. It also had a couple of glass lookouts, maybe 2ft thick, 4" square, for daytime light. It had a couple of air supply pipes going outside. It had its own underground electric water well for drinking water and for bathroom use. It had two thick steel solid-locking entry doors from the inside of the basement, plus two thick solid-locking exit doors to the outside. The main room was maybe 20'x15'. It was solid concrete all around. We used it a bedroom for one of my brothers, then later my dad made a workshop out of it. The older boys used the bathroom as their own downstairs private bathroom. It also made for a good hurricane shelter. This is also where my dad stored his thousands of old Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated magazines, stored in a little hallway off to the enclosed bathroom. I tell you, if we had to use this bomb shelter for an extended period of time, we would have had a ton of reading material.

Other than food and water, the most important thing is a way to receive news or to communicate with the outside world. Internet, cell phone, satellite phone, AM/FM radio, police scanner, television, citizen band radio, Marine band, and ham radio(short wave radio) are a good idea. I don't know how reliable internet and cellphone would be in the case of a disaster though. And you would have to rig up some way for cell phone reception underground or inside a steel vessel. Some sort of relay or remote antenna.

Short wave is the most reliable so long as your tower is still intact. Although the number of users out there may not be very high. You might find the nearest person to talk to is a couple hundred miles away. Or more.

All this is much more than my provisions for nuclear. Mine consists of a handheld police scanner/CB radio combo, a sledge hammer and an antique folding army shovel...kept in my basement. Bust out a few cinder blocks with the sledge hammer and dig like crazy with the little shovel. Take all the dresser drawers downstairs and fill them up with the dirt dug out. Then stack up the dirt filled drawers up at the entrance to the hole.

Tada. Presto-chango. Instant radiation shelter.