Houses: My neverending subject... fallout shelters this time

[wrath]

So, I've been feverishly looking for a house.

I've been getting kind of selfish trying to find my dream house. Actually, finding my dream house for my dream price isn't a problem if I ignore location.

It's amazing how hard it is to find a 3 bedroom house without the rooms being tiny built since 1950 on at least a 100x100 lot. I'd really like an acre but that's pretty rare.


Anyway, in lower Michigan it's pretty common to find houses built 1945-1985 with fallout shelters. I think it'd be awesome to have one to store all my goodies in. I have seen no evidence of any here. Usually they're easy to spot because there is a mound in someone's yard with evergreens planted around it. Sometimes they're better hid such as being attached to the basement of the house and whatnot.

Do any exist here? Or did all the hype never happen because no one figured the soviets would want to blow up cows and cookware?

[Windsors 03 Cobra]

I have never seen any, seems most of the fallout shelters here were in public buildings.
Also many weird socialist types landed here, said immigrants were sure that nothing bad happened in the world so there was no need for a personal bomb shelter.

[That_Guy]

there are plenty of multi family units in the Milwaukee area that have fall out shelters attached. also alot of schools in the area have then also.. my dad has a duplex that has a fall out shelter attached to the basement ... its pretty baddass.. not like it would save you if there was an atomic attack but it defiantly a great place to go if there is a tornado

[wrath]

Ah, so the paranoia never really happened here like it did in Michigan. Michigan has/had Detroit which is where a lot of manufacturing had and still does happen. It's less than two hours from my parents' and you still find fallout shelters all over there. I know somewhere in the 70s or something some places advertised "buy a pool, get half off a fallout shelter". I'd say probably 1 in 40 houses in my hometown has a fallout shelter of some kind.

[Car Guy]

I know of one out in Waukesha that is the size of a 2 car garage and you have to take a flight of stairs DOWN from the basement to get to it. I was in it once and you could tell that it was done during the 'cold war' era. It was very elaborate for the time and had backups of all kinds allowing someone to live down there for days if not weeks.....

This subject also reminds me of one of my favorite movies which includes the always entertaining Christopher Walken. I know it's a goofy comedy but I think it hilarious and have watched it many times.....

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513Y40DFZ6L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

[Goat Roper]

I had a house back in Iowa with one. Great for storage and storm shelter obviously as well.

[jbiscuit]

just build a shed.

[wrath]

just build a shed.

A lot of places you can't really build a worthwhile shed. Brookfield for example. 180 square feet, can only be 10' tall, must be hidden from view, must be appealing, and probably won't be approved.

Most anything you'd build in a lot of these places can be infiltrated with a cordless saw.

[4eyedstang]

you could always build your own .

http://americanbombshelter.com/manuals/ASR-bomb-fallout-shelter-kit.pdf

[animal]

not like it would save you if there was an atomic attack

You'd probably be surprised. An online book I read once analyzed some of the released soviet nuclear war strategies and it was actually more survivable than I realized given you were at least somewhat prepared to act to save your own hide (able bodied, had at least some supplies available, etc). Alot was based on your location, proximity to military targets, and the direction the wind is blowing at the time nuclear material is released into the atmosphere. Provided you're not living on top of a missile silo, the book made it plausible you could survive such an attack by building a makeshift shelter in your back yard (plans for such a shelter were described as well).

[boostin350z]

you could always build your own .

http://americanbombshelter.com/manuals/ASR-bomb-fallout-shelter-kit.pdf

true, but the way the market is right now, its definately in the buyers favor. im getting pretty heavy in the real estate market and trying to pick up a decent property before it booms back up.

[wrath]

true, but the way the market is right now, its definately in the buyers favor. im getting pretty heavy in the real estate market and trying to pick up a decent property before it booms back up.

Don't buy anything Waukesha county, I want prices to go lower. tee-hee.

[UnderPSI]

There are plenty in waukesha. There seems to be a lot of them around the Waukesha Memorial hospital area.

[PonyKiller87]

Unless you have a farm or something you would have a hard time building something like that today because it doesn't meet any of todays building code classifications. If someone seen you digging a big hole they would think you were putting in a pool, then if they looked into it further they would see whats going on and in the end it would most likely get classified as building structure and most places have a limit of 1 building, 1 garage and 1 shed per property.

[Breecher_7]

I will be building one if Obama gets elected. No, seriously.......

[CobraSnake]

I will be building one if Obama gets elected. No, seriously.......

hahahaah I just saw this today thought it was funny.

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5162/nobamans0.jpg

[Heat Seeker WS6]

When I worked at my install jobs Ive been in several homes with fallout shelters.
Mainly in Brookfield, Hartland & Chenequa is where they are. Your prob not gonna find them 'advertised' by owners & good luck finding them.

One of which i saw & got to go into was a REAL shelter/saferoom complex designed for WWIII!! Its in Chenequa right off of 83 and the room(s) is dead center on the house floorplan and had re-enforced concrete several layers thick w/ the dual ship looking multi-hinged doors with air seals. The rooms are just below the basement level. The guy worked for the govenment developing technology thats used now and the rooms are still ready to go if need be. if shit ever hits the fan ...Im going there! If I remember right Ramon was on the job too - he can back this up.

[michelle]

The school I am at has one. I totally had a WTF look on my face when I saw the sign the other day. Never noticed one at a house around here though.

[That_Guy]

my mom has a house listed with a fallout shelter, 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath, with a 3.5 attached car garage with a 2.5 detached garage, 1 acre lot.. 450,000 dollars...price not so firm ... fall out shelter is 7x10 all it needs is a steel door. its town of summit waukeesha county. the hous was built in 200...