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Oh well, that's what we get when the entire information isn't provided . . . GIGO as they say in the computer world.
Maybe weather isn't the issue for your neighbor. You might just have someone that wants to survive the next civil unrest period in the L.A. basin. It certainly would be an easy place to defend.
A true visionary! Who knows what the future will bring? Anyone see that cute movie, Blast from the Past, where crazy guy built an elaborate shelter and their house really was blown up, but by a crashed plane. He though it was a nuclear bomb, they were down there for over 30 years. Really funny!
Garth - sorry...I should have clarified where I was...I always read everyone's location, and thought others did this too...(although, actually, reading yours, I would have no idea where you are!)
I would love to put in a bomb shelter in our back yard. The rest of the family thinks I'm nuts but I can't see how it can hurt to be prepared! Not too long ago I was reading about a house that had a bomb shelter in the back that couldn't sell, even with the price dropped and this was in the "hot" market when even falling down shacks sold. Eventually the owners removed or filled in the shelter, increased the price back up to the original asking and it sold in weeks. I guess people thought it was creepy. I actually wished we lived close enough to buy it!
it could come in handy during a bad storm (tornado, hurricane). A lot of people were putting "safe rooms" in their houses for a bit,..personally I wouldn't mind a home built underground. Great insulation factor
you should see some of the stuff our clients have designed into the house. most of the safe rooms are hidden in closets. or deep in the basement behind wine racks. We had one person that would not let us notate his safe room as such, and after construciton was done he bolted steel plates to the wall lol
we did a 1500 sqft. gun safe behind a set of wine racks, which slid out to show the door into the gun safe.
you can sometimes find old titan missle silo's that have been converted to homes. lol now that would be a good shelter to survive an attack
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you can sometimes find old titan missle silo's that have been converted to homes. lol now that would be a good shelter to survive an attack
Except that the Russians might not have gotten the message that those old silos were converted into houses. You'd always be wondering if your place was still slated for first-strike targeting by 3 five-megaton ground-penetrating nuclear warheads.
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