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6 Comments to "Improvised Basement Fallout Shelter from The Late 1960s"
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bum
March 20th, 2008 at
8:01 am
“Leave my elevator alone!”
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Shiver
March 20th, 2008 at
9:28 am
Actually, water is incredibly good at stopping radiation….so maybe its not such a bad idea ;P
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Scotchdrnkr
March 20th, 2008 at
11:21 am
Amazing what they thought would work back then isn’t it.
Ignorance is bliss! -
redphone
March 20th, 2008 at
12:41 pm
These guides usually suggest placing your food supply on top as well. I can see how it creates a good shield of course, but shouldn’t we protecting our food supply within the shelter instead of using it as our protective layer?
God help anyone with a dog too, eh.
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Allison
March 20th, 2008 at
7:13 pm
Wow, it’s weird to see this picture again. My mom has the booklet this came from at home (as well as several others.) There is a whole sub culture of people who collect these pamphlets and fallout kits. Some of the rarest fallout kits are the ones that have a portable toilet (with bag for easy disposal) included.
There are all kinds of hilarious things (read “disturbing”) about these things. What people were told to do!
I can’t imagine spending years of my life with my family under a kiddie pool waiting for the environment to be safe again.
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Douglas2
March 20th, 2008 at
9:25 pm
I came across the car-over-trench expedient shelter design many years ago. Perhaps a decade later I started to wonder if the purpose behind these lighweight constructions with lots of dirt on top and unshored-trench type “expedient” shelters was to save the survivors from proper shelters from the need to be gravediggers for the non-survivors
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