Bomb shelter industry sees spike in sales.

[blackeagle603]

Off and on I've dream't of building/living in a berm house since I first read about them during the early survivalist era and Carter energy crisis (circa 1979-80).

I remember one above ground house (was it even in Nat Geographic?) that had been built entirely of expanding foam then covered in stucco or something. They formed the spaces by inflating visquen shapes and then sprayed the insulation over that. In context of this thread it wasn't much for security but it had some crazy R-values.

[randy]

But on the other hand, the control areas would make roomy quarters and the silo itself a 10 story warehouse and pantry. Some of those complexes had 3 silos.

It depends on the system and how old the site is, but in a lot of cases you're buying the Launch Control Facility (LCF) only. Many of the associated silos were destroyed (blown up and then filled in after a couple of months for the [strike]Soviet[/strike] Russkie recon sats to get a good look) under START.

And since we're talking SHTF/TEOTWAWKI, and being really paranoid, how sure are you that those sites have been removed from the target lists?

It would make sense that they were removed as they were decommissioned to avoid wasting a nuke on a non-threat, but given some of the facilities I ran across when I reviewed target lists for a living...

[Achilles]

I have been planning a reinforced above ground room for sometime....just takes a whole bunch of cash!

[Jericho941]

All shall be outclassed by the Tower of Seclusion.

[SoupOrMan]

Being in central Illinois, a tornado shelter reinforced to withstand a direct strike like Randy mentioned is a far more sound investment. Being able to handle fallout and overpressure is merely a plus!

[HTRN]

If I ever have the chance to build my own home the way I like it, I would never put in something as paranoid sounding as a "bomb shelter".

Do you guys need directions on how to build bom.. err "root cellars"?


HTRN

[Mud_Dog]

I was looking around and saw this on the SurvivalBlog "bookshelf" of recommended books.

Looks pretty interesting for some ideas on an underground house. Mostly I want to see how he gets around the problems really. Anyone know of this book and if it's good?

[blackeagle603]

Building a root cellar? Like this?

[Rumpshot]

Building a root cellar? Like this?

I like it, but it isn't big enough. Where would I park the howitzer?