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Video – Building the ULTIMATE 4-Season Tiny Shelter (Packed with Survival Tech!)

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Once in a while I get email from readers pointing out things that they think I might find useful or that I might want to be aware of. Interestingly, many times its something that I just recently became aware of myself. Rarely, I get multiple emails from different people all pointing me to the same thing. That just happened this week. The item brought to my attention:


An interesting product, to be sure. If someone were looking for, literally, just a ‘lifeboat’ sort of thing to hide in the middle of nowhere, this might fit that need. It appears to be constructed of rigid foam. This would seem to suggest that the insulative qualities of this thing would be rather high. When you’re hiding from something in the dead of winter, that could be pretty important.  What I find a bit of a turn off is that…it appears to be constructed of rigid foam. While there is some utility and handiness in terms of insulation and lightweight portability, I am not keen on trusting my safety to what is essentially a large beer cooler.

I suppose that you could build a ‘doghouse’-type structure to slide this thing into in order to afford it some protection from the elements and things like falling branches, but I’d still have some concerns about durability. However, the more I think about it, the notion of ‘sleeving’ this thing within some hard, protective shell has some interesting appeal.

However…the idea thats presented here in the video has some value and is worth consideration. That idea being that a small, easily hidden four-walls-and-a-roof that can keep you warm and sheltered. This might be a very good ‘turnkey’ option for someone who doesnt want to go through the expense and hassle of building something.

Additionally, once you get past the shelter itself, some of the things shown in the video, used in conjunction with the shelter, are very interesting and worth me following up on. Most notably the heat system.

I want to thank the several people who sent me a link to this. Although I don’t think its something that exactly fills my needs, it does send me thinking in a different direction than I was before…which is useful.

Articles on shelters for the ‘elite’

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Two articles on ‘elite’ shelters on the same day. Makes me think their marketing people must have sent out press releases or something. I maintain that the Vivos thing is like buying a timeshare on Mars – it’s yours..on paper.

Anyway, my skepticism aside, heres the articles:

As we roll down US Highway 41 in Terre Haute, Indiana , my guide insists I give him my iPhone. Then he tosses me a satin blindfold. The terms of our trip were clear—I wasn’t to know where we were going or how we got there.That’s because we’re on our way to the undisclosed location of an underground bunker designed to survive the end of the world, whatever form that apocalypse takes.

And this one:

When the end of the world comes, even wealthy people will not be spared.

Unless, of course, they’ve managed to buy themselves a spot in a massive underground apocalypse bunker.

Whilst is handy, because the super rich have been invited to buy up a place in a five star shelter in Rothenstein, Germany, which is designed to allow them to live underground for a year and then emerge “when the worst is over”.

Just 34 “high worth” families will be welcomed into the European doomsday den, with prices only available on application.

If you can afford to, essentially, throw away that kind of money on a heavily-armored timeshare, you can afford to simply have your own built and maintain your privacy, safety, and control.

They’re nice to look at, but when the zombies are roaming the streets, the last thing I’m going to care about is if the floors are Italian marble or Brazilian zebrawood.

Article – Underground home was built as Cold War-era hideaway

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I’ve seen pictures of this place before,  but this is the first article I’ve seen with this much detail. But I admire the kitschy over-the-top attempts to make an underground concrete room look like a green backyard. Then again, isn’t Vegas home of fake Eiffel Towers, Stutes of Liberty, and enormous fake boobs?

The underground house at 3970 Spencer St. was built for comfort, too, with two hot tubs, a sauna and an in-ground pool in a room larger than some houses in the valley.

It was also constructed to withstand a nuclear blast. It had to be. Girard “Jerry” B. Henderson, who had the home built in 1978, planned to wait out the end of the world inside the structure. Now it’s on the market for $1.7 million, which includes the two-bedroom underground house, the one-bedroom underground guest house, the two-bedroom, two-story caretaker’s house, a four-car garage and more than 1 acre of surface property.

“I’ve been told when he built it, he had a million dollars of marble imported from Italy,” said Winston King of Kingly Properties, which is handling the sale of the house. “It’s here on the fireplace and around the pool now.”

When it was built, the only signs of the house on the surface were an unusual number of ground-mounted air-conditioning units camouflaged by clusters of large rocks. A few larger rocks concealed stairways and an elevator. A caretaker’s house was added later, and the main entrance to the underground house now runs through it.

When visitors reach the ground level, they’re in the front yard of the house looking at the entrance to the 40-foot-by-46-foot room. To the left are the dance floor and the stage. The décor still greatly reflects the original owners’ tastes, from the indoor fountains and waterfalls to the abundance of pink in the kitchen and bathroom.

“They had it all down here,” said King, opening up an artificial rock to reveal an underground outdoor grill. “This vents through the tree behind it.”