The man built his because an emergency preparedness official asked whether he could design one that would function in Florida’s high water table. One thing was to build a backyard shelter.
“A lot of what was done in those days was done to psychologically give people something to do.” “People thought they were staring down the barrel,” he said. “It’s a very unlikely way to survive,” he said.īut during the Cuban Missile Crisis, people in South Florida were desperate to do something. And the half-life of most fallout is 50 years.”Įven if you could stay inside that long, the fallout would still be at half the original level and would still be lethal, he said. If you have enough fallout outside, it will kill you. “The problem is, if you need a shelter, you can’t come out. “These things are useless anyway,” the man said. If his neighbors knew he had it, they would be clamoring to get in. He doesn’t want his name published because he has a shelter in his yard, cleverly designed with periscopes and such so the inhabitants won’t go mad from being cooped up in an 8-by-18-foot length of culvert buried four feet beneath the ground. There’s a guy in Fort Lauderdale who says that’s just as well.
The dried food, the candy, the crackers people were supposed to eat when everything else had been consumed, they are all gone. For one thing, there are no supplies in those shelters. “If something were to happen so it looked like a war, then the phone starts ringing,” St. When there is no obvious threat, though, most people don’t pay much attention. He has a list of hundreds of buildings that could serve as fallout shelters. Amand, who heads Broward’s Office of Emergency Preparedness, has taken care of that.
He figures that is plenty of time for nuclear fallout to disperse.īut suppose you don’t have a backyard shelter. “Mine is built so we could stay in that shelter for more than a month,” Tupler said. The place is stocked with radiation detection equipment, a pile of games to help pass the time, and thousands of rounds of ammunition in case the Tuplers have to defend themselves. And every six months, he replaces the water in a 500-gallon tank buried below the shelter and in plastic drums placed inside. He rotates his food supplies every seven years or so, stacking crates of fresh stuff in the below-ground level of his 10-person shelter.
0 kommentar(er)
