What is the best permanent survival base you've seen?
For me it was a program on TV I saw where a guy bid about $3,000 on a surplus USAF underground missle complex in eastern Wyoming and won.
It had a couple of missle silos with elevators, an underground area where he had all kinds of cars stored and the quarters for the personnel went on and on.
There was a large kitchen area, many rooms and I think it even had geo-thermal heat and a deep underground well.
I can remember thinking how easy it would be to put wind generators in the silo that you could raise elecrically after a bomb or whatever it was that drove you to be in a survival situation.
I'd build a small log cabin over the entrance and then invite friends over. Can you see their face when you say "Hey, you have to see my basement!"
Yeah, he was the only one who bid on it. I can't remember what show it was, maybe Believe it or not.
Sounds bogus but they had a whole segment on it and showed all the various rooms.
I remember seeing all kinds of copper cabling that could have been sold for junk price and he would have made money on the deal. They left a lot of those welded steel pipe work stands and other big electric motors and "Stuff."
I told my wife I'd love to find something like that and she wasn't too happy with the thought of living in eastern Wyoming. Not that she doesn't like Wyoming, she just likes to be near the grandkids here in Florida.
We had just been to nearby Disney Epcot in Orlando and they had plants growing in water. I thought that might be a possibility with artificial light from solar panels or wind generators. Plants also produce oxygen.
I remember seeing that set-up. I didn't see anything about the price. I think I saw it like on extreme homes on one of those goofy house shows I end up watching to appease the wife. It was a fine set-up - I remember being jealous. That was likely the best place I have seen as well.
it wasnt to long ago there was an old bunker for sell near charlotte NC. the asking price was only $1million bucks! but with what it was it was worth it. it was built years ago by AT&T phone company had giant genarators air purifiers kitchen and bunks for 200 peaple and the whole thing was sheild againts EMP. was suposed to be a fall out shelter for the big CEO and their families or something. now that would have been nice to have.
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I've looked at some of these silos and even if you got it for free you still better have some seriously deep pockets. These silos aren't ready to be inhabited they were decommissioned. You will have to remove Asbestos, and lead paint throughout the compound. Most of the wiring will have to be redone or at least patched. Power usage would be near astronomical, its cool to look at and to fantasize and perhaps some of you even have the skills to achieve much of the work yourselves. As for me I have to settle for a nice cabin in the Ozarks or Smokies and hope for the best. Here's a few links in case you do want to buy your own site.
And, if anyone dares to forget, Army Patriot missile sites and machine-gun bunkers serve as constant reminders that the front lines of battle could be as close as the front door
Regards.
