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That's totally cool that you discovered one, E_T.

I always wanted one in my back yard, just like a little poured-concrete room with a hatch on top to climb down inside.

i wonder why people always build bombshelters under their own homes.

say a airraid comes and you hide in your shelter, the only way the shelter fullfills it's purpose of protecting you is if a bomb hits your house and collapses 20 tons of rubble on top of the exit hatch.
seems like the backyard is a much better place since surviving is pretty trivial if you can't exit your concrete room afterwards. (especially since they didn't have our means of digging people out of rubble and bombings generally cause enough havoc not to check every pile of rubble)

I really really want to work a clever Canticle for Leibowitz reference into this thread to see if anyone gets it, but I've racked my brain and clearly it's not going to happen.

I want to build a bombshelter, but the damn subway is in the way.

I want one.

A have a few tins of sardines, that will keep me going while the new world order is being established.

My whole city is full of bomb shelters because we're only a few miles from Oak Ridge. On the UT campus there are old signs pointing to the bomb shelters and we still have the air raid sirens up.

So is mine. I've been down to the shelter in my building.... all the canned corn you can eat for a thousand nuclear winters!

When I lived in Germany, the apartment block (built in the late 60s/early 70s at a guess) had a public bomb shelter below the back yard

But by the time I lived there in the 80s, people from the block were using the shelter to store all sorts of junk, and the generators, air filtration units and bomb proof metal doors had been removed (supposedly stolen).

In Rapid City, SD there are bomb shelter signs all over the place, since there's over 170 minuteman and titan missile silos scattered across the western part of the state.

There's a few in back yards etc. near where I live, but never had access to one. I’m almost certain the information regarding the nearest shelter was put out in the UK around early/mid 80's, during the great unpleasantness. This was published after the sirens went off when we thought we were being attacked.

there should always be two ways out of a shelter. one through the building, one with a tunnel that leads away from it.

Nifty. I want a bomb shelter.

I've got a friend who has one, and several of my friends have decided that if anything ever happens, they plan to run to Jerry's house.

Beyond that, there are two or three buildings in town (which is a lot for a town of 20k) that have shelters....including the high school I attended.

have you ever been inside it???

Oooo, take pictures.

I've always want a bomb shelter. Since I was a little kid. We still had the cold war going on.

I know there was a recent interest in them due to 9/11. Last week on tv news they mentioned a guy who makes them hurricane proof. For sale here in Florida. He has sold a few recently.

I'm pretty sure a friend of mine is making one soon. I think I will hijack and throw end of the world parties every weekend in it.

having lived through that time--kennedy, kruschev, cuban missle crisis--i can tell you that they weren't "bomb" shelters. they were "air raid" shelters or "fallout" shelters.

in general, they weren't expected to protect you from an explosion, but instead from the intense radiation just after a blast and the radioactive dust that followed. that's why they had ventilation that could be semi-sealed. and lots of food and water to last days if not weeks.

here in the upper midwest, what are now "tornado sirens" were in those days "air raid sirens." we learned to duck and cover, or scramble to the nearest fallout shelter, all of which were marked with the ubitquitous yellow sign.

My Elemantary School was a Fallout Shelter, would that work?

Swear to God.... The Sign is right outside the front door.

It always creeped me out going into schools with those signs over the doors.

In case of a Nuclear Attack, remember your "Duck and Cover" drills!

Look at my drawings in my pic pagee!