Huntsville, Alabama Plans Bomb Shelters For 300,000 Citizens

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008654718

September 27, 2007 5:02 p.m. EST

Linda Young - AHN News Writer

Huntsville, AL (AHN) - City officials in Huntsville, Alabama are planning to open old-fashioned bomb shelters and explained their program to members of Congress. City officials say that although the plan wouldn't help if the city suffered a direct hit, the shelters would protect residents from the radioactive fallout from a nuclear strike elsewhere in the United States.

Huntsville will outfit an abandoned mine capable of holding 20,000 people. Other residents will be housed in college dorms, churches, libraries and research halls. City planners hope they can develop enough shelter space to house 300,000 people; enough space to provide every person in Huntsville and the surrounding county a safe refuge.

City officials say that their plan is sensible given the fact that radioactive fallout would spread for hundreds of miles from the site of a nuclear bomb. In addition to that, the plan complies with post 9/11 instructions from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), calling on cities to create metropolitan protection programs that includes nuclear-attack preparation and mass shelters. snip

Huntsville also instructs its residents to use duct tape, but has decided to take the safe shelter concept a step further with actual bomb shelters.

[Suich]

1. I don't get it.

Why is someone safer in a dorm or church than in their own home or apartment?

:shrug:

[BadgerLaw2010]

3. Supplies. Shelters presumably have them, most people normally don't.

[L. Coyote]

6. Nuclear bomb shelters are lead-lined. Great idea, right?

Whose cousin is selling lead? :rofl:

[L. Coyote]

2. Time to go into the bomb shelter business. Remember when that was happening?

Some of our neighbors had bomb shelters built in the late 50s/early 60s, at great expense. Now, they are probably just lead contamination holes in the ground.

Damn, it is sure great to be back in the paranoid world of the 1950 John Birchers! :rofl:

[depakid]

4. "back in the paranoid world of the 1950 John Birchers!"

Alabama never left!

[L. Coyote]

7. Point well taken LOL in the library.

[Swamp Rat]

5. For what?

An incoming asteroid?

[nealmhughes]

8. That's kinda weird because Huntsville is home to the Missile Command system and Marshall Space

Center. There are also two hydro dams and 3 nuclear reactors within 25 miles of the city, too. . .it has always been identified as a potential target against the old USSR. If they aimed it at Redstone Arsenal then would being in a quarry make one safe? If they aimed it at the dams at Joe Wheeler or Guntersville would you really want to be around Huntsville at all, with or without an abandoned quarry full of bats downtown?

I think the key to this loony tunes bidness is that they got a $70K grant from DHS. Evidently one can almost scam them out of a Mercedes and a pony. In fact, I want to send Cadaveroff or whatever her name is a proposal: "Patches the anti-terrorist pony" who will be available for kids all over North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee to feed, muzzle nuzzle, and maybe even ride! Or "Patches," the $70K Mercedes convertible which I shall take with me all over the SE USA with a small magnetic sign saying "Be prepared, terrorists may strike." attached to the back.

[TankLV]

9. On the other hand, maybe these scientists are privy to information the rest of us are not?

Just wondering aloud...

Nothing would surprise me anymore...

Certainly not with the dick and bunkerboy at the controls still...

You all have heard of the nuclear plane "mistake" that happened a week or so ago that was "discovered", right?

[spag68]

10. Waste of money

Any one who thinks about it will realize that if there are nukes going off anywhere. we are all shot to hell with of without shelters. Oops, I forgot about Greenbrier.

[SlowDownFast]

11. Why spend the money on this

when you could just insulate a bedroom with a bunch of (recalled) lead-laden toys from China?

:shrug:

[Jonathan Pollard]

12. FBI and FEMA moving outside the DC nuclear blast zone

As was reported in the Washington Post, the FBI and other federal agencies are moving outside the Washington DC nuclear blast and fallout zone, something that did not happen even at the height of the cold war.