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Bomb shelterView MessagesViewing posts 1 to 22 of 22 messages posted.
Bomb shelter “I talked to a guy yesterday who builds and sells bomb shelters. I thought this craze had gone out with the cold war but his business is booming. They cost about $17,000. Anyone here have one or feel the need?” 3:01:46 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “With any luck I'll be in a forward battle posistion. A foxhole will be my bomb shelter.” 3:33:41 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “It's only a matter of a few years before the US will be nuked by terrorists. My guess...2009. Target...New York, LA, or D.C.” 3:40:10 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “You may be right, spock.. but the way i look at it.. there won't be warming time to get me and the family into a bomb shelter.. I don't own a tornado shelter either.” 3:42:06 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “But a good bomb shelter should be designed to protect you and your family from the radioactive fallout and gangs of hungry mauraders.” 3:45:21 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I've always wanted a bomb shelter. I thought they would always come in handy for tornados, fires, toxic spills, hiding the body of an annoying post er...” 3:46:30 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “That won't happen where I live.. we don't have crime.. we don't have anything.. but good folks.. there will not be any fallout.. cos the bomb won't hit close.. and there won't be any hungry marauders.. I am a country boy by choice.” 3:50:16 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “the preacherman says it's the end of time...” 3:58:00 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Man, who'd want to live through a nuclear blast anyway? Ever seen the movie Testament? It's really feckin depressing.” 4:22:49 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I will become a spelunker ah splunker ah spanker ah caver. I will live in a cave.” 4:26:32 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I live about 15 miles from NYC and about 200 miles from DC. If it's going to happen, take me and mine quickly. I don't fear the hereafter.” 4:29:34 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Spock really has a warped persecution complex. He is a self fulfilling prophecy.” 5:36:27 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “They make a great wine cellar.” 5:51:34 PM 11/16/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Oh Town Dawg I wish you were right! I agree about the people here in the Tennessee 100%,but with our geographic location,The TVA dam network,Watts Bar & Oak Ridge & AEDC- We are higher on the list than on might believe- You can paddle a canoe right up to the base of the dam at Center Hill- I can't worry about it though-Fate will take care of us- Backpackers will be the last ones left though-we have gear & skills.” 10:39:24 AM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Oh Town Dawg I wish you were right! I agree about the people here in the Tennessee 100%,but with our geographic location,The TVA dam network,Watts Bar & Oak Ridge & AEDC- We are higher on the list than one might believe- You can paddle a canoe right up to the base of the dam at Center Hill- I can't worry about it though-Fate will take care of us- Backpackers/Sportsmen and the like will be the last ones left-we have gear & skills.” 10:41:18 AM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Sorry about the duplication guys-second time it has happened-wonder why?” 10:42:59 AM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “Media, my father, uncle, and grandfather combined finances and time and now that side of my fam. has one. It is in a secret (even from me) way out in the boondocks loaction. My father says if anything real major goes down, pack some essentials and head to his house; from there he'll take us to it. He has spent the last 6 or 7 yrs. stocking the thing. I say screw that idea. Like I want to be in some bomb shelter w/ my paranoid patriarchs and fat cousins. I agree 100% w/ roseymonster. Why would you want to survive?” 12:34:43 PM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I got my Gore-Tex Bivy sack for a bomb shelter. I ain't skert.” 12:41:41 PM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I'm not surprised at how sucessful the business is though. Due to my dad's weirdo obession, I know a quite a few people w/ some type of bomb shelter set-up. Bizzaro!” 12:44:05 PM 11/18/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I, for one, would like to survive.....” 12:43:04 PM 11/21/01 RE: Bomb shelter “I'm staying in here until Matt 'fesses up, just in case!” 1:28:03 PM 11/21/01 RE: Bomb shelter “A bomb shelter is useless to me. I can't put one on the ground or it will fill with water and become a pool. Hmmmm...... that might work. I live less than three miles froma Navy base that will get hit and I'll be vaporized along with it.” 3:04:19 PM 11/21/01
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