Small California city welcomes doomsday bunkers

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Small-California-city-welcomes-doomsday-bunkers-4796518.php

In the backyard of his remote Southern California home, Bernie Jones is etching an unconventional blueprint: a construction plan to build his underground survival shelter. It won't be the typical, cramped Cold War-era bunker. It will hold 20 people.

Part of a small but vocal group of survivalists in Menifee, some 80 miles east of Los Angeles, Jones, 46, has pushed for the right to build a bunker on his 1-acre property for nearly a year. He wants to be ready for anything, be it natural disaster or a nuclear attack....

This next generation of bunkers comes as many survivalists face heightened concerns of a terrorist attack, economic meltdown and for some, even solar flares or meteor showers.

"The bunker is a type of security blanket," says Stephen O'Leary, an expert in apocalyptic and end-of-the-world theories at the University of Southern California. "They are concerned with what's happening in the world on a massive scale."

Yes, this is in California. The "Inland Empire" is only an hour or two east of L.A., but it is worlds apart.

[Bay Boy]

1. They are wasting their money...

...but it must help out the economy in some manner.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Yep

If you have conditions where living in a bunker for a couple weeks is necessary, then topside is not going to be habitable if you leave the bunker at some point, I would think.
OTOH...would make a very nice tornado shelter.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I wish we could put one in our back yard as a hurricane shelter.

No such luck with Florida's water table.

[jwirr]

4. Where is the nearest fault line to their safe haven?

[KamaAina]

5. A lot closer than nukes or chemtrails or whatever