Concierge Doomsday Preppers (Prepping for the Upper Middle Class?)

Slate ^ | October 29, 2014 | Ryan Donmoyer

[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....

[greeneyes]

Mmmm. Could be tank full for private airplane I guess. Either way the location is too close to Mount Doom.LOL

[RegulatorCountry]

The right people aren’t going to pay through the nose for “survival in a can” readymade on a leased lot. That’s the lazy way out for people who have more money than sense, but just enough sense to be worried. They’ll be utterly unprepared, complaining and freaking out a week into it, and guess who will have to deal with it. These are DC bubble people, detached from reality and believe themselves completely entitled. Not good neighbors at all in a SHTF scenario.

[rfreedom4u]

I’ve often wondered if libs and dems have some sort of financial interest in prepper/survival companies and are causing all this strife just to make a buck.