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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI grew up when it was normal for people
to have bomber shelters in their backyard. I remember playing in one my neighbor had in Houston.
I wonder if they will come back into being, aside from those 1% rich folk shelters I've been hearing about.
Maybe Costco will start a line of them.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)But I'd want one even if we never invented bombs. We'd call it a "fort"! In fact, I'd like to dig a subterranean living quarters. It'd be neat!
thecrow
(5,519 posts)They have underground sheltersthey bury on top of a slab and then they "seal" the ground which, in their words makes it like a bunker.
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)Amazing the remnants of the Cold War still flourish, though.
I'm still looking for a fallout shelter sign...
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,449 posts)The actual missile launch sites were idled, but not decommissioned. Our fallout shelter was in a WWll Artillery Magazine bored deep into the mountain, and I mean deep! Today, the billets are a YMCA camp, and one of the launch sites is a museum, while the second one serves as a home for The Marine Mammal Center.
Remember the CONELRAD (CD) triangles on the old AM radios?
ret5hd
(20,502 posts)An oven.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)redwitch
(14,946 posts)If it happens I want to go out in the first moment. It'll be like gettin' raptured!
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)I'll be the guy with a bottle of Grey Goose and a straw.
redwitch
(14,946 posts)The rapture wouldn't be any fun without booze!
Warpy
(111,305 posts)out into the backyard to watch the show.
I live less than a mile from an air base. My ass is toast, anyway.
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)from CentCom. I think I'll last about 13 seconds.
Nay
(12,051 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)dchill
(38,512 posts)You mean New Zealand, right?
kairos12
(12,865 posts)dchill
(38,512 posts)They will all be forced to hunker together with guns, bullets and lies. I'd rather be dead.
unblock
(52,277 posts)it was not a selling point when they bought it, lol!
my father is a (retired) professor of nuclear physics, and he was amused because basically it meant that you could survive a nuclear blast only to be killed slowly and painfully after breathing in the radiation in the air.
Bucky
(54,035 posts)If doomsday actually comes, maybe then I'll just Google some Survival Guide online. I'm sure it'll fit on my thumb drive and I can just take it down to my local Kinko's to print it out.
no_hypocrisy
(46,150 posts)because that's where his x-ray room for his medical practice was located. He believed the lead would protect us from radiation.
democrank
(11,098 posts)when we'd have to hide under our desks. They were kind of frightening.
tavernier
(12,394 posts)but we immigrated here directly after WWII, so for them it was a priority. I would have preferred a back yard pool.
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)and what standards will be used?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,747 posts)Everybody in my neighborhood had a basement, so I guess our parents figured we'd take our risk down there. There were Nike missile bases nearby (one about 3 miles away along Lake Michigan). Always figured we wouldn't make it. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, my mother tried to drink all the booze in the house. My father convinced her that she was scaring the shit out of my sister and me so she toned that down.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)raccoon
(31,112 posts)Who was it said, After a nuclear war the survivors will envy the dead.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I remember, around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, my mother carting down 5 or 6 cans of Campbell's Soup to the basement--just in case. You know, to tide us over in case of nuclear attack. We still laugh about it today.
Thirties Child
(543 posts)I was a young mother, a baby and two toddlers, husband a newsman at UPI. Oddly enough, I didn't worry, didn't think it would happen. Now? I'm terrified of what he's going to pull out of Bannon's hat next.
Btw, and off the subject, husband wrote a great lead about the Cuban Missile Crisis: "The world walked a wobbly tightrope this weekend...."
panader0
(25,816 posts)Even if you could survive a nuclear attack, there wouldn't be any world
when you came out. The radiation would kill you. My neighbor has one.
He showed me the hidden underground shelter once. We live fairly close to Ft.
Huachuca and I'm pretty sure it's a target. I asked him how would he know
when to get down there? More likely there would just be a bright light and........
spanone
(135,855 posts)we thought it was scary, the thought of being in there while everyone outside was possibly dying.
trump brings the realities of the 50's & 60's nuclear scares...
we also had nuclear bomb drills in grade school....we'd get under our desks....i'm sure that would have saved us.....
kairos12
(12,865 posts)spanone
(135,855 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I guess it could be used as a bomb shelter but it'd get awfully claustrophobic as its only 6 ft by 8 ft
randr
(12,413 posts)Who braged me about his shelter one day. I told him that if the shit hits the fan first thing I do is park a truck on his "bomb proof door" because in an emergency he is the last person we need running amok.
The look on his face still brings me to tears.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Be breached by night crawlers, including poison spiders and snakes.