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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:13 PM Sep 2016

They're not the bomb shelters of the 60's

Forget about the underground corrugated iron bunker where you lived out the apocalypse with meager supplies. Today, the rich are going in another direction:

"Rising S Bunkers installed a 37-room, 9,000-square-foot complex in Napa Valley for an Academy Award-winning client that rang in at $10.28 million, with a bowling alley, sauna, jacuzzi, shooting range and an ultra-large home theater. Swimming pools, greenhouses, game rooms and gyms are other amenities offered. This year, on another Napa Valley property, the company constructed a $9 million, 7,600-square-foot compound with horse stables and accommodations for 12, along with four escape tunnels leading to outlets on the estate, multiple hidden rooms — in case "you let someone in whom you do not fully trust," says Lynch — and an aboveground safe house "disguised as a horse barn." The company also is designing a $3 million bunker for "a major sports figure from Southern California."


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More of the rich preparing for the worst in their own fashion at:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bunker-builders-anticipate-lucrative-trumpocalypse-932748

Economic Survival of the Richest - Come floods, riots, nuclear holocaust, famine, etc. - the rich will ensure their survival. You and I, forget it.

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. If it comes to that, I'm just going to stand outside and go with the the first blast or whatever.
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:18 PM
Sep 2016

I'll be danged if I'll sleep with one eye opened, prepared to shoot my neighbors over food and water. I'll leave that to callous preppers.

6. Presumably
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:18 PM
Sep 2016

They'll try to bring their housekeepers and staff with them when the apocalypse happens. And what will they do if and when the proles turn on their masters in such a confined space?

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
9. Don't think an underground bunker will work when the great earthquake carries the land mass
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:22 PM
Sep 2016

under the sea.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
10. Such a waste
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:23 PM
Sep 2016

Good luck living up top when you have to clean up all the mess. And no infrastructure anymore.

Grow up.



ffr

(22,670 posts)
11. They'll survive DT's initial launch of ICBMs, but
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:29 PM
Sep 2016

die from cancer due to Radon gas.

What happens when the air runs out? Do they have air filters or scrubbers that can last a lifetime?

maryellen99

(3,789 posts)
14. And this is why Trump supporters want nuclear war
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:51 PM
Sep 2016

They really believe they will get to be in the luxury bunkers with the 1%.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
17. If you build something that elaborate, you might just as well live in it full time...
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 01:49 PM
Sep 2016

with your tin-foil collection.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
18. These things are pretty useless without a mad scientist nuclear power plant...
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 02:52 PM
Sep 2016

... like the one the U.S. Army built under the ice in Greenland:



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