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Survivalists in Florida

May 19, 2012 – 11:49 pm | One Comment

Great article in the Miami New Times last week, profiling preppers and survivalists like these folk:
Jorge Villa – after a terrifying experience during Hurricane Andrew he devised his own bunkers, and sells them to folk – some of whom are worried about the end of the Mayan calendar – via his business U.S. Bunkers
Neal Wiseman – moderates a group called the South Florida Survivalist Network, and has a year’s worth of food stored for his family, should the need arise:

Chris Petrovich – prepper for 25 years. He has helped others “cache extra fuel and food, stashed in public-storage units and underground, at intervals on an 800-to-1,200-mile path out of Florida. Amid darkness and chaos, skirting burning sugarcane fields and accidents and roadblocks, they’ll drive from cache to cache toward a secret inland hiding spot, exhausting the last available remnants of the petroleum age.”
While Petrovich himself plans on staying, I agree with …

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DIY Bunker – Not So Difficult After All?

Submitted by Robert Bast on August 6, 2009 – 3:28 pmOne Comment

The thing about bunkers and survival shelters is that anything is better than nothing (unless your design causes a cave-in or suffocation…)

Here’s a great example of how all you need is a little time, a little cash, some basic skills and a backyard:

  • $500 for an old fuel tank
  • a hole to sit it in
  • pile some dirt on top, add a retaining wall
  • install a door and steps
  • accessorize!

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  • david h says:

    looks good, however your entrance should not directly enter your shelter, plan a corridor with a ninety degree turn in it leading to a vertical exit(ladder). the length of it depends on the room you have and or costs, also the last three feet before entering your shelter should be reduced in size, down to a crawl or so. there are inexpensive ways to achieve this one of which can be sand bags with concrete mix added, simply stack them and soak them well, as for the roof of it find some flexible ply wood( door skin) bend it into an arch, place 1/4″ chicken over it and apply concrete, keeping it light at first, then build up some layers add more wire for extra strength. this will go a long way to improve on your security, and help with fallout.

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