Posted on 11/01/2014 3:45:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This Virginia entrepreneur will let you bury a survival bunker on his property—for a fee.
The half-page advertisement in the Sun Gazette, a weekly newspaper in Arlington, Virginia, contrasted sharply with offers for dog training and discounted window treatments.
Opposite an editorial about a local feud over building a streetcar to promote development in two areas of the county, the ad depicted the silhouettes of three backpackers trudging toward the horizon. In black all-capital letters printed across blue skies, “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY …” the ad proclaimed. White type, also in all capitals, advertised 160 wooded acres in which to bury underground bunkers stocked with food and water on leased lots. It touted having a private airfield and being just a tank of gas away from Washington, D.C.
“Is this for real?” my wife, Patty, asked.
It was a good question. The ad did seem cryptic and out-of-place in a newspaper with multiple pages of advertisements for million-dollar homes. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Arlington County had the country’s highest median family income, at $137,216, in 2012. And the Washington region as a whole grew three times as fast as the rest of the country since 2007, according to the New York Times....
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Catesby:
Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.
King Richard:
Slave! I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Doomsday may very well be traced back to Democrats ruining this country with their economic policies.
If I owned three or four, I’d set up anti aircraft artillery and point Gatling guns down the road, as well mine every field around.
Short of a drone strike, we’d be fine.
For $100 million I’d have tunnels everywhere with rail systems for moving stuff and peeps, laid on a sidewalk so you could run on the ssids of the tracks or in between, they’d be hundreds of yards long with two being a mile away and each hhaving two openings at the distant ends.
one to go straight out the top to ground level and another to enter a pod stocked with everything “I thought” I needed, including plenty of fuel for some sort of aircraft, to get me to another bug out and two off road vehicles to continue loitering but, enabling me to move quickly back to base, wherever that it is.
I’d also make sure each pod had 200 years worth of popcor , Reesez Cups, Peanut M&M’s, Lindt White Chocolate Truffles, beer, vodka, scotch, wine and cigarettes.
It’d also be stocked with Metamucil, cuz for sure my list didn’t have anything with fiber in it.
Almost forgot: Dogs. Can’t live without dogs. So I’ll store food for them as well.
Concierge?
“James, please have the valet bring our MRAP around front. Also, have housekeeping clean our indoor range. We left quite a bit of brass on the floor.”
The trouble with that idea is that tunnels are a lot more expensive than you might imagine, plus they are also prone to all sorts of problems, known as “The Sandhog Rule”, which is, “any underground space that nature didn’t create, nature tries to destroy.”
Only a tank of gas away? No thanks. That’s too close to Mount Doom. Not to mention the quality of the people or lack thereof. Rather have someone from fly over country as neighbors for SHTF.
“Can’t live without dogs. So I’ll store food for them as well.”
They are the food.
For $100 million I’d have a droid army as well.
Bingo.
Great idea...
Think I’d shoot myself before I ate my dogs though.
Wow. I’ve never read such a pompous piece of crap about a guy hawking emotional security to people with more sense than money.
The ‘weed-strewn’ parking lot he sat in to meet Kranski is in Dewitt, VA.
Anyone in the VA area that really wants to find this place could do so easily. Kranski even registered with the State of VA under the name ‘Disaster Retreat LLC’. If I’m right, the vicinity of this place is only a half hour from his place in Moseley, VA but he had the reporter drive 3 hours out of his way from Arlington to meet him in Dewitt on the other side.
This is laughable, if it weren’t so pathetic.
Fair enough; then they could eat you.
Great line from “A Rumor of War”: For the first time I was treated to the sight of pigs eating roasted humans...
Cocker Spaniels?
Not likely and these punks are so loyal, I actually think they’d die for me. LOL!!!
I’d never let that happen.
I’d fight a bear hand to hand, with my knife and feed him to these punks...if I had to.
Even Cocker Spaniels have more meat than a rabbit or squirrel...
I’ve never had dog (though I’m open to it), but years ago when these Brazilian “rodizio” restaurants started opening around here I had probably a half dozen different animals at one meal (cow, pig, chicken, ostrich, alligator, salmon, rabbit...). They’re all-you-can-eat, too!
I eat everything but dog and squash.
I’ve even eaten bugs simmered in lemon and butter.
Gotta draw line somewhere and have a boundary.
I’ve never done bugs, and I’ll never do celery or mushrooms. Mushrooms in particular are such a nasty item that just screams “DON’T EAT THIS!”.
(I know other people love them; I just can’t bring myself to do it)
Only a tank of gas away? No thanks. That’s too close to Mount Doom. Not to mention the quality of the people or lack thereof. Rather have someone from fly over country as neighbors for SHTF.
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I read that as an airplane tank of gas.
Wait, you dont like shiite and mushrooms?
LOL
I got a friend, eats anything and he hates mushrooms too.
Weird. Their natures tofu and take on the flavors of whatever you cook em with, as well enhancing it.
I like porcini mushrooms, celery and onions braised and then mixed into my hamburger, which I cook only enough to make it feel threatened.
Had an awesome burger today in West Hollywood at a place called “A.O.C.”.
Freaking delicious and without all that garbage that store bought hamburger has in it.
I accidently ate one once, and never forgot the consistency - it just wasn’t “right”. Octopus has a gross consistency (rubbery, and with suckers on it), and even that was more acceptable than mushrooms.
Eating mushrooms (in my closed mind) would be as unnatural as eating a rock. No logic to it...
Ahh.
I have people say the same thing about scotch and cognac....
Which makes me think “Gee, I ain’t drank since last week. It’s Saturday.
Why not?”.
I’ll fix that.
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