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bomb shelter

posted 11 years ago by jondoe888
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I was in a private bomb shelter once - and it looked nothing like this! Near the beach, in La, inspecting damages after Katrina. The shelter was a mess, and likely hadn't been maintained in decades. 18" thick walls, a big, tapered door with large 'wing nuts' to hold it shut. It was dark and moldy inside, so I didn't explore much. There were a few small rooms in the back, but nothing inside. This was made back when people thought they could wait a few weeks, and come out.

In the 50's, the government encouraged people to build these things, to show the Rooskies how prepared we were. Personally, I wouldn't want to be that desperate to live. We've all heard that after being nuked, the living would envy the dead. I don't doubt that...
But if Alicia was waiting inside, I might reconsider! ;>

[–] mymoviemind 11 years ago

"Fall out shelter, there is a difference." ;-)

[–] Vega_Lyra 11 years ago

A fall out shelter was intended for the folks inside to stay from about a few days to a couple of weeks.

My wife's grandfather built one as he lived in Florida right during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It's feasible that during the era if you weren't close to the blast radius you could have survived in a shelter for awhile until the radiation levels were fairly low.

If a 1960's era nuclear bomb hit NYC and you lived in West Virginia or somewhere like that the fallout levels would be very low and survivable.

Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.