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Dive for cover, in a $36,000 family bomb shelter
The Standard-Examiner ^ | January 11, 2014 | Mark Saal

Posted on 01/11/2014 4:48:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Guess the chance of nuclear war is worse now than the 1950s when fallout shelters were all the rage.

Guess Obama is spurring one industry as least.


21 posted on 01/11/2014 5:43:22 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: tanknetter

“You mean that new septic tank I had put in? Yeah, I know we have city sewers, but I’m planning on living off the grid.”


22 posted on 01/11/2014 5:50:06 PM PST by Hugin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We don't need no stinkin' key."


23 posted on 01/11/2014 5:54:44 PM PST by moovova
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To: Kartographer
Nice sized screen. Question: What films should be available to watch? 1. 'The Road' In "The Road," an unnamed disaster destroys society and wipes out most of life on Earth. The few survivors live in a world where their only sources of nutrition are the food made before the disaster and each other. 2. Mad Max. 3. 12 Monkeys 4. ...
24 posted on 01/11/2014 5:55:18 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well at least there’s plenty of natural light.

But seriously folks, the best place to be is on the water, with washed decks. Barring that, in MIDDLE floors of buildings.

Radioactivity is HEAVY. It sits on roofs and sinks into the ground.

You’re better off on the 3rd floor of a tenement than 6’ under!

(Not that I’m a scientist, but... OK I’m a scientist.)


25 posted on 01/11/2014 5:59:49 PM PST by golux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

World War II Anderson Shelters

http://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/


26 posted on 01/11/2014 6:04:33 PM PST by njslim (St)
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To: tanknetter

I would rather fight defending my preparations to survive, which is already something that I planned for when preparing, than to merely die, because I didn’t prepare.

Even pioneer families had to fight to defend their goods and shelter from roaming looter packs.


27 posted on 01/11/2014 6:05:27 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: njslim

A sense of security NOT!


28 posted on 01/11/2014 6:06:49 PM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: garjog

when the poop hits the fan and the grid goes down, well.. the room will be as dark as the screen.


29 posted on 01/11/2014 6:07:37 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, they don’t.


30 posted on 01/11/2014 6:08:26 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: ansel12

put one of these in your back yard for all to see.. haul empty boxes in like your stocking it up.

Then when the SHTF bug out to the real hide out :)

spendy decoy yes, but it’ll probably buy you the time you need to escape.


31 posted on 01/11/2014 6:09:56 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Time was, such survival shelters were only for the wealthy, according to Hubbard. His shelters start at $35,900, and top out at $85,900.

Not in this economy. You still have to have the land. Getting a permit would get the gossip going and trucking a big yellow thing down main street would cause a lot of nosy nellies to take notice. The only way to do it is to do it yourself in the back forty of your property with no close neighbors. The first teen year old who finds out about it will have his friends over the next day plugging up the air vents.

32 posted on 01/11/2014 6:11:35 PM PST by bgill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
More than just an "insurance policy", one of these could easily serve as additional cold storage space, rec room, man cave, study room, and/or other daily usable space.
33 posted on 01/11/2014 6:15:30 PM PST by meadsjn
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To: dfwgator

....”The key word is survival in the new frontier.”


34 posted on 01/11/2014 6:28:34 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: blueunicorn6

she just wants the bomb shelter to look gneiss when the neighbors come over.


35 posted on 01/11/2014 6:38:23 PM PST by Redcitizen (Never bring a tank to a Chuck Norris fight.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wingding bump


36 posted on 01/11/2014 6:44:49 PM PST by kanawa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No way am I living in anything that’s 20 feet underground. I don’t even want to be 6 feet under so I’m being cremated.


37 posted on 01/11/2014 6:48:36 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: garjog

Nice sized screen.

Question: What films should be available to watch?

1. ‘The Road’ In “The Road,” an unnamed disaster destroys society and wipes out most of life on Earth. The few survivors live in a world where their only sources of nutrition are the food made before the disaster and each other.
2. Mad Max.
3. 12 Monkeys
4. ...


38 posted on 01/11/2014 6:56:05 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: cableguymn

“when the poop hits the fan and the grid goes down, well.. the room will be as dark as the screen.”

No, these babes have generators.


39 posted on 01/11/2014 6:57:35 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: bgill

“Getting a permit “

Yes, you would need to prepare an environmental impacted statement, get triplicate permissions from Homeland Security, and the OK by Obamacare navigators since radiation affects health.


40 posted on 01/11/2014 7:02:00 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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