My first thought is - what a great way to get a free bunker on your property. Lease several and what are the odds if the SHTF that everyone can make it there.
Praise prez Obola!! His policies have finally created a viable business and a job. Selling “prepper plots!” After 6 years of America’s downgrading by him, he creates a job!!!
Ping.
The last place I want to be when the SHTF is clustered with a bunch of self proclaimed elites who had their butlers set up the bunkers.
A perpetual problem with such facilities is that they need a lot of design to do them properly. So a good thought problem is to begin with a nonsensical imaginary budget, say $100m, with the idea that you have to spend all of it building the facility.
The purpose of the exercise is “over-design”, to have every “bell and whistle” you could possibly want, along with energy, water and food supply, recycling of air, water and waste, ergonomics, security, entertainment, lots of redundancy, tools and spare parts, etc.
There is a method in this madness.
Biosphere II is a superb example of what could go wrong in a sealed environment that was supposed to be self balancing. Their carbon dioxide levels wildly fluctuated, many of the vertebrates and the good insects they brought with them died, and invasive insects, like cockroaches and ants were everywhere.
It cost about $100m, yet their design was poor and they made way too many assumptions.
And this is the real problem with any bunker. You really have to consider what you need, and what you don’t need, and what your limitations are.
And starting from the imaginary fantasy budget, you have to downgrade all the way to your realistic budget, which means that a lot of the stuff you thought you needed was superfluous, and that you have a pressing need for other stuff you hadn’t previously considered.
So the quality of your design, with a realistic budget, becomes a lot better.
Wasn’t there a “reality” series a few years back about people who designed and built bunkers on Discovery, or TLC, or one of those cable channels?
“... quarter-acre plots, which rent for $1,000 per month and come with $400 in food.”
Makes no sense to me, I guess that’s why I’m not rich.
All the pre-paid lacy bunkers in the world won’t confer fortitude on the gutless.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip ro bgill for the heads up!
Doomsday may very well be traced back to Democrats ruining this country with their economic policies.
Concierge?
“James, please have the valet bring our MRAP around front. Also, have housekeeping clean our indoor range. We left quite a bit of brass on the floor.”
Only a tank of gas away? No thanks. That’s too close to Mount Doom. Not to mention the quality of the people or lack thereof. Rather have someone from fly over country as neighbors for SHTF.
Wow. I’ve never read such a pompous piece of crap about a guy hawking emotional security to people with more sense than money.
The ‘weed-strewn’ parking lot he sat in to meet Kranski is in Dewitt, VA.
Anyone in the VA area that really wants to find this place could do so easily. Kranski even registered with the State of VA under the name ‘Disaster Retreat LLC’. If I’m right, the vicinity of this place is only a half hour from his place in Moseley, VA but he had the reporter drive 3 hours out of his way from Arlington to meet him in Dewitt on the other side.
This is laughable, if it weren’t so pathetic.