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Is It Smart to Invest in a Doomsday Bunker?
SodaHead News
2011/03/25 11:00:00
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Remember after the 9/11 terror and anthrax attacks and the Y2K paranoia when suddenly the idea of digging a doomsday bunker in your backyard or shelling out thousands to buy a spot in a professional underground hiding place seemed like a totally normal idea?
Well, paranoid days are here again thanks to the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. With unrest in the Middle East drawing the U.S. into a third armed conflict, this time in Libya, CNNMoney tells us that U.S. companies that traffic in doomsday bunkers say sales have shot up from 20 to 1,000 percent.
Some companies are getting so many orders they’re having trouble keeping up. Among them are Northwest Shelter Systems, whose shelters range in price from $200,000-$20 million, with sales up 70 percent. Keep in mind, that’s 12 shelter bookings versus the normal four the company typically sells in a year.
Other companies that sell portable shelters and underground bunkers (including a $9,500 nuclear biological chemical shelter tent) have seen sales spikes from 20 to 400 percent for those items as well as nuclear, biological and chemical air filters.
The company that made the most noise the last time around, Vivos, said reservations for rooms in its 200-person doomsday bunkers have gone up 1,000 percent since the Japanese disaster, with scared doomers backing up their dread with a minimum $5,000 deposit.
One doomsayer, Elan Yadan, told CNN that he took the $20,000 he had put aside as a down payment on a new home as a deposit for a Vivos spot for his family because he’d rather be safe than sorry. His big check will secure him a spot in a 137,000 square foot bunker being built under the Nebraska grasslands that can house 950 people for up to a year and withstand a 50 megaton blast. It will feature four levels of suits, a medical and dental center, kitchens, a bakery, detention center, prayer room, pet kennels and a fully stocked wine cellar.
Is it time to buy a doomsday shelter?
Well, paranoid days are here again thanks to the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. With unrest in the Middle East drawing the U.S. into a third armed conflict, this time in Libya, CNNMoney tells us that U.S. companies that traffic in doomsday bunkers say sales have shot up from 20 to 1,000 percent.
Some companies are getting so many orders they’re having trouble keeping up. Among them are Northwest Shelter Systems, whose shelters range in price from $200,000-$20 million, with sales up 70 percent. Keep in mind, that’s 12 shelter bookings versus the normal four the company typically sells in a year.
Other companies that sell portable shelters and underground bunkers (including a $9,500 nuclear biological chemical shelter tent) have seen sales spikes from 20 to 400 percent for those items as well as nuclear, biological and chemical air filters.
The company that made the most noise the last time around, Vivos, said reservations for rooms in its 200-person doomsday bunkers have gone up 1,000 percent since the Japanese disaster, with scared doomers backing up their dread with a minimum $5,000 deposit.
One doomsayer, Elan Yadan, told CNN that he took the $20,000 he had put aside as a down payment on a new home as a deposit for a Vivos spot for his family because he’d rather be safe than sorry. His big check will secure him a spot in a 137,000 square foot bunker being built under the Nebraska grasslands that can house 950 people for up to a year and withstand a 50 megaton blast. It will feature four levels of suits, a medical and dental center, kitchens, a bakery, detention center, prayer room, pet kennels and a fully stocked wine cellar.
Is it time to buy a doomsday shelter?
In my view, Bloodshed, Illness, and starvation can only lead to an opressive reign of a false king.
Earth doesn't belong to an absent ruler. Earth belongs to its People. Us. Humans. Nobody should come out of space and take it from us. They have no right. Earth created us. Not some absent God with no name. Jesus died so he can take over the world? No. He died because he was an idiot that told Pilot he was the King of the World, so the Roman leaders had their army Crusify Him.
(Not to mention people like me would be digging into it and taken everything you have anyway!!! For those of you that think you would be safe: one small grenade placed into your air intake will shut it off and force you out, or worse!)
Who really cares if they have the money then why not? I don't really care what other people do with their money as long as don't build some stupid Pee Wee's Play House next to mine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think if the stuff hits the fan that bad, a shelter will only prolong the inevitable, so may as well look for a front row seat and enjoy the show.
Meanwhile, unless you are in the Uber rich class, chances are all you can afford is to buy your next week's food!
Good business idea, though. There certainly seems to be a market for it.
Yes.
Should people be running out investing in their own bunker?
People have been doing things like this for many decades and nothing has happened to necessitate its existence.
If you have enough money that you can afford the possibility of never using it, go for it. Think of it as insurance. You're paying for something you might not use, but it's there in case of emergency.
I like their bunkers, btw.
If they can do it like Norad.
"His big check will secure him a spot in a 137,000 square foot bunker being built under the Nebraska grasslands that can house 950 people for up to a year and withstand a 50 megaton blast. It will feature four levels of suits, a medical and dental center, kitchens, a bakery, detention center, prayer room, pet kennels and a fully stocked wine cellar."
Now that's planning! Hah! They need to design it to last about 10-30 years, though. The rest of us will sit and watch the light show.........