How to Build a Super Top Secret Bunker under Your House (we may need it)

instructables.com ^ | 10-2008 | some handyman guy

[doug from upland]

When I built the house I just spent 7 years working on, I had a lot of days that were just plane monotonous, so I would daydream about the Next Great Project as soon as I finished the house...

If you're OCD you know exactly what I am speaking about.

Perhaps it was watching too many reruns of Stollag 17...

Maybe it was all the Underground cabins we built as kids to have a cool place to hide out in the summer.

Truthfully though I just love to build things and when I designed the house I made the bottom level only half the size of the main floor and the other half is a crawlspace about 4 foot high.

Most of my plumbing and stuff runs around the floor joists down there so I wanted enough room to have access to everything but I didn't want to build an eight foot wall, It took me 7 weeks to do the block for the garage workshop and storage room so saving 4 feet of wall seemed like a good idea.

[4buttons]

" Perhaps it was watching too many reruns of Stollag 17..."

But not enough to know how to spell "Stalag".

[Maverick68]

You have hit the nail on the head. My wife said she was worried about Obama being President and taking over gestapo style. I asked about her friends who have husbands, brothers, sisters in the military and who they would be supporting. The overwhelming answer was McCain. Here on FreeRepublic we give so much praise to our military, but somehow think these good, brave, mostly Conservative men and women will suddenly turn on us? I have more faith than that.

[Harold Shea]

I don`t look for Noboma to keep funding the military same level as today

Not to mention the “don`t ask don`t tell”

[Sisku Hanne]

I had a strong interest in all things pioneer and wilderness at that age, too. There was a book I loved called “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean George about a boy who ran away and lived out in the wilderness on his own, in a tree hollowed out by lightning. And I loved the “Foxfire” book series...especially the first one. It was all these interviews with elderly folk up in the Appalachian Mts., and their old ways of living and folk remedies. Really fascinating. The type in Country Living is so small, but it has everything from A-Z.

[Thumper1960]

BHO would do well to abandon any visions of his Marxist paradise. To attempt an implementation would be a catastrophic miscalculation on his part and subject his sycophants to a very grim and dark future.

[Centurion2000]

Two things that definately do not go together:
1. Building a TOP SECRET Bunker in your Basement
2. Posting plans, photos, and instructions of same on the Internet.

I was wondering if anyone else would see that illogic. :)

[Chickensoup]

bump

[bad company]

She is almost too interested in survivalist crap and learning to live off the land.,

Get her a couple of foxfire books and you'll be the mom of the century.

[conservative cat]

I live too much in the suburbs and my house has no basement and is 36 years old. We are, however, looking at “hiding places in the mountains” and starting a gun collection.

[tet68]

Always remember, a bunker without a berm is worthless,
and concertina wire, lots of wire.

Maybe she would find “Living off the land in the city or Country” by Ragnar Benson an interesting read.

I have hopes for my niece, the total urban girl,
she has just started dateing someone who is into camping.
They were supposed to go last weekend on her first camping
trip, I haven’t gotten the after action report but hope
it went ok.

My mom was a city girl unfortunately when my dad took her down to the country to meet his folks he took her fishing
at the pond, she looked real cute in her white shorts but
he forgot to tell her not to sit in the poison oak...
she hates the country to this day. Hope my niece gets off
to a better start.

[ansel12]

Here is a stocking stuffer that everyone should read. It is from the daily life of a boy in 1805.

Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Early-American-Boy-Americana/dp/0486436667/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i/002-3291733-1919262

[Mr. Jeeves]

Two things that definitely do not go together:

1. Building a TOP SECRET Bunker in your Basement

2. Posting plans, photos, and instructions of same on the Internet.

Yes, but in the mind of the typical survivalist, paranoia and ego are constantly struggling for the upper hand. ;)

[CommerceComet]

Hey, I’ve been wanting one but have been claiming it would be a tornado shelter.

I guess that is an advantage that we in Tornado Alley have. People will just think we're cautious, not kooks. ;-)

[familyop]

"If you're OCD you know exactly what I am speaking about."

Arrrgggggh! Acronym overload!

...obsessive-compulsive disorder, original comedy/drama, offshore and coastal dispersion, osteochondritis dissecans, osteochondrosis dissecans, obscure character of the day, octavian country day, occupational cerviobrachial disorder, one cool dude?

Anyway, building a bunker is fine with me, but that kind of project is not allowed by many counties and homeowners' associations on the Rockies. One needs to be wealthy enough to hire a lawyer preceding that kind of project.

[familyop]

#00, low-recoil buckshot. The Fiocchi is best for the price, as far as I know. But #1 buck works better and is a little safer for the neighbors, if you can handle the recoil. ...and still need to be able to hit the targets every time while making sure that the back-range is clear.

[ladyvet]

00 buck ...three inch mag. Do not aim at that house! :^)

[Toki]

Intersting. To bad I don’t own any type of properity.

[doug from upland]

Hey, I didn’t write it.

[doug from upland]

Indeed, perhaps the author has a good sense of humor.

[misanthrope]

“hiding places in the mountains”
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Nothing for you there. Stay away.