Doomsday Shelters Making a Comeback

"Jason Hodge, father of four children from Barstow, Calif., says he's "not paranoid" but he is concerned, and that's why he bought space in what might be labeled a doomsday shelter.

Hodge bought into the first of a proposed nationwide group of 20 fortified, underground shelters — the Vivos shelter network — that are intended to protect those inside for up to a year from catastrophes such as a nuclear attack, killer asteroids or tsunamis, according to the project's developers.

"It's an investment in life," says Hodge, a Teamsters union representative. "I want to make sure I have a place I can take me and my family if that worst-case scenario were to happen."

There are signs that underground shelters, almost-forgotten relics of the Cold War era, are making a comeback."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-28-doomsday28_ST_N.htm?se=yahoorefer



This sounds like right-wing lunatics in action to me.

:crazy: :eyes:

But I have been storing food and water for years, not for fear of nuclear weapons but other threats.

I am as liberal as they come.

Interested in what others think.

... "you folks have to be right every day. I only have to be right once".

I don't have a "bomb shelter", but I do have food, water, basic first aid, etc, etc, etc stored and I always will.

It's a good idea to have three days' worth of food, fresh water and other supplies on hand. That can leave you free to help other people in the area, or at least not need the immediate assistance of first responders, who will have enough to do.

However, if you're thinking that your stockpile will enable you to to come out unscathed on the other side of something that is the subject of movies like "The Road", then you're probably kidding yourself. But I count that as a pretty remote possibility anyway, so the "hoarding" is mostly harmless. Don't freak yourself out over it.

nor will you be likely to get to that particular shelter, you end up where you end up

i don't think you have to be right wing or left wing to be concerned abt survival and to want to survice, as i too used to store food/water for many years, but what i learned is pretty much most of that is a waste of time and energy, because in a real disruption you prob. can't use more than you can carry

i had lots of plans to "shelter in place" that came to nothing because i was forced to evacuate, something at my location (15 ft above sea level) i felt couldn't have been foreseen, for longer than i ever could have foreseen

what you heard from people over and over again is, "i thought we'd be gone three days"

i don't believe storing/hoarding/trying to protect yourself is a mental problem or anything to worry about, i just think it's ineffective

you can't live your life within minutes of the "shelter," in a real civil disaster, maybe you can't get to the shelter or where your stuff is stored, you may have to be fast on your feet

nowadays i stick w. the recommend to have a 72 hr supply, because i can carry that, much above that, no use worrying about it, i may not even be anywhere near where i'd store the stuff anyways

as for needed medicines, have it and your script w. you pretty much at all times if you think a disaster may be coming

It gives really good insight into these kind of people.

Also, we see a rise in local/regional militias. Happened under Clinton as well.

had a bomb shelter in his back yard. We used to go down there and hang out doing what teenagers did in the late 60's and early 70".

Tsunamis, I recommend advertising at FR or on Becks' show.

When you hear on the news the nuclear attack is coming just load up the car, hop on the freeway and drive comfortably to your shelter a couple hundred miles away. What could go wrong?

Maybe before the fall elections?

:spray:

computer? If not, "don't have liquids close to your computer, they could spill and cause electrical shock or damage to your keyboard". Then again, who am I to speak!

my keyboard and after ten years it's still working just fine. There's also pulverized pet bird pellets inside the keyboard. I unplug, rinse it out with cold water, then dry it in front of a fan. It's never failed me.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml

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Once they're all holed up, lock the exits from the outside. Problem solved.

They'll be the first to go, trapped in their underground bunkers, with nowhere to run, as wave after wave of zombie shock troops emerge from their walls and drain pipes.

The same type of people who promoted and/or trembled in their beds about the Red Scare are simply reacting to today's fear du jour.