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Doomsday shelters line Kansas missile silo
AFP/YahooNews ^ | 4/9/12 | Joe Lambe

Posted on 04/09/2012 11:52:50 AM PDT by Kartographer

Tucked deep beneath the Kansas prairie, luxury condos are being built into the shaft of an abandoned missile silo to service anxious -- and wealthy -- people preparing for doomsday.

So far, four buyers have plopped down a total of about $7 million for havens to flee to when disaster happens or the end is nigh. And developer Larry Hall has options to retro-fit three more Cold War-era silos when this one fills up.

"They worry about events ranging from solar flares, to economic collapse, to pandemics to terrorism to food shortages," Hall told AFP on a tour of the site.

These "doomsday preppers", as they are called, want a safe place and he will be there with them because Hall, 55, bought one of the condos for himself. He says his fear is that sun flares could wipe out the power grid and cause chaos.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: preparedness; prepperping; preppers; selfreliance; shtf; survivalping
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To: Sawdring

Blast from the Past (1999)


41 posted on 04/09/2012 1:12:40 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

See Post # 9 this thread.


42 posted on 04/09/2012 1:14:28 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

I think I would rather have a large tanker or cargo ship somewhere out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean than be trapped underground in a missile silo.


43 posted on 04/09/2012 1:20:39 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Kartographer

Maybe Cheyenne Mountain will come on the market and i can buy that.


44 posted on 04/09/2012 1:25:40 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Williams
Isn't it possible?

Actually it's highly probable they haven't done a thing but turn off a switch to take that area off the targeting lists.

Those folks have a higher risk of being turned into dusty like former crispy critters than just about anyone on Earth.

45 posted on 04/09/2012 1:29:37 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: rochester_veteran

If Bambi is re-elected it will be as if we get hit with the “big one”.

No way this country could survive four more years of him.


46 posted on 04/09/2012 1:33:09 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Sawdring

The trailer for “City of Ember” was better than the movie. It was OK, but mainly a movie for younger teens, IMO.


47 posted on 04/09/2012 1:50:51 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: OldMissileer

I’m sort of an old missileer, or more likely an old bus driver. I used to fly missileers around for a living, in our EC-135 ALCS aircraft. Interestingly or not, the entire complement of minuteman silos around Ellsworth AFB was imploded as part of the SALT treaty, and were inspected from the air and ground to insure compliance.

As usual when destroying what taxpayers have bought and paid for everyone loses, that goes for guns, bullets, planes, boats, jeeps, humvees, cannons, tanks, etc you name it. Keep it alive and keep it in country as long as you can afford the upkeep.


48 posted on 04/09/2012 1:51:16 PM PDT by wita
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To: Sherman Logan
Uhh, air supply? Below ground with enemies above is a bad idea.

Exactly. Then there's the real possibility that when you did get there, the other will have barred the door and you'd be stuck out. Nope, they can have it and more power to the guy for getting 7 million each.

49 posted on 04/09/2012 1:52:24 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Kartographer

My wife made an interesting comment when we watched this - “Good luck getting there.”

The dude building it (and selling condos) whill have one heck of a bunker, all to himself, and his family.


50 posted on 04/09/2012 1:56:31 PM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
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To: wita

I pulled Alerts both in Kansas, Titan II, and at Grand Forks, Minuteman III. They destroyed both of my Wings the same way.

A good friend who was once my Crew Commander at Grand Forks sent me a MPEG file of A-06 being destroyed. I almost cried.


51 posted on 04/09/2012 2:18:46 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Kartographer

Now we know where HG Well’s Morlocks came from.


52 posted on 04/09/2012 3:11:37 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: driftdiver
Maybe Cheyenne Mountain will come on the market and i can buy that.

Naw, someone probably has it marked for target practice.

53 posted on 04/09/2012 3:58:40 PM PDT by bgill
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
The silos may be empty, but have the Russians removed them from their target list? Probably not.

They could send Russia a registered letter.

54 posted on 04/09/2012 4:05:11 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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To: Kartographer
Check out my profile page.


55 posted on 04/09/2012 4:06:21 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
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To: RavenLooneyToon
I guess you don't believe there are any possible shtf scenarios that don't involve a nuclear strike?
56 posted on 04/09/2012 4:08:25 PM PDT by I am bigjohn
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To: Kartographer

Saw this guy on Doomsday Preppers. He was looking for buyers a couple of months ago.


57 posted on 04/09/2012 4:09:52 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: carriage_hill

Very nice.

A missile base is no place to hide. Too many people know it’s there and way too easy to become trapped in.


58 posted on 04/09/2012 4:14:41 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
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To: bgill

I spent 3 years in there, it used to be well targeted but I doubt it is now. Nothing of value really there anymore.

plus there is a 1870ft tall escape ladder. No SHTF shelter is complete without one of those.


59 posted on 04/09/2012 4:34:16 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: AZ .44 MAG

There are cheaper shelters which meet most of the requirements aside from a direct hit by a nuclear bomb.


60 posted on 04/09/2012 4:35:50 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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