I grew up when it was normal for people

[kairos12]

to have bomber shelters in their backyard. I remember playing in one my neighbor had in Houston.

I wonder if they will come back into being, aside from those 1% rich folk shelters I've been hearing about.

Maybe Costco will start a line of them.

[tazkcmo]

1. I want one.

But I'd want one even if we never invented bombs. We'd call it a "fort"! In fact, I'd like to dig a subterranean living quarters. It'd be neat!

[thecrow]

21. Try this place...

http://greenmagichomes.com

They have underground sheltersthey bury on top of a slab and then they "seal" the ground which, in their words makes it like a bunker.

[Galileo126]

2. I used to play at a decommissioned Nike launch base.

Amazing the remnants of the Cold War still flourish, though.

I'm still looking for a fallout shelter sign...

[pkdu]

26. That is the funniest typo of the day - you win the interwebs! nt

[Brother Buzz]

33. I was billeted in an old Nike base

The actual missile launch sites were idled, but not decommissioned. Our fallout shelter was in a WWll Artillery Magazine bored deep into the mountain, and I mean deep! Today, the billets are a YMCA camp, and one of the launch sites is a museum, while the second one serves as a home for The Marine Mammal Center.

Remember the CONELRAD (CD) triangles on the old AM radios?

[ret5hd]

3. What do you call a fallout shelter when "the bomb" comes?

An oven.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I have absolutely no desire to live in a post apocolyptic world n/t

[redwitch]

9. I'm with you.

If it happens I want to go out in the first moment. It'll be like gettin' raptured!

[onethatcares]

13. meet you there.

I'll be the guy with a bottle of Grey Goose and a straw.

[redwitch]

16. Awesome!

The rapture wouldn't be any fun without booze!

[Warpy]

15. Yeah, I'm with you. Shit starts flying, I'm dragging a comfy chair

out into the backyard to watch the show.

I live less than a mile from an air base. My ass is toast, anyway.

[onethatcares]

17. yep, I'm about 10 miles

from CentCom. I think I'll last about 13 seconds.

[Nay]

37. I'm an hour from DC. We'll be dead in an instant and that's OK with me. nt

[Hoyt]

27. Me too. Gonna soak up rays. I'm not going to sleep with one eye open to kill neighbors over food. nt

[dchill]

5. "those 1% rich folk shelters..."

You mean New Zealand, right?

[kairos12]

14. Take a gander.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

[dchill]

19. Wow. In the aftermath...

They will all be forced to hunker together with guns, bullets and lies. I'd rather be dead.

[unblock]

6. my parent's house has one

it was not a selling point when they bought it, lol!

my father is a (retired) professor of nuclear physics, and he was amused because basically it meant that you could survive a nuclear blast only to be killed slowly and painfully after breathing in the radiation in the air.

[Bucky]

7. I'm not worried about the apocalypse

If doomsday actually comes, maybe then I'll just Google some Survival Guide online. I'm sure it'll fit on my thumb drive and I can just take it down to my local Kinko's to print it out.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, my father believed our family would be safe in our basement

because that's where his x-ray room for his medical practice was located. He believed the lead would protect us from radiation.

[democrank]

10. I remember "air raid" drills in grammar school

when we'd have to hide under our desks. They were kind of frightening.

[tavernier]

11. My folks had one when I was growing up,

but we immigrated here directly after WWII, so for them it was a priority. I would have preferred a back yard pool.

[onethatcares]

12. will one need a building permit?

and what standards will be used?

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. I didn't know anyone who had one.

Everybody in my neighborhood had a basement, so I guess our parents figured we'd take our risk down there. There were Nike missile bases nearby (one about 3 miles away along Lake Michigan). Always figured we wouldn't make it. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, my mother tried to drink all the booze in the house. My father convinced her that she was scaring the shit out of my sister and me so she toned that down.

[rzemanfl]

31. I remember those Nikes along the lake. Now tennis shoes. n/t

[TexasProgresive]

20. Here's an article covering the basic shelter needs.

http://www.enderra.com/2008/11/01/designing-a-nuclear-fallout-shelter/

[raccoon]

22. I don't know if they would have helped then and I seriously doubt they would now.

Who was it said, After a nuclear war the survivors will envy the dead.

[frazzled]

23. I grew up in that era, but my family was kind of laissez-faire about it

I remember, around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, my mother carting down 5 or 6 cans of Campbell's Soup to the basement--just in case. You know, to tide us over in case of nuclear attack. We still laugh about it today.

[Thirties Child]

24. We lived in D.C. during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I was a young mother, a baby and two toddlers, husband a newsman at UPI. Oddly enough, I didn't worry, didn't think it would happen. Now? I'm terrified of what he's going to pull out of Bannon's hat next.

Btw, and off the subject, husband wrote a great lead about the Cuban Missile Crisis: "The world walked a wobbly tightrope this weekend...."

[panader0]

25. Why have a bomb shelter?

Even if you could survive a nuclear attack, there wouldn't be any world
when you came out. The radiation would kill you. My neighbor has one.
He showed me the hidden underground shelter once. We live fairly close to Ft.
Huachuca and I'm pretty sure it's a target. I asked him how would he know
when to get down there? More likely there would just be a bright light and........

[spanone]

28. our neighbor built one. he let me & my brothers in it.

we thought it was scary, the thought of being in there while everyone outside was possibly dying.

trump brings the realities of the 50's & 60's nuclear scares...

we also had nuclear bomb drills in grade school....we'd get under our desks....i'm sure that would have saved us.....

[kairos12]

29. Now we can call those drills Drumpt and Cover.

[spanone]

30. Bwahahahaaaa 😎

[madokie]

32. We had a storm shelter installed last summer.

I guess it could be used as a bomb shelter but it'd get awfully claustrophobic as its only 6 ft by 8 ft

[randr]

34. I had a real paranoid gun nut neighbor

Who braged me about his shelter one day. I told him that if the shit hits the fan first thing I do is park a truck on his "bomb proof door" because in an emergency he is the last person we need running amok.
The look on his face still brings me to tears.

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. Ever seen the movie "Blast From the Past"? So funny n/t

[Blue_true]

36. If you build one, make sure it seals well and can't

Be breached by night crawlers, including poison spiders and snakes.