Amageddon Condos

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www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jun/25/shelter-survival-kansas-del-mar-armageddon-hp/#&panel2-1


I loved the comment: "5,000 survivalists and 50,000 guns. What could possibly go wrong?"


I predict this is going to go BK within 2 years. Limestone is porous and therefore I think any kind of massive poison is going to leak through. I also wonder about issues like having that many RVs under ground Won't there be a problem with carbon monoxide? Finally what happens after a year? Where would these folks find food on a polluted planet?

Enquiring minds gotta know!

[Tiny]

And where do they get the power to run the lights (and plumbing)?

I'd also want to make sure that there weren't any nuclear power plants within 50 miles of the site.
It's armageddon after all and we've seen what happens to nuclear power plants when things go bad...

[dannylion]

They'll be at each others' throats within a month. 

[Tiny]

I'd bet on them all being at each other's throats in less than 12 hours... most people can't figure out what to do when the powers out for a hour or two... I suspect survivalists who think an RV is a great way to "survive" the end of the world probably aren't very good at entertaining themselves without electricity.


I keep having an image of the Doctor Who episode Gridlock for some reason...

[Wisconsin Beth]

Oh, that's the PERFECT image.

[michelyn8]

pfftt..............I grew up and still live four hours from DC and maybe 2 hours from Norfolk plus I grew up during the Cold War so I've always known if someone used nukes against us, this area would pretty much be toast early on.  I'll save my money and sanity and just prepare for the zombie apocalypse instead. 

[midjd]

I want to find this shelter he has in Indiana!

Was this guy on Doomsday Preppers? I remember an episode about someone who was building a multimillion dollar end-of-the-world complex, but it seems like that was more of an apartment structure...

Parking RVs underground just seems odd. Why not build out little apartments? And they need some type of 'farm' area or somewhere to grow food or at least raise chickens/rabbits. All the freeze-dried food in the world isn't going to sustain even one generation.

[milee]

I think I saw the same Doomsday Preppers that MidJD did.  Wasn't it an underground missile silo that went hundreds of feet deep that the guy was trying to partition into condos?  

Ugh, so many of the people/places/scenarios pictured on that show are so depressing, I'm not sure I want to survive whatever the doomsday event is.  I'm pretty tough and would probably make it if I tried, but I just don't think I'd want to live like that.  

[Tiny]

I just saw Idiocracy and I'm pretty sure I dont want to survive the appocolyse. OK, the movie isn't about 'the end of the world' and it is satire... but I suspect that any end of the world thing that happens it's not gonna be the brightest and best that survive...

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Jun 26, 2013 12:02:12 GMT -5 @bonnap said:

www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jun/25/shelter-survival-kansas-del-mar-armageddon-hp/#&panel2-1


I loved the comment: "5,000 survivalists and 50,000 guns. What could possibly go wrong?"


I predict this is going to go BK within 2 years. Limestone is porous and therefore I think any kind of massive poison is going to leak through. I also wonder about issues like having that many RVs under ground Won't there be a problem with carbon monoxide? Finally what happens after a year? Where would these folks find food on a polluted planet?

Enquiring minds gotta know!

The must have some type of power source, such as generators with enough fuel to run them.  The RV's would be running off supplied power, not their gas generators.  They must have planned for some filtered air exchangers and water storage and filtration also.

Over 100' of earth is going to keep poison out fine.

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The must have some type of power source, such as generators with enough fuel to run them. The RV's would be running off supplied power, not their gas generators. They must have planned for some filtered air exchangers and water storage and filtration also.

Over 100' of earth is going to keep poison out fine.

@scintillating MMC,

I think you're giving these guys too much credit. I know that it's possible to do underground structures (tunnels et cetera) so long as there is sufficient fans/ventilation systems. But they are very, very expensive. These guys aren't putting in that kind of infrastructure. And 100' of limestone doesn't mean much if you're trying to protect a water source. Uranium mining in the Southwest has poisoned all kinds of water sources in the Southwest from miles away because of how the acquifer systems in the various canyons work. Do you know that's one way how scientists measure how old an acquifer is in the Grand Canyon? By measuring the levels uranium?

[Wisconsin Beth]

Jun 26, 2013 15:42:49 GMT -5 @missmargarita said:

Jun 26, 2013 14:33:32 GMT -5 milee said:

I think I saw the same Doomsday Preppers that MidJD did.  Wasn't it an underground missile silo that went hundreds of feet deep that the guy was trying to partition into condos?  

Ugh, so many of the people/places/scenarios pictured on that show are so depressing, I'm not sure I want to survive whatever the doomsday event is.  I'm pretty tough and would probably make it if I tried, but I just don't think I'd want to live like that.  

I'd prefer to just be taken out with the doomsday event.  Who in the hell wants to live underground eating freeze dried food and fighting zombies?  No thanks!