Over preparred

[azazel1024]

I am housing hunting right now (I think I've found 'the house'). Well I looked at one near my current house.

Looney toons.

Long story to follow of a couple of houses I looked at house hunting.

First house, pulled up and one car has the lettering changed to read BioDiesel (old mercedes diesel). Don't get me wrong, I am all green and granola crunchy, so this didn't bother me. The other car had an oathtakers.com bumper sticker though.

Owners were still home, wife in a moo-moo.

They go out to walk their dog so we can tour the house. Husband pokes his head back in after a couple of minutes "Oh, in case ya'll want to see the bunker I can let ya in. Place didn't have a basement so that's why I put in the bunker" (seemed very logical to the guy).

Yes, that is right. A full on bomb shelter with its own overpressure air handling system designed for NBC prolonged operation and an emergency generator with a 300 gallon fuel tank, about 3 months of dry and canned goods, a couple of cots, small TV, couch, kitchenette, 100 gallon water tank, chemical toilet and what I presume to be a nice sized gun closet (though closed and combo locked, but that is what it appeared to be, at a guess you could store about 8 rifles and a couple of thousand rounds of ammo in it).

That plus the 60" samsung LCD TV in the living room that links to the room with the shelter entrance door (hydraulically hinged steel door that must weigh 400lbs). kind of tipped me off to why this is a short sale in danger of foreclosure


Of course this one didn't have the creep factor of another house I looked at earlier in the day.

I looked at a cute 1950's brick house that was vacant, but the style of carpets, paint, etc reminded me very much of my grandparents. Well it has two out buildings. A garage with a workshop and another building labled as "potential for workshop". Inside one door is a small 8x6 room with a compressor and condensor core with a door at the back with a 1950/60's style freezer door (wood with steel core, heavy, probably 300lbs) to a chiller that is about 8x8. Around the side of the structure is a seperate door with a similar 'freezer' style door to a long 8x20ft room. No chiller, sunken concrete floor. No obvious stains, but meat hooks hanging from the ceiling and one, single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling in the middle. Cinderblock walls painted off white. Perfect for absorbing sounds. Even loud piercing sounds.

House was cute.

Only I looked in that outbuilding but I got back in the car with my wife and our agent. Conversation.

Me - Okay then, moving along.
Wife - So was the workshop cute?
Me - Well, if you are Josef Mengle you'd be putting a contract in on this place right now
Wife (not a student of history) - Huh?
Real Estate Agent - So then, not on the short list?
Me - No, no I don't think this one is going to make that list
Wife - Que pasa?
Me - Think something out of a slasher film (explained what I found)
Wife - Yeah, I think that makes this one creepier than the 1900 farm house overlooking the town cemetary (looked at earlier)

[CyCo]

Take the first one!! If it's big enough, you can use the 'bunker' as a dedicated 'BoG'*.

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*Bunker of Gaming rather than Den of Gaming (thus being DoG).

[azazel1024]

It was vaguely cool, but I can think of better things to spend probably $40 or $50k on than installing a bomb shelter with all its bells and whistles. I forgot to mention it had a hook up to all of the security cameras scattered around the house. Must have been a dozen security cameras around the houser perimeter and maybe 3 or 4 inside of the house.

I was looking for tin hats, but I didn't see any.

It would be to much of a pain to use it for anything. I don't want to have to punch in a 6 digit code and haul the door open (slowly, like I said about 400lbs and a good 2-3 inches solid steel on hydraulics) to use the room for anything other than an emergency shelter. A normal basement will do for that thank you very much. I am all about being prepared, but to the point of preparing for 'the bomb' to drop I am not quite that extreme. If they are off target by 20-30 miles and land one on my suburb I'll just figure I am screwed or if they have enough that they are blanketing the metropolitan areas with a few dozen warheads each I'll also figure I am screwed.

Anything else and the basement will do just fine.
-Matt