Posted on 05/04/2013 4:49:47 PM PDT by dynachrome
For more than a decade after they moved into their house in Neenah, Wisconsin, the Zwick family knew they had a Cold War bunker in their backyard.
It was not until 2010 that anyone thought to open the heavy steel hatch, climb down the ladder and explore the 8-foot-by-10-foot chamber that the home's previous owner had built to protect his family from a nuclear attack.
Floating in five feet of water that had seemed into the bunker were sealed U.S. Army boxed packed with all of the supplies a family would need to survive two weeks underground.
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That Twilight Zone episode (original series) was one of their best. Preachy in all the right ways.
The “new” Twilight Zone did a completely different bomb shelter episode as well which was excellent in its own way.
Oh my. That might be provably the absolutely worst thing you could possibly eat in a sealed fallout shelter, even if you were by yourself.
Good meal, good sleep, and the Col liked breakfast.
I'd speak harshly to someone for suggesting that I do that today.
/johnny
I hadn’t thought of that, but then I am a guy with 700 pounds of dried beans and raw wheat berries stored in number 10 cans.
It doesn’t sound pretty.
“then called the sheriff”
Oh no... that’s just wrong.
Wow. Neenah. My father’s side of the family is from Neenah, County of Tipperary, Ireland. Wonder if the Wisconsin Neenah settlers might be cousins? Any Irish potatoes in the shelter?
In Vietnam, C-rations were good there was a cookbook for them I mostly loaded mine up with Tabasco or Worcestershire but the LRP rations were the first freeze dried rations & they were out of this world.
I was a Huey pilot we had good messhall chow because we had a good mess sergeant there is no substitute for that but when you had to sleep over at a firebase on flare mission it was strictly pot luck though some FSB messhalls had such a good rep we volunteered to overnight there just for the breakfast the best mess sergeants knew they were the key to good morale.
Never forget that. ;)
/johnny
if nothing else, secure the place, get it and keep it dry, and use it to store ammo...
Be careful, you may end up with a bunker mentality.
The same way warm, sulfurous, irrigation well water, gulped out of a grimy plastic jug, with out even a thought of pausing to wipe the mouth of it before being the third guy to drink out of it, can be be a delicious beverage when you've been hauling hay, or water melons, in Texas in the summertime.
I sometimes try to describe what is important in life in the way of material goods, by telling people to put a quart jar of water in the refrigerator and then go out into the backyard and dig a 3 foot wide by 6 foot deep hole, and see if it gets them to thinking about the little joys in life.
I doubt that many people understand what I am driving at when I say it, but it sounds like you do.
Just do the polish mine sweeper thang.....put yer fingers in yer ears, squint and kick it !
I did stay awake for UXO classes, and appreciated those guys a lot, though.
/johnny
Initial success or total failure..... :o)
During that Cold War era they used to get beautiful Italian girls from the PSI on to us trying to get information from us. I told em I was a cook...... Made em hungry !
Stay safe .... Long day for me. Nite JRF !
Not the most intellectually curious folk in the neighborhood, are they?
Indians used to use clumps of it as tampons, and as a sort of absorbant material to stuff in the baby's cradleboard. No daiper rash.
It’s hard to believe that they were so lacking in curiosity that they never even looked inside before buying it and especially waiting so many years.
LOL. In the 37 years I have lived in this house, I have never thrown away a single phonebook.LOL
IIRC, people located 25 miles from the blast area were supposed to be albe to survive if they had a shelter built to the civil defense specs. It was 3 inches of steel and either 3 or 6 feet of concrete.
They used to have pamphlets on how to convert a corner of the basement into shelter too.
We are very likely today to have a nuclear event. After all, didn’t bombs go missing from Russia when they imploded? I am sure that it is only a matter of time before a suitcase nuke(S) is used.
Our world is just as dangerous today as it was then, but the government now likes to pretend that everything is hunky dory.
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