Articles in Bunkers
Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
The Vivos mega-bunker in Nebraska was already going to house up to 250 strangers together for as along as a year, at a price of $25,000 each. Presumably sales are slower than expected, as they have now released a budget offering. For just $9,950 you get a bed in a shared room, with curtains separating your room from folk next door, and food for just six months. And depending on how many people make the investment, you could be sharing with 1,000 individuals you have never met. While this will be a niche group of people, in general you would expect that there is a limit to how many random folk you can place in a situation without a strong probability that one will be a risk to the safety of the rest of the group. While that could involve criminal traits (theft, murder, rape), there will also be those …
More Tornado Survivors
Johnny Hannah on the back porch of his home after a tornado came through the area Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 2011, He and his wife, Beth escaped injury when they went inside an underground shelter in their garage. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Ann Smith talks with friends in front of what is left of her house after a tornado-spawning storm swept through the state on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Washington, Okla. She and her husband were in an outside storm shelter when the storm destroyed their rural home. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Bryan Stout walks past the tree that temporarily blocked his family’s exit from the storm shelter where they rode out a tornado-spawning storm on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Newcastle, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman.
The above photos are …
Being Prepared – A Real World Example
Being prepared, whether it is for natural disasters or a global cataclysm, is a prudent path to take. I repeatedly compare it to fire insurance for your house, something which most people understand the value of. Yet insurance for the survival of our civilization or even our species is not contemplated by enough people. For anyone who is still skeptical about preparing, or is concerned what people might think – here’s a recent story that drives the point home:
When Alabama couple Brenda and Travis Roberts purchased their property 35 years ago, Brenda convinced her husband to build a concrete storm shelter. Travis styled it on a nuclear bunker, and it cost him $600 to build – not cheap in those days.
Last month Alabama was hit by a deadly array of tornadoes. As a tornado approached, the couple invited their neighbors from in front of and behind their home to join …
Bunker News from Russia and Beyond!
Spetsgeoproekt (Special Geological Projects) is a Russian business cashing in on 2012 fears and recent natural disasters. They are selling 15 bunkers that range in size from 35 to 90 square meters (378 to 970 square feet), with some costing as much as $US400,000. Locations are secret, although they have built at least one in the mountainous region of Altai, due to being safe from flooding.
CEO Danila Andreyev says they will be opening a showroom in the rich Moscow neighborhood of Rublevka later this year. Full story at Bloomberg.com
Meanwhile Teacher Wang, a self-proclaimed prophet from Taiwan, is being investigated by police. Seemingly cashing in on the May 11 fears that swept the world (but especially Italy), in his blog he suggested that people should hide out in cargo containers. The problem is, he may have been associated with a business that had 100 containers for sale in a mountainous …
Amazing Super-Fortified House
What the photos don’t tell you is that the transformation is achieved with the push of a button. Additionally, entry to this 6100-square-foot home “requires several security codes and even then you are placed into an enclosed concrete bunker before being let in the house.”
More pics at Knstrct.com
Swine Flu + Bird Flu / Vivos in UK / London 2012
Not a surprise, but lab tests indicate that we need to watch out for a nasty super flu:
What do you get if you cross bird flu with the 2009 pandemic human virus, widely known as swine flu? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t funny. A new study predicts that swapping genes between the avian and human influenza viruses may result in an even more dangerous flu.
So instead of waiting and seeing, researchers have played matchmaker and thrust the two viruses together in a test tube. A team in China generated 127 hybrid viruses and injected each one into lab mice. More than half of the hybrids were as good as their parent strains at infecting the mice, and eight of them proved to be more pathogenic…
Yes, they’ll most likely call it the “flying pig flu”.
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US doomsday company Vivos has almost completed its first underground shelter in Nebraska and has appointed the eccentric …
Bunker Business Booming
CNN reports that bunker sales are booming in the wake of the Japanese tsunami and Middle Eastern unrest:
Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, has seen sales surge 70% since the uprisings in the Middle East, with the Japanese earthquake only spurring further interest. In hard numbers, that’s 12 shelters already booked when the company normally sells four shelters per year.
The last time people flocked to purchase bunkers in such droves was right before the Y2K scare, according to Stephen O’Leary, an associate professor at University of Southern California and an expert on apocalyptic thinking.
“Tens of millions of people believe in a literal apocalypse, which involves earthquakes, storms, disasters of global proportions and especially disasters related to the Middle East,” O’Leary said.
The article interviews someone who has booked four spots in a Vivos shelter. Another Vivos customer was interviewed over at Columbia News …
Hardened Shelters Owner Interview
This screened on Australian breakfast TV last week:
Link: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/24323859/bunker-buy-up/
Amazing Scottish Bunker For Sale
Not too far from where the majority of Scots live, a bunker is now for sale at a very reasonable price of £400,000:
The complex at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie, Perthshire, was completed in 1990 and is believed to be one of the most advanced structures of its kind. It was built to house 150 people and protect them from nuclear, biological and electromagnetic attacks.
Check out the features:
Two floors, 13,000 square feet each
Dormitories to hold 150 people
TV studio
Canteen
Air filtration plants
Backup generators
Water storage tanks
Works out at less than £3000 per occupant. I doubt you’ll find such a cheap, modern, completed bunker anywhere in the world. If I lived in the UK I would buy this tomorrow. Still might, Lotto-Goddess willing. The hardest part would be finding 150 people that you’d want to share it with.
More 2012 Bunkers
I have three different sources regarding bunkers being built for 2012:
Hush-hush, where my contacts give me details, but I am sworn to secrecy
Conspiracy forums and blogs – usually unsubstantiated
From the builders themselves
An example of conspiracy information is the bunker that the Walmart Waltons have built. While not necessarily for 2012, it would be marvelous to learn more. But all we have is a clip from a movie called Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price at YouTube:
In the above clip Jon Lehman, a former Walmart manager describes an “Apocalyptic bunker” from the front gate. Seemingly we only have his word that the compound with helipads belongs to the Walton family.
But when the information comes from the builders, I really listen. There is an article in the trade publication called Concrete Contractors that has lots of details on the construction of a 13,000-square foot bunker costing $3.5 million, specifically for 2012 …
5000+1 Bunkers for Moscow
Russia has some mega-bunkers where presumably indispensable folk can be kept safe, but what about the common people in Moscow? Looks like they will be safe from the [insert SHTF scenario here, but they want us to think nuclear war] as well. Announced a few weeks back on Russia Today are plans to build 5000 “bomb shelters” in Moscow with a time frame of 2 years – which of course equals Dec 2012. One website estimates that, if these bunkers were aiming to protect half of Moscow (the other half can use underground train stations), the cost could be as much as $1 billion. Here’s the news item on RT:
Also in Russia, near Moscow, a military engineer named Evgeny Ubiyko has built a doomsday capsule to survive 2012:
“The capsule is hermetic, it’s got four layers of insulation. It can float, roll down hills, and land upside down – without being …
Doomsday Bunker News
Robert Vicino (Vivos) has received $5000 deposits from 75 people so far, to retrofit his Mojave Desert bunker, built during the Cold War. It will hold 135 people, but he says there are still 5,000 applications left to process. My gut feeling is that he’ll probably get the first bunker finished, but won’t have time to sell and complete the other 19 he has planned. Especially considering his website is now saying the first bunker will be in Nebraska, and not California as originally envisioned. Perhaps someone else bought that silo before he had enough funds… However Vicino did imply in an Australian TV interview that he had bought the property, and he declined to say what it previously was:
REPORTER: What was this before?
ROBERT VICINO: David, I can’t tell you that. No.
REPORTER: Right, you can’t tell me that? What it was?
ROBERT VICINO: That’s right.
REPORTER: Did you have to …
Why call it an “ark” instead of boat or ship?
It’s the sort of question a 5-year-old asks, and she might be told that an ark is a special type of boat. We are so used to thinking we know all about Noah’s Ark that we automatically accept that it was a sailing vessel, despite the meaning of the word:
Ark: The word “ark” (הבת) probably comes from the Egyptian load word tbt which means “box” or “chest.”
http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/flood.htm
This is strange terminology for a boat or ship, and would only serve to confuse. Even more confusing, the other major use of the word ark in the Bible is regarding the Ark of the Covenant – this is not known as a boat.
When we look at the two most substantial pre-Biblical texts that tell the story of Noah, there are also indications that the original story did not concern a boat.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh the ark was described as being 120 …
A Coffee Table Book for 2012 Survivalists
As coffee table books go, Waiting for the End of the World is a bit on the small size, but it is mostly full-page photos, so I that’s how I’ll categorize it. The author Richard Ross traveled around the world photographing the insides of bomb shelters, and consequently the book covers mainly countries – such as Russia, Vietnam, Israel and of course the USA. The most interesting photos are the ones that show habitation rather than just metal walls:
More photos are at Good magazine. I have bought it, and it’s in the lounge. I figure it’s a different way of bringing up 2012 with friends & visitors.
Swiss Bunker Stores DNA of Data Formats
One of the fears regarding a possible global cataclysm in 2012, beyond the loss of life and livelihood, is the loss of knowledge. We are well aware of how little knowledge from ancient cultures has survived through to today – that great libraries have disappeared or been destroyed. And of the documents that have been recovered, some have yet to be deciphered.
With so much information stored digitally these days, there is a strong likelihood that post-2012-event cultures will take a very long time to recreate the devices needed to read the digital information of today. And if they do manage to build the devices, it would be extremely useful to have an understanding of how the data is stored on CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks.
A time capsule now stores such information, a kind of DNA for each data format, and has been placed in a vault.
The capsule is the culmination …
