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Fallout Shelters Make a Comeback: Useless Revival or Tool for Survival?
SodaHead News
2011/08/22 13:00:00
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Following the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, caused by Japan's devastating earthquake earlier this year, the public has become increasingly concerned with nuclear disasters and how to better prepare for them.
According to The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese news source, Americans are looking back into a concept that hasn't been popular since the 1950s, when we were still telling our kids to hide under their desks if the bomb dropped.
Sales for fallout shelters, or "nuclear bunkers," have reportedly increased tenfold for some companies, and Robert Vicino, the CEO of Vivos, points to the Japanese earthquakes as the primary reason.
Vicino told Asahi, "We have about a 1,000 percent increase in immediate applications for memberships and accommodations in Vivos after the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. People are afraid of Earth-changing events. The central concern of our inquiries and potential customers is that we are seeing more intense and frequent Earth changes that may lead to more of what occurred in Japan."
A similar influx occurred in 2006, when North Korea began conducting nuclear tests, but these are the first such increases since the end of the Cold War.
However, Kenneth Rose, a lecturer at California State University, explains, "No one knows how many shelters were built because people generally wanted to keep their shelters a secret."
A typical fallout shelter charges individuals about $50,000 for a spot in a bunker equipped to support "from about 80 to 2,000 people." (Children cost $25,000.)
According to The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese news source, Americans are looking back into a concept that hasn't been popular since the 1950s, when we were still telling our kids to hide under their desks if the bomb dropped.
Sales for fallout shelters, or "nuclear bunkers," have reportedly increased tenfold for some companies, and Robert Vicino, the CEO of Vivos, points to the Japanese earthquakes as the primary reason.
Vicino told Asahi, "We have about a 1,000 percent increase in immediate applications for memberships and accommodations in Vivos after the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan. People are afraid of Earth-changing events. The central concern of our inquiries and potential customers is that we are seeing more intense and frequent Earth changes that may lead to more of what occurred in Japan."
A similar influx occurred in 2006, when North Korea began conducting nuclear tests, but these are the first such increases since the end of the Cold War.
However, Kenneth Rose, a lecturer at California State University, explains, "No one knows how many shelters were built because people generally wanted to keep their shelters a secret."
A typical fallout shelter charges individuals about $50,000 for a spot in a bunker equipped to support "from about 80 to 2,000 people." (Children cost $25,000.)
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Nikolas Ravena 2011/08/22 14:02:01Useless revival
+14What we really need are the Vaults.
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I am supposing that is how my ex must of felt - that it is was OK to send her 'hidden' savings to the Philippines...and she did not realize I needed that money to get us towards a better life, especially during a recession, so we could send them even MORE money later.
It is 12'x12' by 3 feet deep. (Hey, it's a family pool, and 3 feet deep is covered under homeowner's insurance.) It took 6 weeks, using shovels, in a month of June, working a little every late afternoon and evening.
Over MOST of the 3rd world, they do not have the luxury of a bulldozer. However, if you rent a backhoe for a day (about $200 plus deposit)...you can dig a square hole in the ground that is at least 8 ft across and 6 to 8 feet deep within about 10 hours with a couple of breaks. With an extended reach backhoe, you can go about 10 ft...or you can create a ramp into the pit to go deeper on one end. (For deep water, etc.) However, due to soft ground, that is risky to be reaching over a dirt mini cliff. It is better to dig when the ground is hard after a dry spell. (Such as August.)
The same construction as that pool only requires the shelter be deep enough that you can put a roof that is 7'2" above your head. Then, you cover the room with dirt...except for your stairs down to it. Cinder block is the brick of choice. Just pour a cement floor for about $90 a cu. yard, then start on your walls the next day. Make a form for ...
It is 12'x12' by 3 feet deep. (Hey, it's a family pool, and 3 feet deep is covered under homeowner's insurance.) It took 6 weeks, using shovels, in a month of June, working a little every late afternoon and evening.
Over MOST of the 3rd world, they do not have the luxury of a bulldozer. However, if you rent a backhoe for a day (about $200 plus deposit)...you can dig a square hole in the ground that is at least 8 ft across and 6 to 8 feet deep within about 10 hours with a couple of breaks. With an extended reach backhoe, you can go about 10 ft...or you can create a ramp into the pit to go deeper on one end. (For deep water, etc.) However, due to soft ground, that is risky to be reaching over a dirt mini cliff. It is better to dig when the ground is hard after a dry spell. (Such as August.)
The same construction as that pool only requires the shelter be deep enough that you can put a roof that is 7'2" above your head. Then, you cover the room with dirt...except for your stairs down to it. Cinder block is the brick of choice. Just pour a cement floor for about $90 a cu. yard, then start on your walls the next day. Make a form for your ceiling, and you can pour that too, but as long as the ceiling is only one or two feet below ground, and covered in Earth to camouflage...treated oakwood lumber is sufficient, if you worry about getting trapped under cement boulders during a raid. Besides, it tends not to rot.
If determined, you could build a bomb shelter for under $7500, if you do the labor yourself, maybe even under $3,000, if you get everything on sale. Grass is free, if you make your own sod.
I am scratching my head...was your 3 a measurement of yards, or feet? Surely if only 3x3x3...I can dig that in an afternoon with a shovel.
Here's another look at a do-it-yourself shelter. By making the construction tight, it will protect even as the house collapses. One thing for SURE, once built, it makes a fantastic game room or den, and can be quite cozy in the winter, or heat of summer.
like Moammar Gadhafi’s stockpile of advanced, chemical, and other weapons “don’t fall into the wrong hands as these people just dont give a dam about our country or our people.
http://www.missilebases.com/
Everybody alive today will be dead in 100 odd years and we cannot prevent it.
Guess I'll start smoking and drinking
vaults i could handle though, i would miss the sunlight
This shelter is WELL BUILT. This old dude did one hell of a job building this thing. Steel reinforced concrete withan added layer of cinder blocks. Multiple rooms. Good ventilation. There's even running water and a working toilet. It's like a mini apartment down there. It turns out that guy who built it was a contractor. So building this shelter and having all of the materials to build this shelter was a piece of cake for him. My family sure lucked out!
We walk the talk and have all those things yet Hawaii is still and Island and having a basement is like having a pool under your house....It ain't gonna happen. Our piece of land was on the side of a hill so we had a place there to build one.
My other half...is an NRA Certified Instructor and a former seal and in crisis prep for the State so all our basis are covered.
Attached this funny clip.. Mine does not misfire.