Rich folks have had variations of these for a while, they called them “safe rooms”. I’ve installed security alarms and phone/Internet lines in places like that, as well as monitors that show feeds from the house cameras. It’s literally almost an entire house underneath the main house, ready for someone to seal themselves in and live in it for a couple months.
I like the hubris that if the world goes to shit and they have to hole up for months that they think telecommunications or security will still work how they expect it.
Locks, cameras etc. work on battery power just fine. Also, safe rooms are not intended for the apocalypse. It’s where you hide from home intruders while you wait for the police.
If I had the money, I’d build one I could survive in for a month…but for natural disasters (tornados and snowstorms). My requirement would be having enough to get by for a week which means I have to plan to get by for at least a month as I might have guests.
If nuclear war breaks out, I’ll be surface level hoping the first one to hits directly me in the face.
If nuclear war breaks out, I’ll be surface level hoping the first one to hits directly me in the face.
Seriously. I live in a college town. The university has a nuclear engineering program and a training reactor. Anything nuclear, including training facilities for nuclear engineers, is at the top of the list of targets in a total nuclear war. If the alert comes down that the nukes are flying, we’re loading the cats in the car, grabbing every mind altering substance we have, and heading over to hang out right outside the reactor facility’s gate. If the bombs start falling, I want to be close enough to ground zero to simply be vaporized. That’s the really the best fate you can hope for in such an eventuality. I’m not even kidding; we’ve actually talked about this. When the bombs hit, we’ll be hopefully drunk and high just a few yards from ground zero.
Having those supplies in your regular house is way more useful in a natural disaster. You’re likely to already be in your home with your family and pets, and don’t have to risk going outside to get to shelter, as your basement is already a suitable shelter for 99% of storms and weather phenomena.
The problems with bad storms is they usually disrupt power and cause flooding. Having a generator or home battery to power your existing sump pumps makes way more sense than spending tens of thousands of dollars on a bunker/storm shelter that will also need sump pumps and a power system.
Having supplies in your own home also means they’re more likely to be cycled through and checked on regularly, versus having to make the conscious effort to go out to a seperate shelter every year or so to inspect the food, water, and medical supplies there.
I guess the “bunker” I had in mind is much more like an deep, extended basement. Normal basements require egress windows so they’re partially above ground.
I’d want a half flight of stairs down from the basement into a “fortified” room for bulk storage (paper towels, toilet paper, etc), some beds, and survival stuff. I’d be in there for the supplies anyway to keep an eye on it.
I’d also like my IT closet in an attached room…which would definitely be running Grocy to keep track of supplies because I love that sort of thing
Rich folks have had variations of these for a while, they called them “safe rooms”. I’ve installed security alarms and phone/Internet lines in places like that, as well as monitors that show feeds from the house cameras. It’s literally almost an entire house underneath the main house, ready for someone to seal themselves in and live in it for a couple months.
I like the hubris that if the world goes to shit and they have to hole up for months that they think telecommunications or security will still work how they expect it.
Locks, cameras etc. work on battery power just fine. Also, safe rooms are not intended for the apocalypse. It’s where you hide from home intruders while you wait for the police.
If I had the money, I’d build one I could survive in for a month…but for natural disasters (tornados and snowstorms). My requirement would be having enough to get by for a week which means I have to plan to get by for at least a month as I might have guests.
If nuclear war breaks out, I’ll be surface level hoping the first one to hits directly me in the face.
Seriously. I live in a college town. The university has a nuclear engineering program and a training reactor. Anything nuclear, including training facilities for nuclear engineers, is at the top of the list of targets in a total nuclear war. If the alert comes down that the nukes are flying, we’re loading the cats in the car, grabbing every mind altering substance we have, and heading over to hang out right outside the reactor facility’s gate. If the bombs start falling, I want to be close enough to ground zero to simply be vaporized. That’s the really the best fate you can hope for in such an eventuality. I’m not even kidding; we’ve actually talked about this. When the bombs hit, we’ll be hopefully drunk and high just a few yards from ground zero.
Having those supplies in your regular house is way more useful in a natural disaster. You’re likely to already be in your home with your family and pets, and don’t have to risk going outside to get to shelter, as your basement is already a suitable shelter for 99% of storms and weather phenomena.
The problems with bad storms is they usually disrupt power and cause flooding. Having a generator or home battery to power your existing sump pumps makes way more sense than spending tens of thousands of dollars on a bunker/storm shelter that will also need sump pumps and a power system.
Having supplies in your own home also means they’re more likely to be cycled through and checked on regularly, versus having to make the conscious effort to go out to a seperate shelter every year or so to inspect the food, water, and medical supplies there.
I guess the “bunker” I had in mind is much more like an deep, extended basement. Normal basements require egress windows so they’re partially above ground.
I’d want a half flight of stairs down from the basement into a “fortified” room for bulk storage (paper towels, toilet paper, etc), some beds, and survival stuff. I’d be in there for the supplies anyway to keep an eye on it.
I’d also like my IT closet in an attached room…which would definitely be running Grocy to keep track of supplies because I love that sort of thing
They have multiple purposes, like being a place to hide from an angry mob, or as a storm shelter. Some even have secret escape tunnels.
Just wondering, did any of them had the “pull a book from the bookshelf to open the safe room” thing?
If a true nuclear war breaks out between the US and another global power a sealed in ‘house’ with food for a couple months won’t matter. 😂
They’ll have plenty of warning to get out of the affected areas.