I think if a reactor went bad in my area, I'd want to get the hell out of that area, not stay there in a bunker.

Or as my grandmother called theirs: the storage room.

Time to stock up on Rad X and save my bottle caps.

Can't wait for all the CSBs from people who found them after buying a house.

It isn't like older, worse designed and fatigued reactors hven't been running for decades.

Drtfa

One generation's doomsday scenario is the next generation's hangout. (new window)

preciousmetal: I think if a reactor went bad in my area, I'd want to get the hell out of that area, not stay there in a bunker.

The total radiation from the worst nuclear power plant disaster in US history did not equal what you would absorb in a single day if you lived in a house with a cellar made from New England granite (which is faintly radioactive).

Total radiation in the USA from Fukushima is too small to measure.

Chicken Little go home, youy are not needed.

I dont know where the nearest Reactor is, but I would like to have an underground bunker just for fun, storing bottlecaps.

I've always wanted my very own back yard fallout shelter.

"Where you going, Honey?"

"I'm going to do a little work in the fallout shelter, Dear."

...closes the hatch behind me, locks it, makes my way over to the recliner and pops the top on a cold one.

So you survive in an underground bunker and come up one day to find what?

50k seems like a shiatload of money just for a spot in a shared bunker. Go buy an old shipping container or two, bury them in your yard, stock them with supplies and install a ventilation system and call it a day. It will cost you well less than 50k.

Gulper Eel: But it also led to a great Donald Fagen video.

indeed. (^)

Apparently this author hasn't read too many EOTWAWKI or SHTF websites. People have been building these and continue to do so. I get a kick out of the ones who claim they built theirs up in the forest far away from anyone. When asked how they plan on getting there if all the roads and bridges get destroyed all you hear in response is crickets.

Anyone remember when schools had the Fallout Shelter signs They have all the Civil Defense stuff in a huge room under the school. They don't build those anymore.

Oh, and this. (new window)

AbbeySomeone: So you survive in an underground bunker and come up one day to find what?

Large geckos and super mutants.

/hot like fallout

Fallout shelter, no. Tornado shelter, yes.

Welcome home, backyard fallout shelters dope growing, band practice, secret sex rooms

Why yes, a nuclear reactor accident is completely like a nuclear war...fallout shelters are totally applicable in both situations.

/facepalm

I thin I just figured out a way to get the wife to let me have the underground lair I've been dreaming about

If it ever comes to the point in the US where any kind of bunker is really needed, I think I'd rather just die and call it a good run.

Best scenario in case of Global Thermonuclear War:

1) Get sunglasses
2) Get six pack
3) Get up on roof
4) Enjoy!

My sister had one in the back yard. Her house was part of a tract that had been built with them in Van Nuys in the fifties.

It wasn't even usable for storage. All of them in the neighborhood had flooded and were crawling with black widows.

And paying for its no problem. Just get a second mortgage on the house.

Ima4nic8or: 50k seems like a shiatload of money just for a spot in a shared bunker. Go buy an old shipping container or two, bury them in your yard, stock them with supplies and install a ventilation system and call it a day. It will cost you well less than 50k.

Don't listen to this idiot, please.

Shipping containers are not meant to be buried. They will collapse and they will trap whoever may be in there, possibly killing them.

We had a whole family die in our area because they thought it was a good idea to make a storm shelter out of a shipping container. Once the rain came, the container didn't hold.

sleeps in trees: Here is what I don't understand. OK I understand the fallout shelter as a way to "save" yourself from a bomb and/or fallout but, for how long? I mean, when do you know it's safe to go out and even then isn't the environment poisoned anyway so you have just prolonged your death? Am I missing something?

That's my point.
When to come out and what do you come out to?
Better to face it straight on.
COME AT ME APOCOLYPSE!

sleeps in trees: Here is what I don't understand. OK I understand the fallout shelter as a way to "save" yourself from a bomb and/or fallout but, for how long? I mean, when do you know it's safe to go out and even then isn't the environment poisoned anyway so you have just prolonged your death? Am I missing something?

You're assuming everything gets nuked. Ideally you have a way to communicate, or at least receive communications, and wait down there until help arrives. It could be days or weeks or maybe a couple of months. I don't think backyard shelters are meant to be lived in for years until it's safe to come up and start a new society. Well, maybe if you're Christopher Walken and your son is Brendan Fraser.

olddinosaur: preciousmetal: I think if a reactor went bad in my area, I'd want to get the hell out of that area, not stay there in a bunker.

The total radiation from the worst nuclear power plant disaster in US history did not equal what you would absorb in a single day if you lived in a house with a cellar made from New England granite (which is faintly radioactive).

Total radiation in the USA from Fukushima is too small to measure.

Chicken Little go home, youy are not needed.

You've got to admit though, even knowing all of this it's good to see the retards running around and getting some exercise. It's free entertainment and honestly it's not like they're going to be building the things themselves so it's good for local businesses as well.

You know, I can't afford a house, and these things look better than my current apartment.

I remember a show where this one family had secretly built a n 'emergency' shelter. It was so large, they had 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 storage areas for food/water, 1 room to store like 10 barrels of diesel fuel for their 2 generators. They even built booby traps and 'defensive weapons' for people trying to break in. I forget how they recycled their air.

I would guess this could double as a zombie apocalypse room as well.

preciousmetal: I think if a reactor went bad in my area, I'd want to get the hell out of that area, not stay there in a bunker.

You and hundreds of thousands of others clogging the roads.
Might be better off staying in your stocked fallout watching the news.

AbbeySomeone: sleeps in trees: Here is what I don't understand. OK I understand the fallout shelter as a way to "save" yourself from a bomb and/or fallout but, for how long? I mean, when do you know it's safe to go out and even then isn't the environment poisoned anyway so you have just prolonged your death? Am I missing something?

That's my point.
When to come out and what do you come out to?
Better to face it straight on.
COME AT ME APOCOLYPSE!

Are you kidding me? This would be like the ultimate survivor man show. Crawl into the hole, wait a year or two, crawl back out and see what's shaking. Think of it like Christmas with a sci-fi twist; you won't know what's under the nuclear tree until you come out to see what's been left.

Came for "Walken approves," leaving disappointed.



/approves
//hot like a nuclear blast

FirstNationalBastard: No, these jerk-offs are selling berths in community bunkers.

Who would want to be stuck in a bunker with a bunch of other people?

I mean, sure, if you wound up as the only man in the Supermodel bunker, that would be one thing, but that's not going to happen.

No sir, give me a single bunker, and a lot of books. There will be time then to read books.

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I hope your glasses don't break.

These people had the right idea:

You're missing the point people. Fallout shelters are multi-purpose. Until the nuclear apocalypse those fallout shelters would make great rape dungeons.


\\Needs the pic of the van that says "Free Candy" on the side to complete the theme.

Get your shiat together! For christ sake, it's not like we ever dropped a friggin' nuclear bomb on you or something...

/
//school teaches servitude, obedience to authority

Am I the only one here who has seen Blast From The Past? (new window)

newmilpan: Am I the only one here who has seen Blast From The Past? (new window)

I doubt it considering you're not the first to reference/mention it.

As kids in the 50's our mom wouldn't let us drink rain water or eat snow because of fallout fear. People around town had little round domes sticking up out of their yards. Get off your bikes, lay against the curb! Shield your eyes!!
Yesterday's crap is still crap today.

sleeps in trees: OK I understand the fallout shelter as a way to "save" yourself from a bomb and/or fallout but, for how long?

Lets say some Islamic fundamentalists get their hands on an old Soviet nuke and set it off near enough to you that you're not killed by the blast, but you're in a high fallout range. You don't need to live down in a bunker for years, but if you had a fallout shelter that you could stay in for only two weeks, by the time you come out, you've weathered the worst of it and you can come out and then leave the area with no adverse affects.

1) most of the fallout will have dissipated after two weeks and
2) that will give time for the roads to be cleared, rescue services to organize, etc.

If your plan is to leave, well, you and everyone else in the area.

EuphoniumEuphoria: Ima4nic8or: 50k seems like a shiatload of money just for a spot in a shared bunker. Go buy an old shipping container or two, bury them in your yard, stock them with supplies and install a ventilation system and call it a day. It will cost you well less than 50k.

Don't listen to this idiot, please.

Shipping containers are not meant to be buried. They will collapse and they will trap whoever may be in there, possibly killing them.

We had a whole family die in our area because they thought it was a good idea to make a storm shelter out of a shipping container. Once the rain came, the container didn't hold.

You do realize that shipping lines fill them with shiat and then stack them 12-high on trans-oceanic voyages, right?