Posted on 03/31/2011 1:50:39 PM PDT by Kartographer
Hmmm, cute kids’ playhouse but that’s about it. IMO. YMMV. First, if it were an emergency, you wouldn’t have those supplies. Second, why build one in your backyard when you have your nice comfortable house? Third, if not in your backyard, then you’d have probably already have grabbed your bag and gotten outta of Dodge so again you wouldn’t have the supplies. If it were that big of an emergency so you’d know you wouldn’t be back for a while, on your way outta Dodge you’d have grabbed a tent so you’d already have light portable shelter. Lastly, if it were built at your Plan B site, then I’d want to already have had a more appropriate shelter built. But thanks for sharing and I did print it out for the hit the fan folder.
I'd be more worried about cows.
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You have a earthquake your house is inhabitable. So you build one of this in your back yard. That or move in with hundreds of others in temporary house. I love sleeping on a gym floor with a few hundred people I don’t know.
Nuclear emergency as I don’t have a basement I would consider building on in my garage as protection for radiation.
As far as buging out a couple rows of barbed wire and a few hundred sand bags wouldn’t take up much room and such a structer would be a 100 times better than most tents.
But as John Wayne said: “I let people do what they want to do.”
I have never anticipated anything at all resembling “Mad Max”
I anticipate action in the continental United States more resembling what I experienced during the ‘91 war.
Small arms isn’t going to do well in an artillery and air power duel, and idiots running around armed and out of uniform are going to be assumed to be the enemy by foreward observers of all sides. Godhelp anyone who engages the uniformed forces and then thinks a building is going to protect them.
Additionally I rather try and heat and I rather sit out a thunder storm in one of these playhouses than a tent any day.
Good for quick rebuilding!
I do not plan on trying to play “Rambo” or “Red Dawn”.
I have been to war, and I hold zero delusions that those things work out in real life.
I will be back in uniform.
You might, (Just an idea) find out if there is anything written in English by those who had survivalist type places when the conflicts in South America have broken out in the last 50 years. There were a lot of those self sufficient enclaves. This is not a matter of speculation. There is fairly recent life modeling of how things go to draw upon.
Semper Fidelis
One of us is indeed having fantasies, but you are confused as to which one of us that is.
It isn't your fault entirely - you lack the life experiences to see things clearly.
The little domes might be very stable but the plans at post #7 — I dunno.
These shelters are overkill for alpha and beta radiation which can be stopped quite easily (alpha by one sheet of paper, beta by 1/2 inch thickness of paper), but poor protection for gamma radiation. To shield gamma you need 4 feet thickness of slightly damp earth or (I think) 2 feet thickness of water (it’s the hydrogen in the water that interrupts gamma).
Also, gamma travels in a straight line, so entrances should be L-shaped or even Z-shaped to also allow an alcove for clothing removal to prevent hot alpha particles from entering the shelter piggybacked on clothing.
I think one of these barbie and sandbag shelters would make an excellent garden studio. tho. What fun to paint them!
You mean something like this which in in my Preparedness Manual:
From a Sarajevo War Survivor: Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war - death of parents and friends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks.
1. Stockpiling helps. but you never no how long trouble will last, so locate near renewable food sources.
2. Living near a well with a manual pump is like being in Eden.
3. After awhile, even gold can lose its luster. But there is no luxury in war quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold’s.
4. If you had to go without one utility, lose electricity - it’s the easiest to do without (unless you’re in a very nice climate with no need for heat.)
5. Canned foods are awesome, especially if their contents are tasty without heating. One of the best things to stockpile is canned gravy - it makes a lot of the dry unappetizing things you find to eat in war somewhat edible. Only needs enough heat to “warm”, not to cook. It’s cheap too, especially if you buy it in bulk.
6. Bring some books - escapist ones like romance or mysteries become more valuable as the war continues. Sure, it’s great to have a lot of survival guides, but you’ll figure most of that out on your own anyway - trust me, you’ll have a lot of time on your hands.
7. The feeling that you’re human can fade pretty fast. I can’t tell you how many people I knew who would have traded a much needed meal for just a little bit of toothpaste, rouge, soap or cologne. Not much point in fighting if you have to lose your humanity. These things are morale-
builders like nothing else.
8. Slow burning candles and matches, matches, matches
Guess it’s all in where you’re at. With 90 degrees here in mid-March, I’d rather be in a tent or out on the ground catching whatever breeze I could.
If you go to the site these where used in the Sudan and many places in South America. It’s actually cooler than a tent as the mass evens out the heat. And as I said its not going to blow away in the first big thunder storm that comes along. Plus as you said it’s not 90 degrees and sunny everywhere everyday.
Some of us are physically incapable of fighting openly (although there are other forms of resistance). Some have families that we’d want to keep somewhere safe while we fight. Some would just want a safe place to rest between battles, or to heal from injuries sustained in such battles.
Even soldiers have bunkers.
I read an article written by a farmer who had made one of these, he used empty feed sacks.
>> “ I repeat not every emergency that can happen is an armed rebellion.” <<
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It need not be an armed rebellion for the national guard to be commissioned to confiscate your stores.
Clinton and Bush1 wrote executive orders providing for exactly that to happen in any deemed “emergency.”
No one especially me don’t understand that, but it’s far less likely to happen than the likehood you will need your supplies.
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