$5000 to reserve a spot in a 200-person doomsday bunker, 1000s of applications for a spot

[Liberal_in_LA]

With all this gloomy doomsday like news, many are making a run for the hills. To prepare for a possible apocalyptic event in the U.S., many are looking into bunkers. CNNMoney reported that sales at companies that build these emergency shelters have seen their demand skyrocket.

These doomsday shelters run the gamut. From something you can purchase for a few thousand dollars to reserving a spot in an elaborate shelter designed for hundreds. One of the companies mentioned in the CNNMoney article specializes in building mega shelters in the middle of nowhere (e.g. grasslands of Nebraska) and sells spots for a few thousand a pop.

Vivos, a company that sells rooms in 200-person doomsday bunkers, has received thousands of applications since the massive earthquake in Japan, with reservations spiking nearly 1,000% last week. And people are backing their fear with cash: A reservation requires a minimum deposit of $5,000.





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[RKP5637]

1. Well, back to the 50's, Y2K and also the doomsday cults. Always big money to be made on fear. n/t

[CreekDog]

2. .

[Release The Hounds]

4. We won't need left hand shop owners in the future.

[geardaddy]

44. *singing "que cera"*

[madaboutharry]

3. There are always ways to separate a fool from his money.

[and-justice-for-all]

5. A fool is born every minute...nt

[bemildred]

20. Fool, money, parted, yes. nt

[Zanzoobar]

6. If I'm one of the guards protecting access during the apocalypse...

...don't count on getting in. A load of rich hotties took your spots.

You financed the new new world, and I am the new overlord. I am Adam 2.0.

Suckers.

[Aerows]

7. If we have an apocalyptic event...

...and you live in say, New York or Florida, how are you going to get to a doomsday shelter in Nebraska? Apocalyptic pretty much implies that things are dire, so I would suspect that planes wouldn't be flying and roads wouldn't be drivable.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. People in Nebraska will be sitting pretty.. surviving to repopulate the world

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[Maru Kitteh]

31. Should I have sought your "progressive" permission before having a baby?

I mean, I wouldn't want to offend you (or depress you) by reproducing - being from Nebraska and all. Us fundy knuckle-dragging rubes don' hardly know ta scratch our watch or wind our ass without the impeccable guidance of someone such as yourself.

[lies and propaganda]

61. im certain you knew what they meant.

It was nicer than any Nebraskan comment i wanted to make about the years and years and years of MASSIVE child sexual abuse in the state.

[Maru Kitteh]

64. The narcissism of minor differences, to be sure.

[rasputin1952]

51. No, they'd run to the area...

figuring they'd get caught up in a Rapture style event. The worst thing for the fundies would be to realize that science was real, and they didn't listen.

The NE gene-pool is pretty tight, but nearly so as other areas of th country, where a divergent gene=pool seems not to exist at all...:scared:

[rasputin1952]

50. Well, if said apocalyptic event is the Yellowstone calder going off...

NE, as well as most other Midwest states, would be a wasteland for decades...and all those that sought underground "salvation", would be buried under ash and mud.

Being in NE, I figure if the caldera blows, life expectancy is about 2 hours, and the effects would begin being felt on the East Coast within 6.

It would be a serious, "oh shit" moment.

[Aerows]

55. Lord...If Yellowstone blew

We would probably be saying hello to a world wide nuclear winter for several years. Let's not even go there LOL.

[rasputin1952]

58. The History Channel and Discovery Channel have really gone at it...

if it goes...I'm gonna pop a couple of xanax and sit out back watching the show. Not that I'd get to tell anyone about it, but I might as well spend some time enjoying nature at it's wildest...:D

[Aerows]

65. I'll be right there with you enjoying

a Xanax cocktail, because there would be not much to do at that point LOL. Mind you, I live several thousand miles from Yellowstone, but I have not doubt that here on the coast we would feel and see it.

[WatsonT]

67. If that happens the entire worlds surface will be rapidly converted over to

corn fields and football stadiums.

[arcane1]

9. I'm so disappointed in myself for having ethics

Otherwise I'd be rich and could sleep in tomorrow morning :(

[GoCubsGo]

10. Was thinking the same thing...

I could sure use the money, and there are lots of End-Timers around here. But, those pesky ethics...

[JVS]

11. Will there be room for my emergency scotch?

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. one bottle and you'll have to guard it carefully. I see no room for storage in that bunker

[JVS]

13. I'd rather die than face a future of only one bottle of scotch.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Interesting twist on improved housing starts . . . . .

[hunter]

15. No worries.

I'll be sitting down reading the evening paper while my lovely family prepares me a wholesome meal.

[Occulus]

17. I hope those couches fold out into beds or

they'll end up collapsed on the floor, like an exhausted Sim.

[hunter]

19. We've become shape shifters like Odo of Deep Space 9

We sleep in buckets.


wikipedia: Odo_(Star_Trek)

[Javaman]

40. Nancy? Johnny? Turn your heads...

Mommy and me are having relations.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Urban Prairie]

21. That book's image is so stereotypical of the 50s-early 60s, but

Wife in dress. w/apron wearing high-heels w/makeup and lipstick on, and smiling while getting a meal ready to cook, son/daughter calmly sitting at a table getting crayons to use in a coloring book. Husband in a suit, peacefully sitting in a lounge chair with his legs crossed smoking a pipe, while reading the last newspaper that will ever be printed...Meanwhile above them, supposedly the H-bombs are or have been dropped and utter catastrophic chaos and nuclear destruction ensues...how surreal...just like an old Twilight Zone episode would be ...heh!!

[Javaman]

41. 5 years after the bomb dropped 1950's style...

Wife: Honey, I have run out of my red dye #5 lipstick.

Hubby: kill me now.

[loudsue]

22. LOL!! ROFL!!!

You betcha ;)

[Javaman]

39. You'll have to pick up the morning paper with lead tongs. LOL nt

[hunter]

48. Don't be silly. It comes wrapped in plastic.

.

[rasputin1952]

56. I remember those!

:rofl:

They tried to make it look like everything would be "normal", but never mentioned that if a nuclear exchange happened, survivors would emerge to complete devastaion and almost certain death if near a city from massive amounts of latent radiation. Growing up in the 50s in NYC was a hoot..."Duck and Cover"...nice idea, if you don't live in a prime target area. battered by bricks and a lot of glass shards tearing through oner's body while hiding under a flimsy desk at school, that would ignite about a millisecond before I would, always made me feel safe...:D

[CoffeeCat]

16. No thanks, I saw Cormack McCarthy's...

..."The Road". If there is some apocalyptic event, even those in shelters
like that won't survive. They'll be eaten by marauding crazy people.

[Javaman]

42. Mmmm, honey, you have out done yourself again!

this this hand and forearm are wonderful!

:rofl:

[TheMightyFavog]

18. Am I the onlyt one to thing of Fallout?

[NickB79]

35. Nope, first thing that came to my mind.

[Javaman]

43. Duck and Cover!

My pipboy is all charged and ready to go!

[geardaddy]

45. Bert the Turtle

[The Doctor.]

23. Damn... I was only asking $1200/month with NO deposit!

How do I get these damn UB students out now?

[Raine]

24. After a gigantic earthquake here in Los Angeles like the one in Japan

how in they hell would I be able to get to Nebraska??? :shrug: :silly:

[Urban Prairie]

26. Surf the ensuing 300' tsunami to travel to it.

:-)

[Raine]

29. LOL

:spray: Yeah that'll work! ;-)

[jtuck004]

25. $417/mo, but that's only the down payment. What's the total? 'Cause I could sell the

house (well, ok, not likely), pay them and live there while I wait...might be cheaper.

Wonder what their long-term plan is. Sounds like a retirement villa for snow-birds, but it could work to rebuild community/ies.

[rpannier]

27. Send out a false alarm to these people (most of whom probably have big money)

Then cut off all access to info to the outside world and leave them there

[eridani]

30. Which are not, of course, extensively tested under real life conditions for any length of time

But, not to worry. Everything will surely work right the first time!

[Generic Other]

32. Couldn't they have gotten martha stewart to jazz them up?

institutional decor is so cold war retro.

[hobbit709]

33. Padlock the doors from the outside-solves problem of idjits with more money than brains.

[Motown_Johnny]

34. who wants to bet they "over book"?

[Javaman]

49. Let me in! Let me in!

Guy at door: Sorry, ahh, mr. jones is it?

Panicked person: yes, now let me in!

Guy at door: Oh yeah, about that. Ouch. How do I say this.

Panicked person: Say what? Just let me in!

Guy at door: well, we are a tad overbooked.

Panicked person: What the fuck are you talking about? Over booked?

Guy at door: Yeahhhh. I know, it's hard. Look, I'll do you a favor and put you on the "preferred" list, okay?

Panicked person: What? I paid you morons 50 grand for a spot, now let me in!

Guy at door: Okay, okay, first have a look at that line of people out there!

Panicked person turns to look at line.

Panicked person: Yeah, what about them?

CLICK.

[Motown_Johnny]

53. we will be happy to offer you a full refund

(slips check under the door)

[Javaman]

57. ...

:spray: LOL

[WatsonT]

68. Kind of reminds me of this pet service I saw

where they promise to look after your pets once you're raptured.

Seemed ingenious to me. If it doesn't happen: free money. If it does: no way of forcing you to actually do it.

[guitar man]

36. So....

A bunch of rich assholes survive the apocalypse. What then? What are they going to do when they come out of that thing? Work the land and "till the soil"? :rofl: :rofl: :spray:

[brooklynite]

37. Those potted plants in the central core really brighten up the place...

...it's like have a house in the country.

[Javaman]

38. What I want to know is...

who will clean the toilets?

[Yavin4]

46. Donald Fagan's "New Frontier"

Yes we're gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It's just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
We've got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier

Introduce me to that big blonde
She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
She's got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
She's got the right dynamic for the new frontier

Well I can't wait till I move to the city
Till I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas

Do you have a steady boyfriend
'Cause honey I've been watching you
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier

Well I can't wait till I move to the city
Till I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas

Let's pretend that it's the real thing
And stay together all night long
And when I really get to know you
We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn
Confess your passion, your secret fear
Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU&playnext=1&list=PL9D7C2A34DCBF1918

[Marr]

47. That is hilarious. I don't know where to begin.

The likelihood of the operation being run by grifters who will simply take the money and build nothing? The impracticality of such a structure housing masses of people for any length of time? The chances that-- even if the first two points weren't problems, your fellow panic fans would probably lock your ass out long before you ever reached the damn thing?

lol

[Lucian]

52. I should sell snakeoil and say it cures cancer.

I could make that kind of money as well.

People are idiots and let their irrational fears rule them.

[rasputin1952]

54. $5000 buys a modest amount in psychological counseling...

but quite a bit in generic xanax...I'd be looking at the xanax aspect closely.

God knows, I'd be stuck with worse neighbors than I have now...probably cannibals!...:D

[Bucky]

59. For a fraction of that you can buy an assault rifle & join the militia men who'll storm it later.

Probably a few bucks for lessons in how to use that assault rifle might also be a good investment.

[Yo_Mama]

60. The stupid tax

I'm wondering just how the Manhattanites expect to get to the bunkers in Nebraska.

Thanks, I needed the laugh.

[dkofos]

62. Not for me. I can't see me paying that kind of money to spend my last days

with 199 idiots.

I prefer to be vaporized at ground zero.

[Geoffrey_Lebowski]

63. I can only think of like 20 reasons why you'd have to be a complete idiot ...

to invest in something like this ... not the least of which being that in the event of some kind of apocalypse, you're not likely to be able to GET to one of these shelters in time unless you're within a few mile radius at most. Then there's the fact that the rent-a-cop at the door checking ID's (if there even is one) is going to end up with a bullet in the brain within the first 30 seconds of turning people away who haven't paid ...

You guys ever hear of the people who will take money to care for your pets for you after you're raptured? These guys are targeting the same idiots as the post-rapture pet care people.

If you want access to something like this, you better build it yourself, on your own land, and not tell anyone you did it other than people you a)plan to have down there with you, and b)can trust 100% not to spread the word.

[WatsonT]

66. Won't the spots go to whoever shows up there first and well armed?

I mean if we get to a situation where they are needed then likely we won't care too much about who called 'dibs'.